| Adebayo Alabi | The effects of housing policy on local economic development and community well-being. |
| Fatimah Al-Khaldi | Housing policy, racial capitalism, low-income migration, Middle Eastern and North African region
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| Valerie J. Amor | Developing regenerative, environmentally just and equitable designs and policies addressing climate change impacts on coastal urban cities |
| Muhammad Amir Ansari | The effects of intergovernmental fiscal systems and on local economic development: a case study of Pakistan |
| Bert Azizoglu | Examination of the effects of rising income inequality and household debt on labor market behavior and outcomes in the US. |
| Florencia Barindelli | Determinants and effects of highly skilled labor migration and the implications for public policy. |
| David Bashkevin | The effects of the affordability of higher education and opportunities for online education on career outcomes. |
| Fabiola Berdiel-Mintz | Researching the effects of neoliberal urbanism on the physical design of global cities and the well-being of their inhabitants with the goal of developing a more inclusive and egalitarian urban agenda. |
| Andrés Bernal | The political and discursive dimensions of public policy in shaping The Green New Deal as a response to a crisis of political ecology in the United States. |
| Alvin Lloyd Bradbury II | My research examines the phenomenon of conflict and development-induced internal displacement and the ways in which international migration policies at the country (in the Democratic Republic of the Congo) and international organizational
levels impacts IDPs and refugees. |
| Raven E. Brown | My dissertation research examines neoliberalism, the right to housing and the evolution of the welfare state in post-apartheid South Africa. Broadly, I research capitalism and democracy in the post-soviet era, democratic transitions and social
movements and utilize qualitative and participatory methods.† |
| Katja Starc Card | Exploring the relationship between the state and society at the city level, my research focuses on municipal governance in fragile and conflict-affected settings. |
| Samantha Cocco-Klein | My dissertation research looks at children and post-disaster policy in the US, from Hurricane Katrina to Superstorm Sandy. What are the factors that contribute to child- and family-sensitive policies, and do natural disasters open a window
to address inequities? |
| Elizabeth Cuccaro | Advocacy and public policy regarding the diagnosis and treatment of children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. |
| Katherine Dillard Gonzalez | Evaluate the system-level impact of aligning service delivery across shelter services, criminal justice, mental illness, substance use, health care, and housing providers to improve outcomes for persons experiencing homelessness. |
| Liat Eisen | The role of public space in divided cities in the age of social networks; the effects of geopolitical changes on cities that are split along ethnic and religious lines, privatization of public space, sovereignty and control of the public domain. |
| Emie Eshmawy | Urban design/planning, infrastructure, crisis and economic development in the context of spatial theory, with a focus on war-torn and weather-devastated cities. |
| Sarah Farsad | Affirmative action policies and diversity initiatives implemented to diminish racial inequities in higher education in the U.S., with an emphasis on art and design programs. |
| Violet Fredericks | The Gun Economy: A multidisciplinary, policy-oriented inquiry into the interaction between the illicit gun economy and local urban communities. |
| Tracey Freiberg | The economics of labor market inequalities in the United States, with an emphasis on both mandated and voluntary employee benefits policies |
| Isis Moon Gamble | Asset-based community development, protest movements and collective action, political economy, queer spaces, and anarcho-feminism. |
| Cédric Gottfried | I am particularly interested in issues regarding urban and rural regions in decline, metropolitan metabolism, urban-rural interlinkage and sustainable management policy of shared natural resources. |
| Kier Hanratty | How local and state public finance and urban land use influence one another in American cities. |
| Harold Hinds | Education policy |
| Kelsey Hood Cattaneo | Holistic child development with formal and non-formal education practices in combination with community based development approaches. |
| Talib Hudson | Community-based solutions to street violence; race and federal urban policy |
| Martha Jaimes | The effects of urban infrastructure and labor market dynamics on urban productivity and local economic development, with a focus on Bogotá, Colombia. |
| Lina Jaramillo | Social policy, grassroots community development, welfare state, qualitative research, gender equality. |
