2002 Grantees

Grigoriy Ardashev
Dissertation School: University of Louisville
Dissertation Title: Fragmentation, Sprawl, and Economic Development: An Analysis of 331 Metropolitan Areas in the United States
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Philip Ashton
Dissertation School: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Dissertation Title: Advantage or Disadvantage? The Changing Institutional Landscape of Central-City Mortgage Markets
Telephone: (312) 413–7599
Email: pashton@uic.edu

William Bartosch
Dissertation School: Brandeis University
Dissertation Title: Congress, Problems Definition, and Inattentive Publics: An Analysis of Disability Policymaking for Alcoholics and Drug Addicts
Telephone: (413) 545–3297
Email: bartosch@schoolph.umass.edu

Kim DeFronzo Haselhoff
Dissertation School: University of California, Irvine
Dissertation Title: The Use of Redevelopment Housing Set-Asides in Southern California: A New Look at Cities and Redistributive Spending
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Email: kimhasel@ucla.edu

Fred Ellerbusch
Dissertation School: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Dissertation Title: Residential Redevelopment of Brownfields-Is Human Health Being Protected?
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Email: fred.ellerbusch@njit.edu

Todd Gish
Dissertation School: University of Southern California
Dissertation Title: Building Los Angeles: Urban Housing in the Suburban Metropolis, 1900-36
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Jennifer Gress
Dissertation School: University of California, Irvine
Dissertation Title: Understanding the Role of Social Capital in the Production of Affordable Housing in Orange County, California
Telephone: (916) 455–5047
Email: jennifer.gress@sen.ca.gov

James Hanlon
Dissertation School: University of Kentucky
Dissertation Title: Distressed Public Housing and HOPE VI Revitalization: An Analysis of Park DuValle in Louisville, Kentucky
Telephone: (859) 257–8237
Email: jim.hanlon@uky.edu

Michael Hollar
Dissertation School: George Washington University
Dissertation Title: Central Cities and Suburbs: Economic Rivals or Allies?
Telephone: (202) 402–5878
Email: michael.k.hollar@hud.gov

Eunju Hwang
Dissertation School: University of Minnesota
Dissertation Title: Desire to Age in Place Among Korean American Elders in Minnesota
Telephone: (612) 624–2254
Email: hwan0037@tc.umn.edu

Mona Koerner
Dissertation School: University of Texas at Austin
Dissertation Title: Performance of the Hollow State: State and Local Responses to the Devolution of Affordable Housing
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David Mainor
Dissertation School: Tulane University
Dissertation Title: Urban Transformations: Does Inner-City Revitalization Pose a Risk to Neighborhood Cohesion?
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Martha M. Matsuoka
Dissertation School: University of California, Los Angeles
Dissertation Title: From Neighborhood to Global: Community-Based Regionalism and Shifting Concepts of Place in Community and Regional Development
Telephone: (323) 259–2971
Email: matsuoka@oxy.edu

Deirdre Oakley
Dissertation School: State University of New York at Albany
Dissertation Title: Fallacies of the Welfare State: The Enduring Response of Community- and Faith-Based Organizations—1920s and 1990s
Telephone: (404) 413–6511
Email: doakley1@gsu.edu

Michele Wakin
Dissertation School: University of California, Santa Barbara
Dissertation Title: Documenting the Use of Vehicles as Housing: Towards a More Permanent Solution
Telephone: (508) 531–2514
Email: mwakin@bridgew.edu

Mark T. Wright
Dissertation School: University of Louisville
Dissertation Title: Low Income Housing Tax Credits: Comparing Nonprofit Versus For-Profit Developments in Terms of Cost and Quality
Telephone: (502) 526–0001
Email: m.wright@oracledesign.net

Zhou Yu
Dissertation School: University of Southern California
Dissertation Title: Immigrants and Housing Attainment: Different Forms of Residential Assimilation
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Email: zhou.yu@fcs.utah.edu

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2001 Grantees

Jennifer Altman
Dissertation School: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Dissertation Title: Matching University Resources to Community Need: Case Studies of University-Community Partnerships
Telephone: (732) 246–8122
Email: jaltman@rci.rutgers.edu

LaTanya Brown
Dissertation School: Howard University
Dissertation Title: A Study to Determine if HOPE VI Sites Influence Area Housing
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Susan Clampet-Lundquist
Dissertation School: University of Pennsylvania
Dissertation Title: Moving Over or Moving Up? Short-Term Gains and Losses for Relocated HOPE VI Families
Telephone: (215) 349–7121
Email: sclampet@sju.edu

