Dear Chairman Crapo and Ranking Member Brown:
We, the undersigned, strongly oppose the appointment of Dr. Ben Carson as the next Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Apart from his personal views on a variety of political and social issues, we consider Dr. Carson completely unqualified to anticipate or promote appropriate solutions to the pressing housing and urban development needs facing our country.
Created in 1965 to further the nation’s housing and urban revitalization agenda, HUD’s role has been to implement the nation’s housing goal, first articulated by Congress in 1949: “a decent home and a suitable living environment for every American family.” Sadly, this goal has not yet been realized. It remains, nevertheless, an aspiration that HUD is obligated to manifest, and one that will be greatly undermined should the U.S. Senate confirm Dr. Ben Carson.
Numbering nearly four hundred, the signatories below include scholars and experts working in the fields over which HUD holds direct administrative responsibilities, including federally subsidized housing programs assisting lower income households, developing housing policy, implementing urban revitalization strategies, eliminating homelessness, and advancing homeownership and fair housing.
We ask you to deem Dr. Carson a poor choice to lead HUD, and to deny him Senate confirmation for the following three reasons:
1) Dr. Carson has no experience relevant to HUD’s mission: Past HUD Secretaries, under both Republican and Democratic presidents, have typically had significant public sector experience. They also, for the most part, worked in areas directly related to the work of HUD. Dr. Carson has absolutely no prior experience with the programs and policies administered by HUD and no background managing or leading a large public agency. Indeed, Dr. Carson’s close friend, Armstrong Williams, has acknowledged that Dr. Carson: “has no government experience. He’s never run a federal agency. The last thing he would want to do was take a position that could cripple the presidency.”
Housing is an enormously complex issue. It requires, among other things, an understanding of finance, economics, labor markets, land use, transportation, energy, and the many legal underpinnings that govern housing and development policy. Dr. Carson’s education, professional experience, and basis of knowledge are wholly inadequate in these areas.
Of additional concern, we have learned the hard way that when someone with such thin experience as Dr. Carson’s administers a large, complex department, the subsequent dearth of capable oversight and management leaves room for unscrupulous, exploitative behaviors, particularly on the parts of private contractors and interagency partners. Unfortunately, HUD has not been immune to corruption and mismanagement in the past. And it won’t in the future should the Senate confirm a HUD Secretary lacking basic familiarity with the issues under his jurisdiction.
2) Dr. Carson has expressed disdain for HUD’s mission: Among HUD’s key responsibilities is the enforcement of the nation’s fair housing laws — laws created to reduce discrimination still faced by non-white, disabled, LGBT, and other households seeking secure and decent homes to rent or buy. Rather than understanding the continuing need for enforcement of laws that protect the rights of all who are seeking housing, nor acknowledging that the government has an ongoing commitment to provide opportunities for low-income people who are eager to move to low-poverty areas, Dr. Carson has dismissed fair housing as being “a mandated social-engineering scheme.” He has shown nothing but disdain for HUD’s statutory obligation to affirmatively further fair housing.
3) Dr. Carson has displayed a lack of understanding of poverty and the role of government: Dr. Carson does not appear to appreciate the complexity and interplay of the many factors that result in housing being unaffordable to lower income people. Often, at the root of housing unaffordability are issues of poverty which, astonishingly, Dr. Carson sees as “more of a choice than anything else.” Dr. Carson seemingly does not comprehend how changes in the global economy, the loss of manufacturing jobs in the U.S., and the legacy of employment discrimination have collided to harm low-skilled workers and increase poverty.
Moreover, rather than appreciating the critical role that HUD’s programs play in assisting millions of households to secure decent, affordable housing, Dr. Carson believes that individuals and church-based and other community initiatives can substitute for HUD’s programs. These were failed strategies pursued in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and they have proven to be less effective than government efforts time and time again. Voluntary efforts were and remain important accompaniments to a strong federal role. In their scope, scale, or long term impact, however, such efforts cannot possibly replace the work of government.
