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Dept of City & Regional Planning

Affordable housing, homelessness, access to credit, community development, the Community Reinvestment Act, neighborhood change, homeownership and mortgage finance (with a focus on low-income and minority households)

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john powell

Dept of African American Studies

Dept of Ethnic Studies

Civil rights and civil liberties, structural racialization, racial justice and regionalism, concentrated poverty and urban sprawl, opportunity based housing, voting rights, affirmative action in the United States, South Africa and Brazil, racial and ethnic identity, spirituality and social justice, needs of citizens in a democratic society

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Jovan Scott Lewis

Dept of Geography

Jamaica and the USA, constructions and inffrastructures of poverty, inequality, race (blackness), economy, reparations

Jonathan Glater

Jonathan Glater

education law, social justice, racial justice

Associate Professor Desiree Fields, smiling, wearing a colorfully patterned blouse in front of grey concrete background.

Dept of Geography

economic geography, urban theory, financialization, digital platforms, property, geographical political economy, housing justice, digital capitalism

civil rights, constitutional law, legal history, law and society, administrative law

Timothy McQuade

Timothy McQuade

Haas School of Business

design of optimal mortgage debt instruments, real estate economics, Affordable housing, household finance, rent control

Dept of City & Regional Planning

urban spatial politics, ecological design, environmental hazards of climate change, Affordable housing, shared equity housing, manufactured housing, adaptation to flooding

Goldman School of Public Policy

crime, public policy, employment discrimination, labor economics, racial inequality, urban economics, criminal justice policy

artificial intelligence, intellectual property law, law and technology, criminal justice

Alina Ball wearing blue top

Alina Ball

business associations, critical legal theory, law and social entrepreneurship

Catherine Crump in outdoor setting wearing emerald green top

Catherine Crump

Civil rights and civil liberties, constitutional law, criminal law, criminal procedure, criminal justice, law and technology, national security, privacy and cybersecurity

Nikki Jones Head Shot

Nikki Jones

Dept of African American Studies

African American communities, policing, racial/gender disparities and the criminal justice system, violence and violence interventions

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Geeta Anand

School of Journalism

journalism, health care, equity, social justice, politics, ethics, media, disinformation, India, international affairs

School of Public Health

urban health, gun violence, informal settlements, global public health, urban climate change, environmental impact assessment, mediation, environmental justice, urban and regional planning

School of Public Health

ethnography and qualitative methods, stress and chronic disease, social determinants of health and health disparities, health systems research and healthcare access, social difference and power and inequality, criminal justice as a determinant of health, urban transportation, community-engaged research / scholarship, community-based research partnerships

David Kirp

Goldman School of Public Policy

public policy, law, social policy, higher education policy, politics and policy, primary and secondary education policy, race and ethnicity, early childhood policy

Dept of Architecture

architecture, urban design

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economic inequality, consumer credit and debt, poverty, bankruptcy, consumer law and protection

Charles Weisselberg

Charles D. Weisselberg

law reform, criminal procedure, police interrogation, federal prisons

Tejas Narechania

administrative law, antitrust, artificial intelligence, intellectual property, law and technology, privacy and cybersecurity, telecommunications law, internet technology

Daniel Aldana Cohen

Daniel Aldana Cohen

Dept of Sociology

politics of climate change, political economy, social inequality, urban studies, Latin America

Kate O'Neill sitting in her office in front of a bookshelf

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

wastes and the circular economy, global environmental governance, climate change politics, globalization, environmental politics and policy, environmental movements, waste plastic recycling

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Deirdre Mulligan

School of Information

information policy, law, privacy, security, machine learning and artificial intelligence