Faculty & Lecturers
Academic Council Faculty
Topics of Interest: state and local government, including urban policy, city planning, local democracy, and public finance; local governance of high poverty areas, both urban and rural; and the legal causes of concentrated poverty and fiscal crisis.
Arnetha Ball
Education, African & African American Studies
Topics of Interest: Inner-city Youth; International Comparative Education; Language; Linguistics/Linguistic Human Rights; Literacy; Literacy and Culture; Curriculum and Instruction; Multicultural Education; Diversity; Teacher Education and Certification; Urban Education
Eric Bettinger
Economics and Education
Topics of Interest: Access and Equity; Applied Econometrics; Applied Statistics in Educational Research; Design Experiments; Economics of Education; Education Policy; Evaluation; Higher Education; Research Methods; State and Federal Education Policy.
Scott Bukatman
Art and Art History
Topics of Interest: Critical Theory and Popular Media; Embodied / Perceptual Experience in Contemporary Culture; Bodily Utopia; Hyperbole in General.
Albert Camarillo
History
Topics of Interest: Comparative Urban Histories of Ethnic and Racial Minorities in the U.S.; Mexican American History; African Americans and Latinos; Contemporary Urban America; American West and California.
Prudence Carter
Education, Sociology
Topics of Interest: Race and Ethnicity; Cultural Explanations of Social Mobility Differences; Racial and Ethnic Groups.
Carolyn Lougee Chappell
History
Topics of Interest: Huguenot Emigration at the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes; Autobiography; Education of Girls in Early Modern France.
Samuel Chiu
Management Science and Engineering
Topics of Interest: Probabilistic Modeling; Integration of Operations Research Models in Economic Analysis.
Paulla Ebron
Anthropology
Topics of Interest: Culture as a Commodity; Memory and History; Feminism / Difference / Performance.
Paula Findlen
History, History and Philosophy of Science and Technology
Topics of Interest: Early History of Science and Medicine; Renaissance Italy; Relations among Gender Culture and Knowledge.
Shelley Fishkin
English, American Studies Program
Topics of Interest: American Studies; Effects of Journalism on American Writers’ Poetry and Fiction; African American Voices on Canonical American literature; Desegregation of American Literary Studies; Feminist Criticism; Public history and Literary History.
Charlotte Fonrobert
Religious Studies
Topics of Interest: Judaism: Talmudic Literature and Culture; Gender in Jewish Culture; Judaism & Christianity in Late Antiquity; Discourses of Orthodoxy vs. Heresy; Rabbinic Conceptions of Judaism w/respect to Greco-Roman Culture.
Richard Ford
Law
Topics of Interest: Civil Rights and Anti-Discrimination Law; Political and Legal Boundaries as Instruments of Social Regulation and Cultural Phenomena; Race and Multiculturalism.
Zephyr Frank
History
Topics of Interest: Social History of Brazil; Latin American Economic History; Wealth and Inequality; Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
Leah Gordon
Education
Topics of Interest: Access and Equity; Cultural Studies; Educational Equity; Equity and Poverty; Higher Education; History of Education; Minorities; Multiculturalism; Social Theory.
David Grusky
Sociology, Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality
Topics of Interest: Stratification; Quantitative Methodology; Race Class and Gender.
Thomas Hansen
Anthropology
Topics of Interest: South Asia and Southern Africa; Cities; Political Theory and Continental Philosophy; Psychoanalysis; Comparative Religion; Contemporary Urbanism
Allyson Hobbs
History
Topics of Interest: African American social and cultural history; African American women's history; Twentieth century American history
Ian Hodder
Anthropology
Topics of Interest: Archaeological Theory; Archaeology and Cultural Heritage of Europe and the Middle East; Excavations in Turkey; Material Culture.
Miyako Inoue
Anthropology
Topics of Interest: Linguistic Anthropology; Anthropology of Japan.
Tomás Jiménez
Sociology
Topics of Interest: Immigration; Race and Ethnicity; Inequality; Assimilation; Mexican Americans.
David Labaree
Education
Topics of Interest: Evolved Nature of American Higher Education; School Reform in the United States.
Raymond Levitt
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Topics of Interest: Virtual Design; Computer Simulation and Modeling of Work Service/Maintenance Work Processes; Organization Design for Projects and Companies; Execution of Global Projects.
Tanya Luhrmann
Anthropology
Topics of Interest: The mind; Mental experience; Homelessness; psychosis.
Pamela Matson
Professor, School of Earth Sciences
Topics of Interest: urban agriculture; sustainability of agricultural systems; vulnerability of particular people and places to climate change; environmental consequences of tropical land use chang.
Doug McAdam
Sociology
Topics of Interest: Collective Action/Social Movements; Comparative and Historical Sociology; Political Sociology; Qualitative Methods; Race and Ethnicity
Raymond McDermott
Education, Anthropology
Topics of Interest: Human Communication; Organization of School Success and Failure; Various Literacies around the World.
Dan McFarland
Education, Sociology
Topics of Interest: Organizational Characteristics Schools and Classrooms; Social Networks; Micro-Sociology; Social Dynamics.
William McLennan
Office for Religious Life
Topics of Interest: The Interface of Religion Ethics and the Professions.
Ian Morris
Classics, History
Topics of Interest: Ancient Greece; Cultural and Economic History; Excavation Monte Polizzo.
Clayton Nall
Political Science
Topics of Interest: How policies that manipulate geographic space change American elections; Issue politics; Public policy.
