Faisal Almogren

• BS. Architecture and Building Science, King Saud University
• MS Architecture and urban Design, Columbia University
• MS Urban Planning, Harvard University

Research Interests: Gulf Urbanism, City-Building, Master Planning, Housing Policies, and Urban Morphologies
 

David Amos

• BS Urban and Regional Studies, Cornell University
• Master of Architecture, University of Oregon
• MCRP Community and Regional Planning, University of Oregon

Urban design; street design; walkability; and transportation and land use

Heather Arata

• MPhil Sociology, University of Cambridge
• MA Sociology, UC Irvine
• BA Sociology, UC Irvine

Environmental justice, social justice, health equity, and environmental planning. 

Jesus Barajas

• PhD, University of California, Berkeley
• MURP, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
• BS Computer Science, Penn State University

Transportation equity, travel behavior, bicyclist safety, urban data

Elisa Barbour

• M.C.P., UC Berkeley
• B.A., Oberlin College

Ariel Bierbaum

• MCP, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• BA Urban Studies, University of Pennsylvania

(Domestic) Public Education, Metropolitan Inequality, Urban Poverty, Politics of Planning, Ccommunity Development and Housing Policy

Geoff Boeing

• M.S. Information Management, Arizona State University
• B.S. Computer Information Systems, Arizona State University

Urban Form, Complexity Theory, Urban Data Analysis, Smart Cities, Neighborhood Planning and Design
 

Abigail Cochran

• BS Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona
• Master of City Planning, UC Berkeley

Research Interests: Urban governance, data science, technology, international planning, and transportation

Nathaniel Decker

• B.A. Biology, B.A. History, Oberlin College
• M.R.P. Cornell University

Real estate, affordable housing policy, disruptive technologies, and public finance

Riem El-Zoghbi

• MS, Urban Planning, Columbia University
• BS, Construction Engineering, American University in Cairo

International Development, Informality, Cities of the Global South

Lisa Feldstein

• J.D., UC Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law
• B.A., American Studies: Urban Focus, University of Massachusetts at Boston

website: http://www.lisafeldstein.com/

Domestic Focus on: Social Equity & Inequality; Politics of Planning; Planning Policy; Urban History; Urban Poverty; Race and the City; Affordable Housing and Low-Income Neighborhoods; Land Use & Equity; Food Access; Built Environment & Public Health.

Chester Harvey

• BA Geography, Middlebury College
• MS Natural Resources, University of Vermont

Research Interests: urban design, street spaces, active transportation, spatial cognition, geodata
 

Amelia Kate Hays

• B.A. Psychology, B.A. French, Vassar College
• M.A. Trauma and Violence Studies, New York University

Trauma, displacement, international development, citizenship, identity, place-making, Sub-saharan Africa

Shakirah Hudani

• MSc. Public Health, LSHTM - University of London
• MSc. Social Anthropology, University of Oxford
• BA Social Studies, Harvard College

Urban sustainability, public health and city planning, African cities, urbanism in South-East Asia.

Hun Kim

• Ph.D., UC Berkeley (December 2015)
• Committee: Professor Ananya Roy, Chair; Professor Teresa Caldeira; Professor Aihwa Ong (Anthropology)
• Masters of City Planning (M.C.P.), UC Berkeley (2007)
• Bachelor of Arts, Philosophy, UC Berkeley (1999)

Website: http://hunkim.net
Urban studies, specifically political economy of cities, space as mode of production; urban ethnography; late-socialist and transitioning economies; East and Southeast Asia.

Mukul Kumar

• M.Phil Development Studies, University of Cambridge
• BA History, UC Irvine

urban political ecology, development studies, critical race theory, science and technology studies, environmental justice, South Asia

Keith Lee

• MEM, Yale University
• BA Economics, University of Chicago

Food waste, grocery retail, waste management, sustainable consumption, urban metabolism, urban sustainability, East and Southeast Asia

Elizabeth Mattiuzzi

• M.Sc. Contemporary Urbanism, London School of Economics and Political Science
• B.A. Political Science, UC Berkeley

Regional sustainability planning

Sam Maurer

• Master in Public Affairs, Princeton University
• BA Economics, Amherst College

James Christopher Mizes

• M.A. Geography and Urban Studies, Temple University
• B.A. Political Science, Webster University

markets, municipal finance, popular economies, public infrastructure, governing/governance, decentralization, global development, urban/planning theory, value, publics, territory, risk, West Africa, ethnography.

