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2011 Grantees

Mary Ellen Brown
Dissertation School: Louisiana State University
Dissertation Title: Investing in the Civic Economy: Social Capital and Choice Neighborhoods
Telephone: (225) 578–7153
Email: mbro118@lsu.edu

Bell Clement
Dissertation School: The George Washington University
Dissertation Title: Creative Federalism, Empowered Citizens: Shaping the Great Society City
Telephone: (202) 994–6230
Email: clement@gwu.edu

Michael Gedal
Dissertation School: New York University
Dissertation Title: Housing Affordability, the Holdout Problem, and Land Use Regulations
Telephone: (212) 998–6662
Email: michael.gedal@nyu.edu

Hye-Sung Han
Dissertation School: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dissertation Title: The Impacts Abandoned Properties Impose Upon Neighborhoods
Telephone: (617) 777–2267
Email: hyesung@unc.edu

Megan Heckert
Dissertation School: Temple University
Dissertation Title: The Economic, Environmental, and Social Justice Impacts of Greening Vacant Lots: An Integrated Spatial Assessment of Urban Revitalization and Sustainability Outcomes
Telephone: (267) 825–5286
Email: meganheckert@gmail.com

Julie Hilvers
Dissertation School: Loyola University Chicago
Dissertation Title: Neighborhood Satisfaction and Mobility Patterns Among the Currently and Formerly Homeless: A Study of Chicago's Residential Homelessness System
Telephone: (312) 915–8622
Email: jhilver@luc.edu

Nancy Hood
Dissertation School: The Ohio State University
Dissertation Title: Smoke-Free Policies in Subsidized Housing
Telephone: (614) 688–3478
Email: hoodnanc@umich.edu

Tanja Kubas-Meyer
Dissertation School: Brandeis University
Dissertation Title: Impact of Rental Housing on Asset Development: Low-Income Female-Headed Households
Telephone: (401) 263–1126
Email: tkm@brandeis.edu

Carrie Makarewicz
Dissertation School: University of California
Dissertation Title: Examining the Influence of the Urban Environment on Parent's Time and Resources for Engagement in Their Children's Learning
Telephone: (773) 350–3832
Email: carriemak@berkeley.edu

Carrie E. Menendez
Dissertation School: The University of Illinois at Chicago
Dissertation Title: Assessing the Role of Universities as Place-Based Institutions: Developing Uniform Metrics of Engagement
Telephone: (312) 413–9839
Email: cmenen3@uic.edu

Reuben Miller
Dissertation School: Loyola University Chicago
Dissertation Title: Halfway Home: An Ethnographic Study of Ex-Offender Community Reintegration
Telephone: (312) 208–0698
Email: rmiller2@luc.edu

Kelly Owens
Dissertation School: University of New Orleans
Dissertation Title: Examining Social Relations in Mixed-Income Communities: An Examination of Individual Processes and Social Mechanisms that Shape Neighbor Interaction
Telephone: (504) 248–0628
Email: kdowens@uno.edu

Kathleen Powell
Dissertation School: University of Maryland Baltimore
Dissertation Title: In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: Neighborhood Relations in a College Town
Telephone: (301) 707–9900
Email: khpowell@ssw.umaryland.edu

Darrel Ramsey-Musolf
Dissertation School: University of Wisconsin
Dissertation Title: An Evaluation of Municipal Effort to Provide Low-Income Housing
Telephone: (626) 419–6993
Email: ramseymusolf@wisc.edu

Eva Rosen
Dissertation School: Harvard University
Dissertation Title: The End of Poverty, or the Emergence of the Horizontal Ghetto? Post-Public Housing, Spatial Concentration and Young Adult Transition in Baltimore
Telephone: (413) 262–5819
Email: evarosen@fas.harvard.edu

Amy Starecheski
Dissertation School: Research Foundation of City University of New York
Dissertation Title: From Squatters to Homeowners: Civic Engagement, Property, and Social Networks in a Time of Crisis
Telephone: (718) 402–1967
Email: astarechescki@gc.cuny.edu

Karen G. Williams
Dissertation School: City University of New York
Dissertation Title: From Coercion to Consent?: Governing the Formerly Incarcerated in the 21st Century United States
Telephone: (917) 828–2535
Email: kwilliams2@gc.cuny.edu

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2010 Grantees

Jocelyn Apicello
Dissertation School: The Trustees of Columbia University
Dissertation Title: Gentrification and Healthy Habitats in New York City: 1990 to Present
Telephone: (212) 305–7023
Email: jla2117@columbia.edu

Justin Betz
Dissertation School: Northeastern University
Dissertation Title: Explaining Racial Differences in Housing Choice Voucher Wait Times
Telephone: (617) 901–9567
Email: betz.j@husky.neu.edu

Lynette K. Boswell
Dissertation School: University of Maryland at College Park
Dissertation Title: Do Neighborhood Housing Market Typologies Matter? Measuring the Impact of the HOME Partnership Investment Program in Baltimore, Maryland
Telephone: (708) 359–3321
Email: lboswell@umd.edu

James Connolly
Dissertation School: The Trustees of Columbia University
Dissertation Title: Processes of Institutional Change in Urban Environmental Policy
Telephone: (973) 943–6721
Email: jjc2119@columbia.edu

Corina Graif
Dissertation School: The President and Fellows of Harvard College
Dissertation Title: Mobility in Isolation: Neighborhood Effects, Spatial Embeddedness, and Inequality in the Migration Pathways of the Urban Poor
Telephone: (617) 491–5958
Email: graif@wjh.harvard.edu

Catherine Guimond
Dissertation School: Regents of the University of California
Dissertation Title: Contested Renewal: The Rebuilding of the South Bronx
Telephone: (510) 457–8118
Email: cguimond@berkeley.edu

Keren Horn
Dissertation School: New York University
Dissertation Title: School Quality, Neighborhoods, and Household Residential Decisions
Telephone: (516) 317–7059
Email: km1423@nyu.edu

William Larson
Dissertation School: The George Washington University
Dissertation Title: Evaluating Alternative Methods of Forecasting House Prices: A Post-Crisis Reassessment
Telephone: (202) 557–9930
Email:

Wanda Liebermann
Dissertation School: The President and Fellows of Harvard College
Dissertation Title: Body Building: Architectural Narratives of Ability and Disability
Telephone: (510) 206–9360
Email: wlieberm@gsd.harvard.edu

Anne Martin
Dissertation School: Regents of the University of California
Dissertation Title: After Foreclosure: The Social and Spatial Reconstruction of Everyday Lives in the San Francisco Bay Area
Telephone: (415) 994–6876
Email: anne_martin@berkeley.edu

Abbilyn M. Miller
Dissertation School: Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
Dissertation Title: Determining Critical Factors in Community-Level Planning of Homeless Service Projects
Telephone: (217) 333–0176
Email: amille22@illinois.edu

Benjamin Roth
Dissertation School: University of Chicago
Dissertation Title: Immigration Integration in Two Chicago Suburbs: Barriers and Strategies Among the Mexican Second Generation
Telephone: (773) 892–4026
Email: broth@uchicago.edu

Jamie Taylor
Dissertation School: The New School
Dissertation Title: Housing Assistance as a Work Support for Households Experiencing Homelessness
Telephone: (860) 716–7392
Email: jataylor157@comcast.net

Hannah Thomas
Dissertation School: Brandeis University
Dissertation Title: Foreclosure Sales Through the Eyes of Real Estate Agents in Boston: An Institutional Ethnography
Telephone: (207) 409–3615
Email: hthomas@brandeis.edu

Catherine M. Vu
Dissertation School: Regents of the University of California
Dissertation Title: Factors Associated With Ethnic Minority Human Service Utilization: A Community and Organizational Analysis
Telephone: (212) 998–5929
Email: catherine.vu@nyu.edu

Laurie Walker
Dissertation School: Colorado Seminary, University of Denver
Dissertation Title: Public Housing Resident Engagement and Transition
Telephone: (720) 690–1134
Email: lwalker5@du.edu

Alyssa Whitby Chamberlain
Dissertation School: Regents of the University of California
Dissertation Title: Community Change and Recidivism: The Interrelationship Between Neighborhood Ecology and Prisoner Reintegration
Telephone: (310) 926–6212
Email: awhitby@uci.edu