Sarah Coffin
Dissertation School: Georgia Institute of Technology
Dissertation Title: The Brownfields Reality Check: A Study of Land Value and the Effects of Brownfields on the Locations of Section 8 Housing
Telephone: (314) 977–3930
Email: coffinsl@slu.edu

Silvia Dominguez
Dissertation School: Boston University
Dissertation Title: Latina Immigrants in Public Housing: Race Relations, Social Networks, and Access to Services
Telephone: (617) 373–4989
Email: s.dominguez@neu.edu

Roxanne Ezzet-Lofstrom
Dissertation School: University of California, Irvine
Dissertation Title: Valuation of Metropolitan Quality of Life in Wages and Rents
Telephone: (972) 883–4764
Email: rezzet@utdallas.edu

Leslie Frank
Dissertation School: University of Connecticut
Dissertation Title: "I Never Really Took Much Notice": The FHA and Suburbanization in the Providence Metropolitan Area, 1934-55
Telephone: (508) 963–9951
Email: leslie51706@gmail.com

Falan Guan
Dissertation School: University of Southern California
Dissertation Title: Multi-Worker Households Residential Location Choices-A Disaggregate Comparative Approach
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Carolina M. Katz Reid
Dissertation School: University of Washington
Dissertation Title: Achieving the American Dream? A Longitudinal Study of the Homeownership Experiences of Low-Income Families
Telephone: (415) 974–2161
Email: carolina.reid@sf.frb.org

Jibum Kim
Dissertation School: University of Chicago
Dissertation Title: The Role of Subsidized Housing and Ethnic Community on Living Arrangements and Time Use of Korean American Elderly
Telephone: (773) 256–6285
Email: kim-jibum@norc.org

Richard W. McConaghy
Dissertation School: University of Massachusetts at Boston
Dissertation Title: Mortality, Moveout, and Refinancing as Factors in HECM Reverse Mortgage Payoffs
Telephone: (215) 248–2074
Email: mcconaghy@earthlink.net

Jonathan Q. Morgan
Dissertation School: North Carolina State University
Dissertation Title: The Role of Regional Industry Clusters in Urban Economic Development: An Analysis of Process and Performance
Telephone: (919) 843–0972
Email: morgan@sog.unc.edu

Howard Nemon
Dissertation School: University of Pennsylvania
Dissertation Title: Community Economic Development in Distressed Urban Neighborhoods: A Case Study of the Philadelphia Empowerment Zone
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Matthew Reed
Dissertation School: Northwestern University
Dissertation Title: Moving Out: Section 8 and Public Housing Relocation in Chicago
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Email: mareed@uky.edu

Daniel A. Sandoval
Dissertation School: Cornell University
Dissertation Title: Rising Tide, Sinking Boats: The Consequences of Economic Restructuring and Racial Segregation for Connecticut's Inner City Poor
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Kai A. Schafft
Dissertation School: Cornell University
Dissertation Title: Tracking Incidence of Residential Mobility Among Poor Families in Upstate New York: The Influence of Economic Change and Housing Stocks on "Poverty Migration"
Telephone: (814) 863–2031
Email: kas45@psu.edu

Susan Thering
Dissertation School: State University of New York
Dissertation Title: Documenting the Community Capacity Building Benefits of Participatory Community Design and Planning and Developing Indicators of Community Capacity
Telephone: (608) 263–6506
Email: sathering@wisc.edu

Zhong Yi Tong
Dissertation School: University of Maryland at College Park
Dissertation Title: The Impact of Targeted Homeownership Tax Credit Program: Evidence From Washington, D.C.
Telephone: (800) 999–7642, extension 4257
Email: zhong_yi_tong@rmic.com

Tien-Chien Tsao
Dissertation School: University of Michigan
Dissertation Title: New Models for Future Retirement: A Study of College/University Linked Retirement Communities
Telephone: (734) 302–7920
Email: tsao@umich.edu

Shannon Van Zandt
Dissertation School: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dissertation Title: A Study of the Impact of Homeownership on Opportunity for Low- and Moderate-Income Households
Telephone: (979) 458–1223
Email: svanzandt@tamu.edu

Daniel A. Wishnoff
Dissertation School: City University of New York
Dissertation Title: The Tolerance Point: Race, Public Housing, and the Forest Hills Controversy, 1945-75
Telephone: (212) 289–3722
Email: dwishnoff@aol.com

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2000 Grantees

John Baranski
Dissertation School: University of California, Santa Barbara
Dissertation Title: Making Public Housing in San Francisco: Liberalism, Social Prejudice, and Social Activism, 1906-76
Telephone: (970) 247–7269
Email: baranski_j@fortlewis.edu

