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INVESTING IN THE FUTURE
OF
URBAN SCHOLARSHIP
OUP's
Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant Program

Investing in the Future of Urban Scholarship: OUP's Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant Program analyzes some of the
many positive impacts that Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant recipients continue to make in the housing- and
urban development-related fields of research.
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Investing in the Future of
Urban Scholarship
OUP's Doctoral Dissertation
Research Grant Program
Prepared by:
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Office of University Partnerships
February 2013

Table of
Contents
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Research in Focus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Policy Perspectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Educating the Future . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Appendix: DDRG Grantees, 1994–2011. . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Endnotes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

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Introduction
When the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) established the Office of University
Partnerships (OUP) in 1994, it decided that one of the new office’s goals would be to “create the next generation
of urban scholars and encourage them to focus their work on housing and community development policy.” HUD
already had a long history, through its Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R), of seeking out reliable
and objective data and analysis to inform its key policy decisions. Aligning one of OUP’s goals with this mission
would allow HUD a more active role in increasing the number of housing and community development specialists
who would continue to perform this valuable and innovative research.
To this end, OUP launched the Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant (DDRG) program as one of its two original
funding opportunities. The program’s purpose was twofold:
• Enable doctoral candidates to complete their research and dissertations on policy-relevant housing and urban
development issues.
• Fund research studies that may impact federal problemsolving and policymaking and that are relevant to HUD’s
policy priorities and annual goals and objectives.
Throughout DDRG’s 17-year lifespan, OUP provided funding to nearly 300 doctoral candidates located in
29 states and the District of Columbia (see Exhibit 1).
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These one-time grants not only helped recipients
complete their doctorates, but they also ultimately supported HUD’s goal of ensuring a continued interest in
the development and application of research on policy-relevant housing and urban development issues. More
importantly, OUP continues to see returns from the investments made in these DDRG recipients.
In 2010, OUP performed an informal assessment of the 233 DDRG recipients who received funding between the
years of 1994 and 2008.
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What OUP discovered was that, upon completion of their doctorates, DDRG recipients
have gone on to return the Office’s assistance in various roles—as economists, professors, policy analysts,
researchers, social scientists, statisticians, and more—and through myriad forms of discourse on the housing and
community development-related issues most affecting this nation’s communities.
This publication highlights some of the sectors in which these grantees are making the greatest contributions,
along with showcasing a sample of the work being done by this dedicated group of grantees.

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EXHIBIT 1
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION RESEARCH GRANTS
(DDRGs) PER STATE, 1994–2011
Source: Numbers collected from the DDRG phone book on the Office of University Partnerships (OUP)
Web site, www.oup.org/phonebook/DDRGphone.asp.
Total Number of Awarded DDRGs: 276

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Research in Focus
It should come as no surprise that, regardless of whatever career fields DDRG recipients enter upon graduation,
the majority have continued to help drive the progress of HUD-relevant research. Many continue to seek
solutions to problems they first began to critically analyze during their doctoral studies. Several have made their
marks as experts within certain fields of interest—homelessness, gerontology, predatory lending—with their
research playing key roles in the implementation of new policies and procedures on federal, state, and local levels.
Exhibit 2 provides a cross-section sampling of the impressive spectrum of research areas that DDRG recipients
indicated in their assessment responses.
EXHIBIT 2
DDRG RECIPIENT RESEARCH AREAS
This list represents the diversity of research interests among OUP’s DDRG recipients. It also reflects
an inherent understanding among these recipients that the prosperity of a community is not solely
contingent upon policy or infrastructure. It depends upon the holistic well-being and stability of all
facets of the community and its residents. Research specialties include:
• Affordable housing
• Anthropology
• Architecture
• Civic engagement
• Community development
• Consumer finance
• Economic inequality
• Educational inequality
• Environmental policy
• Family and child welfare
• Federal housing policy
• Gentrification
• Geographic information systems
• Gerontology
• Homelessness
• Immigration
• International planning
• Low-income housing policy
• Mixed-methods research
• Mortgage finance
• Mortgage lending
• Neighborhood revitalization
• Public housing
• Race and class
• Real estate finance
• Service learning
• Social inequality
• Social policy
• Spatial analytic methods
• Subprime and predatory lending
• Sustainable growth
• Transportation studies
• Urban health disparities
• Urban planning and design
• Urban poverty
• Welfare reform

Furthermore, many DDRG recipients continue to have the results of their research published in some of the most
respected journals within their fields, including Community Development Journal, Economic Development Quarterly,
Housing Policy Debate, Journal of the American Planning Association, Journal of Urban Affairs (currently edited by
1996 DDRG recipient Dr. Victoria Basolo), and HUD’s own Cityscape: A Journal of Policy Development and Research.
Cityscape's goal is “to bring high-quality original research on housing and community development issues to
scholars, government officials, and practitioners.”
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For each issue—the journal publishes three times a year—an
advisory board selects the best articles submitted in response to that issue’s theme. A review of the Cityscape
journals published throughout the past 5 years shows that DDRG recipients appeared—as either sole or co-
contributors—in 60 percent of the journals released during this period.
In 2004, HUD even published a special edition of Cityscape dedicated to highlighting the research efforts of 

