Faculty
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Mirle Rabinowitz-Bussell
Department Chair, Urban Studies and Planning
Professor, Urban Studies and Planning
Ph.D., Urban Planning, University of California Los Angeles
Email mbussell@ucsd.edu
Specializations Affordable housing; Local community economic development; Homelessness; Place-based philanthropy and urban planning; Urban inequalities and planning with multiple publics; Community-based research; Experiential learning; Gender and planning; Aging and planning
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Abigail Andrews
Professor, Urban Studies and Planning
Ph.D., Sociology, University of California Berkeley
Email alandrews@ucsd.edu
Specializations Community-action research; Migration; State violence; Gender; Borders; Space and place; Climate justice; Latin America; Postcolonial and feminist theory
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John C. Arroyo
Assistant Professor, Urban Studies and Planning
Core Faculty, Chicanx and Latinx Studies
Ph.D., Urban Planning, Policy, and Design, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
AICP
Email jcarroyo@ucsd.edu
Specializations Urban planning and design; Chicano/a/x and Latina/o/x studies; Race and ethnicity; Migration and transnational processes; Community development; Housing; Suburbs; Public space; Arts and culture; Historic preservation and cultural heritage; Qualitative research methods
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Deepti Chatti
Assistant Professor of Climate Justice, Urban Studies and Planning
Core Faculty, Critical Gender Studies
Ph.D., Environmental Studies; Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Yale University
P.E., LEED Accredited
Email dchatti@ucsd.edu
Specializations Political ecology; Feminist science and technology studies; Ethnographic research methods; Energy, climate, and environmental justice; Sustainable development; South Asia
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Caroline Collins
Assistant Professor, Urban Studies and Planning
Ph.D., Communication, University of California, San Diego
Email cicollins@ucsd.edu
Specializations Public memory and built environment; Historic preservation and cultural heritage; Historic sites and land-use planning; Heritage tourism; Film; Qualitative and mixed media methods; Public exhibition; American West; California; San Diego; Black ecologies; Black Pacific
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Lawrence D. Frank
Professor, Urban Studies and Planning
Ph.D., Urban Design and Planning, University of Washington
AICP; CIP
Email ldfrank@ucsd.edu
Specializations Land use, air quality, and health; Urban policy; Walkable cities; Built environment, active transportation, and health; Public health -
William Fulton
Adjunct Professor (Professor of Practice)
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Guadalupe García
Associate Professor, Urban Studies and Planning
Ph.D., History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Email gug004@ucsd.edu
Specializations Colonialism, Latin America and the Caribbean -
Kathleen Garcia
Continuing Lecturer, Urban Studies and Planning
M.L.A., Harvard University
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Juli Beth Hinds
Continuing Lecturer, Urban Studies and Planning
M.C.R.P., Rutgers University
AICP
Email jhinds@ucsd.edu
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Nancy Kwak
Associate Professor, History
Ph.D., History, Columbia University
Email nhkwak@ucsd.edu
Specializations History of cities; Urban planning; Housing policy; Housing affordability; Racial and income segregation; Cities and climate change
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Amy Lerner
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Urban Studies and Planning
Associate Professor, Urban Studies and Planning
Ph.D., Geography, University of California Santa Barbara
Email amlerner@ucsd.edu
Specializations Human dimensions of environmental change; Rural-urban transitions; Sustainable agriculture; Green infrastructure; Urban resilience and response to environmental change; City-university partnerships; Science-policy interface; Sustainable development; Latin America
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Leslie R. Lewis
Senior Continuing Lecturer, Urban Studies and Planning
Ph.D., Anthropology, University of California San Diego
Email lrlewis@ucsd.edu
Specializations Public health and health equity; Environmental and climate justice; Aging/life course; Community resilience; Housing and homelessness; Critical pedagogy; Community-based participatory action research
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Isaac Martin
Professor, Urban Studies and Planning
Ph.D., Sociology, University of California Berkeley
Email iwmartin@ucsd.edu
