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  Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy 2009-2011 Administration, Centers, and Faculty Faculty  

Faculty

Hooshang Amirahmadi, Professor; B.S., Azarabadegan (Iran); M.S., Dallas; Ph.D., Cornell
Teaching and research interests include urban and regional economics, comparative regional policies, international and regional investments, and global restructuring. Area interests include the Middle East.

Clinton J. Andrews, Associate Professor; B.S., Brown; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Teaching and research interests include energy and environmental planning, regulatory reform, and planning methods.  

Robert W. Burchell, Professor; Codirector, Center for Urban Policy Research; B.S.M.E., U.S. Coast Guard Academy; M.C.R.P., Ph.D., Rutgers
Teaching and research interests include real estate analyses, fiscal impact analyses, housing, and land-use planning methods and theory.

Joel Cantor, Professor; Director, Center for State Health Policy; B.A., Wisconsin; Sc.D., Johns Hopkins
Teaching and research interests include health care financing and delivery, health care policy, and access to health services by low-income populations.

Gabriella Y. Carolini, Assistant Professor; B.A., Columbia; M.A., Oxford; Ph.D., Columbia
Research interests include international urban development, affordable housing and informal settlements, public sector accounting and fiscal policy, and international financial architecture.

Henry A. Coleman,
Professor; Director, New Jersey Public Policy Research Institute; B.A., Morehouse College; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton
Research interests include the analysis of public policy issues, especially in the areas of state and local finances, income redistribution, and labor force utilization.

Jocelyn Elise Crowley, Associate Professor; B.A., Cornell; M.P.P., Georgetown; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Teaching and research interests include social policy, American politics, women and politics, and methods.

Stephanie Curenton, Assistant Professor; B.A., Wittenberg; M.A., Ph.D., Virginia
Research interests include education policy, early childhood education and intervention, workforce development for early childhood teachers, and language and social indicators of school readiness.

James DeFilippis, Assistant Professor; B.A., Vermont; M.A., Ph.D., Rutgers
Teaching and research interests include urban political economy and political philosophy; relationships between housing, neighborhoods, and states; and community development theory and practice.

Norman J. Glickman, University Professor; B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Teaching and research interests include international and regional economic development, econometric modeling and urban impact analysis, and urban and industrial policy.

Michael Greenberg, Professor and Associate Dean of the Faculty; B.A., Hunter; M.A., Ph.D., Columbia
Teaching and research interests include environmental planning, economic and environmental trade-offs, toxic substances, and the geography of disease.

Andrea Hetling, Assistant Professor; B.A., Columbia; Master of International Affairs, Columbia; Ph.D., Maryland
Teaching and research interests include domestic social policies that address poverty, inequality, and violence.

Briavel Holcomb, Professor; B.Sc., Nottingham (UK); Dip.Ed., Oxford (UK); M.A., Ph.D., Colorado
Teaching and research interests include urban revitalization; marketing and economic development; urban geography; the geography of inequality; and environmental perception and design for women, children, and the elderly.

James W. Hughes, Professor and Dean of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy; Director, Rutgers Regional Report; B.S., M.C.R.P., Ph.D., Rutgers
Teaching and research interests include demographics, housing and real estate markets, and analysis of regional and state economies.

Radha Jagannathan, Associate Professor; B.A., School of Economics, Delhi (India); M.A., Rutgers; Ph.D., Princeton
Research and teaching interests include public welfare, child welfare, welfare-to-work programs, and statistics and methods.

Robert W. Lake, Professor, Center for Urban Policy Research; Editor, CUPR Press; B.A., Antioch; M.A., Ph.D., Chicago
Teaching and research interests include urban and political geography, race and housing, environmental regulation, and locational conflict.

David Listokin, Research Professor; Codirector, Center for Urban Policy Research; B.A., CUNY (Brooklyn College); M.C.R.P., Ph.D., Rutgers
Teaching and research interests include fair-share housing, urban finance, fiscal impacts, housing policy, environmental impact analysis, education finance, and housing finance.