Susan K. Brown (formerly Wierzbicki)
Dissertation School: University of Washington
Dissertation Title: Isolation and the Enclave: The Presence and Variety of Strong Ties Among Immigrants
Telephone: (949) 824–9382
Email: skbrown@uci.edu

Alvaro Cortes
Dissertation School: Wayne State University
Dissertation Title: The Impact of Urban Universities on Neighborhood Housing Markets: University Decisions and Non-Decisions
Telephone: (301) 634–1857
Email: alvaro_cortes@abtassociates.com

Spencer M. Cowan
Dissertation School: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dissertation Title: The Impact of Statewide Inclusionary Land Use Laws on the Supply and Distribution of Housing for Lower Income Households
Telephone: (919) 962–0122
Email: spencer2@email.unc.edu

Lynne Dearborn
Dissertation School: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Dissertation Title: Immigrant Culture and Housing Provision, Examining the Nexus: A Case Study of the ACTS Landmark Housing Program and Its Hmong Participants (3-Volume Dissertation)
Telephone: (217) 333–4331
Email: dearborn@uiuc@edu

David Eldridge
Dissertation School: University of Pennsylvania
Dissertation Title: The Making of a Courtroom: Landlord-Tenant Trials in Philadelphia's Municipal Court
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Ajay Garde
Dissertation School: University of Southern California
Dissertation Title: The New Urbanism as Sustainable Growth? Impressions and Implications for Public Policy
Telephone: (949) 824–9087
Email: ajay.garde@uci.edu

Jennifer L. Glanville
Dissertation School: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dissertation Title: Ties and Trust: Understanding How Social Capital Operates in Neighborhoods
Telephone: (319) 335–2489
Email: jennifer-glanville@uiowa.edu

Judith Grant Long
Dissertation School: Harvard University
Dissertation Title: Full Count: The Real Cost of Public Subsidies for Major League Sports Facilities
Telephone: (617) 495–8768
Email: jglong@gsd.harvard.edu

Joseph Grengs
Dissertation School: Cornell University
Dissertation Title: Transit Turning Inside Out: Federal Transportation Policy and Inner-City Accessibility During the ISTEA Years
Telephone: (734) 763–1114
Email: grengs@umich.edu

Ed Hamlyn
Dissertation School: University of Texas at El Paso
Dissertation Title: The Impact of Climate Change on the Upper Rio Grande Basin
Telephone: (915) 747–5667
Email: edhamlyn@utep.edu

Andrew Helms
Dissertation School: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dissertation Title: The Economics of Housing Renovation: Three Empirical Studies
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Amy Hillier
Dissertation School: University of Pennsylvania
Dissertation Title: Mapping the Future? Redlining and the Home Owners' Loan Corporation
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Jennifer Johnson
Dissertation School: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dissertation Title: Finding Work in the City
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Email: jrj9@alum.mit.edu

William H. Lockhart
Dissertation School: University of Virginia
Dissertation Title: Getting Saved From Poverty: Religion in Poverty to Work Programs
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Ellen Myerson
Dissertation School: University of California, Berkeley
Dissertation Title: HOME Rental Projects: Influence of Financing and Organizational Type on Project Efficiency, Project Location, and Tenants Served
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Marla K. Nelson
Dissertation School: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Dissertation Title: Producer Services, Agglomeration Economies, and Intra-Metropolitan Location: The Public Accounting Industry in the Chicago and Minneapolis-St. Paul Regions
Telephone: (504) 280–3110
Email: mnelson@uno.edu

Sharon I. O'Donnell
Dissertation School: University of Houston
Dissertation Title: Quality Decisions: A Stochastic Equilibrium Model of Homeownership
Telephone: (713) 798–0305
Email: sharon.i.odonnell@gmail.com

Jennifer Pashup
Dissertation School: University of Chicago
Dissertation Title: Gentrification and Neighborhood Change: Who Goes, Who Stays, and How Long-Term Residents Cope
Telephone: (630) 545–3712
Email: jpashup@ksgmac.com

Melina Patterson
Dissertation School: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Dissertation Title: Learning Places: Community Schools in Community Development
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Karen Pence
Dissertation School: University of Wisconsin-Madison
Dissertation Title: Foreclosing on Opportunity: State Laws and Mortgage Credit
Telephone: (202) 452–2342
Email: karen.pence@frb.gov

Hollie Person Lund
Dissertation School: Portland State University
Dissertation Title: Breaking Down Barriers to Community Life: Social Contact, Local Travel, and Community Sentiment and Cohesion in Suburban Neighborhoods
Telephone: (503) 725–4045
Email: hlund@pdx.edu