Aksel Olsen

• Cand. Scient. Geography, University of Copenhagen
• B.Sc. Geography, University of Copenhagen

Land use change and transportation behavior; adaptive strategies of deindustrialization; modeling of businesses and urban dynamics

Manuel Santana Palacios

• B.S. Civil Engineering, Universidad de los Andes - Bogotá
• M.S. Civil Engineering, Universidad de los Andes - Bogotá
• M.U.R.P., University of California Los Angeles

Transportation and Land Use, Transportation and Urban Development, Travel Behavior, Informal Transportation, Transportation in the Developing World

Pedro Peterson

• MCP/ MA (International and Area Studies), UC Berkeley
• B.A. Political Science, Emory University

International Development; Public Finance, Low-income Housing, Urban Development in Latin America

Lisa Rayle

• MCP/MST, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• BS Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan

Informality in transportation; emerging modes of transport; transport and urban development.

Lana Salman

• Master of Urban Planning and Policy, American University of Beirut
• BA Economics, American University of Beirut

Rocio Sanchez-Moyano

• B.S. Economics and Political Science, University of Wisconsin - Madison
• M.P.A., University of Wisconsin - Madison

Housing; housing demography; barriers to homeownership; low-income and minority housing and neighborhoods

Hayden Shelby

• MCRP City and Regional Planning, Ohio State
• MA Geography, Ohio State
• BA Economics, Cornell University

International development, Sustainability, Political economy, Affordable housing, Social justice

Miriam Solis

• MCP, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• BA, UC Berkeley

Website: http://www.miriamsolis.com/

Environmental Planning, Infrastructure, Sustainability, Environmental Justice

Oscar Sosa Lopez

• MCP, UC Berkeley
• Univ. Iberoamericana-Mexico, Communications

DIVYA SUNDAR

• MA Comparative Cultural Studies, Ohio State
• BA History, University of Chicago

Housing, urban violence, dispossession, urban history and memory, U.S. liberalism, critical race and postcolonial theory, women of color feminism

Alice Sverdlik

• MSc Urban Economic Development, University College London
• MSc Social Policy Research, London School of Economics
• BA History, University of Chicago

African cities, infrastructure, informality, gender, health equity, climate change adaptation, urban politics

Julia Tierney

• MCP, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• MA International Relations, John Hopkins University
• BA Latin American Studies, Yale University

Urban governance, informal housing & service provision, public security, pedagogy of international development

Jennifer Tucker

• M.P.P., UC Berkeley
• M.A., International & Area Studies

Urban Theory; Critical Poverty Studies; Feminist Geography; Development Studies; Anthropologies of the State; Interdisciplinary & Ethnographic Methodologies; Informality

Monica Villalobos

• M.R.P., City and Regional Planning, Cornell University
• B.S., Community and Regional Development, UC Davis

Transportation Planning- transit infrastructure and design, Transit Oriented Development and the Intersection of Transportation and Land Use; International Development and Urbanization in the Global South; Strategies for Sustainable and Equitable Development.

Matt Wade

• MA International Affairs, New School University
• BA English, Indiana University

Development Studies, Post-Development, Modernity and Modernization, Postcolonial Studies, Neoliberalism, Global Cities, Southeast Asian Cities, Jakarta, Sustainability

Ruoying Xu

• MURP Urban and Regional Planning, University of Florida
• MS Transportation Engineering, University of Florida
• BE Transportation Engineering, Tongji University

Transportation and land use, travel demand and behavior, emerging technology

Aaron Young

• MA Sustainable International Development and Urban Planning, Brandeis University and Tufts University
• BA Political Science. University of Montana

My research in City & Regional Planning and Critical Geography addresses the urban land question in South Africa. By this angle of approach, I am interested in land and urban space not only as the physical terrain upon which contested claims are directed, embedded and performed, but also as an expanded field of meaning​ for local and transnational politics.

Cheryl Young

• M.P.P., Public Policy, Harvard University
• B.A., Urban Studies, Columbia University

International Economic Development; Affordable Housing Markets, The Relationship Between Spatial Economy and Informality