To conclude, we cannot imagine that a person with Dr. Carson’s views about fair housing, the role of government, and the roots of poverty could possibly be an advocate for the very programs for which HUD is responsible. We believe that the appointment of Dr. Carson would severely jeopardize the well-being of the nearly 5 million households across the country for whom HUD is their only means of securing housing. We strongly urge you to decline to confirm Dr. Ben Carson as HUD Secretary.
Sincerely,
Aaron Wunsch — Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture and Historic Preservation, University of Pennsylvania
Adam Flickinger — Urban Planner and Designer, Chicago, IL
Adam R. Culver — Adjunct Instructor, Maryland Institute College of Art
Adriana Navarro-Sertich — Independent Consultant on Urban Rehabilitation and Social Housing; former Housing and Urban Planning Advisor for United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS), Washington, DC
Adriana Valencia — Independent Scholar, Berkeley,CA
Alaina Morgan — Graduate Student, New York University
Alejandro Velasco — Associate Professor of History, New York University
Alex Schwartz — Professor of Urban Policy, The New School
Alexandra Filindra — Associate Professor of Political Science and Psychology, University of Illinois — Chicago
Alexis Bateman — Consulting Researcher, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Alma M.O. Trinidad — Associate Professor of Social Work, Portland State University
Amelia J. Carr — Professor of Art History, Allegheny College
Amy Howard — Associated Faculty in American Studies, University of Richmond
Anaid Yerena — Assistant Professor of Urban Studies, University of Washington — Tacoma
Andrea Garfinkel-Castro — Graduate Student, University of Utah — Salt Lake City
Andrea L. Lohse — Secretary, Board of Directors, Crossroads for Women, Albuquerque, NM
Andrea Roberts — Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Texas — Austin
Andrew Forney — Designer, York, PA
Andrew R. Highsmith — Assistant Professor of History, University of California — Irvine
Andrew W. Kahrl — Assistant Professor of History, University of Virginia
Andrew Witek — Graduate Student, Judson University
Angela Traill — Community Development Block Grants Project Manager, St. Tammany Parish, LA
Anna Livia Brand — Assistant Professor of Planning and Urban Studies, University of New Orleans
Annelise Orleck — Professor of History, Dartmouth College
Ansley T. Erickson — Assistant Professor of History and Education, Columbia University
April Merleaux — Associate Professor of History, Florida International University
Ari Kelman — Chancellor’s Leadership Professor of History, University of California — Davis
Ari Kohen — Schlesinger Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Nebraska
Arlene Davila — Professor of Anthropology and Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University
Audrey G. McFarlane — Dean Julius Issacson Professor of Law, University of Baltimore
Austin McCoy — Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan
Ayah Nuriddin — Graduate Student, Johns Hopkins University
Barika Williams — Adjunct Professor, Pratt Institute
Bench Ansfield — Graduate Student, Yale University
Beryl Satter — Professor of History, Rutgers University — Newark
Brandi Summers — Assistant Professor of African American Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University
Brenna Wynn Greer — Assistant Professor of History, Wellesley College
Brent Cebul — Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Richmond
Brian Goldstein — Assistant Professor of Architecture and Planning, University of New Mexico
Brian Norman — Professor of English, Loyola University Maryland
Brie Darland — Affordable Housing Advocate, Albuquerque, NM
Bruce Levin — Architect, San Francisco, CA
Bryant Simon — Professor of History, Temple University
Cameron Blaylock — Photographer, Department of Housing and Urban Development
Cameron Herrington — Urban Studies Graduate Student, Portland State University
Camille Z. Charles — Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Social Sciences, University of Pennsylvania
Carl H. Nightingale — Professor of Urban History and World History, Department of Transnational Studies, University at Buffalo State University of New York
Carrie Makarewicz — Assistant Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Colorado Denver
Carsten Rodin — Graduate Student, Columbia University
Catalina Ortiz — Lecturer of Urban Design, University College London, UK.