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2009 Grantees

Len Albright
Dissertation School: University of Chicago
Dissertation Title: Community Social Organization and the Integration of Affordable Housing Residents in a Suburban New Jersey Community
Telephone: (856) 313–8473
Email: albriglx@uchicago.edu

Suzanne Lanyi Charles
Dissertation School: The President and Fellows of Harvard College
Dissertation Title: Suburban Gentrification: Residential Redevelopment and Neighborhood Change, A Case Study of the Inner-Ring Suburbs of Chicago, Illinois, 2000-2010
Telephone: (646) 417–2477
Email: scharles@gsd.harvard.edu

Andrew J. Greenlee
Dissertation School: University of Illinois at Chicago
Dissertation Title: A Relational Analysis of Mobility in Illinois' Housing Choice Voucher Program
Telephone: (773) 682–8753
Email: agreen4@uic.edu

Michael C. Lens
Dissertation School: New York University
Dissertation Title: Estimating the Spatial Relationships Between Subsidized Housing and Crime
Telephone: (917) 334–4516
Email: michael.lens@nyu.edu

Brian McCabe
Dissertation School: New York University
Dissertation Title: Are Homeowners Better Citizens? Community Engagement, Civic Participation, and the American Dream
Telephone: (202) 687–3867
Email: bjmcc@nyu.edu

Kelly Mills-Dick
Dissertation School: Trustees of Boston University
Dissertation Title: Voices From the Street: Exploring How Older Adults and Outreach Workers Define and Mitigate Problems Associated With Urban Elder Homelessness
Telephone: (518) 429–1672
Email: kellymillsdick@gmail.com

Alexandra K. Murphy
Dissertation School: Trustees of Princeton University
Dissertation Title: The Social Organization of Black Suburban Poverty: An Ethnographic Community Study
Telephone: (917) 225–3285
Email: akmurphy@princeton.edu

Michael Powe
Dissertation School: Regents of the University of California
Dissertation Title: Loft Living in Skid Row: Policies, Plans, and Everyday Practices in a Distressed Neighborhood
Telephone:
Email: m.powe@miami.edu

Richard J. Smith
Dissertation School: Regents of the University of California
Dissertation Title: Immigrant and Minority Entrepreneurship in Federal Community Development Programs
Telephone: (313) 577–2262
Email: smithrichardj@wayne.edu

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2008 Grantees

Meghan A. Burke
Dissertation School: Loyola University Chicago
Dissertation Title: Active Members of Diverse Communities: Race and the Doing of Diversity
Telephone: (309) 556–3671
Email: mburke@iwu.edu

Barbara Harris Combs
Dissertation School: Georgia State University
Dissertation Title: The Ties That Bind: The Role of Place in Racial Identity Formation, Social Cohesion, Accord, and Discord in Two Historic, Black-Gentrifying Atlanta Neighborhoods
Telephone: (770) 942–0646
Email: bcombs@shorter.edu

Courtney Cronley
Dissertation School: University of Tennessee
Dissertation Title: www.homeless.org/culture: A Cross-Level Analysis of the Relationship Between Organizational Culture and Technology Use Among Homeless Service Providers
Telephone: (865) 742–1150
Email: cronley@uta.edu

Martha M. Galvez
Dissertation School: New York University
Dissertation Title: Defining "Choice" in the Housing Choice Voucher Program: The Role of Market Constraints and Household Preferences in Location Outcomes
Telephone: (718) 757–8171
Email: martha.galvez@nyu.edu

Timothy J. Haney
Dissertation School: University of Oregon
Dissertation Title: Off to the (Labor) Market: Women, Work, and Welfare Reform in 21st Century American Cities
Telephone: (403) 440–8659
Email: thaney@mtroyal.ca

Richard Koenig
Dissertation School: Southern New Hampshire University
Dissertation Title: Improving Tenants' Lives Through Affordable Rental Housing: Quality-of-Life Impacts of Five Capitals by Developer and Location
Telephone: (847) 508–0418
Email: rskoenig@aol.com

Constantine E. Kontokosta
Dissertation School: Columbia University
Dissertation Title: The Political Economy of Inclusionary Zoning: Adoption, Implementation, and Neighborhood Effects
Telephone: (212) 992–3263
Email: cek2103@columbia.edu

Amanda J. Lehning
Dissertation School: University of California, Berkeley
Dissertation Title: Local Government Innovation Creating Aging-Friendly Communities: A Strategy for Aging in Place
Telephone: (610) 724–1854
Email: alehning@umich.edu

Rachel Meltzer
Dissertation School: New York University
Dissertation Title: Public Goods, Private Solutions: Essays on Private Governments and the Supplementation of Public Services
Telephone: (212) 229–5400
Email: meltzerr@newschool.edu

Jonathan S. Spader
Dissertation School: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dissertation Title: Implications of Risk-Based Pricing for Affordable Homeownership and Community Reinvestment Goals
Telephone: (301) 347–5789
Email: jonathan_spader@abtassoc.com

Kristie A. Thomas
Dissertation School: University of Pennsylvania
Dissertation Title: Homelessness and Domestic Violence: Examining Patterns of Shelter Use and Barriers to Permanent Housing
Telephone: (617) 521–3935
Email: kristie.thomas@simmons.edu

Danielle Wallace
Dissertation School: University of Chicago
Dissertation Title: An Investigation of Individual Perceptions, Neighborhoods, and Disorder
Telephone: (602) 496–2349
Email: danielle.wallace@asu.edu

Julia M. Wesley
Dissertation School: University of Illinois
Dissertation Title: Revivals Among the Urban Poor: A Look at Civic Participation and Collective Efficacy in Churches
Telephone: (312) 437–6321
Email: jmwesley99@yahoo.com

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2007 Grantees

Debbie Becher
Dissertation School: Princeton University
Dissertation Title: Valuing Property: Eminent Domain for Urban Redevelopment, Philadelphia 1992-2007
Telephone: (212) 851–9480
Email: dbecher@barnard.edu

Matthew Desmond
Dissertation School: University of Wisconsin-Madison
Dissertation Title: Eviction and the Reproduction of Poverty
Telephone: (617) 495–4751
Email: mdesmond@fas.harvard.edu

Yongjun Shin
Dissertation School: University of Wisconsin-Madison
Dissertation Title: Communication Ecology and Urban Politics: The Case of Local Low-Income Housing Policy
Telephone: (508) 531–6698
Email: umaysay@gmail.com

Diana L. Karafin
Dissertation School: The Ohio State University
Dissertation Title: Racial and Ethnic Integration in U.S. Metropolitan Neighborhoods: Patterns, Complexities, and Consequences
Telephone: (973) 353–5344
Email: dkarafin.andromeda@rutgers.edu

Julia Koschinsky
Dissertation School: University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign
Dissertation Title: Modeling Spatial Spillover Effects From Rental to Owner Housing: The Case of Seattle
Telephone:
Email: julia.koschinsky@asu.edu

David J. Madden
Dissertation School: Columbia University
Dissertation Title: Urbanism in Pieces: Publics and Power in Urban Development
Telephone: (646) 483–9249
Email: djm2013@columbia.edu

Charles L. Nier
Dissertation School: Temple University
Dissertation Title: Racial Financial Institutions, Credit Discrimination, and African-American Homeownership in Philadelphia, 1880-60
Telephone: (215) 965–7712
Email: niercl@yahoo.com

Evelyn M. Perry
Dissertation School: Indiana University
Dissertation Title: Live and Let Live: Negotiating Difference in a Diverse Urban Neighborhood
Telephone:
Email: eperry@indiana.edu

Charlene M. Reiss
Dissertation School: North Carolina State University
Dissertation Title: Measuring Client Participation in Organizational Decisionmaking: A Survey of Agencies Providing Emergency and Temporary Shelter
Telephone: (919) 606–7367
Email: cmreiss@unity.ncsu.edu

Jenna (Rosie) Tighe
Dissertation School: University of Texas at Austin
Dissertation Title: Opposition to Affordable Housing: How Perceptions of Race and Poverty Influence Views
Telephone: (828) 262–8905
Email: tighejr@appstate.edu

Andrée Tremoulet
Dissertation School: Portland State University
Dissertation Title: Policy Responses to the Closure of Manufactured Home Parks in Oregon
Telephone: (503) 725–3952
Email: atrem@pdx.edu