Randal Pinkett
Dissertation School: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dissertation Title: Creating Community Connections, Sociocultural Constructionism, and an Asset-Based Approach to Community Technology and Community Building
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Eileen Robertson-Rehberg
Dissertation School: Cornell University
Dissertation Title: An Evaluation of the Strategic Uses of Community Development Block Grants in Small Cities in Upstate New York
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Email: errehberg@researchcouncil.net

Juan Sandoval
Dissertation School: University of California, Berkeley
Dissertation Title: The Geography of Opportunity and Vulnerability: State TANF Policy, Welfare Dependency, and the Diversity of Welfare Caseloads
Telephone: (847) 467–4139
Email: j-sandoval@northwestern.edu

Laura G. Solitare
Dissertation School: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Dissertation Title: Public Participation in Brownfields Redevelopments Located in Residential Neighborhoods
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Email: lgsolitare@gmail.com

Jill Strube
Dissertation School: Florida International University
Dissertation Title: Fiscal and Organizational Determinants of Transportation Outputs and Outcomes: A Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of Sustainability Factors
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Email: jstrube@bsdvt.org

Rainer vom Hofe
Dissertation School: Cornell University
Dissertation Title: A Regional Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) Model for HUD Policy Analysis: The Case of New York State
Telephone: (513) 556–3835
Email: rainer.vomhofe@uc.edu

Malik Watkins
Dissertation School: Ohio State University
Dissertation Title: Faith/Community-Based Organizations and the Political Process Model: Social Mobilization as an Explanation for Member Participation in Community Building
Telephone: (706) 542–7142
Email: watkins@cviog.uga.edu

Laura Wolf-Powers
Dissertation School: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Dissertation Title: The Effect of Labor Market Intermediaries on Career Opportunity for Less-Skilled Workers: A Study of Intermediaries in the Telecommunications Installation and Repair Industry in New York City, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C.
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Email: laura@wolf-powers.com

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1999 Grantees

Sandra L. Barnes
Dissertation School: Georgia State University
Dissertation Title: Positive Homeownership Attitudes, Homeownership Behavior, and Neighborhood Ties in Poor Urban Neighborhoods
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Email: sandra.barnes@case.edu

Daniele Bondonio
Dissertation School: Carnegie Mellon University
Dissertation Title: Do Geographically Targeted Development Incentives Revitalize Communities? Evidence From the State Enterprise Zone Programs
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Email: daniele.bondonio@sp.unipmn.it

Sherri L. Clark
Dissertation School: American University
Dissertation Title: Policy, Perceptions, and Place: An Ethnography of the Complexities of Implementing a Federal Housing Program
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Kelly J. Clifton
Dissertation School: University of Texas at Austin
Dissertation Title: Local Access, Non-Work Travel, and Survival Tactics In Low-Income Neighborhoods
Telephone: (301) 405–1945
Email: kclifton@umd.edu

Sarah S. Gardner
Dissertation School: City University of New York
Dissertation Title: Green Visions for Brownfields: Policy Coalitions for Urban Redevelopment
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Email: sgardner@williams.edu

Roger B. Hammer
Dissertation School: University of Wisconsin-Madison
Dissertation Title: The Geography of Residential and Employment Inequality: Workplace and Home Place in Urban Space
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Email: hammer@wisc.edu

Lezlee J. Hinesmon-Matthews
Dissertation School: California State University, Los Angeles
Dissertation Title: Faith-Based Versus Secular Approaches to Community Development in African-American Communities: The Case of Los Angeles
Telephone: (714) 278–2490
Email: lhinesmon-matthews@fullerton.edu

Jerome Hodos
Dissertation School: University of Pennsylvania
Dissertation Title: Second Cities: Globalization, Institutions, and Political Culture in Struggling Regions
Telephone: (717) 291–4027
Email: jerome.hodos@fandm.edu

Thomas Kamber
Dissertation School: City University of New York
Dissertation Title: Local Politics and Housing Vouchers
Telephone: (718) 360–1707
Email: tkamber@oatsny.org

Lucie Laurian
Dissertation School: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dissertation Title: Mobilization as a Response to Risk Perceptions and Declines in Housing Values in Communities Around Superfund Sites
Telephone: (319) 353–2955
Email: lucie-laurian@uiowa.edu

Michael Leo Owens
Dissertation School: State University of New York at Albany
Dissertation Title: Pulpits and Policy: The Political Impact and Pitfalls of Black Church-Based Community Development
Telephone: (404) 727–9322
Email: michael.leo.owens@emory.edu

Stephanie Shirley Post
Dissertation School: Rice University
Dissertation Title: Cities and Their Suburbs: "Go Along to Get Along"
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Email: post@rice.edu

Stefan Rayer
Dissertation School: Cornell University
Dissertation Title: The Incorporation of Peripheral Areas in Metropolises Undergoing Restructuring
Telephone: (352) 392–0171
Email: stefanr@bebr.ufl.edu