DDRG recipients.
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The purposes of this edition were to acknowledge the quality of these scholars’ research and
its relevance to HUD’s mission, and to encourage other doctoral students to participate in the Department’s
research-support programs to advance HUD’s research agenda. The table of contents from this issue is as follows:
• “Neighborhood Jump-Starting: Los Angeles Neighborhood Initiative,” Mahyar Arefi (1998 grantee).
• “Valuation of Metropolitan Quality of Life in Wages and Rents,” Roxanne Ezzet-Lofstrom (2001 grantee).
• “Positive Homeownership Attitudes, Homeownership Behavior, and Neighborhood Ties in Poor Urban
Neighborhoods,” Sandra L. Barnes (1999 grantee).
• “Moving Over or Moving Up? Short-Term Gains and Losses for Relocated HOPE VI Families,” Susan Clampet-
Lundquist (2001 grantee).
• “Aging in Place in Multifamily Housing,” Vera Prosper (1997 grantee).
• “The Work of Cities: Underemployment and Urban Change in Late-20th-Century America,” James R. Elliott
(1996 grantee).
• “The Struggle for Housing Equality: Impact of Fair Housing and Community Reinvestment Laws on Local
Advocacy,” Mara S. Sidney (1998 grantee).
• “Knowledge Production and Use in Community-Based Organizations: Examining the Influence of Information
Technologies,” Laxmi Ramasubramanian (1996 grantee).
The range of research represented by these articles confirms the diversity of focus and perspective that DDRG
recipients are contributing to the continuing examination of urban issues.
More recently, in March 2011, Cityscape dedicated an issue to “Discovering Homelessness.” DDRG recipients
authored three of the four primary articles.
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Ultimately, the findings they presented in this issue became the basis
for the first Empowerment Series event sponsored by OUP in September of that same year (see Exhibit 3).
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EMPOWERING DISCOURSE ON HOMELESSNESS
On September 20, 2011, OUP hosted representatives from nonproﬁts and academia, as well as staff
from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and other federal agencies,
for their inaugural Empowerment Series workshop, “The Key to Unlocking Homelessness in America:
Emerging Trends in HUD-Sponsored Research.” Three former DDRG recipients—Dr. Courtney Cronley,
Dr. George R. Carter III, and Dr. Tatjana Meschede—led the conversation, speaking candidly about their
research projects. Their presentations focused on project impacts, shared goals, lessons learned, and
the importance of HUD’s continued leadership in the ﬁght to reduce and prevent homelessness and
foster relevant research.
Through each of their presentations, these former DDRG recipients showed how their three unique
perspectives, areas of focus, and approaches could come together to take on one national problem
in an ongoing effort to impact homelessness policy at all levels of government. The ﬁndings of these
three researchers are prime examples of HUD-sponsored research that drives policy. Their research
approaches break down as follows:
Dr. Courtney Cronley, recipient of a DDRG award in 2008, explored the use of information
management systems, such as the Homeless Management Information System, by homeless service
providers in her dissertation, “www.homeless.org/culture: A Cross-Level Analysis of the Relationship
Between Organizational Culture and Technology Use Among Homeless Service Providers.” She found
that the provider organizations that she surveyed showed high levels of resistance to technological
change. She concluded that overcoming resistance and getting buy-in through educating local leaders
and nonproﬁt staff about the usefulness and usability of new technologies is critical to the success of
national programs involving technology. Dr. Cronley received her doctorate in social work with a minor
in statistics from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and is now an assistant professor of social
work at the University of Texas at Arlington.
Dr. George R. Carter III, recipient of a DDRG award in 2004, examined the overrepresentation of
African Americans in the homeless population in his dissertation, “From Exclusion to Destitution: Race,
Affordable Housing, and Homelessness.” African Americans represent 13 percent of the U.S. population,
but account for approximately 40 percent of the homeless population. Dr. Carter found that higher
levels of African-American homelessness were linked to housing segregation as well as the clustering
of services available to homeless people in the urban core, where there is often a large minority
population. Dr. Carter received his doctorate from the University of Michigan and is now a social
science analyst in PD&R’s Office of Housing and Demographic Analysis Division at HUD.
Dr. Tatjana Meschede, recipient of a DDRG award in 2003, studied the achievements and failures of
service providers attempting to reach the homeless population most likely to be left out of the homeless
service delivery model—the chronically homeless street population—in her dissertation, “Bridges
and Barriers to Housing for Homeless Street Dwellers: The Impact of Health and Substance Abuse
Services on Housing Attainment.” Her study investigated the bridges and barriers to housing for 174
chronically homeless street dwellers in urban Boston, and examined whether the services provided by
public shelters, healthcare professionals, detoxiﬁcation centers, and substance abuse programs actually
helped homeless individuals move off the street and into permanent housing. Dr. Meschede received
her doctorate from the University of Massachusetts Boston and is currently the research director at the
Institute on Assets and Social Policy at the Heller School for Social Policy at Brandeis University.
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Policy Perspectives
One of the benefits of the DDRG program was that each year, the topical focus adjusted according to HUD’s
strategic goals, which were linked to the evolving needs and trends most affecting the welfare of our nation’s
communities. For this reason, the research topics that applicants submitted each year reflected these changing
needs and areas of concern. Consequently, the new researchers graduating into the workforce brought with them
knowledge, methodology, and interests perfectly suited to provide data and insight tailored to create new policies
or reform current policies relevant to the most pressing issues of the moment.
For example, Dr. Zhong Yi Tong, a 2001 DDRG recipient, currently serves as an upper-level economist at the
U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS), where he has contributed extensively to
monitoring, forecasting, and identifying causes of trends and risks related to the U.S. housing and residential
mortgage markets at national, regional, and state levels. His financial and economic analyses on mortgage loan
modifications and other interventions to bolster recovery and stabilization during the recent U.S. housing market
crisis resulted in policy recommendations and special strategy designs submitted for implementation to senior
OTS management.
Dr. Tong’s analyses and forecasts of U.S. trends on housing price, affordability, mortgage finance, and policy
interventions in residential real estate markets have proven themselves relevant not just on a national scale, but
globally, receiving media attention both in the United States and China. In addition, his doctoral dissertation
on the policy impact of the first-time homebuyer tax credit was used as the basis for policy proposals by both
Democratic and Republican think tanks before and during the U.S. housing/financial crises, and quoted as the
only evidence in the U.S. congressional testimonies in support of creating the national first-time homebuyer tax
credit program, one of the most successful government interventions that helped rescue a collapsed housing
market in the United States during the crises.
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Another current area of focus and concern is the rapidly increasing elderly population across the United States.
A steady flow of “baby boomers” continue to pass into the retirement age range, resulting in increased debates
and concern regarding entitlement programs and healthcare provision. Dr. Vera Prosper, a 1997 DDRG recipient,
anticipated this impending shift in focus and tailored her research approach accordingly. Her dissertation,
“Tenant Aging in Public and Publicly Assisted Multifamily Housing and Its Public Policy Implications for Housing
and Long-Term Care,” helped her hone her policy analysis in relation to elderly housing, particularly for those
who choose to “age in place” in their own homes rather than enter into institutional facilities. She continues to
contribute to discourse on this and other gerontology-based policy implementation across New York as a senior
policy analyst for the state’s Office for Aging.
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Dr. Shirley Y. Chao, who received DDRG funding in 2005, continues to bring to light the issues of food and
nutrition policy for seniors—first examined through her doctoral work—as the director of nutrition for the
Massachusetts Executive Office of Elder Affairs. In this capacity, Dr. Chao helps to set the framework for services
provided to the more than 1 million Massachusetts residents who are at or more than 60 years old. She is
regularly contacted to provide testimony on behalf of organizations such as the National Association of Nutrition
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and Aging Services Programs as she works to ensure sound policy is put into effect to meet the nutritional needs
of senior citizens, regardless of their living choices or financial status.
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For 1994 DDRG recipient Dr. Sandra Edmonds Crewe, her research led her to focus on social and
“ethnogerontology,” or aging issues as they apply specifically to vulnerable African-American women. In addition
to being the director of the Howard University Multidisciplinary Gerontology Center, which provides professional
development for aging residents in Washington, D.C., she is co-director of the Washington Area Geriatric
Education Center Consortium. Dr. Crewe has written numerous reports and studies pertaining to her areas of
expertise, including for AARP, the nation’s leading nonprofit organization focused on, among other priorities,
developing public policies that reflect the concerns and interests of their retirement-aged members.
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Indeed, many DDRG recipients contribute to the creation and advancement of housing and community
development policies. Their research supports the efforts of local and state housing authorities as well as
organizations such as the nonprofit policy think tank Brookings Institution;
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the Local Initiatives Support
Corporation (LISC), which is dedicated to “helping community residents transform distressed neighborhoods
into healthy and sustainable communities of choice and opportunity”
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; and the Urban Institute, which
“gathers data, conducts research, evaluates programs, offers technical assistance overseas, and educates
Americans on social and economic issues—to foster sound public policy and effective government.”
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Dr. Ingrid Gould Ellen, recipient of DDRG funding in 1995, has held visiting positions at both the Urban Institute
and the Brookings Institution. With research focused on neighborhoods, housing policy, and racial segregation,
she has contributed extensively to research and policy analysis and implementation. In late 2008 and early 2009,
she served on HUD’s agency review team for the Obama Administration’s transition team. Dr. Ellen is currently
a professor of urban planning and public policy at New York University’s Wagner School and co-director of
the Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy. She is also author of Sharing America’s Neighborhoods: The
Prospects for Stable Racial Integration and numerous academic journal articles.
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For some recipients, their research path leads them into the heart of national policy itself, seeking out posts
within federal agencies, including HUD. Dr. Derek S. Hyra, 2003 DDRG recipient and currently an associate
professor of urban affairs and planning at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, previously put
his expertise to use for both the U.S. Department of the Treasury and HUD. At Treasury, he investigated the
predictors and consequences of the subprime lending crisis. For HUD, he examined the community-level impact
of national urban legislation such as the Community Development Block Grant, Empowerment Zones, and the
HOPE VI program. He is an affiliated scholar of the Urban Institute with research expertise in inner-city economic
development, globalization, national housing policy, urban politics, affordable housing finance, neighborhood
poverty, and race.
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Dr. Scott Susin continues to put into practice his expertise in econometrics and real estate economics, learned
while working on the dissertation sponsored by his 1997 DDRG funding, as an economist in the Fair Lending
Division of HUD’s Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity. Prior to this position, he worked as the chief of
the housing and urban development analysis staff of the U.S. Census Bureau. He has authored or co-authored
more than a dozen publications addressing housing issues. His research has appeared in publications such as the
Journal of Public Economics, the Journal of the American Planning Association, Cityscape, and the Journal of Housing
Research. He has served as a referee for numerous academic journals, and his research is discussed in several
widely used textbooks, such as Econometric Analysis, Price Theory and Applications, and City Economics.
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Upon completing his dissertation, 2002 DDRG recipient Dr. Michael K. Hollar also joined HUD as an economist,
assigned to the Economic Development and Public Finance Division. In this capacity, Dr. Hollar works extensively
with projects and policy directly related to Low-Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC), including oversight of
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LIHTC databases maintained by PD&R. He contributes regularly to prominent publications and reports, both
within and outside of HUD, including the previously mentioned Cityscape journal.
Some DDRG recipients opt to effect policy change outside of the public sector. Dr. Sheila Crowley, who won
DDRG funding in 1995, is the president and chief executive officer of the National Low Income Housing Coalition
(NLIHC), the membership organization founded by U.S. federal housing policy and low-income housing expert
Cushing Dolbeare. NLIHC is dedicated to achieving socially just public policy that ensures that people with the
lowest incomes in the United States have access to affordable and decent homes. One of the organization’s
most prominent federal in-roads into low-income policy initiatives came when the Housing and Economic
Recovery Act of 2008 officially established its National Housing Trust Fund campaign as a part of HUD’s Office
of Community Planning and Development. The fund is an affordable housing production program enacted to
complement existing federal, state, and local efforts to increase and preserve the supply of decent, safe, and
sanitary affordable housing for extremely low- and very low-income households, including homeless families.
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Under Dr. Crowley’s oversight, NLIHC has led an ad hoc coalition of national and Gulf Coast housing
organizations to advocate on behalf of low-income people displaced by the 2005 hurricanes Katrina and Rita, to
ensure that sufficient housing is rebuilt at affordable costs to allow the return of all displaced residents who wish
to do so. Dr. Crowley is also a member of the board of directors of the National Housing Trust, the Poverty and
Race Research Action Council, Enterprise Community Partners, the Technical Assistance Collaborative, and the
National Housing Conference.
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In January 2000, 1997 DDRG recipient Dr. Kenneth E. Poole co-founded the Center for Regional Economic
Competitiveness (CREC) as an independent nonprofit focused on assisting policymakers with developing a
stronger understanding of how regional economies can compete effectively in the evolving, knowledge-based
economy. In addition to his duties as CREC’s president and chief executive officer, he serves as the executive
director of the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER), a membership organization that
“promotes excellence in community and economic research by working to improve data availability, enhance data
quality, and foster learning about regional economic analytic methods.”
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CREC oversees policy-relevant projects on a state-level basis all across the country, with focuses in regional
analysis, strategy implementation, labor market information improvement, community workforce strategy, and
industrial cluster analysis, to name a few. Under Dr. Poole’s leadership, CREC has undertaken and successfully
completed more than 20 statewide, regional, and/or local development projects.
As C2ER’s director, Dr. Poole works directly with economic and community development researchers in
communities, states, academia, and the private sector throughout the United States. In this capacity, he has
overseen all program development activities of the organization, including its research and professional training
activities.
Before establishing CREC, Dr. Poole served 6 years as the director of domestic economic development for
the National Association of State Development Agencies. While there, he provided technical assistance and
research support to state and local economic development professionals across the United States. He developed
new project opportunities in technology-based economic development, economic and policy research, and the
organization of state-based economic development initiatives. Dr. Poole also served 8 years as the director
of technical assistance and research for the National Council for Urban Economic Development (now the
International Economic Development Council), managing the preparation of more than 2 dozen publications and
coordinating technical assistance activities in more than 40 U.S. communities.
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Educating the Future
While impressive numbers of DDRG recipients continue to impact and influence the policies being put into place
to address many of our nation’s most detrimental community dilemmas, many former grantees are “paying
forward” DDRG’s investment in their education by now investing in the education of future colleagues and
successors. Nearly 60 percent of the assessment respondents indicated that they were currently employed as
professors, lecturers, or some form of adjunct faculty. Their concentrations include architecture and design,
anthropology, economics, geography, gerontology, history, political science, public policy, sociology, and urban
and regional planning, to name a few.
For 2000 DDRG recipient Dr. Judith Grant Long, her research efforts on the relationship between infrastructure
and urbanism prepared her for her current role as an assistant professor of urban planning at the Harvard
University Graduate School of Design and director of the master in urban planning degree program. Her teaching
explores the intersection of contemporary professional practice with cutting-edge planning research and theory,
with emphasis on urban redevelopment, real estate development and public finance for planners, planning history
and theory, doctoral research methods, as well as several specialized seminars on mega-projects. She advises
students writing theses on mega-projects, tourism, and city branding at the undergraduate and graduate levels at
Harvard, and at other universities.
Building upon the work she began with her doctoral dissertation, “Full Count: The Real Cost of Public Subsidies
for Major League Sports Facilities,” Dr. Long is also a nationally recognized expert in the planning, finance, and
development of sports and tourism mega-projects. She has written two books inspired by this range of expertise:
Public-Private Partnerships for Major League Sports Facilities, which examines the financial arrangements for more
than 100 ballparks, stadiums, and arenas, and shows how host public partners pay far more to subsidize these
facilities than is commonly understood; and her current book project, Olympic Urbanism: From Rome to Rio, which
analyzes the claim of the Olympics as a catalyst for urban redevelopment, based on archival and field research in
15 host cities, from the 1960 Olympics in Rome to the games scheduled for Rio de Janeiro in 2016.
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Dr. Thomas W. Sanchez, 1995 DDRG recipient, has shared his research expertise in transportation, land use,
urban and regional planning, and environmental justice via professorial postings at several institutions of higher
education across the country, including the University of Utah, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University,
the George Washington University, Portland State University, Iowa State University, and Georgia Institute of
Technology. Additionally, he is a nonresident senior fellow for the Brookings Institute’s Metropolitan Policy
Program, where he has contributed extensively to research on transportation within U.S. metropolitan areas.
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As an associate professor of political science at Emory University, 1999 DDRG recipient Dr. Michael Leo Owens
specializes in urban, state, and local politics; political penology, governance, and public policy processes; religion
and politics; and African-American politics. He is an associate of Emory’s Office of University-Community
Partnerships and Center for the Study of Law and Religion, and serves on the boards of the National Housing
Institute, City Hall Fellows, Urban Affairs Association, Journal of Urban Affairs, Urban Affairs Review, and
Shelterforce. He also served as a project scholar for the Public Influences of African-American Churches Project
and the Roundtable on Religion and Social Welfare Policy. Additionally, he contributed a chapter on faith-

