Faculty

Dan Abramson, Urban Design and Planning
DUP, 1998, Tsinghua University
Urban identity, conservation and design; housing and community development; urban studies in emergent/resurgent market economies and transnational communities
Email: abramson@u.washington.edu

Marina Alberti, (Director of PhD Program), Urban Design and Planning
Ph.D. 1992, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Environmental planning, urban ecology, impact assessment, geographic information systems
Email:
malberti@u.washington.edu

Christine Bae, Urban Design and Planning
Ph.D. 1994, University of Southern California
Transportation planning, growth management and land use planning, community development
Email:
cbae@u.washington.edu


William B. Beyers, Geography Ph.D. 1967, University of Washington
Regional science, economic geography, location theory, regional analysis
Email:
beyers@u.washington.edu


Hilda Blanco, Urban Design and Planning
Ph.D. 1989, University of California, Berkeley
Land use planning, comprehensive planning, neighborhood planning, infrastructure, finance
Email:
hblanco@u.washington.edu


Derek Booth
, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Ph.D. 1984, University of Washington
Analysis of consequences of geologic processes on land-use with a focus on stream channels; prediction of future hazards to human activity as a result of ongoing urban development
Email:  
dbooth@u.washington.edu


Branden Born
, Urban Design and Planning
Ph.D. 2003, Wisconsin (Madison)
Planning process and social justice, particularly with regard to the inclusion of marginalized populations in societal decision-making; land use planning and regionalism; urban food systems planning and policy.
Email: 
bborn@u.washington.edu

Alan Borning
, Computer Science & Engineering
Ph.D. 1979, Stanford
Land use, transportation, and environmental modeling; human-computer interaction; constraint-based languages and systems
Email: borning@cs.washington.edu

Gordon Bradley, Forest Resources
Ph.D. 1986, University of Michigan
Foreign land use, urban forest interface studies, environmental planning
Email:
gbradley@u.washington.edu

Christopher Campbell
, Urban Design and Planning
Ph.D. 2002, California (Los Angeles) 
Community processes and structures, social and place identity, participatory and democratic planning processes, planning education. 
Email:  ccamp1@u.washington.edu

James DeLisle
, Urban Design and Planning
Ph.D. 1981, University of Wisconsin
Real estate and urban land economics
Email:   jdelisle@u.washington.edu

Adam Drewnowski, Epidemiology and Medicine
Ph.D. 1977, Rockefeller University
Relationship between poverty and obesity and the links between obesity and diabetes rates in vulnerable populations
Email: adamdrew@u.washington.edu

Mark Ellis, Geography
Ph.D. 1988, Indiana University
Immigration, labor markets, race and ethnicity
Email:
ellism@u.washington.edu

Mark S. Handcock, Statistics & Sociology
Ph.D. 1989, University of Chicago
Statistical methodology for the social sciences, spatial statistics, longitudinal data, environmental statistics
Email:
handcock@u.washington.edu

James W. Harrington, Jr., Geography
Ph.D. 1983, University of Washington
Economic geography, regional economic development, geography of labor
Email:
jwh@u.washington.edu

Marc Hershman, Marine Studies
Ph.D. 1967, Temple University, L.L.M. 1970 Miami University
Law of the coastal zone, coastal zone management, port development
Email:
hershmj@u.washington.edu

Kristina Hill, Landscape Architecture Ph.D. 1997, Harvard University
Spatial patterns of land use, GIS mapping, land classification techniques, urban ecology
Email:
kzhill@u.washington.edu

Jeff Hou
, Landscape Architecture
Ph.D., 2001, California (Berkeley) 
Community design, everyday landscapes, design activism, informal participation, ecological and cultural multiplicity in the urban landscape, citizen movements and environmental activism in the Pacific Rim   
Email:  jhou@u.washington.edu

