Degree Program Offered: Doctor of Philosophy

Director of Doctoral Program: Karen A. Franck (973-596-3092; email: Karen.a.franck@njit.edu)

Coordinator of Urban Health Specialization: Dula Pacquiao (973-972-8536; email: pacquidf@umdnj.edu)

Coordinator of Urban Environment Specialization: Karen A. Franck (973-596-3092; email: Karen.a.franck@njit.edu)

Coordinator of Urban Educational Policy Specialization: Alan Sadovnik (973-353-3532; email: sadovnik@andromeda.rutgers.edu)

Website: http://www.umdnj.edu/urbsyweb

Members of the Faculty

Professors:

Zeynep Celik, Ph.D., California (Berkeley)

Anthony Forrester, Ph.D., New York
Men's health; minority men's health; gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender violence; HIV/AIDS; acute/critical care nursing

Karen Franck, Ph.D., CUNY
Urban public space; alternative housing; design responsive to human needs and social change

Peter C. Papademetriou, M.Arch., Yale
Architectural history and criticism (focus: 1850-present); architectural design; urban design; urban history and cultural geography

Alan R. Sadovnik, Ph.D., New York
Sociology of education and qualitative research

Associate Professors:

Jeffrey R. Backstrand, Ph.D., Connecticut
Nutrition and public health; maternal-child health; sociocultural determinants of food intake; alcohol and child development; social epidemiology

Barbara Caldwell, Ph.D., Seton Hall
Mental health of urban families and children

Jamie Lew, Ph.D., Teachers College, Columbia
Race and ethnic relations; urban education and policy; immigration and international migration; comparative and international education

Wanda Mohr, Ph.D., Texas (Austin)
Mental health

Dula Pacquiao, Ph.D. Rutgers
Cultural diversity in education and health care

Arthur Powell, Ph.D., Rutgers
Mathematics education; ethnomathematics; urban education

Roberta Schorr, Ed.D., Rutgers
Mathematics education; urban education

Anthony Schuman, M.Arch., Columbia
Housing and urban development with an emphasis on the interplay of socioeconomic forces and physical design; issues of pedagogy and organization in architectural education

Assistant Professor:

Gabrielle Esperdy, Ph.D., CUNY
Modern architecture and urbanism; contemporary cities and suburbs; intersections between consumer culture and the built environment (past and present)