Mary Gail Snyder
Dissertation School: University of California, Berkeley
Dissertation Title: Informal Housing: Shelter Strategies and Resources Among Low-Income Households
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Lisa A. Sutherland
Dissertation School: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dissertation Title: Creating Healthy Communities One Byte at a Time
Telephone: (603) 653–0754
Email: lisa.a.sutherland@dartmouth.edu

Amy Winston
Dissertation School: Purdue University
Dissertation Title: Factions and Corporate Political Strategies in Harlan County, Kentucky: Implications for Community Sustainability
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1998 Grantees

Mahyar Arefi
Dissertation School: University of Southern California
Dissertation Title: Neighborhood Jump-Starting: Los Angeles Neighborhood Initiative
Telephone: (513) 556–0212
Email: mahyar.arefi@uc.edu

Karen J. Baehler
Dissertation School: University of Maryland at College Park
Dissertation Title: Fair Shares and Formula Fights: A Study of Federal Social Welfare Distribution
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Email: karen.baehler@vuw.ac.nz

John Wesley Edwards
Dissertation School: Cornell University
Dissertation Title: Building the Open City? Residential Mobility and Urban Policy Innovation in the 1970s
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Laura E. Harris
Dissertation School: State University of New York at Albany
Dissertation Title: A Home Is More Than Just a House: A Spatial Analysis of Housing for the Poor in Metropolitan America
Telephone: (901) 678–3365
Email: laura.harris@memphis.edu

Edward J. Jepson, Jr.
Dissertation School: University of Wisconsin-Madison
Dissertation Title: The Meaning of Ecosystem Theory to the Planning Profession – An Interpretation and Analysis of Sustainability
Telephone: (865) 974–7042
Email: ejepson@utk.edu

Rachel Kleit
Dissertation School: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dissertation Title: Housing, Social Networks, and Access to Opportunity: The Impact of Living in Scattered-Site and Clustered Public Housing
Telephone: (206) 221–3063
Email: kleit@u.washington.edu

Nicole Marwell
Dissertation School: University of Chicago
Dissertation Title: Social Networks and Social Capital as Resources for Neighborhood Revitalization: Volume One and Two
Telephone: (212) 854–0506
Email: npm8@columbia.edu

Ellen A. Merry
Dissertation School: University of Virginia
Dissertation Title: The Effect of the Mortgage Interest Deduction on Mortgage Debt and Housing Demand
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Gabriella Modan
Dissertation School: Georgetown University
Dissertation Title: The Struggle for Neighborhood Identity: Discursive Constructions of Community and Place in a United States Multiethnic Neighborhood
Telephone: (614) 292–0338
Email: modan.1@osu.edu

Kristopher M. Rengert
Dissertation School: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Dissertation Title: The Effect of Minority Ownership of Financial Institutions on Mortgage Lending to Minority and Lower Income Home Seekers: A Cross-Section and Time-Series Analysis
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Julia Sass Rubin
Dissertation School: Harvard University
Dissertation Title: Community Development Venture Capital: A Study of Cross-Sector Organizations
Telephone: (732) 932–2499, ext. 609
Email: jlsrubin@rci.rutgers.edu

Brian Schmitt
Dissertation School: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Dissertation Title: Do Community Reinvestment Act Agreements Work?
Telephone: (212) 594–6747, ext. 16
Email: bschmitt@cdvca.org

Mara S. Sidney
Dissertation School: University of Colorado at Boulder
Dissertation Title: The Struggle for Housing Equality: Impact of Fair Housing and Community Reinvestment Laws on Local Advocacy
Telephone: (973) 353–5787
Email: msidney@andromeda.rutgers.edu

Theresa Y. Singleton
Dissertation School: Temple University
Dissertation Title: Reinvesting in Community: the Organizational Impacts of Community Reinvestment
Telephone: (202) 842–8600
Email: theresa@ruralhome.org

Lois A. Stanley
Dissertation School: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dissertation Title: How Context Influences Local Economic Development: Strategies for Military Base Redevelopment in the 1990s
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1997 Grantees

Raisa Bahchieva
Dissertation School: Cornell University
Dissertation Title: Racial Differences in Housing Search Behavior
Telephone: (212) 306–4006
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Cecilia T. Castelino-Pinto
Dissertation School: City University of New York Graduate Center
Dissertation Title: Evicting the Batterer: Institutional and Non-Institutional Strategies Some Battered Women Use
Telephone: (212) 928–3955
Email: ccastelino@gmail.com