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based community development to the 2007 HUD publication Building the Organizations that Build Communities:
Strengthening the Capacity of Faith- and Community-Based Development Organizations.
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Author of God and
Government in the Ghetto: The Politics of Church-State Collaboration in Black America, his current book project is
Prisoners of Democracy, a study of the politics, policies, and attitudes that diminish the citizenship of felons in the
United States.
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For 2008 DDRG recipient Dr. Kristie A. Thomas, her role as an assistant professor at Simmons College School of
Social Work in Boston, Massachusetts, allows her to continue educating others in her main research and practice
interests—intimate partner violence, women’s homelessness, shelter service delivery, and community practice.
She is particularly interested in the relationship between intimate partner violence and housing, due largely to
her experiences as a case manager at a battered women’s shelter and as a community organizer for affordable
housing. These experiences informed her dissertation work, which focused on battered women’s patterns of and
risk factors for shelter use. Her current research activities include building upon the findings of her dissertation
and collaborating on evaluation projects with local domestic violence providers. Prior to joining the Simmons
faculty, Dr. Thomas served as the assistant director of the Evelyn Jacobs Ortner Center on Family Violence and as
a research consultant at the National Clearinghouse for the Defense of Battered Women.
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From the intricacies of mega-complex infrastructure to the personal impact of intimate partner violence, DDRG
recipients are moving forward multifarious lines of discourse and research in institutions of higher education
across the nation, encouraging all varieties of examination among students and colleagues alike. Even more
encouraging is the fact that many of these former DDRG recipients have gone on to sponsor the work of
applicants to the DDRG program. There can be no greater compliment to the legacy of the DDRG program than
this first-person acknowledgement of the program’s worth.