Catherine McNeur — Assistant Professor of History, Portland State University
Cathy Lesser Mansfield — Professor of Law, Drake University
Cecilia Márquez — Assistant Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University
Chad McBride — Professor of Communication Studies, Creighton University
Chad Williams — Associate Professor of African and Afro-American Studies, Brandeis University
Chantalle Verna — Associate Professor of History, Florida International University
Charles Constantine — Designer, New York, NY
Charles Hughes — Director of the Memphis Center, Rhodes College
Chelina Odbert — Community Developer, Los Angeles, CA
Chip Minnick — Adjunct Professor, California College of the Arts
Chris Wells — Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, Macalester College
Christina Hanhardt — Associate Professor, American Studies, University of Maryland — College Park
Christine Thurlow Brenner — Associate Professor of Public Policy and Public Affairs, University of Massachusetts — Boston
Christopher Forster-Smith — Graduate Student, Johns Hopkins University
Christopher P. Lehman — Professor of Ethnic Studies, St. Cloud State University
Claire Potter — Professor of History, The New School
Clara E. Irazábal-Zurita — Professor of Urban Planning, University of Missouri — Kansas City
Claudia B. Isaac — Associate Professor of Community and Regional Planning, University of New Mexico
Claudia Lopez — Graduate Student, University of California — Santa Cruz
Clifford Andrew Welch — Professor of Contemporary History, Universidade Federal de São Paulo
Creola Johnson — Professor of Law, Ohio State University
Dan Berger — Assistant Professor of Comparative Ethnic Studies, University of Washington — Bothell
Dan Immergluck — Professor of School of City and Regional Planning, Georgia Institute of Technology
Daniel Cumming — Graduate Student, New York University
Daniel D’Oca — Associate Professor in Practice in Urban Planning, Harvard University
Daniel Olmos — Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Denver
Daniel Pasciuti — Assistant Professor of Sociology, Georgia State University
Danni Chen — Architect, Los Angeles, CA
Daryl M. Scott — Professor of History, Howard University
David C. Wilson — Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations, University of Delaware
David E. Goldberg — Assistant Professor of History, Drury University
David Goldberg — Assistant Professor of African American Studies, Wayne State University
David Harris — Managing Director of the Charles Hamilton Housing Institute for Race and Justice, Harvard University
David Hochfelder — Associate Professor of History, University at Albany State University of New York
David Huyssen — Lecturer in American History, University of York
David J. Silverman — Architect, Boston, MA
David M. P. Freund—Associate Professor of History, University of Maryland — College Park
David Moses — Research Scientist of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
David Schley — Assistant Professor of History, Hong Kong Baptist University
David Smiley — Assistant Director, Urban Design Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation, Columbia University
David Stein — Lecturer, University of California, Los Angeles
Debra Gardner — Legal Director at Public Justice Center, Baltimore, MD
Debra Thompson — Assistant Professor of African American Studies, Northwestern University
Deirdre Oakley — Professor of Sociology, Georgia State University
DeMisty D. Bellinger-Delfeld — Assistant Professor of English, African American Studies, and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Fitchburg State University
Dennis Keating — Emeritus Professor of Urban Studies, Cleveland State University
Desiree Fields — Lecturer in Urban Geography, University of Sheffield
Destin Jenkins — Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University
Diana Williams — Assistant Professor of History and Law, University of Southern California
Dolores Acevedo-Garcia — Professor of Human Development and Social Policy, Brandeis University