Karen Chapple
Dissertation School: University of California, Berkeley
Dissertation Title: Paths to Employment: The Role of Social Networks in the Job Search for Women on Welfare in San Francisco
Telephone: (510) 642–1868
Email: chapple@berkeley.edu

Kathyrn M. Doherty
Dissertation School: University of Maryland at College Park
Dissertation Title: Emerging Patterns of Housing, Community, and Local Governance: The Case of Private Homeowners Associations
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Larissa S. Larsen
Dissertation School: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dissertation Title: A Comparison of Chicago's Scattered Site and Aggregate Public Housing Resident's Psychological Self-Evaluations
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Email: larissal@umich.edu

Lisa E. McGuire
Dissertation School: Case Western Reserve University
Dissertation Title: Welfare to Work Transition With Public Housing Residents: Applications of the Transtheoretical Model
Telephone: (317) 274–6736
Email: lmcguir@iupui.edu

June Y. Park
Dissertation School: Columbia University
Dissertation Title: A New Understanding of Our Nation's Rising Homeless Rates and Low Rent Housing Vacancy Rates
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Becky Pettit
Dissertation School: Princeton University
Dissertation Title: Navigating Networks and Neighborhoods: An Analysis of the Residential Mobility of the Urban Poor
Telephone: (206) 616–1173
Email: bpettit@u.washington.edu

Kenneth E. Poole
Dissertation School: George Mason University
Dissertation Title: The Role of Practitioner Networks in the Successful Diffusion and Implementation of Policy Innovations: Lessons From Enterprise Zone Experiences
Telephone: (703) 522–4980, extension 16
Email: kpoole@c2er.org

Vera Prosper
Dissertation School: University at Albany, State University of New York
Dissertation Title: Aging in Place in Multifamily Housing
Telephone: (518) 474–4382
Email: vera.prosper@ofa.state.ny.us

Robert Self
Dissertation School: University of Washington
Dissertation Title: Shifting Ground in Metropolitan America: Class, Race, and Power in Oakland and the East Bay, 1945-77
Telephone: (401) 863–1391
Email: robert_self@brown.edu

Kala Seetharam Sridhar
Dissertation School: Ohio State University
Dissertation Title: Urban Economic Development in America: Evidence From Enterprise Zones
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Email: kala_sridhar2002@yahoo.com ; kalaseetharam@gmail.com

Patricia Stern Smallacombe
Dissertation School: University of Pennsylvania
Dissertation Title: Why Do They Stay? Rootendness and Isolation in an Inner-City White Neighborhood
Telephone: (215) 949–1660, ext. 115
Email: pattys@uwbucks.org

Scott Susin
Dissertation School: University of California, Berkeley
Dissertation Title: Housing the Poor: Rent Vouchers and the Price of Low-Income Housing
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Mark A. Wallace
Dissertation School: American University
Dissertation Title: The Benefits of Scarcity: An Analysis of the Windfall Gains From Limited Recipients in Competitive Grant Programs
Telephone: (301) 589–3979
Email: wallacem.rced@gao.gov

Jenell Lora Williams-Paris
Dissertation School: American University
Dissertation Title: African-American Women's Activism and Ghetto Formation in a Washington, D.C. Neighborhood
Telephone: (651) 638–6538
Email: jparis@bethel.edu

John (Sean) W. Zielenbach, Jr.
Dissertation School: Northwestern University
Dissertation Title: Revitalizing Inner-City Neighborhoods-Promoting Private Investments in Economically Distressed Communities
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1996 Grantees

Susan Baer
Dissertation School: University of Maryland at College Park
Dissertation Title: Gentrification and the Role of Community Organizations in Preventing African-American Displacement
Telephone: (619) 594–4934
Email: sbaer@mail.sdsu.edu

Mary V. Basolo
Dissertation School: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dissertation Title: Housing Policy in the Local Political Economy: Understanding the Support for Affordable Housing Programs in Cities
Telephone: (949) 824–3521
Email: basolo@uci.edu

Liesette N. Brunson
Dissertation School: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dissertation Title: Resident Appropriation of Defensible Space in Public Housing: Implications for Safety and Community
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Email: brunson.liesette@uqam.ca

Reid Cramer
Dissertation School: University of Texas at Austin
Dissertation Title: Local Economic Development Planning in Low-Income America: The Implementation of the Empowerment Zone and Enterprise Community Program
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Email: cramer@newamerica.net

Dale A. Darrow
Dissertation School: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Dissertation Title: An Analysis of the Demographic and Developmental Impacts of Central-City Rail Transit Stations
Telephone: (612) 370–3000, ext. 2280
Email: dale_darrow@hud.gov

