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john powell at lectern

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

Dept of Sociology

poverty, inequality, causal inference, mixed methods, incarceration, prisoner reentry, education, neighborhoods, urban, community, adolescence, public impact research/scholarship

School of Social Welfare

child welfare, poverty

Dept of City & Regional Planning

water, sanitation, basic services delivery, food justice, urban agriculture, poverty alleviation, environmental sustainability, environmental justice, urban governance, participatory planning, community-based development, international development, development planning, sustainable development, African studies

Julian Chun-Chung

Julian Chun-Chung Chow

School of Social Welfare

East Asian studies, social welfare, community practice and service delivery in urban poverty, ethnic, immigrant neighborhoods, community analysis and needs assessment, program planning and development, cultural competency services

Martin Sánchez-Jankowski

Martín Sánchez-Jankowski

Dept of Sociology

crime, sociology of poverty, sociology of violence, race and ethnic relations

Ekédi Mpondo-Dika

Dept of Sociology

emotions, poverty, family and personal relationships, mental health

Stephen Collier

Stephen Collier

Dept of City & Regional Planning

urban vulnerability and resilience, insurance and climate change, Soviet urban planning and post-Soviet urban and social welfare transformation, infrastructure and politics, neoliberalism and governmental rationality, emergency government in the United States

Dept of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning

Landscape and urban design, landscape and urban theory, digital representation

Anna Livia Brand

Dept of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning

urban planning, urban design, community development, environmental planning, racial geographies, race and urban development, citizen participation

Dept of Architecture

architecture, urban design

Blumenstock speaking at a conference

Joshua Blumenstock

School of Information

machine learning, development economics, poverty and public policy, inequality and crisis

Renee in dean's office

Dept of Architecture

urban design, architectural design

Teresa Caldeira

Teresa Caldeira

Dept of City & Regional Planning

urbanization in the global south, peripheries: urban violence and spatial segregation, urban change, ethnography and qualitative methods

Photo of Jovan Scott Lewis

Jovan Scott Lewis

Dept of Geography

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

woman with black glasses, curly hair wearing orange dress

Tina Sacks

School of Social Welfare

racial disparities in health, social disparities of health, race and class and gender, poverty and inequality

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

Marco Gonzalez-Navarro standing in indoor setting

Marco Gonzalez-Navarro

Dept of Agricultural & Resource Economics

development economices, urban economics

Dept of Architecture

architecture and urban design and theory

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

Goldman School of Public Policy

labor and employment, race, poverty, inequality, economics of education, health disparities, social welfare policy

School of Social Welfare

development, social development, social policy, community development, International social welfare, global poverty and inequality

School of Social Welfare

family policy, child and family poverty, child abuse and neglect, foster care, kinship care, Child welfare services

Margaret Crawford

Dept of Architecture

history of architecture, architecture and urban design, urban history and theory, US built environment studies, urbanism in China

Dept of Economics

labor economics, urban economics