| Jacquelin Kataneksza | Deconstruction of conventional African development strategies in order to explore complementary and contradictory alternative narratives of progress and development. |
| Giulia Lavagna | The efficacy of inclusionary zoning as a means of affordable housing production in developing countries. |
| Michal Lewin-Epstein | Sustainable food plans and food systems evaluation. |
| Yimin Li | The role of science/scientists in the making of urban and social policies in China. |
| Anan A. Maalouf | Meso Cities in the Global Urban: Mobility Infrastructure as Indicators of Municipal Capability |
| Nicole Mader | The use of integrated student supports to reduce the impact of poverty on educational outcomes. |
| Lisa McClain | |
| Helidah 'Didi' Ogude | My dissertation research is situated within the complex and mutually constitutive relationships between media, public attitudes and migration policymaking. I explore how British mainstream media and political elites depicted black African
and Arab/Muslim male migrants during the height of the Mediterranean 'crisis', and I relate this in turn to immigration policy. |
| Veronica Olivotto | Processes of policy deliberation around urban climate change risk and resilience, including production and access to relevant/usable scientific knowledge of climate risks at different scales and situated power dynamics. New York City and South
America.
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| Bobbette Patterson | The effectiveness of performance measures on health outcomes in New York City hospitals. |
| Claribel Ramirez | Economic development strategies, poverty and the hunger trap in Puerto Rico. |
| Jeannette Rausch | Public participation in urban land-use development and urban waterfront development. |
| Jason Rochford | Domestic outsourcing, the gig economy, and the impact of online labor platforms on workers and cities. |
| Camila Ronderos | Low-income housing, informal settlements, access to credit, and the role of housing microfinance in Latin America; slum redevelopment and relocation policies and the effect on household income. |
| Akilah Rosado | A Sense of Belonging: Investigating the classroom experiences of Black children in predominately white progressive independent schools in NYC that have implemented a racial equity curriculum and culturally responsive pedagogy. |
| Jennifer Santos Ramirez | The role and impact of private/public partnerships in addressing issues of poverty, racial equality, and environmental justice, with a particular focus on the effects of participatory grant-making in "just" disaster response and recovery efforts. |
| Rebecca Scheer | The development and use of community development indicators to improve neighborhood well-being. |
| Sara Shroff | The political economy of money, epistemologies of value and valuations, monetary histories and social formations, and emergent forms of political activism. |
| Da'mon Smith | Political advocacy and the ecology of public policy, with application to government reform, criminal justice policy, and economic and workforce development. |
| Michael Stack | The effects of mass incarceration and the growing racial wealth gap on sustainable community development, with particular attention to abandoned ghettos in American cities. |
| Julie Syverson | Disaster Risk Reduction, Climate Change, Sustainable Development, and Risk Perception. In the PhD program, she will focus her research on Disaster Risk Governance and Urban Development.
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| Azra Tanović | Nexus of climate change and global conflict, and understanding how climate change will impact global (in)security in the coming decades |
| Quan H Tran | My research interests include urban sociology, institutional economics, race, and migration |
| Andrea Patricia Llinas Vahos | International development, social justice, education, gender, public policy, women empowerment, human rights, and communication
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| Manuel Valderrama Florez | Approaches and techniques that aid understanding the complexities of implementation and evaluation of public policy. |
| Michael Williams | The effects of public workforce programs on improving labor market outcomes for long-term unemployment for low-income minority men in New York City. |
| Tanishia Williams | My research explores the intersectionality of education, policy, equity and opportunity situated in structural, institutional and racial ideologies. |
| Rajeev Yerneni | The explanation of native and foreign-born Chinese American smoking prevalence rates in New York City. |
| Peter Zayas | I want to make police agencies more accountable to the constituents that they serve. My research intends on ascertaining the optimum reward system for police officers. |