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Conclusion
When OUP first implemented its DDRG program, its original vision was to help encourage a continued interest
in fields of doctoral study that would contribute to HUD’s housing and community development policy efforts.
What transpired throughout the program’s 17 years was that OUP not only met this vision, but also ultimately
succeeded in supporting the efforts of some of the most influential contributors to modern urban research efforts.
The Office’s grantees continue to impact and influence policy, lead key research initiatives, assist communities
in analysis and evaluation, and even ensure that the work they care so deeply for now will be carried on by new
generations of scholars, trained by them.
From public to private sector, from government to nonprofits, and from boardrooms to classrooms, OUP’s
DDRG recipients prove that there is no limit to the returns on the Office’s investment into the future of urban
scholarship.

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Appendix: DDRG Grantees, 1994–2011
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)
Cynthia 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”
Sandra Edmonds Crewe
Dissertation School: Howard University
Dissertation Title: Unchallenged and Unmotivated: An Ethnographic Study of Sanctioned Welfare Reform
Recipients in Federally Subsidized Housing
Christopher Zigmund Galbraith
Dissertation School: University of Texas at Austin
Dissertation Title: Old Houses Never Die: Assessing the Effectiveness of Filtering as a Low-Income Housing Policy
Taeil Kim
Dissertation School: Carnegie Mellon University
Dissertation Title: Place or Person? A Labor Market Analysis of Central-City Poverty
Max Lu
Dissertation School: Indiana University
Dissertation Title: Decisionmaking Analysis of Household Mobility and Migration in the United States, 1985–89
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
Wendy S. Meister
Dissertation School: University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Dissertation Title: Creating Neighborhoods: Physical Environment, Resident Involvement, and Crime at a
Revitalized Housing Project
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

