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Planning, Policy and Design Faculty

Victoria A. Beard
Associate Professor of Planning, Policy & Design
Ph.D., Community and Regional Planning, University of British Columbia
Phone: 
(949) 824-6484
Email: 
vbeard@uci.edu
Office: 
206B SEI
Specializations: 
planning in developing countries, community-based planning, poverty reduction, planning theory and population studies
Victoria Basolo
Associate Professor of Planning, Policy & Design
Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Phone: 
(949) 824-3521
Email: 
basolo@uci.edu
Office: 
206D SEI
Specializations: 
housing policy, community development, social inequality, urbanization, urban politics, regionalism, and environmental hazards
Scott A. Bollens
Professor of Planning, Policy and Design; Warmington Chair in Peace and International Cooperation
Ph.D. University of North Carolina, AICP
Phone: 
(949) 824-7696
Email: 
bollens@uci.edu
Office: 
226B SEI
Specializations: 
ethnic/group disparities and urban planning, urban growth policy, metropolitan governance, intergovernmental approaches to planning
Tim-Allen Bruckner
Assistant Professor, Public Health & Planning, Policy and Design
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley
Phone: 
949 824 5797
Office: 
Rm 218F, SE I
Specializations: 
economic change and health; infant health disparities; mental health policy; biodemography
Kenneth S. Chew
Senior Lecturer with Security of Employment in Planning, Policy & Design
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley
Phone: 
(949) 824-6990
Email: 
chew@uci.edu
Office: 
Social Ecology Bldg I, room 218F
Specializations: 
historical and applied population studies, demographic foundations of community and public health
Ross F. Conner
Professor Emeritus of Planning, Policy & Design and Former Director, Center for Community Health Research
Ph.D. Northwestern University
Phone: 
(949) 824-0563
Email: 
rfconner@uci.edu
Office: 
Rm 226J Bldg: SE1
Specializations: 
evaluation research and social psychology, health promotion, community-based planning for health
Martha S. Feldman
Professor of Planning, Policy & Design, Management, Sociology, Political Science and Nursing Science; Johnson Chair for Civic Governance and Public Management
PhD, Stanford University
Phone: 
(949) 824-4252
Email: 
feldmanm@uci.edu
Office: 
Social Ecology I, 226G
Specializations: 
Organization theory and behavior, stability and change in organizations, decision making and information processing
David L. Feldman
Chair of the Department of Planning, Policy and Design and Professor Planning, Policy & Design and Political Science
Ph.D. University of Missouri
Phone: 
(949) 824-4384
Email: 
feldmand@uci.edu
Office: 
202B SE I
Specializations: 
water resources management and policy, global climate change policy, ethics and environmental decisions, adaptive management and sustainable development
Ajay Garde
Associate Professor of Planning, Policy & Design
Ph.D. University of Southern California
Phone: 
(949) 824-9087
Email: 
agarde@uci.edu
Office: 
212D Social Ecology I
Specializations: 
urban design, sustainable development, urban form
Douglas Houston
Assistant Professor of Planning, Policy & Design
Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles
Email: 
houston@uci.edu
Office: 
226D Social Ecology 1
Specializations: 
transportation, air pollution, urban inequality, environmental equity, spatial analysis
Helen Ingram
Research Professor and Professor Emerita in Planning, Policy, and Design and Political Science, and former Drew, Chace and Erin Warmington Chair in the Social Ecology
Ph.D. Columbia University
Email: 
hingram@uci.edu
Office: 
226B SEI
Specializations: 
public policy, U.S.-Mexico relations, environmental resource management
Jae Hong Kim
Assistant Professor of Planning, Policy & Design
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Phone: 
(949) 824-0449
Email: 
jaehk6@uci.edu
Office: 
206E SEI
Specializations: 
regional economic development, land use, economic–physical development nexus, location choice, urban system modeling
Raul Perez Lejano
Associate Professor of Planning, Policy & Design
Ph.D., D.Env. UCLA; M.S. UC Berkeley
Phone: 
(949) 8249825
Office: 
218G SE I, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697-7075 USA
Specializations: 
policy analysis, environmental planning, collective action, risk and justice
Richard Matthew
Professor of Planning, Policy & Design and Political Science
Ph.D. Princeton University
Phone: 
(949) 824-4852
Email: 
rmatthew@uci.edu
Office: 
212C SEI
Specializations: 
Environment, conflict and peacebuilding; transnational threat networks; international ethics
Sanjoy Mazumdar
Professor of Planning, Policy, and Design
Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Phone: 
(949) 824-5046
Email: 
mazumdar@uci.edu
Office: 
218H SEI
Specializations: 
environmental studies and design, organizational analysis, management and planning, and social and behavioral aspects of architecture
Seth Pipkin
Assistant Professor of Planning, Policy & Design
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Phone: 
(949) 824-7695
Email: 
spipkin@uci.edu
Office: 
218E Social Ecology 1
Specializations: 
economic development, labor, Latin America, U.S.-Mexico border, political economy, economic sociology
Maria G. Rendon
Assistant Professor of Planning, Policy and Design and Sociology
Ph.D. Harvard University
Phone: 
(949) 824-5880
Email: 
mgrendon@uci.edu
Office: 
212B Social Ecology 1
Specializations: 
urban inequality, immigration, race/ethnicity, youth violence, sociology of education and social policy
Daniel Stokols
Research Professor and Chancellor's Professor Emeritus
Ph.D. University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Phone: 
(949) 824-5294 PPD / (949) 824-7983 PSB
Email: 
dstokols@uci.edu
Office: 
206C SEI-PPD / 4556 SBS-PSB
Specializations: 
health impacts of environmental stressors, environmental design and social behavior, science of team science
Rodolfo D. Torres
Professor of Planning, Policy & Design and Political Science
Ph.D. Claremont Graduate School
Phone: 
(949) 824-7680
Email: 
rodolfo@uci.edu
Office: 
218D Building Social Ecology 1
Specializations: 
radical urbanism, urban policy, cultural political economy, , Chicano/Latino politics, urban restructuring, comparative racism, sociology of education, class analysis, and state theory
Luis Suarez-Villa
Professor of Planning, Policy & Design
Ph.D. Cornell University
Phone: 
(949) 824-6323
Email: 
lsuarez@uci.edu
Office: 
218C SEI
Specializations: 
Technology, international development, political economy