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Urban Studies Directors

Doug McAdam (faculty director)
Michael Kahan (associate director)

Urban Studies Executive Committee

Albert Camarillo
Karen Cook
Milbrey McLaughlin

Michael Rosenfeld
Walter Scheidel
Jeff Wachtel

Urban Studies Affiliated Faculty

Eric Bettinger

Scott Bukatman
Prudence Carter
Samuel Chiu
Paulla Ebron

Paula Findlen
Shelley Fisher Fishkin
Charlotte Fonrobert
Richard Ford
Zephyr Frank

Leah Gordon
David Grusky
Ian Hodder

Urban Studies Affiliated Faculty (cont.)

Miyako Inoue
Sarah Jain

Tomás Jiménez

David Labaree

Raymond Levitt
Carolyn Lougee Chappell
Monica McDermott
Raymond McDermott
Dan McFarland
William McLennan
Ian Morris

Josiah Ober
Susan Olzak
Leonard Ortolano

Sean Reardon

Rob Reich
Ian Robertson

Michael Rosenfeld
Rebecca Sandefur

Gary Segura
Jennifer Trimble
Nancy Brandon Tuma
Paul Turner

Guadalupe Valdes
Barbara Voss

 

 

Urban Studies Visiting Associate Professor

Gerald Gast

Urban Studies Lecturers

David Boesch

Melanie Edwards
Dehan (Danno) Glanz

Radford "Skid" Hall
Patricia Karlin-Neumann
Michael Kieschnick
Joseph Kott

Lawrence Litvak
Joanne Sanders
Laura Scher

Bethany Johnson Steiner
Frederic Stout

Virginia Visconti

Other Urban Studies Affiliates

Thomas Beischer
Martin Lewis
Jim Truncer

Urban Studies Directors

Doug McAdam

Professor, Department of Sociology;
Director, Program on Urban Studies.

mcadam@stanford.edu
Web Page

Research interests
Social movements; Collective Action; Political Sociology; Network Analysis; Life Course.

Teaching
URBANST 202. Preparation for Honors Thesis

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Michael Kahan

Associate Director, Program on Urban Studies;
Lecturer in Urban Studies.

mkahan@stanford.edu
Work phone(s): (650) 724-7575
Work Fax: (650) 725-9437
Work address:
Program on Urban Studies
Building 120, Room 224
Stanford, CA 94305-2048
Web Page

Research interests
Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Urban and Social History; Street Life; Urban Space.

Teaching
URBANST 110. Introduction to Urban Studies
URBANST 161. U.S. Urban History since 1920
URBANST 190. Urban Professions Seminar
URBANST 201. Preparation for Senior Project
URBANST 203. Senior Seminar

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Executive committee

Albert Camarillo

Professor of American History; Miriam and Peter Hass Centennial Professor in Public Service.

camar@stanford.edu
Web Page

Research interests

Comparative Urban Histories of Ethnic and Racial Minorities in the U.S.; Mexican American History; African Americans and Latinos; Contemporary Urban America; American West and California.

Teaching
History 260. Race and Ethnicity in the American Metropolis: Cities of Color—Los Angeles and East Palo Alto

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Karen Cook

The Ray Lyman Wilbur Professor of Sociology; Department Chair; Director, Institute for Research in the Social Sciences.

kcook@stanford.edu
Web Page

Research interests

Social Psychology; Organizational Behavior; Group Processes; Social Networks; Health Care.

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Milbrey McLaughlin

David Jacks Professor of Education and Public Policy;

Director, John W. Gardner Center for Youth & Their Communities;

Director, Center for Research on the Context of Teaching.

milbrey@stanford.edu
Web Page

Research interests

Organizational, Institutional, Social-Cultural Contexts of Teaching & Learning; Policy Implementation.

Teaching
EDUC 179. Urban Youth and their Institutions: Research and Practice.