Domenic Vitiello — Associate Professor of City Planning and Urban Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Don Goldstein — Emeritus Professor of Economics, Allegheny College
Doron Serban — Emerging Technologies Coordinator, Academy of Art University
Drew Powers — Architect, New York, NY
Drew Seskunas — Designer, New York, NY
Edith J. Barrett — Director of Urban and Community Studies and Professor of Public Policy, University of Connecticut
Edward E. Baptist — Professor of History, Cornell University
Edward Goetz — Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Minnesota
Elaine Lewinnek — Professor of American Studies, California State University — Fullerton
Elizabeth F. Cohen — Associate Professor of Political Science, Syracuse University
Elsa Barkley Brown — Associate Professor of History and Women’s Studies, University of Maryland — College Park
Elspeth Tanguay-Koo — Housing Advocate, Portland, OR
Emily Schneider — Architect, Washington, DC
Eric S. Yellin — Associate Professor of History, University of Richmond
Erika Bsumek — Associate Professor of History, University of Texas — Austin
Erualdo R. Gonzalez — Associate Professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies, California State University — Fullerton
Faye Powell — Social Sciences Librarian and Professor Emerita, Portland State University
Florence Wagman Roisman — William F. Harvey Professor of Law and Chancellor’s Professor, Indiana University
Francesca Ammon — Assistant Professor of City and Regional Planning and Historic Preservation, University of Pennsylvania
Frank Matero — Professor of Architecture and Historic Preservation, University of Pennsylvania
Frank Towers — Associate Professor of History Department, University of Calgary
Gabriel N. Mendes — Senior Lecturer, Vanderbilt University
Gayle Wald — Professor of English and American Studies, George Washington University
George Derek Musgrove — Associate Professor of History, University of Maryland — Baltimore County
Gianpaolo Baiocchi — Director of the Urban Democracy Lab, New York University
Gillet Gardner Rosenblith — Graduate Student, University of Virginia
Gillet Rosenblith — Graduate Student, University of Virginia
Gordon Mantler — Assistant Professor of Writing and History, George Washington University
Graham Sandelski — Designer, Los Angeles, CA
Gregory D. Squires — Professor of Sociology and Public Policy and Public Administration, George Washington University
Gregory P. Downs — Associate Professor of History, University of California — Davis
Gretchen Long — Professor of History, Williams College
Guian A. McKee — Associate Professor, University of Virginia
Hadar Aviram — Harry and Lillian Hastings Research Chair, University of California Hastings College of Law
Heather Ann Thompson — Professor of History and African American Studies, University of Michigan
Henry Louis Taylor, Jr. — Professor of Urban and Regional Planning and Director of UB Center for Urban Studies, University at Buffalo State University of New York
Hye-Sung Han — Assistant Professor of Urban Administration, University of Missouri — Kansas City
Imani Perry — Professor of African American Studies, Princeton University
Irene Browne — Associate Professor of Sociology and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Emory University
Iva Kravitz — Architect and Designer, New York, NY
Rosie Tighe — Assistant Professor of Urban Studies, Cleveland State University
Jackelyn Hwang — Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton University
Jacob S. Rugh — Assistant Professor of Sociology, Brigham Young University
Jacob William Faber — Assistant Professor of Public Service, New York University
Jake Kutzin — Designer, Los Angeles, CA
Jake Woland — Landscape Architect and Adjunct Professor, University of Washington — Seattle
James Ashton — Visiting Professor, Johns Hopkins University
James Brillon — Graduate Student, Columbia University
James Cockcroft — Teaching Fellow, State University of New York
James DeFilippis — Associate Professor of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University
