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Urban Studies Directors |
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| Doug McAdam | |
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Professor, Department of Sociology; |
Research interests Teaching |
| Michael Kahan | |
Associate Director, Program on Urban Studies; mkahan@stanford.edu |
Research interests Teaching |
Executive committee |
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| Albert Camarillo | |
Professor of American History; Miriam and Peter Hass Centennial Professor in Public Service. |
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 |
| Karen Cook | |
The Ray Lyman Wilbur Professor of Sociology; Department Chair; Director, Institute for Research in the Social Sciences. |
Research interests Social Psychology; Organizational Behavior; Group Processes; Social Networks; Health Care. |
| 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. |
Research interests Organizational, Institutional, Social-Cultural Contexts of Teaching & Learning; Policy Implementation. Teaching |
| Michael Rosenfeld | |
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology |
Research interests Race and Ethnicity; Immigration and Assimilation; Quantitative Methods. Teaching |
| Walter Scheidel | |
Dickason Professor in the Humanities; Professor of Classics and (by courtesy) of History; Chair, Department of Classics. scheidel@stanford.edu
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Research interests Ancient Social and Economic History; Pre-Modern Historical Demography; Comparative and Interdisciplinary World History. Teaching |
| Jeff Wachtel | |
Senior Assistant to the President; Secretary of the Board of Trustees of Stanford University.
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| Eric Bettinger | |
Associate Professor of Economics and Education. |
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. |
| Scott Bukatman | |
Associate Professor, Art and Art History Department |
Research interests Critical Theory and Popular Media; Embodied / Perceptual Experience in Contemporary Culture; Bodily Utopia; Hyperbole in General. |
| Prudence Carter | |
Associate Professor of Education and (by courtesy) of Sociology. plcarter@stanford.edu
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Research interests Teaching |
| Samuel Chiu | |
Associate Professor, Department of Management Science and Engineering. |
Research interests Probabilistic Modeling; Integration of Operations Research Models in Economic Analysis. Teaching |
| Paulla Ebron | |
Associate Professor, Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology |
Research interests Teaching |
| Paula Findlen | |
Ubaldo Pierotti Professor in Italian History, Department of History; Co-Chair, History and Philosophy of Science and Technology. |
Research interests Early History of Science and Medicine; Renaissance Italy; Relations among Gender, Culture, and Knowledge. |
| Shelley Fisher Fishkin | |
Professor, Department of English; Director of American Studies Program. |
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. |
Research interests Teaching |
| Richard Ford | |
George E. Osborne Professor of Law. |
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. |
Research interests Latin American (Economic) History; Social History of Brazil; Wealth and Inequality; Geographical Information Systems. Teaching |
| Leah Gordon | |
Assistant Professor, School of Education |
Research interests Access and Equity; Cultural Studies; Educational Equity; Equity and Poverty; Higher Education; History of Education; Minorities; Multiculturalism; Social Theory. |
| David Grusky | |
Professor, Department of Sociology; Director, Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality. |
Research interests Stratification; Quantitative Methodology; Race, Class and Gender. Teaching |
| Ian Hodder | |
Dunlevie Family Professor in the Department of Anthropology; Director of the Stanford Archaeology Center. |
Research interests Archaeological Theory; Archaeology and Cultural Heritage of Europe and the Middle East; Excavations in Turkey; Material Culture. Teaching |
| Miyako Inoue | |
Associate Professor of Anthropology. |
Research interests Linguistic Anthropology; Anthropology of Japan. Teaching |
Assistant Professor, Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology. |
Research interests Design; Injury; Mobility. |
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology. |
Research interests |
Professor, School of Education; |
Research interests Evolved Nature of American Higher Education; School Reform in the United States. Teaching |
| Raymond Levitt | |
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and (by courtesy) Medical Informatics; Academic Director; Director, Collaboratory for Research on Global Projects. |
Research interests Virtual Design; Computer Simulation and Modeling of Work Service/Maintenance Work Processes; Organization Design for Projects and Companies; Execution of Global Projects. |
| Carolyn Lougee Chappell | |
Professor of Early Modern European History; Frances and Charles Field Professor in History and Martin Family; University Fellow Undergraduate Education. |
Research interests Huguenot Emigration at the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes; Autobiography; Education of Girls in Early Modern France. Teaching |
| Monica McDermott | |
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology. |
Research interests Race Relations; Social Attitudes; Class; Racial and Ethnic Identity; Urban Sociology. |
| Raymond McDermott | |
Professor of Education and (by courtesy) Anthropology. |
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. |
Research interests Organizational Characteristics Schools and Classrooms; Social Networks; Micro-Sociology; Social Dynamics. |
