| Adebayo Alabi | The effects of housing policy on local economic development and community well-being |
| Amogh Arakali | Amogh Arakali's doctoral research examines the intersection of economy, environment, and urbanization, focusing on Asia and India. He studies the way economic policy influences the development of urbanizing regions in Asia and India, focusing on local and regional environmental transformations.
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| Fatimah Al-Khaldi | Housing policy, racial capitalism, low-income migration, the Middle Eastern and North African region
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| Valerie J. Amor | Developing regenerative, environmentally just, and equitable designs and policies addressing climate change impacts on coastal urban cities |
| Muhammad Amir Ansari | The effects of intergovernmental fiscal systems on local economic development: a case study of Pakistan |
| Florencia Barindelli | Determinants and effects of highly skilled labor migration and the implications for public policy |
| Andrés Bernal | The political and discursive dimensions of public policy in shaping the Green New Deal as a response to a crisis of political ecology in the United States |
| John Betts | Critical homelessness studies, right-to-shelter policy in New York City, homeless governance, privatization of the American welfare state, new materialisms, critical theory, and how policy systems (un)intentionally perpetuate the conditions they are attempting to correct
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| Raven E. Brown | Neoliberalism, the right to housing and the evolution of the welfare state in post-apartheid South Africa—broadly, capitalism and democracy in the post-Soviet era and democratic transitions and social movements—utilizing qualitative and participatory
methods |
| Carlos José Celis Ortega | Public health policies and the relations between environment and culture |
| Elizabeth Cuccaro | Difference Making in the Age of ADHD: Parenting, Policy, and Professional Practice—An ethnographic study of policy, professional practice, and cultures of parent advocacy around attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and related learning
differences (ADHD/LD)
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| Mackenzie Daly | Research investigates the genealogy and transformation of social welfare. Examines basic income and its relationship to social welfare, economy, and labor markets. |
| Aratrika Debnath | Enhancing disaster risk mitigation through analytical governance frameworks, with the help of citizen science and digital platforms, to develop sustainable urban resettlement strategies |
Diana Denza
| Arts-based participatory approaches to urban placemaking, artistic interpretations of and responses to urban gentrification and displacement, queering urban spaces |
| Mark Durrant | Design research, spatial politics of land, creation of Black alternative spaces, right to the city, and decolonial theory
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| Liat Eisen | The role of public space in divided cities in the age of social networks; the effects of geopolitical changes on cities that are split along ethnic and religious lines, privatization of public space, sovereignty and control of the public domain |
| Sarah Farsad | Affirmative action policies and diversity initiatives implemented to diminish racial inequities in higher education in the U.S., with an emphasis on art and design programs |
| Belen Fodde | Food Governance and Food Security in Slums. The Case of Villa 20, Buenos Aires, Argentina. An analysis on food policies and governance and their impact on households' food security |
| Isis Gamble | Social movements/collective action; right to the city; mobility justice; affordable transportation and transportation justice; pedagogy for urban planning; asset based community development
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Cynthia Golembeski
| Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Research Scholar using mixed methods to analyze how policy, law, ethics, and management operate at the nexus of criminal legal and health systems as determinants of health and safety; philanthropy,
nonprofit management, social safety net programs, civic and political participation, and global health
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| Charlisa Goodlet | Developing a race-conscious framework for policy analysis in legislation and advocating for an equitable approach in policies such as combating racialized poverty and promoting inclusive economic policy. |
| Cedric Gottfried | Urban-rural interconnectedness, power relations, regional cooperation versus competition, land and natural resources management, regional metabolism, territorialization of energy and resource sobriety |
| Michael Harrington | Researching how to design cities and urban policy from an environmental justice perspective in order to not perpetuate designed injustices |
| Harold Hinds | Education policy |
| Te Asia Hunter | Te Asia's research examines the criminalization of Black midwives and their practice throughout U.S. history and how it has facilitated current-day experiences of obstetric racism and limited the number of birthing options for all birthing people. She particularly focuses on what U.S. midwifery scope-of-practice laws reveal about anti-Blackness, misogynoir, racial capitalism, and carcerality in medicine and society at large. |
| Martha Jaimes | The effects of urban infrastructure and labor market dynamics on urban productivity and local economic development, with a focus on Bogotá, Colombia |
| Lina Jaramillo | Lina is working on a qualitative research study on the policy advocates' role of Afro-Colombian grassroots communities in Bojayá, Colombia, supporting the implementation of the peace agreement in rural areas |
Audrey Jenkins
| Audrey studies infrastructures of ecological democracy in the context of urban transformations, looking at practices and flows of material and social power that may sustain public participation in the cultivation and application of knowledge in the design, development, and stewardship of social-ecological systems. Audrey's dissertation explores the case example of community composting networks and policymaking for organic waste systems in New York City.