Anita L. Zuberi
Dissertation School: Northwestern University
Dissertation Title: Neighborhood Safety and Moving to Opportunity: Understanding Gender and Life Course Differences Using a Mixed-Methods Approach
Telephone:
Email: azuberi@pitt.edu

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2005 Grantees

Ryan Allen
Dissertation School: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dissertation Title: "Sometimes It's Hard Here to Call Someone to Ask for Help": Social Capital in a Refugee Community in Portland, Maine
Telephone: (612) 625–5670
Email: allen650@umn.edu

Shirley Y. Chao
Dissertation School: Tufts University
Dissertation Title: Optimizing Food and Nutrition Services in Assisted Living Facilities for Older Adults: The FANCI (Food And Nutrition Care Indicators) Study
Telephone: (617) 222–7469
Email: shirley.chao@state.ma.us

Scott E. Davis
Dissertation School: University of Virginia
Dissertation Title: A Structural Model of the Effects of Housing Vouchers on Housing Consumption and Labor Supply
Telephone: (434) 924–7802
Email: sedavis@virginia.edu

Keri-Nicole Dillman
Dissertation School: New York University
Dissertation Title: Ownership and Outcomes: Investigating Nonprofit and For-Profit Subsidized Housing Developers
Telephone: (646) 265–2623
Email: keri.nicole.dillman@nyu.edu

Nicole Esparza
Dissertation School: Princeton University
Dissertation Title: Shelters, Soup Kitchens, and Supportive Housing: An Open Systems Analysis of the Field of Homeless Assistance Organizations
Telephone: (213) 821–4237
Email: neesparz@usc.edu

Catherine Fennell
Dissertation School: University of Chicago
Dissertation Title: The Last Project Standing: Building an Ethics for a City Without Public Housing
Telephone: (212) 854–7752
Email: ckf2106@columbia.edu

Michele A. Gilbert
Dissertation School: Kent State University
Dissertation Title: Race, Concentrated Poverty, and Policy: Empowerment Zones in Distressed Urban Areas
Telephone: (216) 687–4513
Email: m.gilbert81@csuohio.edu

George Hobor
Dissertation School: University of Arizona
Dissertation Title: Post Industrial Pathways: The Economic Reorganization of the Urban Rust Belt
Telephone:
Email: ghobor@colgate.edu

Matthew D. Marr
Dissertation School: University of California
Dissertation Title: Better Must Come: Exiting Homelessness in Two Global Cities, Los Angeles and Tokyo
Telephone: (305) 348–4004
Email: mmarr@fiu.edu

Patrick McNamara
Dissertation School: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Dissertation Title: Collaborative Success and Community Culture: Cross-Sectoral Partnerships Addressing Homelessness in Omaha and Portland
Telephone: (402) 342–3458
Email: pmcnamara@omahafoundation.org

Jaren C. Pope
Dissertation School: North Carolina State University
Dissertation Title: Limited Attention, Asymmetric Information, and the Hedonic Model
Telephone: (801) 422–2037
Email: jaren_pope@byu.edu

Jane Rongerude
Dissertation School: University of California, Berkeley
Dissertation Title: The Sorted City: San Francisco, Hope SF, and the Redevelopment of Public Housing
Telephone: (510) 693–1314
Email: jrong@berkeley.edu

Jenny Schuetz
Dissertation School: Harvard University
Dissertation Title: Guarding the Town Walls: Mechanisms and Motives for Restricting Multifamily Housing in Massachusetts
Telephone: (213) 740–0387
Email: jschuetz@sppd.usc.edu

Gretchen E.L. Suess
Dissertation School: Temple University
Dissertation Title: Beyond School Walls: The Politics of Community and Place in Two Philadelphia Neighborhoods
Telephone: (215) 573–4751
Email: gsuess@sas.upenn.edu

Barbra Teater
Dissertation School: The Ohio State University
Dissertation Title: Residential Mobility and the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program: Factors Predicting Mobility and the Residential Decisionmaking Process of Recipients
Telephone: +44 (0) 117 954 6787
Email: b.teater@bristol.ac.uk

Griff Tester
Dissertation School: The Ohio State University
Dissertation Title: The Relational and Status Foundation of Gender Discrimination in Housing
Telephone: (614) 292–6681
Email: tester.6@osu.edu

Gretchen Weismann
Dissertation School: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dissertation Title: The Relative Risk: Parenting, Poverty, and Peers in the Three-City Study of Moving Opportunity
Telephone: (617) 335–4640
Email: g_weismann@yahoo.com

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2004 Grantees

James Armstrong
Dissertation School: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Dissertation Title: Lessons Drawn From Local Housing Authorities: Characteristics of Survival and Success
Telephone: (202) 723–4450
Email: jarmstrong@phada.org

Andrew Aurand
Dissertation School: University of Pittsburgh
Dissertation Title: Is Smart Growth Smart for Low-Income Households: A Study of the Impact of Four Smart Growth Principles on the Supply of Affordable Housing
Telephone: (850) 644–8522
Email: aaurand@fsu.edu

Lisa K. Bates
Dissertation School: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dissertation Title: A Housing Submarket Approach to Neighborhood Revitalization Planning: Theoretical Considerations and Empirical Justifications
Telephone: (503) 725–8203
Email: lkbates@pdx.edu

Gregory S. Burge
Dissertation School: Florida State University
Dissertation Title: A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation of the Effects of Impact Fees on the Affordability of Starter Homes
Telephone: (405) 325–2358
Email: gburge@ou.edu

George R. Carter, III
Dissertation School: University of Michigan
Dissertation Title: From Exclusion to Destitution: Race, Affordable Housing, and Homelessness
Telephone: (240) 487–6570
Email: cartergr@umich.edu

Kristen B. Crossney
Dissertation School: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Dissertation Title: The Unintended Consequence of Predatory Lending: An Examination of Mortgage Lending in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Telephone: (610) 430–5838
Email: kcrossney@wcupa.edu

Matthew Cuddy
Dissertation School: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Dissertation Title: A Practical Method for Developing Context-Sensitive Residential Parking Standards
Telephone:
Email:

Arielle Goldberg
Dissertation School: City University of New York
Dissertation Title: In Search of the Public Good: Agenda Setting and Policy Formulation for Post-9/11 New York City
Telephone:
Email: goldberga@rhodes.edu

Yan Y. Lee
Dissertation School: University of California, Los Angeles
Dissertation Title: Government Intervention in Mortgage Credit Markets: Increases in Lending to Minority and Low-Income Communities, Reductions in Neighborhood Crime From Homeownership, and Potential Efficiency Gains for Banks From Regulation
Telephone: (202) 898–6629
Email: ylee@fdic.gov

Michael McQuarrie
Dissertation School: New York University
Dissertation Title: From Backyard Revolution to Neoliberalism: Community Development, Civil Society, and the American Third Way
Telephone:
Email: mmcquarrie@ucdavis.edu

Criseida Navarro-Diaz
Dissertation School: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dissertation Title: Economic Advancement or Social Exclusion? Less-Educated Workers, Costs-of-Living, and Migration in High-Tech Regions
Telephone: (787) 763–7590
Email: criseidanavarro@uprrp.edu

Pamela Ann Rogers
Dissertation School: University of Texas at Austin
Dissertation Title: Intraurban Mobility Patterns of Mexican Immigrants in Emerging Gateways
Telephone: (512) 968–6280
Email: pann_rogers@yahoo.com

Sapna Swaroop
Dissertation School: University of Michigan
Dissertation Title: The Social Consequences of Racial Residential Integration
Telephone:
Email: sapnaswaroop@gmail.com

Mark Tigan
Dissertation School: University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Dissertation Title: Citizen Participation in U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Programs: From the Great Society to the New Federalism
Telephone: (508) 304–8888
Email: tiganm@gmail.com

Michael Wenz
Dissertation School: University of Illinois at Chicago
Dissertation Title: Casino Gambling and Economic Development
Telephone: (773) 442–5597
Email: m-wenz@neiu.edu

Duan Zhuang
Dissertation School: University of Southern California
Dissertation Title: Redlining Revisited: Spatial Dependence and Neighborhood Effects in Mortgage Lending
Telephone: (213) 820–8853
Email: dzhuang@usc.edu