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Michael Rosenfeld

Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology

michael.rosenfeld@stanford.edu
Web Page

Research interests

Race and Ethnicity; Immigration and Assimilation; Quantitative Methods.

Teaching
URBANST 112. The Urban Underclass

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Walter Scheidel

Dickason Professor in the Humanities; Professor of Classics and (by courtesy) of History;

Chair, Department of Classics.

scheidel@stanford.edu
Web Page

 

Research interests

Ancient Social and Economic History; Pre-Modern Historical Demography; Comparative and Interdisciplinary World History.

Teaching
CLASSHIS 60. The Romans

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Jeff Wachtel

Senior Assistant to the President; Secretary of the Board of Trustees of Stanford University.

 

jwachtel@stanford.edu

 

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Affiliated faculty

Eric Bettinger

Associate Professor of Economics and Education.

ebetting@stanford.edu
Web Page

Research interests

Access and Equity; Applied Econometrics; Applied Statistics in Educational Research; Design Experiments; Economics of Education; Education Policy; Evaluation; Higher Education; Research Methods; State and Federal Education Policy; Statistical Methods and Applications in Statistical Issues; Statistics.

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Scott Bukatman

Associate Professor, Art and Art History Department

xbody@stanford.edu
Web Page

Research interests

Critical Theory and Popular Media; Embodied / Perceptual Experience in Contemporary Culture; Bodily Utopia; Hyperbole in General.

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Prudence Carter

Associate Professor of Education and (by courtesy) of Sociology.

plcarter@stanford.edu
Web Page

 

Research interests
Race and Ethnicity; Cultural Explanations of Social Mobility Differences; Racial and Ethnic Groups.

Teaching
EDUC 212X. Urban Education

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Samuel Chiu

Associate Professor, Department of Management Science and Engineering.

samchiu@stanford.edu
Web Page

Research interests

Probabilistic Modeling; Integration of Operations Research Models in Economic Analysis.

Teaching
MS&E 196. Transportation Systems and Urban Development.

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Paulla Ebron

Associate Professor, Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology

pebron@stanford.edu
Web Page

Research interests
Culture as a Commodity; Memory and History; Feminism / Difference / Performance.

Teaching
URBANST 114 / ANTHRO 126. Cities in Comparative Perspective.

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Paula Findlen

Ubaldo Pierotti Professor in Italian History, Department of History;

Co-Chair, History and Philosophy of Science and Technology.

pfindlen@stanford.edu
Web Page

Research interests

Early History of Science and Medicine; Renaissance Italy; Relations among Gender, Culture, and Knowledge.

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Shelley Fisher Fishkin

Professor, Department of English; Director of American Studies Program.

sfishkin@stanford.edu
Web Page

Research interests

American Studies; Effects of Journalism on American Writers’ Poetry and Fiction; African American Voices on Canonical American literature; Desegregation of American Literary Studies; Feminist Criticism; Public history and Literary History; Challenge of Transnational American Studies.


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Charlotte Fonrobert

Associate Professor, Religious Studies Department.

fonrober@stanford.edu
Web Page

Research interests
Judaism: Talmudic Literature and Culture; Gender in Jewish Culture; Judaism & Christianity in Late Antiquity; Discourses of Orthodoxy vs. Heresy; Rabbinic Conceptions of Judaism w/respect to Greco-Roman Culture.

Teaching
RELIGST 237. Jewish and Christian Rome in the 1st – 6th Centuries

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Richard Ford

George E. Osborne Professor of Law.

rford@stanford.edu
Web Page

Research interests

Civil Rights and Anti-Discrimination Law; Political and Legal Boundaries as Instruments of Social Regulation and Cultural Phenomena; Race and Multiculturalism.


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Zephyr Frank

Associate Professor of Latin American History, Department of History.

zfrank@stanford.edu
Web Page

Research interests

Latin American (Economic) History; Social History of Brazil; Wealth and Inequality; Geographical Information Systems.

Teaching
History 276. Modern Brazil.