James R. Elliott, Jr.
Dissertation School: University of Wisconsin-Madison
Dissertation Title: The Work of Cities: Underemployment and Urban Change in Late-20th-Century America
Telephone: (541) 346–5267
Email: elliott@uoregon.edu

Margaret Etukudo
Dissertation School: University of Illinois at Chicago
Dissertation Title: A nalysis of Small and Microenterprise Programs: Implications for Urban Economic Development Policy
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Hongmian Gong
Dissertation School: University of Georgia
Dissertation Title: Location Analysis of Business and Professional Services in U.S. Metropolitan Areas, 1977-92
Telephone: (212) 772–4658
Email: gong@hunter.cuny.edu

Craig Gundersen
Dissertation School: University of California at Riverside
Dissertation Title: Direct Measures of Poverty and Well-Being: A Theoretical Framework and an Application to Housing Poverty in the United States
Telephone: (515) 294–6319
Email: cggunder@iastate.edu

Seong Woo Lee
Dissertation School: University of Southern California
Dissertation Title: Models of Homeownership: Immigrants'Assimilation, Structural Type, and Metropolitan Contextual Effects on Homeownership Attainment
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Atiya N. Mahmood
Dissertation School: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Dissertation Title: Socio-Spatial Analysis of Women's Home-Based Work: Identifying Economic Revitalizating Aspects of the Home-Setting
Telephone: (541) 737–9516
Email: atiya.mahmood@oregonstate.edu

Michael Maly
Dissertation School: Loyola University
Dissertation Title: Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Select U.S. Urban Neighborhoods, 1980 to 1990
Telephone: (312) 341–3769
Email: mmlay@roosevelt.edu

Marc J. Perry
Dissertation School: University of Wisconsin-Madison
Dissertation Title: Using Geo-Demographic Methods for Improving Small-Area Population and Housing Unit Estimates
Telephone: (301) 763–2419
Email: marc.j.perry@census.gov

Laxmi Ramasubramanian
Dissertation School: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Dissertation Title: Knowledge Production and Use in Community-Based Organizations: Examining the Influence of Information Technologies
Telephone: (212) 772–5594
Email: laxmi@hunter.cuny.edu

Janet Smith
Dissertation School: Cleveland State University
Dissertation Title: Interpreting Neighborhood Change
Telephone: (312) 996–2151
Email: janets@uic.edu

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1995 Grantees

Sheila Crowley
Dissertation School: Virginia Commonwealth University
Dissertation Title: A Constructivist Inquiry of the Interpretation of Federal Housing Policy In and Among Three Entitlement Jurisdictions
Telephone: (202) 662–1530, ext. 224
Email: sheila@nlihc.org

William H. Dozier
Dissertation School: Western Michigan University
Dissertation Title: The Role of Race in the Perpetuation of Inadequate Housing
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Ingrid Gould Ellen
Dissertation School: Harvard University
Dissertation Title: Sharing America's Neighborhoods: The Changing Prospects for Racial Integration
Telephone: (212) 998–7533
Email: ingrid.ellen@nyu.edu

Bradley R. Entner Wright
Dissertation School: University of Wisconsin-Madison
Dissertation Title: Pathways Off the Streets: Homeless People and Their Use of Resources
Telephone: (860) 486–3771
Email: bradley.wright@uconn.edu

Eric Fure-Slocum
Dissertation School: University of Iowa
Dissertation Title: The Challenge of the Working-Class City: Recasting Growth Politics and Liberalism in Milwaukee, 1937-52
Telephone: (507) 786–3534
Email: furesloc@stolaf.edu

Karen J. Gibson
Dissertation School: University of California, Berkeley
Dissertation Title: Income, Race, and Space: A Comparative Analysis of the Effects of Poverty Concentration on the White and Black Neighborhoods in the Detroit and Pittsburgh Metropolitan Areas
Telephone: (503) 725–8265
Email: gibsonk@pdx.edu

Catherine A. Hill
Dissertation School: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Dissertation Title: The Political Economy of Military Base Redevelopment: An Evaluation of Four Converted Naval Bases
Telephone: (202) 728–7609
Email: hillc@aauw.org

Jeffrey Richard Kling
Dissertation School: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dissertation Title: Identifying Causal Effects of Public Policies
Telephone: (202) 797–6304
Email: jkling@brookings.edu

Neil J. Kraus
Dissertation School: State University of New York at Albany
Dissertation Title: Race, Neighborhoods, and Community Power: Buffalo Politics, 1935-95
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Email: neil.kraus@uwrf.edu

Theresa J. Mah
Dissertation School: University of Chicago
Dissertation Title: Buying Into the Middle Class: Residential Segregation and Racial Formation in the United States, 1920–64
Telephone: (773) 834–8732
Email: tmah@uchicago.edu