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| Giulia Lavagna | The efficacy of inclusionary zoning as a means of affordable housing production in developing countries |
| Hoyeon Lee | Political economy of labor market inequality; labor and urban policies; social welfare policies |
| Andrea Patricia Llinás Vahos | Llinas Vahos' academic-activist positioning is grounded in critical theory, abolitionism, decolonial feminism, antiracism, and queer politics. Her dissertation intends to analyze the features of recidivism prevention policy with a gender focus.
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| Anan A. Maalouf | Urban and transport planning, mobility theory, municipal and institutional capacity, public transportation networks, GIS and spatial analysis, and policymaking; research focusing on assessing municipal capacities of Arab cities in Israel by
examining public transportation development practices and policies
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Jeanine Marie
| Social, economic, and resource equity, reproductive justice, and social safety net programs
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| Lisa McClain | Restorative justice, focusing on not only city jails and the members of service that place these individuals there but, most important. the judicial system which governs who goes where |
| Jeanine Marie | The embeddedness of faith-based pregnancy centers in the welfare state and the ways in which the state endorses them via policy design and administration. The politics of welfare and poverty policy, histories of abortion politics, gendered citizenship, neoliberal era deregulation, health care privatization, and FBO social services provision. |
| Raymond Medina | With a concentration on New York City, researching how economic policy is developed, implemented, and tracked, including the influence of neoliberal values and economic arrangements; whom policies most directly benefit and cost; and how effectively housing, education, workforce and business development, and capital access policies holistically advance economic inclusion, civic engagement, and equity. |
| Olivia Nasser Ximenes | The link between urban development, corruption, and illegal settlement
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| Veronica Olivotto | Processes of policy deliberation around urban climate change risk and resilience, including production and access to relevant/usable scientific knowledge of climate risks at different scales and situated power dynamics; New York City and South
America
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| Wilfred Oyekanmi | Transcending inequality and social exclusion: multilateralism, human rights, and people of African descent |
| Claribel Ramirez | Economic development strategies, poverty, and the hunger trap in Puerto Rico |
| Ishita Rahman | Coastal city resilience to climate change for small island developing states and developing countries: observing Havana, Cuba, and Chittagong, Bangladesh |
| Jeannette Rausch | Public participation in urban land-use development and urban waterfront development |
| Alquena Reed | In my research on Black women and workforce development, I delve into the multifaceted challenges they face in the labor market. I explore the intricate relationship between attitudes, both internal and external, and their impact on the perceived value of Black women's labor. By examining how societal
attitudes and individual beliefs intersect with workforce development, I aim to uncover the nuanced factors influencing the labor value assigned to Black women and contribute valuable insights to the ongoing discourse on diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace. |
| Jason Rochford | Domestic outsourcing, the gig economy, and the impact of online labor platforms on workers and cities |
| Nicolas Jose Rodriguez | Studying the upgrading of the horticulture value chain in Argentina's prairies, the main objective being to provide public policy recommendations for value addition and productive sustainable transition from extensive monocropping, in cooperation
with government bodies, institutions, private firms, and civil society |
| Camila Ronderos | Low-income housing, informal settlements, access to credit, and the role of housing microfinance in Latin America; slum redevelopment and relocation policies and the effect on household income |
| Akilah Rosado | A Sense of Belonging: investigating the classroom experiences of Black children in predominately white progressive independent schools in NYC that have implemented a racial equity curriculum and culturally responsive pedagogy |
| Rea Ruiz | Building power and solidarity between communities: exploring impacts of diasporic grassroots organizing on community development and urban policy |
| Rebecca Scheer | The development and use of community development indicators to improve neighborhood well-being |
| Leopolda Silvera | My research in biosurveillance can demonstrate and shape the way spatial literacy is used to redesign spaces to reduce pathogen-borne transmissions through development of “heatmaps” that show perceived high-risk data markers, which can be used to implement policy in the design of public and private spaces. |
| Michael Stack | The effects of mass incarceration and the growing racial wealth gap on sustainable community development, with particular attention to abandoned ghettos in American cities |
| Katja Starc Card | Exploring the relationship between the state and society at the city level, my research focuses on municipal governance in fragile and conflict-affected settings |
| Julie Syversen | Key areas of interest include climate change, disaster risk reduction, and urban resilience; current research focusing on how communities can recover after disasters caused by natural hazards—particularly exploring the relationship between
different actors in a disaster recovery process
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| Azra Tanović | Nexus of climate change and global conflict and understanding how climate change will impact global (in)security in the coming decades
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| Manuel Valderrama Florez | Approaches and techniques that aid understanding the complexities of implementation and evaluation of public policy |
| Monise Valente da Silva | Housing justice struggles and alternative ways of living and inhabiting urban space in Global South cities |
| Jennifer Ventrella | Policy implementation of clean energy transitions in New York State: neoliberal regimes and counter-hegemonic alternatives |
| Michael Williams | The effects of public workforce programs on improving labor market outcomes for long-term unemployment for low-income minority men in New York City |
| Peter Zayas | Policing disparities between minority communities and the general population by ascertaining barriers to police reform implementation
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