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Leah Gordon

Assistant Professor, School of Education

gordonle@stanford.edu
Web page

Research interests

Access and Equity; Cultural Studies; Educational Equity; Equity and Poverty; Higher Education; History of Education; Minorities; Multiculturalism; Social Theory.

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David Grusky

Professor, Department of Sociology;

Director, Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality.

grusky@stanford.edu
Web page

Research interests

Stratification; Quantitative Methodology; Race, Class and Gender. 

Teaching
SOC 141. Controversies about Inequality.

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Ian Hodder

Dunlevie Family Professor in the Department of Anthropology;

Director of the Stanford Archaeology Center.

ihodder@stanford.edu
Web page

Research interests

Archaeological Theory; Archaeology and Cultural Heritage of Europe and the Middle East; Excavations in Turkey; Material Culture. 

Teaching
ANTHRO 98E. Excavation at Catalhoyuk, Turkey.

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Miyako Inoue

Associate Professor of Anthropology.

minoue@stanford.edu
Web page

Research interests

Linguistic Anthropology; Anthropology of Japan.

Teaching
ANTHRO 127. City and Sounds.

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Sarah Jain

Assistant Professor, Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology.

sarjain@stanford.edu
Web page

Research interests

Design; Injury; Mobility.

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Tomás Jiménez

Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology.

tjimenez@stanford.edu
Web page

Research interests
Immigration; Race and Ethnicity; Inequality; Assimilation; Mexican Americans.

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David Labaree

Professor, School of Education;
Associate Dean for Student Affairs.

dlabaree@stanford.edu
Web page

Research interests

Evolved Nature of American Higher Education; School Reform in the United States. 

Teaching
ED 220D. History of School Reform.

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Raymond Levitt

Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and (by courtesy) Medical Informatics; Academic Director; Director, Collaboratory for Research on Global Projects.

ray.levitt@stanford.edu
Web page

Research interests

Virtual Design; Computer Simulation and Modeling of Work Service/Maintenance Work Processes; Organization Design for Projects and Companies; Execution of Global Projects.

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Carolyn Lougee Chappell

Professor of Early Modern European History; Frances and Charles Field Professor in History and Martin Family; University Fellow Undergraduate Education.

lougee@stanford.edu
Web page

Research interests

Huguenot Emigration at the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes; Autobiography; Education of Girls in Early Modern France.

Teaching
History 234. Paris and Politics

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Monica McDermott

Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology.

mcderm@stanford.edu
Web page

Research interests

Race Relations; Social Attitudes; Class; Racial and Ethnic Identity; Urban Sociology.

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Raymond McDermott

Professor of Education and (by courtesy) Anthropology.

rpmcd@stanford.edu
Web page

Research interests

Human Communication; Organization of School Success and Failure; Various Literacies around the World.


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Dan McFarland

Associate Professor Education and (by courtesy) of Sociology.

mcfarland@stanford.edu
Web page

Research interests

Organizational Characteristics Schools and Classrooms; Social Networks; Micro-Sociology; Social Dynamics.

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William McLennan

Dean for Religious Life at Stanford

mclennan@stanford.edu
Web Page

Research interests
The Interface of Religion, Ethics, and the Professions.

Teaching
URBANST 126. Spirituality and Nonviolent Urban and Social Transformation

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Ian Morris

Jean and Rebecca Willard Professor of Classics; Professor of History; Director, Stanford Archaeology Center.

imorris@stanford.edu
Web page

Research interests

Ancient Greece; Cultural and Economic History; Excavation Monte Polizzo.

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Josiah Ober

Professor of Political Science and Classics and (by courtesy) of Philosophy.

jober@stanford.edu
Web page

Research interests

Athenian Democracy; Greek Political Thought; Politics of Knowledge and Innovation; Relationship between Democracy and Inherent Human Capacities.

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Susan Olzak

Professor, Department of Sociology.

olzak@stanford.edu
Web page

Research interests
Collective Action and Social Movement; Race and Ethnic Relations; Political Sociology; Organizations.

