DISSERTATIONS AND THESES

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PHD STUDENTS

Name Field Areas
Maryam Amiri Urban Political Ecology, Feminism, Oil Cities
Chrissi Antonopoulos Urban environment, energy consumption, Residential buildings, Green buildings, Energy equity
Chris Brooks Queer subcultures, transportation
Minji Cho Communicative Planning, Conflict Transformation, Comparative Cultural Studies
Alice Brawley-Chesworth Infrastructure/Science & Technology Studies, Organizational Culture, Social Understandings of Nature, Innovation
Sarah Carnaroli Affordable housing, institutional studies, feminist geography, critical geography, community development
Brice Ehmig Environmental Planning 
Lauren E.M. Everett Place attachment, housing, the person-place relationship
Qin He Housing and Gerontology
Maulsri Jha Urban Resilience and Climate Change Adaptation
Yael Kidron Public Space
Kyu Ri Kim Active Transportation, Pedestrian Safety, Environmental Psychology, Perceived Safety
Mina Kim Economic Development, Innovation, Policy Analysis, International Development
Minju Kim Transportation and Gerontology
Sangwan Lee Transportation and Land Use Interaction, Transport Geography, and Emerging Transportation Modes
Jiahui Ma Active transportation, travel behavior, and urban transportation policy
Miranda Mishan Community Development
Kimberly Nightingale Emotional connection to place, City love budgets
YunJae Ock Environment - Climate change adaptation and Resilience
Dylan Packebush Community Development, Social Ecology, Access/Marginalization in Parks and Recreation
Nick Puczkowskyj Mobility justice, queer/feminist/transgender mobility, micromobility
Shen Qu Urban Transportation
Kelly Rodgers Transportation, Evidence-based policy
Daniel Salomon Neurodiversity in Urban Planning and Community Development as it relates to Climate/Environment
Huijun Tan Transportation Equity, Community Development
Sara Urbina Autonomous vehicle, travel behavior, transportation technology adoption of seniors
Christina Wei Comparative Urbanism, Planning, Public Participation, Spatial Ethnography

MUS STUDENTS

Name Field Areas
Heather Bartlett Economic Development, community development, spatial justice
Hadley Bates Eviction, Housing Justice, Community Development, Public Space, Symbolic Economies, Critical Geography, Feminist Geography
George Brandt Pedestrian and Bicycle Infrastructure
Nickolas Hash Social Policy, Sustainable Food Systems
Hannah Kimes Equitable Economic Development and Gentrification
Ryan Martyn Community Development, Economic Development, Transportation
Aliza Tuttle Sustainable Food Systems, Grassroots movements
Yingjia Zhou Transportation Planning, Public Transportation, Bike and Pedestrian Planning