James Zarsadiaz — Assistant Professor of History, University of San Francisco
Janet L. Smith — Associate Professor of Urban Planning and Policy, Co-Director, Nathalie P. Voorhees Center, University of Illinois at Chicago
Jason Brody — Associate Professor of Regional and Community Planning, Kansas State University
Jason Reece — Assistant Professor of City and Regional Planning, Ohio State University
Jay Driskell — Independent Scholar, Washington, DC
Jeanne Theoharis — Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Brooklyn College — CUNY
Jeannette Estruth — Graduate Student, New York University
Jeff Donnelly — Lecturer, University of Miami
Jeffrey Doshna — Assistant Professor of Planning and Community Development, Temple University
Jeffrey Helgeson — Associate Professor of History, Texas State University
Jeffrey Ogbar — Professor of History, University of Connecticut
Jennifer Hock — Architectural and Urban Historian, Maryland Institute College of Art
Jennifer Tucker — Assistant Professor of Community and Regional Planning, University of New Mexico
Jennifer Whittaker — Research Associate of Architecture and Planning, University at Buffalo State University of New York
Jessica Ann Levy — Graduate Student, Johns Hopkins University
Jessica Johnson — Assistant Professor of History and Africana Studies, Johns Hopkins University
Jessica Lewis — Housing Advocate, Baltimore, MD
Jilene Chua — Graduate Student, Johns Hopkins University
Joan Browning — Independent Scholar, Lewisburg, WV
Joan Byron — Visiting Assistant Professor, Pratt Institute
Jocelyn Devance Taliaferro — Associate Professor of Social Work, North Carolina State University
Joe Soss — Cowles Professor for the Study of Public Service, University of Minnesota
John D. Landis — Crossways Professor of Planning, University of Pennsylvania
John Gulliford — Visiting Assistant Professor, Pratt Institute
John Lewis Adams — Faculty in History, Bard High School Early College, Cleveland, OH
John McCarthy — Professor of History, Robert Morris University
Jonathan Brown — Undergraduate, Center for Africana Studies, Johns Hopkins University
Jonathan Crisman — Research Affiliate, University of California — Los Angeles; Graduate Student, University of Southern California
Jonathan Fertig — Architect, Instructor of Building Information Modeling, The Boston Architectural College
Jonathan Ritter — Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology, University of California — Riverside
Jose Antonio Ramirez — Graduate Student, Columbia University
Jose J. Pullutasig — Designer, New York, NY
Joseph Heathcott — Associate Professor of Urban Studies, The New School
Joseph William Singer — Bussey Professor of Law, Harvard University
Joshua Ambrosius — Assistant Professor of Political Science and Core Faculty of the Public Administration Program, University of Dayton
Joshua Clark Davis — Assistant Professor of History, University of Baltimore
Joshua D. Ambrosius — Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Dayton
Judith Bachay — Professor of Social Science and Counseling, St. Thomas University
Julia Gunn — Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania
Julia Ott — Associate Professor of History, The New School
Julie Gamble — Professor-Researcher, Universidad San Francisco de Quito
K.C. Quirk — Executive Director of Crossroads for Women, Albuquerque, NM
Kate Masur — Associate Professor of History, Northwestern University
Kate Ramsey — Associate Professor of History, University of Miami
Kate Rosenblatt — Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan
Kathleen Engel — Research Professor of Law, Suffolk University
Kathleen King — Landscape Architect and Urban Designer, Denver, CO
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor — Assistant Professor of African American Studies, Princeton University
Keith Krumwiede — Associate Professor of Architecture, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Kelly Quinn — Program Coordinator, University of Maryland — Baltimore.