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Leonard Ortolano

UPS Foundation Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering.

ortolano@stanford.edu
Web page

Research interests

Water Resources; Environmental Planning; Implementation of Environmental Policies.

Teaching
CEE 171. Environmental Planning Methods.

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Sean Reardon

Associate Professor of Education and (by courtesy) of Sociology.

sean.reardon@stanford.edu
Web page

Research interests

Causes, Patterns, and Consequences of Residential and School Segregation; Race/Ethnic and Socioeconomic Achievement Disparities; Neighborhood Influences of Child Development.


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Rob Reich

Associate Professor of Political Science and (by courtesy) School of Education; Director, Program on Ethics in Society; Co-Director, Center for Philanthropy and Civil Society; Co-Director, Stanford Political Theory Workshop.

reich@stanford.edu
Web Page

Research interests

Contemporary Liberal Theory; Intersection of Political Theory and Educational Theory.

Teaching
POLISCI 133. Ethics and Politics of Public Service

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Ian Robertson

Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology.

igr@stanford.edu

Research interests

Complex and Urban Societies; Statistical and Formal Methods; Ceramic and Lithic Analysis; Teotihuacan; Mesoamerica.

Teaching
ANTHRO 105. Urbanism in the Prehispanic New World.

 

Michael Rosenfeld

Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology.

michael.rosenfeld@stanford.edu
Web Page

Research interests

Race and Ethnicity; Immigration and Assimilation; Quantitative Methods.

Teaching
URBANST 112. The Urban Underclass

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Rebecca Sandefur

Assistant Professor of Sociology and (by courtesy) of Law.

sandefur@stanford.edu
Web page

Research interests

Inequality, Social Stratification, and Mobility; Law and Society; Work, Occupations, and Professions.

Teaching
SOC 140. Introduction to Social Stratification.

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Gary Segura

Professor of Political Science; Chair, Chicana/o Studies, Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity.

segura@stanford.edu
Web page

Research interests
American Politics; Political Representation;
Latino Politics.

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Jennifer Trimble

Associate Professor, Department of Classics.

trimble@stanford.edu
Web page

Research interests

Art and Archaeology of the Roman Empire; Dynamics of Urban Space.

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Nancy Brandon Tuma

Professor, Department of Sociology.

tuma@stanford.edu
Web Page

Research interests

Life Careers; Social Stratification; Quantitative Methods for Studying Change.

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Paul Turner

Professor Emeritus, Department of Art and Art History.

pvturner@stanford.edu

Research interests
Architecture; Planning; Design.

Teaching
URBANST 164. Utopia and Reality in Modern Urban Planning

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Guadalupe Valdes

Bonnie Katz Tenenbaum Professor of Education; Professor, Spanish and Portuguese.

gvaldes@stanford.edu
Web Page

Research interests
Bilingual Education / ESL, Educational Equity; Family Issues; Foreign Language Instruction; Hispanic Issues in Education; Immigrant Issues; Language Acquisition; Language Policy; Minorities.

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Barbara Voss

Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology.

bvoss@stanford.edu
Web Page

Research interests
Intersections of Archaeology, Anthropology, Feminist studies, and Critical Race Studies; History of Human Sexuality.

Teaching
ANTHRO 103: The Archaeology of Modern Urbanism

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Visiting Associate Professor

Gerald Gast

Visiting Associate Professor, Program on Urban Studies; Associate Professor and Director of Portland Programs, University of Oregon.


M. Arch., Licensed Architect, California

Web page
Work phone(s): (415) 459-8919
Work address:
PO Box 868
Fairfax, CA 94978

Research interests

Urban Design; Architecture; Downtown Revitalization; Master Planning.