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2003 Grantees

Tiffany Gayle Chenault
Dissertation School: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Dissertation Title: "We Did It for the Kids," Housing Policies, Race, and Class: An Ethnographic Case Study of a Resident Council in a Public Housing Neighborhood
Telephone: (978) 542–6362
Email: tchenault@salemstate.edu

Alexandra M. Curley
Dissertation School: Boston University
Dissertation Title: HOPE and Housing: The Effects of Relocation on Movers' Economic Stability, Social Networks, and Health
Telephone:
Email: acurley22@gmail.com

Zaire Dinzey-Flores
Dissertation School: University of Michigan
Dissertation Title: Fighting Crime, Constructing Segregation: Crime, Housing Policy, and the Social Brands of Puerto Rican Neighborhoods
Telephone: (732) 445–3820
Email: zdinzey@rci.rutgers.edu

Robert P. Fairbanks, II
Dissertation School: University of Pennsylvania
Dissertation Title: Communal Re-Appropriation of Blighted Spaces: Governmentality and the Politics of Everyday Life in the Kensington Recovery House Movement
Telephone: (773) 834–6768
Email: rpf@uchicago.edu

Martin Farnham
Dissertation School: University of Michigan
Dissertation Title: Essays in Taxation, Aging, and Residential Location
Telephone: (250) 472–4422
Email: mfarnham@uvic.ca

Chad R. Farrell
Dissertation School: Pennsylvania State University
Dissertation Title: Urban Mosaics: Multiracial Diversity and Segregation in the American Metropolis
Telephone: (907) 786–1759
Email: afcrf@uaa.alaska.edu

David Greenberg
Dissertation School: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dissertation Title: Ways of Contending: Community Organizing and Development in Neighborhood Context
Telephone: (212) 532–3200
Email:

Michal Grinstein-Weiss
Dissertation School: Washington University
Dissertation Title: IDAs for Housing Policy: Analysis of Savings Outcomes and Racial Differences
Telephone: (919) 962–6446
Email: michalgw@wustl.edu

Derek S. Hyra
Dissertation School: University of Chicago
Dissertation Title: Race, Politics, and Neighborhood Revitalization: The Economic Transformation of Harlem and Bronzeville
Telephone: (703) 838–8320
Email: dhyra@vt.edu

Tatjana Meschede
Dissertation School: University of Massachusetts Boston
Dissertation Title: Bridges and Barriers to Housing for Homeless Street Dwellers: The Impact of Health and Substance Abuse Services on Housing Attainment
Telephone: (781) 736–8678
Email: meschede@brandeis.edu

Juris Milestone
Dissertation School: Temple University
Dissertation Title: Universities, Cities, Design, and Development: An Anthropology of Aesthetic Expertise
Telephone: (215) 204–7775
Email: juris@temple.edu

Joseph B. Nichols
Dissertation School: University of Maryland at College Park
Dissertation Title: Mortgage Contracts and the Definition Of and Demand For Housing Wealth
Telephone: (202) 452–2983
Email: joseph.b.nichols@frb.gov

Martha Trenna Valado
Dissertation School: University of Arizona
Dissertation Title: Factors Affecting Homeless People's Perception and Use of Urban Space
Telephone: (520) 834–6285
Email: mtvalado@gmail.com

Oswaldo Urdapilleta
Dissertation School: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dissertation Title: A Policy Model of Multiple Safety Net Program Participation and Labor Supply
Telephone: (919) 360–1632
Email: ourdapi@gmail.com

Qingfang Wang
Dissertation School: University of Georgia
Dissertation Title: Geographic Perspectives on Ethnic Labor Market Segmentation in the United States
Telephone: (704) 687–5943
Email: qwang7@uncc.edu

Yizhao Yang
Dissertation School: Cornell University
Dissertation Title: Physical Form and Neighborhood Satisfaction: Evidence From the American Housing Survey
Telephone: (541) 346–0833
Email: yizhao@uoregon.edu

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2002 Grantees

Grigoriy Ardashev
Dissertation School: University of Louisville
Dissertation Title: Fragmentation, Sprawl, and Economic Development: An Analysis of 331 Metropolitan Areas in the United States
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Philip Ashton
Dissertation School: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Dissertation Title: Advantage or Disadvantage? The Changing Institutional Landscape of Central-City Mortgage Markets
Telephone: (312) 413–7599
Email: pashton@uic.edu

William J. Bartosch
Dissertation School: Brandeis University
Dissertation Title: Congress, Problems Definition, and Inattentive Publics: An Analysis of Disability Policymaking for Alcoholics and Drug Addicts
Telephone: (617) 573–1131
Email: william.bartosch@state.ma.us

Kim DeFronzo Haselhoff
Dissertation School: University of California, Irvine
Dissertation Title: The Use of Redevelopment Housing Set-Aside Funds in Southern California: A New Look at Cities and Redistributive Spending
Telephone:
Email: kimhasel@ucla.edu

Fred Ellerbusch
Dissertation School: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Dissertation Title: Residential Redevelopment of Brownfields-Is Human Health Being Protected?
Telephone:
Email: fred.ellerbusch@njit.edu

Todd Gish
Dissertation School: University of Southern California
Dissertation Title: Building Los Angeles: Urban Housing in the Suburban Metropolis, 1900-36
Telephone:
Email: tdgish@gmail.com

Jennifer Gress
Dissertation School: University of California, Irvine
Dissertation Title: Understanding the Role of Social Capital in the Production of Affordable Housing in Orange County, California
Telephone:
Email: jgress@arb.ca.gov

James Hanlon
Dissertation School: University of Kentucky
Dissertation Title: Distressed Public Housing and HOPE VI Revitalization: An Analysis of Park DuValle in Louisville, Kentucky
Telephone: (859) 257–8237
Email: jim.hanlon@uky.edu

Michael Hollar
Dissertation School: George Washington University
Dissertation Title: Central Cities and Suburbs: Economic Rivals or Allies?
Telephone: (202) 402–5878
Email: michael.k.hollar@hud.gov

Eunju Hwang
Dissertation School: University of Minnesota
Dissertation Title: Desire to Age in Place Among Korean American Elders in Minnesota
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Mona Koerner
Dissertation School: University of Texas at Austin
Dissertation Title: Performance of the Hollow State: State and Local Responses to the Devolution of Affordable Housing
(512) 471–6424
Email:

David Mainor
Dissertation School: Tulane University
Dissertation Title: Urban Transformations: Does Inner-City Revitalization Pose a Risk to Neighborhood Cohesion?
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Martha M. Matsuoka
Dissertation School: University of California, Los Angeles
Dissertation Title: From Neighborhood to Global: Community-Based Regionalism and Shifting Concepts of Place in Community and Regional Development
Telephone: (323) 259–2971
Email: matsuoka@oxy.edu

Deirdre A. Oakley
Dissertation School: State University of New York at Albany
Dissertation Title: Fallacies of the American Welfare State: The Enduring Response of Community- and Faith-Based Organizations—Homeless Shelters and Relief Services in New York City During the 1920s and 1990s
Telephone: (404) 413–6511
Email: doakley1@gsu.edu

Michele Wakin
Dissertation School: University of California, Santa Barbara
Dissertation Title: Documenting the Use of Vehicles as Housing: Towards a More Permanent Solution
Telephone: (508) 531–2514
Email: mwakin@bridgew.edu

Mark T. Wright
Dissertation School: University of Louisville
Dissertation Title: Low Income Housing Tax Credits: Comparing Nonprofit Versus For-Profit Developments in Terms of Cost and Quality
Telephone: (502) 526–0001, ext. 104
Email: m.wright@oracledesign.net

Zhou Yu
Dissertation School: University of Southern California
Dissertation Title: Access to Homeownership: Race-Ethnicity, Immigrant Status, and Changing Demographics
Telephone: (801) 892–5521
Email: zhou.yu@fcs.utah.edu

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2001 Grantees

Jennifer Altman
Dissertation School: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Dissertation Title: Matching University Resources to Community Needs: Case Studies of University-Community Partnerships
Telephone:
(732) 548–6000, ext. 3106 Email: jaltman@middlesexcc.edu