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Zeynep Önder
Dissertation School: Cornell University
Dissertation Title: Public Policy Issues Related to FHA Financing: FHA Borrowers, FHA Loan Limit, and
Homeownership
Nicolas O. Rockler
Dissertation School: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dissertation Title: Regional Economic Performance and Public Infrastructure Investment
Lisa Servon
Dissertation School: University of California, Berkeley
Dissertation Title: Reconstructing Urban Poverty Policy: Alternative Credit, Poverty Alleviation, and Economic
Development in U.S. Inner Cities
Michael A. Stoll
Dissertation School: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dissertation Title: The Relative Importance of Space and Race in Urban Young Adult Labor Markets
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 of Angels
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
William H. Dozier
Dissertation School: Western Michigan University
Dissertation Title: The Role of Race in the Perpetuation of Inadequate Housing
Bradley R. Entner Wright
Dissertation School: University of Wisconsin-Madison
Dissertation Title: Pathways Off the Streets: Homeless People and Their Use of Resources
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
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
White and Black Neighborhoods in the Detroit and Pittsburgh Metropolitan Areas
Ingrid Gould Ellen
Dissertation School: Harvard University
Dissertation Title: Sharing America’s Neighborhoods: The Changing Prospects for Stable Racial Integration

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Catherine Hill
Dissertation School: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Dissertation Title: Re-Use of Former Military Bases: An Evaluation of Four Converted Naval Bases
Neil Kraus
Dissertation School: University at Albany, State University of New York
Dissertation Title: Race, Neighborhoods, and Community Power: Buffalo Politics, 1935–95
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
Anthony Pennington-Cross
Dissertation School: The George Washington University
Dissertation Title: Simultaneous Equations Model of Metropolitan Area Development and Spatial Interaction
Jessica Pitt
Dissertation School: Cornell University
Dissertation Title: Towards Comprehensive Community Development Practices: The Responses of Community
Development Corporations
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
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
Thomas W. Sanchez
Dissertation School: Georgia Institute of Technology
Dissertation Title: Equity Implications and Impacts of Personal Transportation Benefits on Urban Form
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
Victoria 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
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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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
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
James R. Elliott
Dissertation School: University of Wisconsin–Madison
Dissertation Title: The Work of Cities: Underemployment and Urban Change in Late-Century America
Margaret Etukudo
Dissertation School: University of Illinois at Chicago
Dissertation Title: Analysis of Small and Microenterprise Programs: Implications for Urban Economic
Development Policy
Hongmian Gong
Dissertation School: University of Georgia
Dissertation Title: Location Analysis of Business and Professional Services in U.S. Metropolitan Areas, 1977–92
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
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
Atiya Mahmood
Dissertation School: University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Dissertation Title: Work and Home Boundaries: Socio-Spatial Analysis of Women’s Live-Work Environments
Michael T. Maly
Dissertation School: Loyola University Chicago
Dissertation Title: Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Select U.S. Urban Neighborhoods, 1980 to 1990
Marc J. Perry
Dissertation School: University of Wisconsin–Madison
Dissertation Title: Using Geo-Demographic Methods for Improving Small-Area Population and Housing Unit
Estimates
Laxmi Ramasubramanian
Dissertation School: University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Dissertation Title: Knowledge Production and Use in Community-Based Organizations: Examining the Impacts
and Influence of Information Technologies
Janet L. Smith
Dissertation School: Cleveland State University
Dissertation Title: Interpreting Neighborhood Change

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1997 Grantees
Raisa Bahchieva
Dissertation School: Cornell University
Dissertation Title: Racial Differences in Housing Search Behavior
Cecilia Castelino
Dissertation School: City University of New York Graduate Center
Dissertation Title: Staying Put and Evicting the Batterer: Institutional and Non-Institutional Strategies Some
Battered Women Use
Karen Chapple
Dissertation School: University of California, Berkeley
Dissertation Title: Paths to Employment: The Role of Social Networks and Space for Women on Welfare in San
Francisco
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
Larissa Larsen
Dissertation School: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dissertation Title: A Comparison of Chicago’s Scattered Site and Aggregate Public Housing Residents’
Psychological Self-Evaluations
Lisa E. McGuire
Dissertation School: Case Western Reserve University
Dissertation Title: Welfare-to-Work Transition With Public Housing Residents: Applications of the
Transtheoretical Model
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
Becky Pettit
Dissertation School: Princeton University
Dissertation Title: Navigating Networks and Neighborhoods: Residential Mobility of the Urban Poor
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
Vera Prosper
Dissertation School: University at Albany, State University of New York
Dissertation Title: Tenant Aging in Public and Publicly Assisted Multifamily Housing and Its Public Policy
Implications for Housing and Long-Term Care
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