Teaching
URBANST 113. Introduction to Urban Design

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Gerald Gast, architect and urban designer, has twenty-five years experience in urban design, architecture, downtown revitalization and master planning. Active in urban design and architectural education throughout his professional career, Gast is currently Associate Professor in the University of Oregon's Portland Urban Architecture Program and Lecturer in the Urban Studies Program at Stanford University, where he has taught urban design since 1982. Gast served as Director of Oregon's Portland Architecture Program and was previously Director of the San Francisco Center for Architecture and Urban Studies.

Gast co-founded Gast Hillmer Urban Design in 1984. From the beginning, the firm's work has emphasized compact, pedestrian and transit-oriented urban development, focusing on downtown and community-scale projects. Gast was Principal-in-charge of the $ 70 million Uptown District mixed-use development in San Diego, Master Plan for the San Diego County Administration Center (American Planning Association "Outstanding Planning Project" Award), Downtown Scottsdale Arizona Urban Design Guidelines, San Diego County Design Guidelines for seven communities (American Planning Association "Outstanding Planning Project" Award), and General Plan Urban Design Elements for the cities of San Clemente, Dana Point and Huntington Park (Los Angeles), California.

Gast is a graduate of the University of Illinois, where he completed his Masters degree in Architecture and Urban Design.

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Lecturers

David Boesch

Lecturer, Program in Urban Studies;
San Mateo County Manager.

Research interests
Managing Local Government.


 

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Melanie Edwards

Lecturer, Program in Urban Studies
Founder, Mobile Metrix

Melanie.Edwards@stanford.edu
Work phone(s): (650) 924-0140
Work address:
Social Entrepreneurship
Sociology/Urban Studies Program
Building 120, McClatchy Hall
Stanford, CA 94305-2048

Research interests
Social Entrepreneurship; Community Based Digital Data Collection; International Management, Development, and Consulting.

Teaching

URBANST 131, Social Innovation & The Social Entrepreneur

URBANST 133. Social Entrepreneurship Collaboratory

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Melanie Edwards is Reuters Digital Vision Fellow and lecturer in Urban Studies and Public Policy Programs. She has worked for 15 years in international business and development, in management for J.P. Morgan and International Data Group (IDG). She launched the Global Technology Corps, a “digital Peace Corps” now operating within the U.S. Department of State. Melanie then co-created the United Nations Information Technology Service (UNITeS). Mobile Metrix, a community-based digital data collection service, which she co-founded evolved out of her work at Stanford as a Reuters Digital Vision Fellow. Melanie received her B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis and M.A. from The Fletcher School of International Relations, Tufts University.

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Dehan (Danno) Glanz

Principal, Calthorpe Associates.

danno@calthorpe.com
Web Page
Work phone(s): (510) 548-6800
Work address:
CALTHORPEASSOCIATES
2095 Rose Street
Berkeley CA 94709

Research interests

Architecture; Urban Design; Urban Planning; Transit as a Fundamental Means of Transportation.

Teaching
URBANST 171. Urban Design Studio.

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Dehan (Danno) Glanz is a designer with experience in architecture, urban design, urban planning. He is specifically interested in transit as a fundamental means of transportation. His professional experience spans 10 years and has included large and small-scale village design, architectural prototypes, and transit oriented mixed-use neighborhoods. Prior to joining Calthorpe Associates, Mr. Glanz worked with Simon Martin-Vague Winklestein Morris as a Project Manager. His projects included the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard Re-Use Plan and the Long Beach/Anaheim Redevelopment Plan. His projects with Calthorpe Associates include Stapleton Redevelopment Plan, Denver, CO; St. Andrews Master Plan, Perth, Australia; Denver LRT Study, Denver, CO; Englewood Town Center, Old Elm Village, Petaluma, CA; Englewood, CO; and Richmond BART Transit Village, Richmond, CA. Mr. Glanz graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Urban Studies from Stanford University, and received his Master of Architecture degree from the University of California, Los Angeles.

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Radford "Skid" Hall

Lecturer, Program in Urban Studies;
Consulting Associate Professor; School of Engineering; Independent Land Planning and Permitting Consultant.

skid2@stanford.edu

Research interests
Land Use Control; Urban Environmental Policy.