LaTanya Brown
Dissertation School: Howard University
Dissertation Title: A Study to Determine if HOPE VI Sites Influence Area Housing
Telephone: (301) 860–3661
Email: lnbrown@bowiestate.edu

Susan Clampet-Lundquist
Dissertation School: University of Pennsylvania
Dissertation Title: Hope or Harm: Deconcentration and the Welfare of Families in Public Housing
Telephone: (610) 660–1680
Email: sclampet@sju.edu

Sarah Coffin
Dissertation School: Georgia Institute of Technology
Dissertation Title: The Brownfields Reality Check: A Study of Land Value and the Effects of Brownfields on the Locations of Section 8 Housing
Telephone: (314) 977–3930
Email: coffinsl@slu.edu

Silvia Dominguez
Dissertation School: Boston University
Dissertation Title: Latina Immigrants in Public Housing: Race Relations, Social Networks, and Access to Services
Telephone: (617) 373–4989
Email: s.dominguez@neu.edu

Roxanne Ezzet-Lofstrom
Dissertation School: University of California, Irvine
Dissertation Title: Valuation of Metropolitan Quality of Life in Wages and Rents
Telephone: (415) 524–8297
Email: roxanne.ezzet@gmail.com

Leslie Frank
Dissertation School: University of Connecticut
Dissertation Title: "I Never Really Took Much Notice": The FHA and Suburbanization in the Providence Metropolitan Area, 1934-55
Telephone: (508) 963–9951
Email: leslie51706@gmail.com

Falan Guan
Dissertation School: University of Southern California
Dissertation Title: Multi-Worker Households Residential Location Choices-A Disaggregate Comparative Approach
Telephone:
Email: guanf@metro.net

Carolina Katz Reid
Dissertation School: University of Washington
Dissertation Title: Achieving the American Dream? A Longitudinal Analysis of the Homeownership Experiences of Low-Income Families
Telephone: (415) 974–2161
Email: carolina.reid@sf.frb.org

Jibum Kim
Dissertation School: University of Chicago
Dissertation Title: Community Context and the Lives of Korean American Immigrant Elderly
Telephone: (773) 256–6285
Email: kim-jibum@norc.uchicago.edu

Richard W. McConaghy
Dissertation School: University of Massachusetts at Boston
Dissertation Title: Mortality, Moveout, and Refinancing as Factors in HECM Reverse Mortgage Payoffs
Telephone: (215) 248–2074
Email: mcconaghy@earthlink.net

Jonathan Q. Morgan
Dissertation School: North Carolina State University
Dissertation Title:The Role of Regional Industry Clusters in Urban Economic Development: An Analysis of Process and Performance
Telephone: (919) 843–0972
Email: morgan@sog.unc.edu

Howard Nemon
Dissertation School: University of Pennsylvania
Dissertation Title: Community Economic Development in Distressed Urban Neighborhoods: A Case Study of the Philadelphia Empowerment Zone
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Mathew Reed
Dissertation School: Northwestern University
Dissertation Title: Moving Out: Section 8 and Public Housing Relocation in Chicago
Telephone: (650) 373–7373
Email: mathew@schoolhouseservices.com

Daniel A. Sandoval
Dissertation School: Cornell University
Dissertation Title: Rising Tide, Sinking Boats: The Consequences of Economic Restructuring and Racial Segregation for Connecticut's Inner City Poor
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Kai A. Schafft
Dissertation School: Cornell University
Dissertation Title: Tracking Incidence of Residential Mobility Among Poor Families in Upstate New York Through Public School Enrollments: Economic Change, Housing Insecurity, and "Poverty Migration"
Telephone: (814) 863–2031
Email: kas45@psu.edu

Susan Thering
Dissertation School: State University of New York
Dissertation Title: Documenting the Community Capacity Building Benefits of Public Participation in Community Design and Planning and Developing Indicators of Community Capacity
Telephone: (608) 263–6506
Email: sathering@wisc.edu

Zhong Yi Tong
Dissertation School: University of Maryland at College Park
Dissertation Title: The Impact of Targeted Homeownership Tax Credit Program: Evidence From Washington, D.C.
Telephone: (301) 948–8018
Email: zhongyitong@gmail.com

Tien-Chien Tsao
Dissertation School: University of Michigan
Dissertation Title: New Models for Future Retirement: A Study of College/University Linked Retirement Communities
Telephone: (734) 302–7920
Email: tsao@umich.edu

Shannon Van Zandt
Dissertation School: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dissertation Title: Achieving The American Dream: The Impact of Homeownership on Opportunity for Low- and Moderate-Income Individuals
Telephone: (979) 458–1223
Email: svanzandt@tamu.edu

Daniel A. Wishnoff
Dissertation School: City University of New York
Dissertation Title: The Tolerance Point: Race, Public Housing, and the Forest Hills Controversy, 1945-75
Telephone:
Email: dwishnoff@aol.com

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2000 Grantees

John Baranski
Dissertation School: University of California, Santa Barbara
Dissertation Title: Making Public Housing in San Francisco: Liberalism, Social Prejudice, and Social Activism, 1906-76
Telephone: (970) 247–7269
Email: baranski_j@fortlewis.edu

Susan K. Brown
Dissertation School: University of Washington
Dissertation Title: Isolation and the Enclave: The Presence and Variety of Strong Ties Among Immigrants
Telephone: (949) 824–9382
Email: skbrown@uci.edu

Alvaro Cortes
Dissertation School: Wayne State University
Dissertation Title: The Impact of Urban Universities on Neighborhood Housing Markets: University Decisions and Non-Decisions
Telephone: (301) 634–1857
Email: alvaro_cortes@abtassoc.com

Spencer M. Cowan
Dissertation School: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dissertation Title: The Impact of Statewide Inclusionary Land Use Laws on the Supply and Distribution of Housing for Lower Income Households
Telephone: (919) 962–0122
Email: spencer_cowan@unc.edu

Lynne M. Dearborn
Dissertation School: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Dissertation Title: Immigrant Culture and Housing Provision, Examining the Nexus: A Case Study of the ACTS Landmark Housing Program and Its Hmong Participants (3-Volume Dissertation)
Telephone: (217) 333–4331
Email: dearborn@illinois@edu

David Eldridge
Dissertation School: University of Pennsylvania
Dissertation Title: The Making of a Courtroom: Landlord-Tenant Trials in Philadelphia's Municipal Court
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Ajay Garde
Dissertation School: University of Southern California
Dissertation Title: New Urbanism and Sustainable Growth: The Making of a Design Paradigm and Public Policy
Telephone: (949) 824–9087
Email: agarde@uci.edu

Jennifer Glanville
Dissertation School: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dissertation Title: Ties and Trust: Understanding How Social Capital Operates in Neighborhoods
Telephone: (319) 335–2489
Email: jennifer-glanville@uiowa.edu

Judith Grant Long
Dissertation School: Harvard University
Dissertation Title: Full Count: The Real Cost of Public Subsidies for Major League Sports Facilities
Telephone: (617) 495–8768
Email: jglong@gsd.harvard.edu

Joe Grengs
Dissertation School: Cornell University
Dissertation Title: Transit Turning Inside Out: Federal Transportation Policy and Inner-City Accessibility During the ISTEA Years
Telephone: (734) 763–1114
Email: grengs@umich.edu

Ed Hamlyn
Dissertation School: University of Texas at El Paso
Dissertation Title: The Impact of Climate Change on the Upper Rio Grande Basin
Telephone: (915) 747–5667
Email: edhamlyn@utep.edu

Andrew Helms
Dissertation School: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dissertation Title: The Economics of Housing Renovation: Three Empirical Studies
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Amy Hillier
Dissertation School: University of Pennsylvania
Dissertation Title: Redlining and the Home Owners' Loan Corporation
Telephone: (215) 746–2341
Email: ahillier@design.upenn.edu

Jennifer Johnson
Dissertation School: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dissertation Title: Finding Work in the City
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Email: jrj9@alum.mit.edu

William H. Lockhart
Dissertation School: University of Virginia
Dissertation Title: Getting Saved From Poverty: Religion in Poverty to Work Programs
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Ellen Myerson
Dissertation School: University of California, Berkeley
Dissertation Title: HOME Rental Projects: Influence of Financing and Organizational Type on Project Efficiency, Project Location, and Tenants Served
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Marla Nelson
Dissertation School: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Dissertation Title: Producer Services, Agglomeration Economies, and Intra-Metropolitan Location: The Public Accounting Industry in the Chicago and Minneapolis-St. Paul Regions
Telephone: (504) 280–3110
Email: mnelson@uno.edu