Kenneth Lipartito — Professor of History, Florida International University
Kennetta Hammond Perry — Associate Professor of History, East Carolina University
Kevin M. Kruse — Professor of History, Princeton University
Kristin Kelsey — Designer, Seattle, WA
LaDale Winling — Assistant Professor of History, Virginia Tech University
Lan Deng — Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Michigan
Langley C. Keyes — Professor Emeritus of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lara Stein Pardo — Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Colorado
Laura Tach — Assistant Professor of Policy Analysis and Management, Cornell University
Laura Warren Hill — Associate Professor of History, Bloomfield College
Lauren E. Willis — Professor of Law, Loyola University Law School
Lauren Rauscher — Associate Professor of Sociology, Robert Morris University
Lawrence Jackson — Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of English and History, Johns Hopkins University
Lawrence Vale — Professor of Urban Design and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Leif Fredrickson — Ambrose Monell Fellow in Technology and Democracy, Miller Center for Public Affairs, University of Virginia
Lesli Hoey — Assistant Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Michigan
Leslie Martin — Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Mary Washington
Lester K. Spence — Associate Professor of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University
Lewis Stackpole — Architect and Urban Designer, Portland, OR
Lily Geismer — Associate Professor, Claremont McKenna College
Linda C. Samuels — Associate Professor, Washington University in St. Louis
Lisa K. Bates — Associate Professor of Urban Studies and Planning, Portland State University
Lisa Servon — Professor of City Planning, University of Pennsylvania
Lisa Tetrault — Associate Professor of History, Carnegie Mellon University
Lori A. Flores — Assistant Professor of History, Stony Brook University
Malini Ranganathan — Assistant Professor of International Service, American University; Faculty Fellow, Metropolitan Policy Center
Mara Sidney — Associate Professor of Political Science, Rutgers University — Newark
Marc Brenman — Consultant, Washington, DC
Marcela Gonzalez Rivas — Assistant Professor of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh
Marcia Chatelain — Associate Professor of History, Georgetown University
Marcia Egger — Attorney, New York, NY
Margaret Dewar — Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Michigan
Margaret Garb — Professor of History, Washington University in St. Louis
Margaret O’Mara — Associate Professor of History, University of Washington — Seattle
Margaret Rozga — Professor of English Emerita, University of Wisconsin — Waukesha
Maria Krysan — Professor of Sociology, University of Illinois at Chicago
Marisa Chappell — Associate Professor of History, Oregon State University
Marisa Zapata — Assistant Professor of Land-use Planning, Portland State University
Mark Santow — Associate Professor of History, University of Massachusetts — Dartmouth
Marla Nelson — Associate Professor of Planning and Urban Studies, University of New Orleans
Marta Gutman — Professor of History and Theory, City College of New York — CUNY and Professor of Art History, The Graduate Center — CUNY
Marta Hanson — Associate Professor of History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University
Martha Biondi — Professor of African American Studies, Northwestern University
Martha Hodes — Professor of History, New York University
Martha Matsuoka — Associate Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy, Occidental College
Martin Summers — Professor of History, Boston College
Mary Kay Vaughan — Emerita Professor of History, University of Maryland — College Park
Mary Pattillo — Harold Washington Professor of Sociology and African American Studies, Northwestern University
Mashael Majid — Community Planner, Oakland, CA
Mason Williams — Assistant Professor of History, Albright College
Mathew Gayman — Associate Professor of Sociology, Georgia State University
Matteo Stiglich — Graduate Student, Columbia University
Matthew Basso — Associate Professor of History and Gender Studies, University of Utah
Matthew Briones — Associate Professor of History, University of Chicago
Matthew Hall — Associate Professor of Policy Analysis and Management, Cornell University
Matthew Lassiter — Associate Professor of History, University of Michigan
Matthias Neumann — Lecturer, City College New York
Mehrsa Baradaran — Associate Professor of Law, University of Georgia
Michael Allen –Associate Professor of History, Northwestern University
Michael Anft — Journalist, Baltimore, MD
Michael Cohen — Professor of International Affairs, The New School
Michael Glass — Graduate Student, Princeton University
Michael Kubo — Predoctoral Fellow, National Gallery of Art