Teaching
URBANST 163. Land Use Control Urban Planning.

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Skid Hall holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering and M.S., Ph.D. from Colorado State University in Natural Resource Planning and Policy. He is a member of the American Instutitue of Certified Planners (AICP), as well as a Certified Environmental Planner (CEP.) Skid Hall has been involved in the Urban Studies Program for approximately 20 years.

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Patricia Karlin-Neumann

Senior Assocaite Dean, Office for Religious Life.

rabbipkn@stanford.edu
Web Page

Research interests

Jewish Feminism; Rabbinical Ethics; The Relationship between Religion and Education; Social Justice; Student Mental Health and Well-being.

Teaching
URBANST 126. Spirituality and Nonviolent Urban and Social Transformation

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Michael Kieschnick

President and CoFounder, Working Assets.

mkieschnick@gmail.com

Research interests

Social Innovation; Concepts and Analytic Skills for Social Sectors.

Teaching
URBANST 137, Innovations in Microcredit and Development Finance.

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Michael Kieschnick is president and co-founder of Working Assets, a wireless company that donates a portion of its revenues to progressive groups. Michael has a PhD in Public Policy from Harvard University, and degrees in biology and economics from Stanford University. He serves as a board member for the League of Conservation Voters Education Fund, Sojourners, and the Beatitudes Society, which supports progressive Christians through seminary chapters and social justice fellowships. In his spare time, Michael is one of the organizers of the Secretary of State Project, which helped elect five new secretaries of state in battleground states.

 

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Joseph Kott

Transportation Systems Coordinator for County of San Mateo.

jkott@co.sanmateo.ca.us

Research interests
Public Policy; Transit and Transportation Planning.

Teaching
URBANST 165. Sustainable Urban and Regional Transportation Planning

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Prior to working for the County of San Mateo, Joseph Kott was a principal at Wilbur Smith Associates, Chief Transportation official for the City of Palo Alto, and then a principal at Nelson/Nygaard Consulting Associates.

Kott is a graduate of Wayne State University in Detroit and holds a master’s degree in urban and regional planning from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, as well as master’s degrees in both transport planning and traffic engineering from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. He is completing a doctoral dissertation on sustainability assessment of commercial arterial streets (main streets) under the supervision of Professors Jeff Kenworthy and Peter Newman within the Institute for Curtin University Sustainability Policy Institute (CUSP) at Curtin University of Technology in Perth, Western Australia.

Kott has been a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) since 1982, and in 2007 was awarded Professional Transportation Planner (PTP) certification from the Transportation Professional Certification Board Inc., an affiliate of the Institute of Transportation Engineers, achieving the highest certification test score in the nation.


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Larry Litvak

Board Member Shared Interest; Board Member at Tides Network; Board Member at Prosetta Corporation.

llitvak@aol.com
Web Page

Research interests

Starting and Managing Hybrid Enterprises; Socially Innovative Non-Profits and Businesses.

Teaching
URBANST 132, Concepts and Analytic Skills for the Social Sector.

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For three decades Larry Litvak has been in involved in starting and managing hybrid enterprises that combine for-profit and social missions, and through various roles, investing in, granting to, and governing a range of socially innovative non-profits and businesses.

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Joanne Sanders

Associate Dean, Office for Religious Life.

joanne.sanders@stanford.edu
Web Page

Research interests
Integrated Connection of Body, Mind, and Spirit; Sports and Spirituality.

Teaching
URBANST 126. Spirituality and Nonviolent Urban and Social Transformation

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Laura Scher

Co-founder, Chairperson, Chief Executive Officer, Working Assets.

laura.scher@wafs.com
Work phone(s): (415) 369-2001

Research interests
Social Entrepreneurship.