Jane Miller, Professor; B.A., Williams College; M.A., Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Teaching and research interests include maternal and infant health, and demography.

Anton E. Nelessen, Associate Professor; B.Architecture, Minnesota; M.S., Harvard
Teaching and research interests include design at all scales, urban design for new communities, neighborhood and C.B.D. rehabilitation, visual perception, communication of planning theory and practice, and three-dimensional, 360-degree environmental simulation.

Kathe Newman, Assistant Professor; B.A., Manhattan College; Ph.D., CUNY
Teaching and research interests include urban politics, urban revitalization, community development, intergovernmental relations, state and local politics, and the intersection of race, ethnicity, gender, and class.

Robert B. Noland, Professor and Director, Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center; B.A., California; M.Sc., Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Research interests include impacts of transport planning and policy on environmental outcomes, impact of induced travel on vehicle emissions, behavioral responses to new transport capacity, and microsimulation of pedestrian-vehicle interactions.

Frank J. Popper,
Professor; B.A., Haverford College; M.P.A., Ph.D., Harvard
Teaching and research interests include land-use planning, the American West, politics of land use, and regional and environmental policy.

John R. Pucher, Professor; B.A., North Carolina (Chapel Hill); Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Teaching and research interests include urban transportation, urban economics, and public sector economics.

William M. Rodgers III, Professor; B.A., Dartmouth College; M.A., California (Santa Barbara); M.A., Ph.D., Harvard
Teaching and research interests include the causes and consequences of economic and social inequality, skills gaps and skills shortages, the impact of macroeconomic policy on labor market outcomes, and the federal minimum wage and food security.

Alan Rosenthal, Professor; A.B., Harvard; M.P.A., M.A., Ph.D., Princeton
Research interests include state legislatures and state politics.

Julia Sass Rubin, Assistant Professor; A.B., Harvard (Radcliffe); M.B.A., A.M., Ph.D., Harvard
Teaching and research interests include organizational behavior, community and neighborhood development, not-for-profit organizations, and small business creation.

Hal Salzman, Professor and Senior Fellow, John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development; B.A., California (Santa Cruz); M.A., Ph.D., Brandeis
Research interests include workforce development and labor markets, effects of technological change, science and engineering workforce policy, and low-wage workers, internal labor markets, and corporate restructuring.

Dona Schneider,
Professor; B.A., Trenton State College; M.A., Rutgers; M.P.H., Rutgers/University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey; Ph.D., Rutgers
Teaching and research interests include morbidity and mortality patterns for children and high-risk groups.

Stuart Shapiro, Assistant Professor; B.S., Case Western Reserve; M.P.P., Ph.D., Harvard
Teaching and research interests include public administration and public policy, regulatory processes, civil-service issues, economics, and quantitative methods.

Meredeth Turshen, Professor; B.A., Oberlin College; M.S., New York; Ph.D., Sussex (UK)
Teaching and research interests include gender and development, international health, nutrition, third-world social policy; occupational and environmental health in the United States and abroad; and women's studies.

Carl E. Van Horn, Professor; Director, John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development; B.A., Pittsburgh; M.A., Ph.D., Ohio State
Teaching and research interests include employment policy, policy analysis and evaluation, public policy formation, and state government and politics.

Lyna Wiggins, Associate Professor; B.S., California Polytechnic Institute (San Luis Obispo); M.S., Stanford; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Teaching and research interests include geographic information science, urban applications of GIS, and planning methods.

Nancy Wolff, Professor; B.A., Ph.D., Iowa State
Teaching and research interests include health economics and public finance.

Cliff Zukin, Professor; B.A., Oregon; M.A., Ph.D., Ohio State
Research interests include mass media and American politics, public opinion and voting behavior, and survey research.

 
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