Michael Lens — Assistant Professor of Urban Planning, University of California — Los Angeles
Michael Leo Owens — Associate Professor of Political Science, Emory University
Michael Mulvey — Assistant Professor of History, St. Thomas University
Michael Reagan — Graduate Student, University of Washington
Michael Rich — Professor of Political Science, Emory University
Michelle Nickerson — Associate Professor of History, Loyola University Chicago
Miguel Tinker Salas — Professor of History, Pomona College
Mikhail Kim — Architect, New York, NY
Mimi Cheng — Graduate Student, University of Rochester
Minhtuyen Mai — Research Specialist, University of Wisconsin — Madison
Molly Metzger — Assistant Professor of Social Work, Washington University in St. Louis
Mona Angel — Land Trust Director, Albuquerque, NM
Myron Orfield — Earl R. Larson Professor of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Law, University of Minnesota
D. B. Connolly — Herbert Baxter Adams Associate Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University
Nancy Kwak — Associate Professor of History, University of California — San Diego
Nancy McArdle — Independent Scholar, Somerville, MA
Natanya Duncan — Assistant Professor of History and Africana Studies, Lehigh University
Nathaniel Comfort — Professor of the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University
Neil Meredith — Architect, New York, NY
Nicholas Juravich — Graduate Student, Columbia University
Nicholas Tafelsky — Graduate Student, Arizona State University
Nora Krinitsky — Graduate Student, University of Michigan
Paavo Monkkonen — Associate Professor of Urban Planning, University of California — Los Angeles
Paige Glotzer — Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University
Patricia Prevatt — Graduate Student, Boston University
Patrick Casey Mahon — Adjunct Professor, Woodbury University
Patrick D. Jones — Associate Professor of History and Ethnic Studies, University of Nebraska
Paula Chakravartty — Associate Professor of Media, Culture and Communication and the Gallatin School, New York University
Paula Narvaez — Landscape Architect and Urban Designer, San Francisco, CA
Pedro A. Regalado — Graduate Student, Yale University
Peter C. Pihos — Lecturing Fellow, Duke University
Peter Dreier — E.P. Clapp Distinguished Professor of Politics and Urban and Environmental Policy, Occidental College
Peter Laurence — Robert Mills Associate Professor of Architecture, Clemson University
Peter Rich — Assistant Professor of Policy Analysis and Management, Cornell University
Philip Ashton — Associate Professor of Urban Planning and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago
Philip M. E. Garboden — Graduate Student, Johns Hopkins University
Prentiss Dantzler — Assistant Professor of Sociology, Colorado College
Duncan Kerst — Architect, Portland, OR
L’Heureux Lewis-McCoy — Associate Professor of Sociology and Black Studies, City College of New York and the Graduate Center — CUNY
Rachel G. Bratt — Professor Emerita, Tufts University; Senior Research Fellow, Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard University
Rachel Garshick Kleit — Professor of City and Regional Planning, Ohio State University
Rachel Guberman — Visiting Assistant Professor, Indiana University — Bloomington
Rama Dadarkar — Preservation Architect, New York, NY
Randall Mason — Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning, University of Pennsylvania
Rebecca Anne Goetz — Associate Professor of History, New York University
Rebecca Marchiel — Assistant Professor of History, University of Mississippi
Regina Serpa — Teaching Fellow, University of Stirling
Renia Ehrenfeucht — Professor of Community and Regional Planning, University of New Mexico
Ric Richardson — Professor of Planning, University of New Mexico
Ricardo Cardoso — Faculty Fellow, Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University
Robert D. Bland — Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh
Robert K. Nelson — Director, Digital Scholarship Lab, University of Richmond
Robert Reinauer — Visiting Faculty of Economics and Accounting, College of the Holy Cross
Robert W. Lake — Professor of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University
Robin Bachin — Charleton W. Tebeau Associate Professor of History and Assistant Provost for Civic and Community Engagement, University of Miami
Ronit Y. Stahl — Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania
Ryan Donaghy — Architect, New York, NY
Ryan M. Good — Adjunct Assistant Professor, Temple University
Sara Goldrick-Rab — Professor of Higher Education Policy and Sociology, Temple University
Sarah Doherty — Professor of Interdisciplinary Sculpture and Urban Practice, Maryland Institute College of Art
Sarah Iannarone — Associate Program Director in Urban Studies and Planning, Portland State University