Sharon I. O'Donnell
Dissertation School: University of Houston
Dissertation Title: Quality Decisions: A Stochastic Equilibrium Model of Homeownership
Telephone: (301) 763–5132
Email: sharon.i.o'donnell@census.gov

Jennifer Pashup
Dissertation School: University of Chicago
Dissertation Title: Gentrification and Neighborhood Change: Who Goes, Who Stays, and How Long-Term Residents Cope
Telephone:
Email: jpashup@ksgmac.com

Melina Patterson
Dissertation School: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Dissertation Title: Learning Places: Community Schools in Community Development
Telephone: (540) 654–1494
Email: mpatters@umw.edu

Karen Pence
Dissertation School: University of Wisconsin-Madison
Dissertation Title: Essays on Government Policy and Household Financial Decisions
Telephone: (202) 452–2342
Email: karen.pence@frb.gov

Hollie Person Lund
Dissertation School: Portland State University
Dissertation Title: Breaking Down Barriers to Community Life: Social Contact, Local Travel, and Community Sentiment and Cohesion in Suburban Neighborhoods
Telephone: (503) 725–4045
Email: hlund@pdx.edu

Randal Pinkett
Dissertation School: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dissertation Title: Creating Community Connections, Sociocultural Constructionism, and an Asset-Based Approach to Community Technology and Community Building
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Eileen A. Robertson-Rehberg
Dissertation School: Cornell University
Dissertation Title: Federal Funding and Community Development: An Evaluation of the Strategic Uses of Small Cities Community Development Block Grants in Upstate New York
Telephone: (423) 774–3310
Email: errehberg@ochscenter.org

Juan Sandoval
Dissertation School: University of California, Berkeley
Dissertation Title: The Geography of Opportunity and Vulnerability: State TANF Policy, Welfare Dependency, and the Diversity of Welfare Caseloads
Telephone: (847) 467–4139
Email: j-sandoval@northwestern.edu

Laura Solitare
Dissertation School: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Dissertation Title: Public Participation in Brownfields Redevelopment in Residential Neighborhoods
Telephone: (713) 882–8467
Email: lgsolitare@gmail.com

Jill Strube
Dissertation School: Florida International University
Dissertation Title: Fiscal and Organizational Determinants of Transportation Outcomes: A Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of Sustainability Factors
Telephone: (512) 232–7277
Email: jstrube@austin.utexas.edu

Rainer vom Hofe
Dissertation School: Cornell University
Dissertation Title: A Regional Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) Model for HUD Policy Analysis: The Case of New York State
Telephone: (513) 556–3835
Email: rainer.vomhofe@uc.edu

Malik Watkins
Dissertation School: The Ohio State University
Dissertation Title: Faith/Community-Based Organizations and the Political Process Model: Social Mobilization as an Explanation for Member Participation in Community Building
Telephone: (706) 201–2296
Email: watkins@cviog.uga.edu

Laura Wolf-Powers
Dissertation School: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Dissertation Title: The Role of Labor Market Intermediaries in Promoting Employment Access and Mobility: A Supply- and Demand-Side Approach
Telephone: (215) 746–2263
Email: lwpowers@design.upenn.edu

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1999 Grantees

Sandra L. Barnes
Dissertation School: Georgia State University
Dissertation Title: Positive Homeownership Attitudes, Homeownership Behavior, and Neighborhood Ties in Poor Urban Neighborhoods
Telephone: (615) 322–8714
Email: sandra.l.barnes@vanderbilt.edu

Daniele Bondonio
Dissertation School: Carnegie Mellon University
Dissertation Title: Do Geographically Targeted Development Incentives Revitalize Communities? Evidence From the State Enterprise Zone Programs
Telephone: +39 011 66 30 161
Email: daniele.bondonio@sp.unipmn.it

Sherri Lawson Clark
Dissertation School: American University
Dissertation Title: Policy, Perceptions, and Place: An Ethnography of the Complexities of Implementing a Federal Housing Program
Telephone: (336) 758–3556
Email: clarksl@wfu.edu

Kelly J. Clifton
Dissertation School: University of Texas at Austin
Dissertation Title: Local Access, Non-Work Travel, and Survival Tactics In Low-Income Neighborhoods
Telephone: (301) 405–1945
Email: kclifton@umd.edu

Sarah S. Gardner
Dissertation School: City University of New York
Dissertation Title: Green Visions for Brownfields: Policy Coalitions for Urban Redevelopment
Telephone:
Email: sgardner@williams.edu

Roger B. Hammer
Dissertation School: University of Wisconsin-Madison
Dissertation Title: The Geography of Residential and Employment Inequality: Workplace and Home Place in Urban Space
Telephone:
Email: hammer@wisc.edu

Lezlee Hinesmon-Matthews
Dissertation School: University of California, Los Angeles
Dissertation Title: Faith-Based Versus Secular Approaches to Community Development in African-American Communities: The Case of Los Angeles
Telephone: (657) 278–2490
Email: lhinesmon-matthews@fullerton.edu

Jerome Hodos
Dissertation School: University of Pennsylvania
Dissertation Title: Second Cities: Globalization, Institutions, and Political Culture in Struggling Regions
Telephone: (717) 291–4027
Email: jerome.hodos@fandm.edu

Thomas Kamber
Dissertation School: City University of New York
Dissertation Title: Local Politics and Housing Vouchers
Telephone: (718) 360–1707
Email: tkamber@oatsny.org

Lucie Laurian
Dissertation School: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dissertation Title: Mobilization as a Response to Risk Perceptions and Declines in Housing Values in Communities Around Superfund Sites
Telephone: (319) 353–2955
Email: lucie-laurian@uiowa.edu

Michael Leo Owens
Dissertation School: State University of New York at Albany
Dissertation Title: Pulpits and Policy: The Politics of Black Church-Based Community Development in New York City, 1980-2000
Telephone: (404) 727–9322
Email: michael.leo.owens@emory.edu

Stephanie Post
Dissertation School: Rice University
Dissertation Title: Cities and Their Suburbs: "Go Along to Get Along"
Telephone: (713) 348–2223
Email: post@rice.edu

Stefan Rayer
Dissertation School: Cornell University
Dissertation Title: The Incorporation of Peripheral Areas in Metropolises Undergoing Restructuring
Telephone: (352) 392–0171
Email: stefanr@bebr.ufl.edu

Mary Gail Snyder
Dissertation School: University of California, Berkeley
Dissertation Title: Informal Housing: Shelter Strategies and Resources Among Low-Income Households
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Lisa A. Sutherland
Dissertation School: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dissertation Title: Creating Healthy Communities One Byte at a Time
Telephone: (603) 653–0754
Email: lisa.a.sutherland@dartmouth.edu

Amy Winston
Dissertation School: Purdue University
Dissertation Title: Factions and Corporate Political Strategies in Harlan County, Kentucky: Implications for Community Sustainability
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1998 Grantees

Mahyar Arefi
Dissertation School: University of Southern California
Dissertation Title: Jump-Starting Main Street: A Case Study of the Los Angeles Neighborhood Initiative (LANI)
Telephone: +971 050 2072398
Email: mahyar.arefi@uc.edu

Karen J. Baehler
Dissertation School: University of Maryland at College Park
Dissertation Title: Fair Shares and Formula Fights: A Study of Federal Social Welfare Distribution
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Email: karen.baehler@vuw.ac.nz

John Wesley Edwards
Dissertation School: Cornell University
Dissertation Title: Building the Open City? Residential Mobility and Urban Policy Innovation in the 1970s
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Rachel Garshick Kleit
Dissertation School: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dissertation Title: Housing, Social Networks, and Access to Opportunity: The Impact of Living in Scattered-Site and Clustered Public Housing
Telephone: (614) 292–5427
Email: kleit.1@osu.edu

Laura E. Harris
Dissertation School: State University of New York at Albany
Dissertation Title: A Home Is More Than Just a House: A Spatial Analysis of Affordable Housing in Metropolitan America
Telephone: (901) 678–3365
Email: laura.harris@memphis.edu