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Kala Seetharam Sridhar
Dissertation School: The Ohio State University
Dissertation Title: Urban Economic Development in America: Evidence From Enterprise Zones
Patricia Stern Smallacombe
Dissertation School: University of Pennsylvania
Dissertation Title: Why Do They Stay? Rootedness and Isolation in an Inner-City White Neighborhood
Scott Susin
Dissertation School: University of California, Berkeley
Dissertation Title: Housing the Poor
Marc 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
Jenell Williams Paris
Dissertation School: American University
Dissertation Title: African-American Women’s Activism and Ghetto Formation in Washington, D.C.
Sean Zielenbach
Dissertation School: Northwestern University
Dissertation Title: The Art of Revitalization: Improving Conditions in Distressed Inner-City Neighborhoods
1998 Grantees
Mahyar Arefi
Dissertation School: University of Southern California
Dissertation Title: Jump-Starting Main Street: A Case Study of the Los Angeles Neighborhood Initiative (LANI)
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
John Wesley Edwards
Dissertation School: Cornell University
Dissertation Title: Building the Open City? Residential Mobility and Urban Policy Innovation in the 1970s
Rachel Garshick 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
Laura E. Harris
Dissertation School: University at Albany, State University of New York
Dissertation Title: A Home Is More Than Just a House: A Spatial Analysis of Affordable Housing in Metropolitan America
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
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Nicole Marwell
Dissertation School: University of Chicago
Dissertation Title: Social Networks and Social Capital as Resources for Neighborhood Revitalization: Volume One and Two
Ellen A. Merry
Dissertation School: University of Virginia
Dissertation Title: The Effect of the Mortgage Interest Deduction on Mortgage Debt and Housing Demand
Gabriella Modan
Dissertation School: Georgetown University
Dissertation Title: The Struggle for Neighborhood Identity: Discursive Constructions of Identity and Place in a U.S.
Multiethnic Neighborhood
Kristopher 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
Julia Sass Rubin
Dissertation School: Harvard University
Dissertation Title: Exploring the Origins and Behavior of Organizations Operating on the Institutional Cusp: The
Case of Community Development Venture Capital
Brian Schmitt
Dissertation School: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Dissertation Title: Do Community Reinvestment Act Agreements Work?
Mara S. Sidney
Dissertation School: University of Colorado at Boulder
Dissertation Title: Linking National Policy Designs and Local Action: A Comparison of Fair Housing and
Community Reinvestment Policies
Theresa Y. Singleton
Dissertation School: Temple University
Dissertation Title: Reinvesting in Community: The Organizational Impacts of Community Reinvestment
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
1999 Grantees
Sandra L. Barnes
Dissertation School: Georgia State University
Dissertation Title: Positive Homeownership Attitudes, Homeownership Behavior, and Neighborhood Ties in Poor
Urban Neighborhoods
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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Sherri Lawson Clark
Dissertation School: American University
Dissertation Title: Policy, Perceptions, and Place: An Ethnography of the Complexities of Implementing a Federal
Housing Program
Kelly J. Clifton
Dissertation School: University of Texas at Austin
Dissertation Title: Local Access, Non-Work Travel, and Survival Tactics In Low-Income Neighborhoods
Sarah S. Gardner
Dissertation School: City University of New York
Dissertation Title: Green Visions for Brownfields: Policy Coalitions for Urban Redevelopment
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
Lezlee Hinesmon-Matthews
Dissertation School: University of California, Los Angeles
Dissertation Title: Faith-Based Versus Secular Approaches to Community Development in African-American
Communities: The Case of Los Angeles
Jerome Hodos
Dissertation School: University of Pennsylvania
Dissertation Title: Second Cities: Globalization, Institutions, and Political Culture in Struggling Regions
Thomas Kamber
Dissertation School: City University of New York
Dissertation Title: Local Politics and Housing Vouchers
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
Michael Leo Owens
Dissertation School: University at Albany, State University of New York
Dissertation Title: Pulpits and Policy: The Politics of Black Church-Based Community Development in New York
City, 1980–2000
Stephanie Post
Dissertation School: Rice University
Dissertation Title: Cities and Their Suburbs: “Go Along to Get Along”
Stefan Rayer
Dissertation School: Cornell University
Dissertation Title: The Incorporation of Peripheral Areas in Metropolises Undergoing Restructuring
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
Amy Winston
Dissertation School: Purdue University
Dissertation Title: Factions and Corporate Political Strategies in Harlan County, Kentucky: Implications for
Community Sustainability
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
Susan K. Brown
Dissertation School: University of Washington
Dissertation Title: Isolation and the Enclave: The Presence and Variety of Strong Ties Among Immigrants
Alvaro Cortes
Dissertation School: Wayne State University
Dissertation Title: The Impact of Urban Universities on Neighborhood Housing Markets: University Decisions and
Non-Decisions
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
Lynne M. 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
David Eldridge
Dissertation School: University of Pennsylvania
Dissertation Title: The Making of a Courtroom: Landlord-Tenant Trials in Philadelphia’s Municipal Court
Ajay Garde
Dissertation School: University of Southern California
Dissertation Title: New Urbanism and Sustainable Growth: The Making of a Design Paradigm and Public Policy
Jennifer Glanville
Dissertation School: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dissertation Title: Ties and Trust: Understanding How Social Capital Operates in Neighborhoods
Judith Grant Long
Dissertation School: Harvard University
Dissertation Title: Full Count: The Real Cost of Public Subsidies for Major League Sports Facilities

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Joe Grengs
Dissertation School: Cornell University
Dissertation Title: Transit Turning Inside Out: Federal Transportation Policy and Inner-City Accessibility During
the ISTEA Years
Ed Hamlyn
Dissertation School: University of Texas at El Paso
Dissertation Title: The Impact of Climate Change on the Upper Rio Grande Basin
Andrew Helms
Dissertation School: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dissertation Title: The Economics of Housing Renovation: Three Empirical Studies
Amy Hillier
Dissertation School: University of Pennsylvania
Dissertation Title: Redlining and the Homeowners’ Loan Corporation
Jennifer Johnson
Dissertation School: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dissertation Title: Finding Work In the City
William H. Lockhart
Dissertation School: University of Virginia
Dissertation Title: Getting Saved From Poverty: Religion in Poverty-to-Work Programs
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
Marla 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
Sharon I. O’Donnell
Dissertation School: University of Houston
Dissertation Title: Quality Decisions: A Stochastic Equilibrium Model of Homeownership
Jennifer Pashup
Dissertation School: University of Chicago
Dissertation Title: Gentrification and Neighborhood Change: Who Goes, Who Stays, and How Long-Term
Residents Cope
Melina Patterson
Dissertation School: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Dissertation Title: Learning Places: Community Schools in Community Development
Karen Pence
Dissertation School: University of Wisconsin–Madison
Dissertation Title: Essays on Government Policy and Household Financial Decisions

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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
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
Eileen A. Robertson-Rehberg
Dissertation School: Cornell University
Dissertation Title: Federal Funding and Community Development: An Evaluation of the Strategic Uses of Small
Cities' Community Development Block Grants in Upstate New York
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
Laura Solitare
Dissertation School: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Dissertation Title: Public Participation in Brownfields Redevelopment in Residential Neighborhoods
Jill Strube
Dissertation School: Florida International University
Dissertation Title: Fiscal and Organizational Determinants of Transportation Outcomes: A Quantitative and
Qualitative Analysis of Sustainability Factors
Rainer vom Hofe
Dissertation School: Cornell University
Dissertation Title: A Regional Computable General Equilibrium Model for HUD Policy Analysis: The Case of New
York State
Malik Watkins
Dissertation School: The 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
Laura Wolf-Powers
Dissertation School: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Dissertation Title: The Role of Labor Market Intermediaries in Promoting Employment Access and Mobility: A
Supply- and Demand-Side Approach
2001 Grantees
Jennifer Altman
Dissertation School: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Dissertation Title: Matching University Resources to Community Needs: Case Studies of University-Community
Partnerships

