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Urban Planning and Public Policy Emeriti Faculty

Victoria Basolo

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Professor Emerita of Urban Planning and Public Policy
Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; AICP
226J Social Ecology 1
Specializations:
Housing policy, urbanization, urban politics, regionalism, and environmental hazards
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Rodolfo D. Torres

Professor Emeritus of Urban Planning and Public Policy; Political Science; Culture and Theory

Ph.D. Claremont Graduate School
(949) 824-0563
226J Social Ecology 1
Specializations:
Radical urbanism, Mexican American politics and labor, economic democracy, and Marxist inspired political economy
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Luis Suarez-Villa

Professor Emeritus of Urban Planning and Public Policy

Ph.D. Cornell University
(949) 824-0563
Specializations:
Critical political economy, technology, international development
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Daniel Stokols

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Chancellor's Professor Emeritus of Psychology; Urban Planning and Public Policy; Program in Public Health
Ph.D. University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
(949) 433-0563
226J Social Ecology 1
Specializations:
Environmental psychology, science of team science, transdisciplinary public health
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Sanjoy Mazumdar

Professor Emeritus of Urban Planning and Public Policy; Asian American Studies; Religious Studies

Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(949) 824-0563
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
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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
(949) 824-0563
226J Social Ecology 1
Specializations:
Public policy, U.S.-Mexico relations, environmental resource management
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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) 824-0563
232B Social Ecology 1
Specializations:
Organization theory and behavior, stability and change in organizations, decision making and information processing, public management, qualitative research methods
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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
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Kenneth S. Chew

Professor Emeritus of Teaching of Urban Planning and Public Policy

Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley
(949) 824-0563
226J Social Ecology 1
Specializations:
Historical and applied population studies, demographic foundations of community and public health
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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) 824-0563
226B Social Ecology 1
Specializations:
Politically divided cities, ethnic/group disparities and urban planning, urban and intergovernmental growth policy
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David L. Feldman

Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy; Political Science; Director, Water UCI

Ph.D. University of Missouri
(949) 824-0563
226F Social Ecology 1
Specializations:
Water resources management and policy, global climate change policy, ethics and environmental decisions, adaptive management and sustainable development
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