Edward J. Jepson, Jr.
Dissertation School: University of Wisconsin-Madison
Dissertation Title: The Meaning of Ecosystem Theory to the Planning Profession – An Interpretation and Analysis of Sustainability
Telephone:
Email: ejepson@utk.edu

Nicole Marwell
Dissertation School: University of Chicago
Dissertation Title: Social Networks and Social Capital as Resources for Neighborhood Revitalization: Volume One and Two
Telephone: (646) 660–6764
Email: nicole.marwell@baruch.cuny.edu

Ellen A. Merry
Dissertation School: University of Virginia
Dissertation Title: The Effect of the Mortgage Interest Deduction on Mortgage Debt and Housing Demand
Telephone:
Email: ellen.a.merry@frb.gov

Gabriella Modan
Dissertation School: Georgetown University
Dissertation Title: The Struggle for Neighborhood Identity: Discursive Constructions of Identity and Place in a U.S. Multiethnic Neighborhood
Telephone: (614) 292–0338
Email: modan.1@osu.edu

Kristopher Rengert
Dissertation School: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Dissertation Title: The Effect of Minority Ownership of Financial Institutions on Mortgage Lending to Minority and Lower Income Home Seekers: A Cross-Section and Time-Series Analysis
Telephone: (202) 874–4798
Email: kristopher.rengert.occ.treas.gov

Julia Sass Rubin
Dissertation School: Harvard University
Dissertation Title: Exploring the Origins and Behavior of Organizations Operating on the Institutional Cusp: The Case of Community Development Venture Capital
Telephone: (732) 932–2499, ext. 609
Email: jlsrubin@rutgers.edu

Brian Schmitt
Dissertation School: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Dissertation Title: Do Community Reinvestment Act Agreements Work?
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Mara S. Sidney
Dissertation School: University of Colorado at Boulder
Dissertation Title: Linking National Policy Designs and Local Action: A Comparison of Fair Housing and Community Reinvestment Policies
Telephone: (973) 353–5787
Email: msidney@rutgers.edu

Theresa Y. Singleton
Dissertation School: Temple University
Dissertation Title: Reinvesting in Community: the Organizational Impacts of Community Reinvestment
Telephone: (215) 574–6482
Email: theresa.singleton@phil.frb.org

Lois A. Stanley
Dissertation School: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dissertation Title: How Context Influences Local Economic Development: Strategies for Military Base Redevelopment in the 1990s
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1997 Grantees

Raisa Bahchieva
Dissertation School: Cornell University
Dissertation Title: Racial Differences in Housing Search Behavior
Telephone: (212) 306–4006
Email:

Cecilia Castelino
Dissertation School: City University of New York Graduate Center
Dissertation Title: Staying Put and Evicting the Batterer: Institutional and Non-Institutional Strategies Some Battered Women Use
Telephone: (201) 914–0923; (347) 459–5399
Email: ccastelino@gmail.com

Karen Chapple
Dissertation School: University of California, Berkeley
Dissertation Title: Paths to Employment: The Role of Social Networks and Space for Women on Welfare in San Francisco
Telephone: (510) 642–1868
Email: chapple@berkeley.edu

Kathyrn M. Doherty
Dissertation School: University of Maryland at College Park
Dissertation Title: Emerging Patterns of Housing, Community, and Local Governance: The Case of Private Homeowners Associations
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Larissa Larsen
Dissertation School: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dissertation Title: A Comparison of Chicago's Scattered Site and Aggregate Public Housing Residents' Psychological Self-Evaluations
Telephone: (734) 936–0234
Email: larissal@umich.edu

Lisa E. McGuire
Dissertation School: Case Western Reserve University
Dissertation Title: Welfare to Work Transition With Public Housing Residents: Applications of the Transtheoretical Model
Telephone: (317) 274–6736
Email: lmcguir@iupui.edu

June Y. Park
Dissertation School: Columbia University
Dissertation Title: A New Understanding of Our Nation's Rising Homeless Rates and Low Rent Housing Vacancy Rates
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Becky Pettit
Dissertation School: Princeton University
Dissertation Title: Navigating Networks and Neighborhoods: Residential Mobility of the Urban Poor
Telephone: (206) 616–1173
Email: bpettit@u.washington.edu

Kenneth E. Poole
Dissertation School: George Mason University
Dissertation Title: The Role of Practitioner Networks in the Successful Diffusion and Implementation of Policy Innovations: Lessons From Enterprise Zone Experiences
Telephone: (703) 522–4980
Email: kpoole@c2er.org

Vera Prosper
Dissertation School: University at Albany, State University of New York
Dissertation Title: Tenant Aging in Public and Publicly Assisted Multifamily Housing and Its Public Policy Implications for Housing and Long-Term Care
Telephone: (518) 474–4382
Email: vera.prosper@ofa.state.ny.us

Robert Self
Dissertation School: University of Washington
Dissertation Title: Shifting Ground in Metropolitan America: Class, Race, and Power in Oakland and the East Bay, 1945-77
Telephone:
Email: robert_self@brown.edu

Kala Seetharam Sridhar
Dissertation School: The Ohio State University
Dissertation Title: Urban Economic Development in America: Evidence From Enterprise Zones
Telephone: +91 99725 85708
Email: kala@pacindia.org

Patricia Stern Smallacombe
Dissertation School: University of Pennsylvania
Dissertation Title: Why Do They Stay? Rootendness and Isolation in an Inner-City White Neighborhood
Telephone: (610) 513–4358
Email: pss@pil.net

Scott Susin
Dissertation School: University of California, Berkeley
Dissertation Title: Housing the Poor
Telephone: (202) 402–3948
Email: scott.j.susin@hud.gov

Marc A. Wallace
Dissertation School: American University
Dissertation Title: The Benefits of Scarcity: An Analysis of the Windfall Gains From Limited Recipients in Competitive Grant Programs
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Jenell Williams Paris
Dissertation School: American University
Dissertation Title: African-American Women's Activism and Ghetto Formation in Washington, D.C.
Telephone: (717) 766–2511
Email: jparis@messiah.edu

Sean Zielenbach
Dissertation School: Northwestern University
Dissertation Title: The Art of Revitalization: Improving Conditions in Distressed Inner-City Neighborhoods
Telephone: (703) 465–0857
Email: sziels@comcast.net

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1996 Grantees

Susan Baer
Dissertation School: University of Maryland at College Park
Dissertation Title: Gentrification and the Role of Community Organizations in Preventing African-American Displacement
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Victoria Basolo
Dissertation School: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dissertation Title: Housing Policy in the Local Political Economy: Understanding the Support for Affordable Housing Programs in Cities
Telephone: (949) 824–3521
Email: basolo@uci.edu

Liesette N. Brunson
Dissertation School: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dissertation Title: Resident Appropriation of Defensible Space in Public Housing: Implications for Safety and Community
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Email: brunson.liesette@uqam.ca

Reid Cramer
Dissertation School: University of Texas at Austin
Dissertation Title: Local Economic Development Planning in Low-Income America: The Implementation of the Empowerment Zone and Enterprise Community Program
Telephone: (202) 986–2700
Email: cramer@newamerica.net

Dale A. Darrow
Dissertation School: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Dissertation Title: An Analysis of the Demographic and Developmental Impacts of Central-City Rail Transit Stations
Telephone: (612) 370–3000, ext. 2280
Email: dale.a.darrow@hud.gov

James R. Elliott
Dissertation School: University of Wisconsin-Madison
Dissertation Title: The Work of Cities: Underemployment and Urban Change in Late-Century America
Telephone: (541) 346–5267
Email: elliott@uoregon.edu

Margaret Etukudo
Dissertation School: University of Illinois at Chicago
Dissertation Title: A nalysis of Small and Microenterprise Programs: Implications for Urban Economic Development Policy
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Hongmian Gong
Dissertation School: University of Georgia
Dissertation Title: Location Analysis of Business and Professional Services in U.S. Metropolitan Areas, 1977-92
Telephone: (212) 772–4658
Email: gong@hunter.cuny.edu

Craig Gundersen
Dissertation School: University of California at Riverside
Dissertation Title: Direct Measures of Poverty and Well-Being: A Theoretical Framework and an Application to Housing Poverty in the United States
Telephone: (217) 333–2857
Email: cggunder@illinois.edu