Specializations Inequality; Housing; Political sociology; Urban theory
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Nathan Moeder
Continuing Lecturer, Urban Studies and Planning
MSRE, University of San Diego
Email nlmoeder@ucsd.edu -
Kelema Lee Moses
Assistant Professor, Urban Studies and Planning
Ph.D., Art History, Pennsylvania State University
Email k2moses@ucsd.edu
Specializations Architectural and urban history; Film; Pacific Studies; Decolonial theory and politics
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Mai Thi Nguyen
Professor, Urban Studies and Planning
Faculty Director, Design Lab
Ph.D., Urban Planning, University of California, Irvine
Email mainguyen@ucsd.edu
Specializations Housing policy and planning; Disaster resilience; Climate change adaptation; Community and economic development; Community design -
Susan Peerson
Senior Continuing Lecturer, Urban Studies and Planning
M.L.A., University of Pennsylvania
Email speerson@ucsd.edu
Specializations Urban design; Site analysis; Graphic communication and design visualization; Landscape architecture; How policies and regulations shape the physical environment
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Keith Pezzoli
Professor, Urban Studies and Planning
Ph.D., Urban and Regional Planning, University of California Los Angeles
Email kpezzoli@ucsd.edu
Specializations Bioregions; Food justice; Science communication; Sustainable development; Urban World Systems; Field research methods
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Nora Louise Schwaller
Assistant Professor, Urban Studies and Planning
Ph.D., City and Regional Planning, University of North Carolina
Email nschwaller@ucsd.edu
Specializations Post-disaster adaptation; Post-disaster migration; Environmental planning; Urban and regional resilience; Climate adaptation; Spatial analysis
Faculty website nschwaller.ucsd.edu
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Manuel Shvartzberg Carrió
Assistant Professor, Urban Studies and Planning
Ph.D., Architecture, Columbia University
Email msc@ucsd.edu
Specializations Architectural history and theory; Architectural design; History of urban development; Science and technology studies; Philosophies of the city
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Feiyang Sun
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Real Estate and Development
Assistant Professor, Urban Studies and Planning
Ph.D., Urban Planning, University of Washington
Email f1sun@ucsd.edu
Specializations Sustainable real estate; Infrastructure finance; Urban economics; Housing; Urban informatics
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Behram Wali
Assistant Professor, Urban Studies and Planning
Ph.D., Transportation, University of Tennessee
Email bwali@ucsd.edu
Specializations Connected & automated vehicles; Transportation & health; Shared mobility; Travel behavior; Road safety; Econometric models; Causal inference -
Julie Wartell
Continuing Lecturer, Urban Studies and Planning
M.P.A., San Diego State University
Email jwartell@ucsd.edu
Specializations GIS; Crime analysis; Crime prevention; Breweries and neighborhoods
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Teo Akande Wickland
Assistant Professor, Urban Studies and Planning
Ph.D., Urban Planning, University of California, Los Angeles
Email teo@ucsd.edu
Specializations Climate and environment; Land relations; Modernity/coloniality; Social and cultural transformation; Transportation
Lecturers and Affiliated Faculty
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William Anderson
AICP, M.C.R.P., DUSP Lecturer -
Ravi Bajaj
LEED AP, DUSP Lecturer -
Matthew Boomhower
Esq., AIA, DUSP Lecturer -
Zohir Chowdhury
PhD, DUSP Lecturer -
Christopher Clark
BA, DUSP Lecturer -
Matilde Córdoba Azcárate
Ph.D., Associate Professor -
Teddy Cruz
B.Arch, M.Des.S., Professor -
Paul Curcio
M.P.A., DUSP Lecturer -
Maryam Entezam
PhD, DUSP Lecturer -
Gary Fields
PhD, Professor, Communication -
Fonna Forman
J.D., Ph.D., Professor of Political Science -
Paul Gherini
DUSP Lecturer -
Zoltan L. Hajnal
PhD, Professor, Associate Dean
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Lawrence Herzog
Ph.D., Professor Emeritus -
Lilly Irani
Ph.D., Associate Professor -
Sarah Mctague
M.S., DUSP Lecturer -
David Osias
J.D., DUSP Lecturer; Real Estate & Development Advisory Board Chair -
Danielle Raudenbush
Ph.D., Assistant Professor -
Sharon Rose
Ph.D., Professor -
Michael Shenkman
MPA, MPL, DUSP Lecturer -
Xiao Shi
PhD, DUSP Lecturer -
Mor Shilon
PhD, DUSP Lecturer and Assistant Project Scientist -
Christo Sims
Ph.D., Associate Professor and Affiliated Faculty in Science Studies, Ethnic Studies, and Design Lab -
Diego Velasco
FAICP, LEED AP, MUP, DUSP Lecturer -
Saman Yaghmaee
Ed. D., DUSP Lecturer -
K. Wayne Yang
PhD, Provost, Muir College -
Elana Zilberg
PhD, Associate Professor
