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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 and community development, urban governance, regionalism, and metropolitan politics.
Marlon Boarnet
Professor of Planning, Policy, and Design and Economics
Ph.D. Princeton University
Phone: 
(949) 824-7695
Email: 
mgboarne@uci.edu
Office: 
218E SEI
Specializations: 
transportation, urban growth patterns, regional science, urban economics
Scott A. Bollens
Professor / 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 in the Program in Public Health and the Department of Planning, Policy and Design
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley
Email: 
tbruckne@uci.edu
Specializations: 
sequelae of regional economic downturns; neighborhood context and 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: 
+1-949-824-0563
Email: 
rfconner@uci.edu
Office: 
Rm 206F Bldg: SE1
Specializations: 
evaluation research and social psychology, health promotion, community-based planning for health
Kristen Day
Professor of Planning, Policy & Design
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Phone: 
(949) 824-5880
Email: 
kday@uci.edu
Office: 
212B SEI
Specializations: 
urban issues in environment-behavior studies
Joseph DiMento
Professor of Planning, Policy & Design, School of Law, and Management
Ph.D., J.D. University of Michigan
Phone: 
(949) 824-5102
Email: 
jfdiment@uci.edu
Office: 
212E SEI
Specializations: 
planning, land use and environmental law, use of social science in policy making, legal control of corporate behavior
Martha S. Feldman
Professor of Planning, Policy & Design, Management, Sociology, Political Science, and Roger W. and Janice M. Johnson Chair in Civic Governance and Public Management
Ph.D. Stanford University
Phone: 
(949) 824-4252
Email: 
feldmanm@uci.edu
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
Assistant 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, urban form, sustainable growth
Douglas Houston
Assistant Professor of Planning, Policy & Design
Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles
Email: 
houston@uci.edu
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
Phone: 
(949) 824-1434
Email: 
hingram@uci.edu
Office: 
226B SEI
Specializations: 
public policy, U.S.-Mexico relations, environmental resource management
Raul Perez Lejano
Associate Professor of Planning, Policy & Design
Ph.D., D.Env. UCLA
Phone: 
(949) 824-9825
Office: 
218G SE I, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697-7075 USA
Specializations: 
collective action theory, integrative analysis, environmental governance, sustainability, institutional design
Richard Matthew
Associate Professor of Planning, Policy & Design and Political Science
Ph.D. Princeton University
Phone: 
(949) 824-4852
Email: 
rmatthew@uci.edu
Office: 
212C SEI
Specializations: 
international relations, environmental policy, ethics
Sanjoy Mazumdar
Professor of Planning, Policy, and Design; Asian American Studies; and Religious Studies
M.Arch., A.S., M.C.P., 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
Daniel Stokols
Chancellor's Professor, Psychology and Social Behavior, Planning, Policy & Design, Public Health and Epidemiology
Ph.D. University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Phone: 
(949) 824-5294
Email: 
dstokols@uci.edu
Office: 
206C SEI
Specializations: 
health impacts of environmental stressors, environmental design and social behavior, science of team science
Rodolfo D. Torres
Professor of Urban & Regional Planning and Urban Studies
Ph.D. Claremont Graduate School
Phone: 
(949) 824-7680
Email: 
rodolfo@uci.edu
Office: 
218D SEI
Specializations: 
critical urbanism, Chicano/Latino politics, historical-geographical materialism, urban inequality, state theory, racism and class relations, surveillance studies, and cultural political economy
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