Miriam Kahn, Anthropology
Ph.D. 1980, Bryn Mawr College
Cultural representations, museum exhibition, place-making, tourism; Oceania
Email:
mkahn@u.washington.edu

Rachel Garshick Kleit
, Public Affairs
Ph.D. 1999, University of North Carolina
Housing policy, public housing, urban and social policy, social networks and social capital
Email:
kleit@u.washington.edu

David Layton, Public Affairs
Ph.D. 1995, University of Washington
Environmental and natural resource policy
Email:
dflayton@u.washington.edu

Robert Lee, Forest Resources
Ph.D. 1973, University of California, Berkeley
Natural resource sociology, multi-resource management, development/change of forestry institutions
Email:
boblee@u.washington.edu

Lynne Manzo
, Landscape Architecture
Ph.D. 1994 City University of New York
The study of the interrelationships between people and their physical surroundings, including not only natural and built settings, but also the socio-cultural and political milieu that shape the appearance, meanings, and use of space
Email:  lmanzo@u.washington.edu

John Marzluff, Forest Resources
Ph.D. 1987, Northern Arizona University
Wildlife habitat relationships, avian ecology, animal behavior, conservation biology, endangered species recovery
Email:
corvid@u.washington.edu

Donald H. Miller, Urban Design and Planning
Ph.D. 1973, University of California, Berkeley
Urban spatial structure, consumer behavior and demand for public services, planning theory and evaluation, urbanization processes
Email:
millerd@u.washington.edu

David Montgomery, Earth and Space Sciences
Ph.D. 1991, University of California, Berkeley
Evolution of topography and the influence of geomorphological processes on ecological systems and human societies
Email:
dave@ess.washington.edu

Anne Vernez Moudon, Urban Design and Planning Dr. es Sc., 1987, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (Switzerland)
Urban design, city form and neighborhood studies, design research
Email:
moudon@u.washington.edu

Robert Mugerauer, Dean and Professor, College of Architecture and Urban Planning Ph.D. 1973, University of Texas
Sustainability and the impact of technology in built and natural environments; values, social, and cultural factors in design and planning; theory and current research methods
Email:
drbobm@u.washington.edu

Robert Naiman
, Aquatic & Fishery Sciences
Ph.D., 1974, Arizona State
Structure and dynamics of lotic ecosystems, watershed ecology and management, and the role of large animals in influencing ecosystem dynamics
Email:  naiman@u.washington.edu

Timothy L. Nyerges, Geography
Ph.D. 1980, Ohio State University Geographic information systems, computer-assisted cartography
Email:
nyerges@u.washington.edu

Vikram Prakash, Architecture
Ph.D. 1994, Cornell University
Interdisciplinary perspectives of culture studies applied to architecture, non-western architecture, modernism and culture theory
Email: 
vprakash@u.washington.edu

Mark Purcell, Urban Design and Planning
Ph.D. 1998, California (Los Angeles)
Urban, political, economic, and social geography; citizenship and democracy; urban social movements, especially Los Angeles and Seattle
Email: 
mpurcell@u.washington.edu

G. Scott Rutherford, Civil Engineering
Ph.D. 1974, Northwestern University
Transportation planning and en
gineering
Email:
scottrut@u.washington.edu

Clare Ryan
, Forest Resources
Ph.D. 1996, University of Michigan

Natural resource policy processes and administration, natural resource conflict management
Email:
cmryan@u.washington.edu

David C. Streatfield, Landscape Architecture
M.L.A., 1965, Pennsylvania
Regional landscape planning, environmental and landscape history, landscape studies, history of urban design, historic landscape preservation
Email:
buzzz@u.washington.edu

Paul Waddell, Public Affairs
Ph.D. 1989, University of Texas, Dallas Urban and regional development patterns, processes, and public policy, GIS
Email:
pwaddell@u.washington.edu

Richard O. Zerbe, Public Affairs
Ph.D. 1969, Duke University Law and economics
Email:
zerbe@u.washington.edu