Anthony N.M. Pennington-Cross
Dissertation School: George Washington University
Dissertation Title: The Export Price Index and a Simultaneous Equations Model of Metropolitan Area Development
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Email: anmp@yahoo.com

Jessica Pitt
Dissertation School: Cornell University
Dissertation Title: Towards Comprehensive Community Development Practices: The Responses of Community Development Corporations
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Email: jmp@sff.org

Yodan Y. Rofe
Dissertation School: University of California, Berkeley
Dissertation Title: The Usefulness of “Neighborhood Experience Maps” As a Tool in City Planning and Urban Design
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Email: yrofe@bgumail.bgu.ac.il

Donna Rubens
Dissertation School: State University of New York at Buffalo
Dissertation Title: An Ethnographic Case Study of the Organization of Care in a Transitional Housing Project for Pregnant and Parenting Teens: Program and Policy Implications
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Thomas W. Sanchez
Dissertation School: Georgia Institute of Technology
Dissertation Title: Equity Implications and Impacts of Personal Transportation Benefits on Urban Form
Telephone: (703) 706–8111
Email: sanchezt@vt.edu

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1994 Grantees

Frank D. Beck
Dissertation School: Pennsylvania State University
Dissertation Title: Human Ecology, Pro-Growth Effort, and Community Development: The Case of Enterprise Zones (Tax Incentives, Economic Development)
Telephone: (309) 438–5850
Email: fdbeck@ilstu.edu

Cynthia Jean Bogard
Dissertation School: State University of New York at Stony Brook
Dissertation Title: No Place Like Home: Rehousing Homeless Families in an Age of Declining "Family Values"
Telephone: (516) 463–5643
Email: cynthia.j.bogard@hofstra.edu

Camille Zubrinsky Charles
Dissertation School: University of California, Los Angeles
Dissertation Title: I Have Always Wanted to Have a Neighbor, Just Like You: Race and Residential Segregation in the City
Telephone: (215) 573–2357
Email: camille_charles@pop.upenn.edu

Sandra E. Crewe
Dissertation School: Howard University
Dissertation Title: Unmotivated or Unchallenged: An Ethnographic Study of Sanctioned Welfare Recipients Residing in Federally Assisted Housing
Telephone: (202) 806–7320
Email: secrewe@howard.edu

Christopher Zigmund Galbraith
Dissertation School: University of Texas at Austin
Dissertation Title: Old Houses Never Die: Assesing the Effectiveness of Filtering as a Low-Income Housing Policy
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Taeil Kim
Dissertation School: Carnegie Mellon University
Dissertation Title: Place or Person? A Labor Market Analysis of Central-City Poverty
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Xiangxing (Max) Lu
Dissertation School: Indiana University
Dissertation Title: Analyzing Migration Decisionmaking: Residential Satisfaction, Mobility Intentions, and Moving Behavior
Telephone: (785) 532–3413
Email: maxlu@ksu.edu

J. Jeff McConnell
Dissertation School: State University of New York at Stony Brook
Dissertation Title: The Social Establishment of Homelessness: Social Policy and Individual Experience in the Development of a Social Problem
Telephone: (415) 734–4873
Email: jmcconnell@gladstone.ucsf.edu

Wendy S. Meister
Dissertation School: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Dissertation Title: Creating Neighborhoods: Physical Environment, Resident Involvement, and Crime at a Revitalized Housing Project
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Reynold F. Nesiba
Dissertation School: University of Notre Dame
Dissertation Title: Interstate Banking and Community Reinvestment: An Evaluation of How Bank Mergers and Acquisitions Influenced Residential Lending Patterns in St. Joseph County, Indiana, 1985-93
Telephone: (605) 274–5310
Email: reynold.nesiba@augie.edu

Zeynep Önder
Dissertation School: Cornell University
Dissertation Title: Public Policy Issues Related to FHA Financing: FHA Borrowers, FHA Loan Limit, and Homeownership
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Email: zonder@bilkent.edu.tr

Nicolas O. Rockler
Dissertation School: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dissertation Title: Regional Productivity and Public Infrastructure Investment
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Lisa Jean Servon
Dissertation School: University of California, Berkeley
Dissertation Title: Reconstructing Urban Poverty Policy: Alternative Credit, Poverty Alleviation, and Economic Development in the U.S. Inner Cities
Telephone: (212) 229–5400, ext. 1618
Email: servonl@newschool.edu

Michael A. Stoll
Dissertation School: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dissertation Title: " Can I Get a Job?" The Relative Importance of Space and Race in Urban Young Adult Labor Markets
Telephone: (310) 206–4774
Email: mstoll@ucla.edu

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