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LaTanya Brown
Dissertation School: Howard University
Dissertation Title: A Study to Determine if HOPE VI Sites Influence Area Housing
Susan Clampet-Lundquist
Dissertation School: University of Pennsylvania
Dissertation Title: Hope or Harm: Deconcentration and the Welfare of Families in Public Housing
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
Silvia Dominguez
Dissertation School: Boston University
Dissertation Title: Latina Immigrants in Public Housing: Race Relations, Social Networks, and Access to Services
Roxanne Ezzet-Lofstrom
Dissertation School: University of California, Irvine
Dissertation Title: Valuation of Metropolitan Quality of Life in Wages and Rents
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
Falan Guan
Dissertation School: University of Southern California
Dissertation Title: Multi-Worker Households Residential Location Choices—A Disaggregate Comparative
Approach
Carolina Katz Reid
Dissertation School: University of Washington
Dissertation Title: Achieving the American Dream? A Longitudinal Analysis of the Homeownership Experiences
of Low-Income Families
Jibum Kim
Dissertation School: University of Chicago
Dissertation Title: Community Context and the Lives of Korean-American Immigrant Elderly
Richard W. McConaghy
Dissertation School: University of Massachusetts at Boston
Dissertation Title: Mortality, Moveout, and Refinancing as Factors in HECM Reverse Mortgage Payoffs
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
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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Mathew Reed
Dissertation School: Northwestern University
Dissertation Title: Moving Out: Section 8 and Public Housing Relocation in Chicago
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
Kai A. Schafft
Dissertation School: Cornell University
Dissertation Title: Tracking Incidence of Residential Mobility Among Poor Families in Upstate New York Through
Public School Enrollments: Economic Change, Housing Insecurity, and “Poverty Migration”
Susan Thering
Dissertation School: State University of New York
Dissertation Title: Documenting the Community Capacity-Building Benefits of Public Participation in Community
Design and Planning and Developing Indicators of Community Capacity
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.
Tien-Chien Tsao
Dissertation School: University of Michigan
Dissertation Title: New Models for Future Retirement: A Study of College-/University-Linked Retirement Communities
Shannon Van Zandt
Dissertation School: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dissertation Title: Achieving The American Dream: The Impact of Homeownership on Opportunity for Low- and
Moderate-Income Individuals
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
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
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
William J. Bartosch
Dissertation School: Brandeis University
Dissertation Title: Congress, Problems Definition, and Inattentive Publics: An Analysis of Disability Policymaking
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Kim DeFronzo Haselhoff
Dissertation School: University of California, Irvine
Dissertation Title: The Use of Redevelopment Housing Set-Aside Funds in Southern California: A New Look at
Cities and Redistributive Spending
Fred Ellerbusch
Dissertation School: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Dissertation Title: Residential Redevelopment of Brownfields—Is Human Health Being Protected?
Todd Gish
Dissertation School: University of Southern California
Dissertation Title: Building Los Angeles: Urban Housing in the Suburban Metropolis, 1900–36
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
James Hanlon
Dissertation School: University of Kentucky
Dissertation Title: Distressed Public Housing and HOPE VI Revitalization: An Analysis of Park DuValle in
Louisville, Kentucky
Michael Hollar
Dissertation School: The George Washington University
Dissertation Title: Central Cities and Suburbs: Economic Rivals or Allies?
Eunju Hwang
Dissertation School: University of Minnesota
Dissertation Title: Desire to Age in Place Among Korean-American Elders in Minnesota
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
David Mainor
Dissertation School: Tulane University
Dissertation Title: Urban Transformations: Does Inner-City Revitalization Pose a Risk to Neighborhood Cohesion?
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
Deirdre A. Oakley
Dissertation School: University at Albany, State University of New York
Dissertation Title: Fallacies of the American Welfare State: The Enduring Response of Community- and Faith-
Based Organizations—Homeless Shelters and Relief Services in New York City During the 1920s and 1990s
Michele Wakin
Dissertation School: University of California, Santa Barbara
Dissertation Title: Documenting the Use of Vehicles as Housing: Towards a More Permanent Solution

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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
Zhou Yu
Dissertation School: University of Southern California
Dissertation Title: Access to Homeownership: Race-Ethnicity, Immigrant Status, and Changing Demographics
2003 Grantees
Tiffany Gayle Chenault
Dissertation School: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Dissertation Title: “We Did It for the Kids,” Housing Policies, Race, and Class: An Ethnographic Case Study of a
Resident Council in a Public Housing Neighborhood
Alexandra M. Curley
Dissertation School: Boston University
Dissertation Title: HOPE and Housing: The Effects of Relocation on Movers’ Economic Stability, Social Networks,
and Health
Zaire Dinzey-Flores
Dissertation School: University of Michigan
Dissertation Title: Fighting Crime, Constructing Segregation: Crime, Housing Policy, and the Social Brands of
Puerto Rican Neighborhoods
Robert P. Fairbanks II
Dissertation School: University of Pennsylvania
Dissertation Title: Communal Re-Appropriation of Blighted Spaces: Governmentality and the Politics of Everyday
Life in the Kensington Recovery House Movement
Martin Farnham
Dissertation School: University of Michigan
Dissertation Title: Essays in Taxation, Aging, and Residential Location
Chad R. Farrell
Dissertation School: Pennsylvania State University
Dissertation Title: Urban Mosaics: Multiracial Diversity and Segregation in the American Metropolis
David Greenberg
Dissertation School: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dissertation Title: Ways of Contending: Community Organizing and Development in Neighborhood Context
Michal Grinstein-Weiss
Dissertation School: Washington University
Dissertation Title: IDAs for Housing Policy: Analysis of Savings Outcomes and Racial Differences
Derek S. Hyra
Dissertation School: University of Chicago
Dissertation Title: Race, Politics, and Neighborhood Revitalization: The Economic Transformation of Harlem and
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Tatjana Meschede
Dissertation School: University of Massachusetts Boston
Dissertation Title: Bridges and Barriers to Housing for Homeless Street Dwellers: The Impact of Health and
Substance Abuse Services on Housing Attainment
Juris Milestone
Dissertation School: Temple University
Dissertation Title: Universities, Cities, Design, and Development: An Anthropology of Aesthetic Expertise
Joseph B. Nichols
Dissertation School: University of Maryland at College Park
Dissertation Title: Mortgage Contracts and the Definition Of and Demand For Housing Wealth
Martha Trenna Valado
Dissertation School: University of Arizona
Dissertation Title: Factors Affecting Homeless People’s Perception and Use of Urban Space
Oswaldo Urdapilleta
Dissertation School: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dissertation Title: A Policy Model of Multiple Safety Net Program Participation and Labor Supply
Qingfang Wang
Dissertation School: University of Georgia
Dissertation Title: Geographic Perspectives on Ethnic Labor Market Segmentation in the United States
Yizhao Yang
Dissertation School: Cornell University
Dissertation Title: Physical Form and Neighborhood Satisfaction: Evidence From the American Housing Survey
2004 Grantees
James Armstrong
Dissertation School: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Dissertation Title: Lessons Drawn From Local Housing Authorities: Characteristics of Survival and Success
Andrew Aurand
Dissertation School: University of Pittsburgh
Dissertation Title: Is Smart Growth Smart for Low-Income Households: A Study of the Impact of Four Smart
Growth Principles on the Supply of Affordable Housing
Lisa K. Bates
Dissertation School: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dissertation Title: A Housing Submarket Approach to Neighborhood Revitalization Planning: Theoretical
Considerations and Empirical Justifications
Gregory S. Burge
Dissertation School: Florida State University
Dissertation Title: A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation of the Effects of Impact Fees on the Affordability of
Starter Homes
George R. Carter III
Dissertation School: University of Michigan
Dissertation Title: From Exclusion to Destitution: Race, Affordable Housing, and Homelessness