Seong Woo Lee
Dissertation School: University of Southern California
Dissertation Title: Models of Homeownership: Immigrants'Assimilation, Structural Type, and Metropolitan Contextual Effects on Homeownership Attainment
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Atiya Mahmood
Dissertation School: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Dissertation Title: Work and Home Boundaries: Socio-Spatial Analysis of Women's Live-Work Environments
Telephone: (778) 782–7635
Email: amahmood@sfu.ca

Michael T. Maly
Dissertation School: Loyola University
Dissertation Title: Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Select U.S. Urban Neighborhoods, 1980 to 1990
Telephone: (312) 341–3769
Email: mmaly@roosevelt.edu

Marc J. Perry
Dissertation School: University of Wisconsin-Madison
Dissertation Title: Using Geo-Demographic Methods for Improving Small-Area Population and Housing Unit Estimates
Telephone: (301) 763–2419
Email: marc.j.perry@census.gov

Laxmi Ramasubramanian
Dissertation School: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Dissertation Title: Knowledge Production and Use in Community-Based Organizations: Examining the Impacts and Influence of Information Technologies
Telephone: (212) 772–5594
Email: laxmi@hunter.cuny.edu

Janet L. Smith
Dissertation School: Cleveland State University
Dissertation Title: Interpreting Neighborhood Change
Telephone: (312) 996–5083
Email: janets@uic.edu

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1995 Grantees

Sheila Crowley
Dissertation School: Virginia Commonwealth University
Dissertation Title: A Constructivist Inquiry of the Interpretation of Federal Housing Policy In and Among Three Entitlement Jurisdictions
Telephone: (202) 662–1530
Email: sheila@nlihc.org

William H. Dozier
Dissertation School: Western Michigan University
Dissertation Title: The Role of Race in the Perpetuation of Inadequate Housing
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Bradley R. Entner Wright
Dissertation School: University of Wisconsin-Madison
Dissertation Title: Pathways Off the Streets: Homeless People and Their Use of Resources
Telephone: (860) 486–3771
Email: bradley.wright@uconn.edu

Eric Fure-Slocum
Dissertation School: University of Iowa
Dissertation Title: The Challenge of the Working-Class City: Recasting Growth Politics and Liberalism in Milwaukee, 1937-52
Telephone: (507) 786–3534
Email: furesloc@stolaf.edu

Karen J. Gibson
Dissertation School: University of California, Berkeley
Dissertation Title: Income, Race, and Space: A Comparative Analysis of the Effects of Poverty Concentration on White and Black Neighborhoods in the Detroit and Pittsburgh Metropolitan Areas
Telephone: (503) 725–8265
Email: gibsonk@pdx.edu

Ingrid Gould Ellen
Dissertation School: Harvard University
Dissertation Title: Sharing America's Neighborhoods: The Changing Prospects for Stable Racial Integration
Telephone: (212) 998–7533
Email: ingrid.ellen@nyu.edu

Catherine Hill
Dissertation School: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Dissertation Title: Re-Use of Former Military Bases: An Evaluation of Four Converted Naval Bases
Telephone: (202) 728–7609
Email: hillc@aauw.org

Neil Kraus
Dissertation School: State University of New York at Albany
Dissertation Title: Race, Neighborhoods, and Community Power: Buffalo Politics, 1935-95
Telephone: (715) 425–3318
Email: neil.kraus@uwrf.edu

Theresa J. Mah
Dissertation School: University of Chicago
Dissertation Title: Buying Into the Middle Class: Residential Segregation and Racial Formation in the United States, 1920–64
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Email: tmahtmah@gmail.com

Anthony Pennington-Cross
Dissertation School: George Washington University
Dissertation Title: Simultaneous Equations Model of Metropolitan Area Development and Spatial Interaction
Telephone: (414) 288–1452
Email: anthony.pennington-cross@mu.edu

Jessica Pitt
Dissertation School: Cornell University
Dissertation Title: Towards Comprehensive Community Development Practices: The Responses of Community Development Corporations
Telephone: (415) 733–8560
Email: jmp@sff.org

Yodan Y. Rofe
Dissertation School: University of California, Berkeley
Dissertation Title: The Usefulness of "Neighborhood Experience Maps" As a Tool in City Planning and Urban Design
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Email: yrofe@bgumail.bgu.ac.il

Donna Rubens
Dissertation School: State University of New York at Buffalo
Dissertation Title: An Ethnographic Case Study of the Organization of Care in a Transitional Housing Project for Pregnant and Parenting Teens: Program and Policy Implications
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Thomas W. Sanchez
Dissertation School: Georgia Institute of Technology
Dissertation Title: Equity Implications and Impacts of Personal Transportation Benefits on Urban Form
Telephone: (801) 585–9354
Email: tom.sanchez@utah.edu

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1994 Grantees

Frank D. Beck
Dissertation School: Pennsylvania State University
Dissertation Title: Human Ecology, Pro-Growth Effort, and Community Development: The Case of Enterprise Zones (Tax Incentives, Economic Development)
Telephone: (309) 438–7090
Email: fdbeck@ilstu.edu

Cynthia Bogard
Dissertation School: State University of New York at Stony Brook
Dissertation Title: No Place Like Home: Rehousing Homeless Families in an Age of Declining "Family Values"
Telephone: (516) 463–5643
Email: cynthia.j.bogard@hofstra.edu

Sandra Edmonds Crewe
Dissertation School: Howard University
Dissertation Title: Unchallenged and Unmotivated: An Ethnographic Study of Sanctioned Welfare Reform Recipients in Federally Subsidized Housing
Telephone: (202) 806–7300
Email: secrewe@howard.edu

Christopher Zigmund Galbraith
Dissertation School: University of Texas at Austin
Dissertation Title: Old Houses Never Die: Assesing the Effectiveness of Filtering as a Low-Income Housing Policy
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Taeil Kim
Dissertation School: Carnegie Mellon University
Dissertation Title: Place or Person? A Labor Market Analysis of Central-City Poverty
Telephone: +82-64-754-3702
Email: kimtaeil@cheju.ac.kr

Max Lu
Dissertation School: Indiana University
Dissertation Title: Decisionmaking Analysis of Household Mobility and Migration in the United States, 1985-89
Telephone: (785) 532–3413
Email: maxlu@ksu.edu

J. Jeff McConnell
Dissertation School: State University of New York at Stony Brook
Dissertation Title: The Social Establishment of Homelessness: Social Policy and Individual Experience in the Development of a Social Problem
Telephone: (415) 734–4873
Email: jmcconnell@gladstone.ucsf.edu

Wendy S. Meister
Dissertation School: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Dissertation Title: Creating Neighborhoods: Physical Environment, Resident Involvement, and Crime at a Revitalized Housing Project
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Reynold F. Nesiba
Dissertation School: University of Notre Dame
Dissertation Title: Interstate Banking and Community Reinvestment: An Evaluation of How Bank Mergers and Acquisitions Influenced Residential Lending Patterns in St. Joseph County, Indiana, 1985-93
Telephone: (605) 274–5310
Email: nesiba@augie.edu

Zeynep Önder
Dissertation School: Cornell University
Dissertation Title: Public Policy Issues Related to FHA Financing: FHA Borrowers, FHA Loan Limit, and Homeownership
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Email: zonder@bilkent.edu.tr

Nicolas O. Rockler
Dissertation School: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dissertation Title: Regional Economic Performance and Public Infrastructure Investment
Telephone: (617) 395–8021
Email: nrockler@kavetrockler.com

Lisa Servon
Dissertation School: University of California, Berkeley
Dissertation Title: Reconstructing Urban Poverty Policy: Alternative Credit, Poverty Alleviation, and Economic Development in U.S. Inner Cities
Telephone: (212) 229–5950
Email: servonl@newschool.edu

Michael A. Stoll
Dissertation School: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dissertation Title: The Relative Importance of Space and Race in Urban Young Adult Labor Markets
Telephone: (310) 206–4774
Email: mstoll@ucla.edu

Camille Zubrinsky Charles
Dissertation School: University of California, Los Angeles
Dissertation Title: I Have Always Wanted to Have a Neighbor, Just Like You: Race and Residential Segregation in the City of Angels
Telephone: (215) 898–4965
Email: ccharles@pop.upenn.edu

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