Josiah Ober
Political Science, Classics, Philosophy
Topics of Interest: Athenian Democracy; Greek Political Thought; Politics of Knowledge and Innovation; Relationship between Democracy and Inherent Human Capacities.
Leonard Ortolano
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Topics of Interest: Water Resources; Environmental Planning; Implementation of Environmental Policies.
Sean Reardon
Education, Sociology
Topics of Interest: Causes Patterns and Consequences of Residential and School Segregation; Race/Ethnic and Socioeconomic Achievement Disparities; Neighborhood Influences of Child Development.
Rob Reich
Political Science, Education
Topics of Interest: Contemporary Liberal Theory; Intersection of Political Theory and Educational Theory
Jonathan Rodden
Political Science
Topics of Interest: Comparative political economy of institutions; political geography and electoral districts.
Michael Rosenfeld
Sociology
Topics of Interest: Race and Ethnicity; Immigration and Assimilation; Quantitative Methods.
Walter Scheidel
Classics, History
Topics of Interest: Ancient Social and Economic History; Pre-Modern Historical Demography; Comparative and Interdisciplinary World History.
Gary Segura
Political Science
Topics of Interest: American Politics; Political Representation; Latino Politics.
Michael Shanks
Classics
Topics of Interest: Deisgn history and research; archaeological theory; heritage studies and archaeologies of the contemporary past; the archaeology of Greco-Roman urbanism; the regional archaeology of the English-Scottish borders.
Jennifer Trimble
Classics
Topics of Interest: Art and Archaeology of the Roman Empire; Dynamics of Urban Space.
Nancy Tuma
Sociology
Topics of Interest: Life Careers; Social Stratification; Quantitative Methods for Studying Change.
Fred Turner
Communication
Topics of Interest: Digital media journalism and the roles played by media in American cultural history.
Guadalupe Valdes
Education
Topics of Interest: Bilingual Education / ESL; Educational Equity; Family Issues; Foreign Language Instruction; Hispanic Issues in Education; Immigrant Issues; Language Acquisition; Language Policy; Minorities.
Barbara Voss
Anthropology
Topics of Interest: Intersections of Archaeology Anthropology Feminist studies and Critical Race Studies; History of Human Sexuality.
Steve Zipperstein
History
Topics of Interest: Modern Jewish History; History of Zionism; Russian and East European Jewish History; Biography.
Lecturer
Deland Chan
Urban Studies
Topics of Interest: Service learning and experiential learning pedagogies; Land use and transportation planning; Participatory planning and urban design; Community-based sustainable development; International Urbanization
Melanie Edwards
Urban Studies
Topics of Interest: Social Entrepreneurship; Community Based Digital Data Collection; International Management Development and Consulting.
Dennis Gale
Urban Studies
Topics of Interest: Urban planning and management; urban revitalization; politics and public policy; land use policy and growth management.
Dehan (Danno) Glanz
Urban Studies
Topics of Interest: Architecture; Urban Design; Urban Planning; Transit as a Fundamental Means of Transportation.
Radford (Skid) Hall
Urban Studies
Topics of Interest: Land Use Control; Urban Environmental Policy.
Kevin Hsu
Urban Studies, Skyship Design
Topics of Interest: Low-carbon development and sustainable communities; renewable energy and energy efficiency; cultural identity and heritage preservation, particularly in East Asia; public design and citizen participation
Clayton Hurd
Haas Center for Public Service, Urban Studies
Topics of Interest: Anthropology and education; US-Mexico immigration; School re-segregation; Social movements; Public and activist scholarship; Alternative pedagogies.
Michael Kahan
Urban Studies
Topics of Interest: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Urban and Social History; Street Life; Urban Space
Patricia Karlin-Neumann
Office for Religious Life, Urban Studies
Topics of Interest: Jewish Feminism; Rabbinical Ethics; The Relationship between Religion and Education; Social Justice; Student Mental Health and Well-being.
Michael Kieschnick
Working Assets, Urban Studies
Topics of Interest: Alternative structures for social enterprise; randomized controlled trials for evaluating social policies and election methods; impact investing.
Joseph Kott
Urban Studies, Kott Planning Consultants, LLC
Topics of Interest: Public Policy; Transit and Transportation Planning.
Larry Litvak
Urban Studies
Topics of Interest: Starting and Managing Hybrid Enterprises; Socially Innovative Non-Profits and Businesses.
Judith Ned
Urban Studies, Pre-Collegiate Studies
Topics of Interest: Community-Based Research, Multi-Cultural Health
Marisa Raya
Urban Studies, City of Oakland
Topics of Interest: Urban Planning and Policy; Spatial Theory; Landscape History
Frederic Stout
Urban Studies
Topics of Interest: Urban Planning; Community; City in Literature and Film.
Mark Wolfe
M. R. Wolfe & Associates, Urban Studies
Topics of Interest: Urban Economics; Land Use Law; Environmental Law; Urban Planning
Other Affiliate
John Barton
Architectural Design
Topics of Interest: Architecture; Built Environment; Local Government
Claudia Engel
Anthropology, Stanford Libraries
Topics of Interest: The innovative potential of new technologies for teaching and research with a focus on mobile technologies; spatial analysis; and GIS.
Martin Lewis
History
Topics of Interest: International History; Global Spatial Relations.
Carol McKibben
History
Topics of Interest: Community history; Public history; Oral history; Military communities; Race; Gender.