Teaching
URBANST 133. Social Entrepreneurship Collaboratory

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In 1985 Laura Sher co-founded Working Assets, a wireless, long-distance and credit card company that donates part of its revenues to progressive organizations working for peace, human rights, economic justice, education and environment. Since its founding the company has channel nearly $20 million to organizations such as Greenpeace, Oxfam America, Amnesty International, Planned Parenthood, and the Children's Defense Fund. In 1997 Sher was named Entrepreneur of the Year in Northern California.

Laura Scher was an undergraduate at Yale University, where she was active in the movement for divestment in South Africa, and spent a year at the Institute for International Studies in Geneva. After working for Bain and Co, Sher graduated the Harvard Business School (1985) as a Baker Scholar.

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Bethany Johnson Steiner

Associate Director, Community Planning Workshop, Universtiy of Oregon.

bethanyj@uoregon.edu
Web Page

Research interests
City and Regional Planning.

Teaching

URBANST 127, Community Planning Workshop.

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Bethany Johnson is delighted to work with two Community Service Center programs - Oregon Natural Hazards Workgroup and Community Planning Workshop. As a generalist, her interests range from environmental stewardship, to youth involvement in planning, to outreach and education. Past experiences include working for both not-for-profit agencies and private planning firms. She received her master's degree in Environmental Psychology with from Cornell University.

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Frederic Stout

Lecturer, Program in Urban Studies;

Director, Program in Urban Studies from 1973-1977.

fstout@stanford.edu

Research interests
Urban Planning; Community; City in Literature and Film.

Teaching
URBANST 110. Introduction to Urban Studies.

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Fred Stout is the co-author and co-editor (with Michele Marincovich and Jack Prostko) of The Professional Development of Graduate Teaching Assistants (Anker Publishing, 1998) and a contributor to The Encyclopedia of the City and The Encyclopedia of Urban Studies. Stout is co-editor (with Richard LeGates) of The City Reader, a widely cited anthology of contemporary and classic readings in Urban Studies now in its fourth edition from Routledge Press, and of Early Urban Planning 1870-1940, a nine-volume series of writings by seminal urban thinkers such as Ebenezer Howard and Charles Mulford Robinson. Stout holds an M.A. from Harvard, and has taught Urban Studies at Stanford since the 1970s.

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Virginia Visconti

Director Public Service Research Program, Haas Center for Public Service.

vav08@stanford.edu
Web Page

Research interests

Engaged Scholarship; Community-Based Research; Social-Cultural Anthropology; Education Policy Studies; Ethnographic Studies.

Teaching

URBANST 123, Aproaching Research and the Community

URBANST 198, Senior Research in Public Service

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Other Affiliates

Thomas Beischer
Lecturer in Architectural History.

Research interests
Architectural History and Theory; Art.

Teaching
ARTHIST 252A. Place: Making Space Now

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Tom Beischer currently teaches architectural history and theory at Stanford and the California College of the Arts. He received a BA in art history from Stanford, an MA in art history from Williams College, and a PhD in history, Theory, and Criticism of Architecture from MIT. His scholarship has ranged from articles on 19th-century architecture to contemporary
Asian art.

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Martin Lewis

Senior Lecturer, Department of History.

mwlewis@stanford.edu
Web page

Research interests
International History; Global Spatial Relations.

Teaching
History 106A. Global Human Geography: Asia and Africa
History 106B. Global Human Geography: Europe and Americas

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Jim Truncer

Lecturer in Anthropological Sciences.

jtruncer@stanford.edu

Research interests
Indus Civilization; Eastern North America; Evolutionary Theory; Paleodemography; Archaeometry; History of Archaeology.

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Jim Truncer holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology (1999) from the University of Washington. Recently, Truncer edited the book Picking the Lock of Time: Developing Chronology in American Archaeology (University Press of Florida, 2003) that explores the issue of chronology--the crucial determination of the age of an artifact or site. The essays in the book document the contributions of early American archaeologists, both well known and obscure, who helped crack the "chronology problem."

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