Sarah Milov — Assistant Professor of History, University of Virginia
Sarah Reckhow — Assistant Professor of Political Science, Michigan State University
Sarah Selvidge — Lecturer, University of California — Berkeley
Scott Saul — Professor of English and American Studies, University of California — Berkeley
Shana Bernstein — Clinical Associate Professor of Public-Private Interface, Northwestern University
Shani Mott — Lecturer, Johns Hopkins University
Shannon Frystak — Associate Professor of African-American and Women’s History, East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania
Shannon King — Associate Professor of History, The College of Wooster
Shannon S. Van Zandt — Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, Texas A&M University
Sharon Cornu — Adjunct Professor of Practice, Mills College
Sharon Marcus — Independent Scholar, New York, NY
Sharon Paley — Deputy Director at Center for Government Excellence, Johns Hopkins University
Sharone L. Tomer — Assistant Professor of Architecture and Urbanism, Virginia Tech University
Skylar Moran — Architect and Planner, Chicago, IL
Sophie L. Gonick — Assistant Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University
Stacey Sutton — Assistant Professor of Urban Planning and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago
Stefanie DeLuca — Associate Professor of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University
Stephen E. Lewis — Professor of History, California State University — Chico
Stephen L. Morgan — Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Education, Johns Hopkins University
Stephen Ruszczyk — Assistant Professor of Sociology, Montclair State University
Stephen Stacks — Graduate Student, University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill; Associate Pastor, Greenwood Forest Baptist Church
Stephen Zacks — Journalist, New York, NY
Stephanie Frank — Assistant Professor of Urban Planning and Design, University of Missouri — Kansas City
Steve Kinberger — Land Trust President, Albuquerque, NM
Steven Hahn — Professor of History, New York University
Steven G. Hall — Architect, California, New York, and Hawaii
Steven Volk — Professor Emeritus of History; Director, Center for Teaching Innovation and Excellence, Oberlin College
Stuart Ewen — Distinguished Professor of History, Sociology and Media Studies, Hunter College and The Graduate Center — CUNY.
Susan S. Fainstein — Senior Research Fellow, Harvard University
Susan Saegert — Professor of Environmental Psychology, The Graduate Center — CUNY
Tanisha C. Ford — Associate Professor of Black American Studies, University of Delaware
Terrence G. Peterson — Assistant Professor of History, Florida International University
Thomas A. Guglielmo — Associate Professor of American Studies, George Washington University
Thomas J. Sugrue — Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University, Director of the NYU Collaborative on Global Urbanism
Tikia K. Hamilton — Lecturer, Princeton University
Tim Iglesias — Professor of Law, University of San Francisco
Timothy Green — Assistant Professor of City Planning and Real Estate Development, Clemson University
Timothy J. Gilfoyle — Professor of History, Loyola University Chicago
Timothy Stewart-Winter — Associate Professor of History, Rutgers University — Newark
Timothy Weaver — Assistant Professor of Political Science, University at Albany State University of New York
Todd C. Shaw — Associate Professor of Political Science, University of South Carolina
Todd Swanstrom — Des Lee Professor of Community Collaboration and Public Policy Administration, University of Missouri in St. Louis
Tom Angotti — Professor of Urban Policy and Planning, Hunter College and The Graduate Center — CUNY
Tom Waters — Lecturer, Urban Studies, Barnard College
Tommie Shelby — Caldwell Titcomb Professor of African and African American Studies and Philosophy, Harvard University
Tracy Neumann — Assistant Professor of History, Wayne State University
Valerie Stahl — Graduate Student, Columbia University
Victor Silverman — Professor of History, Pomona College
Victoria Basolo — Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy, University of California — Irvine
Victoria W. Wolcott — Professor of History, University at Buffalo State University of New York
Vivian Volz — Architect and Consultant, San Francisco, CA
William Egginton — Mellon Professor in the Humanities, Johns Hopkins University
William P. Jones — Professor of History, University of Minnesota
William Sites — Associate Professor of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago
William T. Eberhard — Architect, Cleveland, OH
Witold Rybczynski — Meyerson Professor of Urbanism Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania
Zachary J. Lechner — Assistant Professor of History, Thomas Nelson Community College
Zane Curtis-Olsen — Graduate Student, Yale University
