Urban Planning and Public Policy Faculty
Maura Allaire Associate Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (949) 824-5797 218F Social Ecology 1 Specializations: Water and environmental economics; urban water systems; flood risk management; adaptation to extreme events Faculty website: |
Victoria Basolo Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; AICP 206D Social Ecology 1 Specializations: Housing policy, urbanization, urban politics, regionalism, and environmental hazards Faculty website: |
Scott A. Bollens Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy; Warmington Chair in the Social Ecology of Peace and International Cooperation Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; AICP (949) 824-7696 226B Social Ecology 1 Specializations: Politically divided cities, ethnic/group disparities and urban planning, urban and intergovernmental growth policy Faculty website: |
Kenneth S. Chew Professor of Teaching, Emeritus Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley (949) 824-6990 226J Social Ecology 1 Specializations: historical and applied population studies, demographic foundations of community and public health Faculty website: |
Ross F. Conner Professor Emeritus of Urban Planning and Public Policy and Former Director, Center for Community Health Research Ph.D. Northwestern University (949) 824-0563 226J Social Ecology 1 Specializations: evaluation research and social psychology, health promotion, community-based planning for health Faculty website: |
Martha S. Feldman Distinguished Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy; Management; Sociology; Political Science; Nursing Science; Johnson Chair for Civic Governance and Public Management Ph.D. Stanford University (949) 824-4252 226G Social Ecology 1 Specializations: Organization theory and behavior, stability and change in organizations, decision making and information processing, public management, qualitative research methods Faculty website: |
David L. Feldman Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy; Political Science; Director, Water UCI; Director, Master of Public Policy Ph.D. University of Missouri (949) 824-9146 226F Social Ecology 1 Specializations: Water resources management and policy, global climate change policy, ethics and environmental decisions, adaptive management and sustainable development Faculty website: |
Ajay Garde Associate Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy Ph.D. University of Southern California (949) 824-9087 212D Social Ecology 1 Specializations: Urban design, sustainable design and development, urban built form, spatial and social inequality, affordable housing, public participation and urban design, land use regulations, non-behavioral issues in urban design Faculty website: |
Jessica Garrison Assistant Professor of Teaching of Urban Planning and Public Policy Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology 232A Social Ecology I Specializations: Environmental justice, climate adaptation, geographic information systems, spatial analysis Faculty website: |
Douglas Houston Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles (949) 824-1870 212E Social Ecology 1 Specializations: Transportation, air pollution, urban inequality, environmental equity, spatial analysis Faculty website: |
Helen Ingram Professor Emerita of Urban Planning and Public Policy, Political Science; former Warmington Chair in the Social Ecology of Peace and International Cooperation Ph.D. Columbia University 226J Social Ecology 1 Specializations: public policy, U.S.-Mexico relations, environmental resource management Faculty website: |
Hun Kim Assistant Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley (949) 824-9825 218G Social Ecology 1 Specializations: Urban social-spatial transformation, late-socialist, postsocialist and authoritarian regimes, globalization, infrastructure, real estate, development theory and practice, governance Faculty website: |
Jae Hong Kim Associate Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (949) 824-0449 206E Social Ecology 1 Specializations: Regional economic development, land use, economic–physical development nexus, location choice, urban system modeling Faculty website: |
Nicholas J. Marantz Associate Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy; School of Law; Director, MURP Program
Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology; J.D. Harvard Law School
206C Social Ecology 1
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Land-use & environmental law, housing, transportation, state and local government
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Mukul Kumar Assistant Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley 949-824-2721 218D Social Ecology 1 Specializations: Specializations: Climate justice, energy and environment, political ecology, social movements, global urbanism Faculty website: |
Richard Matthew Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy; Political Science; Director, Center for Unconventional Security Affairs and Blum Center for Global Engagement; Associate Dean of International Programs Ph.D. Princeton University (949) 824-4852 212C Social Ecology 1 Specializations: Environment, conflict and peacebuilding; transnational threat networks; international ethics Faculty website: |
Sanjoy Mazumdar Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy, Asian American Studies; Religious Studies Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (949) 824-5046 218H Social Ecology 1 Specializations: environmental design and planning; sacred and spiritual spaces; culture, design, and sustainability; organizational analysis, management and planning; and social and behavioral aspects of architecture Faculty website: |
Michael Méndez Assistant Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy Ph.D. University California, Berkeley (949) 824-5756 226D Social Ecology 1 Specializations: Climate change, environmental justice, environmental studies, sustainability, urban planning Faculty website: |
Walter Nicholls Department Chair, Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy; Sociology Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles (949) 824-6323 218C Social Ecology 1 Specializations: Urban sociology, politics and policy, social movements, immigration, comparative urbanism, theory, planning conflicts Faculty website: |
Virginia Parks Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles (949) 824-4384 300G Social Ecology 1 Specializations: Urban inequality, urban labor markets, labor, community organizing and development, racial inequality, immigration Faculty website: |
Seth Pipkin Vice Chair, Associate Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (949) 824-7695 218E Social Ecology 1 Specializations: Economic development, Latin America, U.S.-Mexico border, political economy, economic sociology, group learning, labor Faculty website: |
María G. Rendón Associate Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy; Sociology; Director, Ph.D. Program Ph.D. Harvard University (949) 824-5880 212B Social Ecology 1 Specializations: Urban inequality, immigration, race/ethnicity, youth violence, sociology of education and social policy Faculty website: |
L. Alejandra Reyes R.C. Assistant Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin (949) 824-9316 226H Social Ecology 1 Specializations: Housing policy, urban governance, civic engagement, Mexican urban development, financialization Faculty website: |
Avipsa Roy Assistant Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy Ph.D. Arizona State University 949-824-6135 226E Social Ecology 1 Specializations: Active Transportation, Human Mobility, Spatial Data Science, Built Environment, Urban Planning Faculty website: |
Daniel Stokols Chancellor's Professor Emeritus of Psychological Science; Urban Planning and Public Policy; Program in Public Health Ph.D. University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill (949) 433-7794 4553 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway Specializations: Environmental Psychology, Science of Team Science, Transdisciplinary Public Health Faculty website: |
Rodolfo D. Torres Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy; Political Science; Culture and Theory Ph.D. Claremont Graduate School 232C Social Ecology 1 Specializations: Radical urbanism, Mexican American politics and labor, economic democracy, and Marxist inspired political economy Faculty website: |
Luis Suarez-Villa Professor Emeritus of Urban Planning and Public Policy Ph.D. Cornell University (949) 824-6323 Specializations: Critical political economy, technology, international development Faculty website: |
Nícola Ulibarrí Associate Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy; Director, Undergraduate Programs Ph.D. Stanford University (949) 824-6484 206B Social Ecology 1 Specializations: Environmental planning & policy, water resources management, collaborative governance Faculty website: |
Karna Wong Assistant Professor of Teaching of Urban Planning and Public Policy Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles; AICP (949) 824-9337 203 Social Ecology 1 Specializations: Affordable housing, community development, government policy, nonprofit management, and social and environmental justice Faculty website: |