| William McLennan | |
Dean for Religious Life at Stanford |
Research interests Teaching |
| Ian Morris | |
Jean and Rebecca Willard Professor of Classics; Professor of History; Director, Stanford Archaeology Center. |
Research interests Ancient Greece; Cultural and Economic History; Excavation Monte Polizzo. |
| Josiah Ober | |
Professor of Political Science and Classics and (by courtesy) of Philosophy. |
Research interests Athenian Democracy; Greek Political Thought; Politics of Knowledge and Innovation; Relationship between Democracy and Inherent Human Capacities. |
| Susan Olzak | |
Professor, Department of Sociology. |
Research interests |
| Leonard Ortolano | |
UPS Foundation Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering. |
Research interests Water Resources; Environmental Planning; Implementation of Environmental Policies. Teaching |
| Sean Reardon | |
Associate Professor of Education and (by courtesy) of Sociology. |
Research interests Causes, Patterns, and Consequences of Residential and School Segregation; Race/Ethnic and Socioeconomic Achievement Disparities; Neighborhood Influences of Child Development. |
| 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. |
Research interests Contemporary Liberal Theory; Intersection of Political Theory and Educational Theory. Teaching |
| Ian Robertson | |
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology. |
Complex and Urban Societies; Statistical and Formal Methods; Ceramic and Lithic Analysis; Teotihuacan; Mesoamerica. Teaching
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| Michael Rosenfeld | |
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology. |
Research interests Race and Ethnicity; Immigration and Assimilation; Quantitative Methods. Teaching |
| Rebecca Sandefur | |
Assistant Professor of Sociology and (by courtesy) of Law. |
Research interests Inequality, Social Stratification, and Mobility; Law and Society; Work, Occupations, and Professions. Teaching |
| Gary Segura | |
Professor of Political Science; Chair, Chicana/o Studies, Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity. |
Research interests |
| Jennifer Trimble | |
Associate Professor, Department of Classics. |
Research interests Art and Archaeology of the Roman Empire; Dynamics of Urban Space. |
| Nancy Brandon Tuma | |
Professor, Department of Sociology. |
Research interests Life Careers; Social Stratification; Quantitative Methods for Studying Change. |
| Paul Turner | |
Professor Emeritus, Department of Art and Art History. |
Research interests Teaching |
| Guadalupe Valdes | |
Bonnie Katz Tenenbaum Professor of Education; Professor, Spanish and Portuguese. |
Research interests |
| Barbara Voss | |
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology. |
Research interests Teaching |
Visiting Associate Professor |
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| Gerald Gast | |
Visiting Associate Professor, Program on Urban Studies; Associate Professor and Director of Portland Programs, University of Oregon.
Web page | Research interests Urban Design; Architecture; Downtown Revitalization; Master Planning.
Teaching More 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. |
Lecturers |
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| David Boesch | |
Lecturer, Program in Urban Studies; |
Research interests
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| Melanie Edwards | |
Lecturer, Program in Urban Studies Melanie.Edwards@stanford.edu |
Research interests Teaching URBANST 131, Social Innovation & The Social Entrepreneur URBANST 133. Social Entrepreneurship Collaboratory More |
| Dehan (Danno) Glanz | |
Principal, Calthorpe Associates. danno@calthorpe.com |
Research interests Architecture; Urban Design; Urban Planning; Transit as a Fundamental Means of Transportation. Teaching More |
| Radford "Skid" Hall | |
Lecturer, Program in Urban Studies; |
Research interests Teaching More |
| Patricia Karlin-Neumann | |
Senior Assocaite Dean, Office for Religious Life. |
Research interests Jewish Feminism; Rabbinical Ethics; The Relationship between Religion and Education; Social Justice; Student Mental Health and Well-being. Teaching |
| Michael Kieschnick | |
President and CoFounder, Working Assets. |
Social Innovation; Concepts and Analytic Skills for Social Sectors. Teaching More
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| Joseph Kott | |
Transportation Systems Coordinator for County of San Mateo. |
Research interests Teaching More 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. |
Research interests Starting and Managing Hybrid Enterprises; Socially Innovative Non-Profits and Businesses. Teaching More 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. |
Research interests Teaching |
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| Laura Scher | |
Co-founder, Chairperson, Chief Executive Officer, Working Assets. laura.scher@wafs.com |
Research interests Teaching More 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. |
| Bethany Johnson Steiner | |
Associate Director, Community Planning Workshop, Universtiy of Oregon. |
Research interests Teaching URBANST 127, Community Planning Workshop. More 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. |
Research interests Teaching More |
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| Virginia Visconti | |
Director Public Service Research Program, Haas Center for Public Service. |
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 |
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| Thomas Beischer | |
| Lecturer in Architectural History. | Research interests Teaching More |
| Martin Lewis | |
Senior Lecturer, Department of History. |
Research interests Teaching |
| Jim Truncer | |
Lecturer in Anthropological Sciences. |
Research interests More |