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Kristen B. Crossney
Dissertation School: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Dissertation Title: The Unintended Consequence of Predatory Lending: An Examination of Mortgage Lending in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Matthew Cuddy
Dissertation School: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Dissertation Title: A Practical Method for Developing Context-Sensitive Residential Parking Standards
Arielle Goldberg
Dissertation School: City University of New York
Dissertation Title: In Search of the Public Good: Agenda Setting and Policy Formulation for Post-9/11 New York
City
Yan Y. Lee
Dissertation School: University of California, Los Angeles
Dissertation Title: Government Intervention in Mortgage Credit Markets: Increases in Lending to Minority and
Low-Income Communities, Reductions in Neighborhood Crime From Homeownership, and Potential Efficiency
Gains for Banks From Regulation
Michael McQuarrie
Dissertation School: New York University
Dissertation Title: From Backyard Revolution to Neoliberalism: Community Development, Civil Society, and the
American Third Way
Criseida Navarro-Diaz
Dissertation School: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dissertation Title: Economic Advancement or Social Exclusion? Less-Educated Workers, Costs-of-Living, and
Migration in High-Tech Regions
Pamela Ann Rogers
Dissertation School: University of Texas at Austin
Dissertation Title: Intraurban Mobility Patterns of Mexican Immigrants in Emerging Gateways
Sapna Swaroop
Dissertation School: University of Michigan
Dissertation Title: The Social Consequences of Racial Residential Integration
Mark Tigan
Dissertation School: University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Dissertation Title: Citizen Participation in U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Programs: From
the Great Society to the New Federalism
Michael Wenz
Dissertation School: University of Illinois at Chicago
Dissertation Title: Casino Gambling and Economic Development
Duan Zhuang
Dissertation School: University of Southern California
Dissertation Title: Redlining Revisited: Spatial Dependence and Neighborhood Effects in Mortgage Lending

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2005 Grantees
Ryan Allen
Dissertation School: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dissertation Title: “Sometimes It’s Hard Here to Call Someone to Ask for Help”: Social Capital in a Refugee
Community in Portland, Maine
Shirley Y. Chao
Dissertation School: Tufts University
Dissertation Title: Optimizing Food and Nutrition Services in Assisted Living Facilities for Older Adults: The
FANCI (Food And Nutrition Care Indicators) Study
Scott E. Davis
Dissertation School: University of Virginia
Dissertation Title: A Structural Model of the Effects of Housing Vouchers on Housing Consumption and Labor
Supply
Keri-Nicole Dillman
Dissertation School: New York University
Dissertation Title: Ownership and Outcomes: Investigating Nonprofit and For-Profit Subsidized Housing
Developers
Nicole Esparza
Dissertation School: Princeton University
Dissertation Title: Shelters, Soup Kitchens, and Supportive Housing: An Open Systems Analysis of the Field of
Homeless Assistance Organizations
Catherine Fennell
Dissertation School: University of Chicago
Dissertation Title: The Last Project Standing: Building an Ethics for a City Without Public Housing
Michele A. Gilbert
Dissertation School: Kent State University
Dissertation Title: Race, Concentrated Poverty, and Policy: Empowerment Zones in Distressed Urban Areas
George Hobor
Dissertation School: University of Arizona
Dissertation Title: Post-Industrial Pathways: The Economic Reorganization of the Urban Rust Belt
Matthew D. Marr
Dissertation School: University of California
Dissertation Title: Better Must Come: Exiting Homelessness in Two Global Cities, Los Angeles and Tokyo
Patrick McNamara
Dissertation School: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Dissertation Title: Collaborative Success and Community Culture: Cross-Sectoral Partnerships Addressing
Homelessness in Omaha and Portland
Jaren C. Pope
Dissertation School: North Carolina State University
Dissertation Title: Limited Attention, Asymmetric Information, and the Hedonic Model

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Jane Rongerude
Dissertation School: University of California, Berkeley
Dissertation Title: The Sorted City: San Francisco, Hope SF, and the Redevelopment of Public Housing
Jenny Schuetz
Dissertation School: Harvard University
Dissertation Title: Guarding the Town Walls: Mechanisms and Motives for Restricting Multifamily Housing in
Massachusetts
Gretchen E.L. Suess
Dissertation School: Temple University
Dissertation Title: Beyond School Walls: The Politics of Community and Place in Two Philadelphia Neighborhoods
Barbra Teater
Dissertation School: The Ohio State University
Dissertation Title: Residential Mobility and the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program: Factors Predicting
Mobility and the Residential Decisionmaking Process of Recipients
Griff Tester
Dissertation School: The Ohio State University
Dissertation Title: The Relational and Status Foundation of Gender Discrimination in Housing
Gretchen Weismann
Dissertation School: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dissertation Title: The Relative Risk: Parenting, Poverty, and Peers in the Three-City Study of Moving Opportunity
2007 Grantees
Debbie Becher
Dissertation School: Princeton University
Dissertation Title: Valuing Property: Eminent Domain for Urban Redevelopment, Philadelphia 1992–2007
Matthew Desmond
Dissertation School: University of Wisconsin–Madison
Dissertation Title: Eviction and the Reproduction of Poverty
Yongjun Shin
Dissertation School: University of Wisconsin–Madison
Dissertation Title: Communication Ecology and Urban Politics: The Case of Local Low-Income Housing Policy
Diana L. Karafin
Dissertation School: The Ohio State University
Dissertation Title: Racial and Ethnic Integration in U.S. Metropolitan Neighborhoods: Patterns, Complexities, and
Consequences
Julia Koschinsky
Dissertation School: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dissertation Title: Modeling Spatial Spillover Effects From Rental to Owner Housing: The Case of Seattle
David J. Madden
Dissertation School: Columbia University
Dissertation Title: Urbanism in Pieces: Publics and Power in Urban Development

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Charles L. Nier
Dissertation School: Temple University
Dissertation Title: Racial Financial Institutions, Credit Discrimination, and African-American Homeownership in
Philadelphia, 1880–60
Evelyn M. Perry
Dissertation School: Indiana University
Dissertation Title: Live and Let Live: Negotiating Difference in a Diverse Urban Neighborhood
Charlene M. Reiss
Dissertation School: North Carolina State University
Dissertation Title: Measuring Client Participation in Organizational Decisionmaking: A Survey of Agencies
Providing Emergency and Temporary Shelter
Jenna (Rosie) Tighe
Dissertation School: University of Texas at Austin
Dissertation Title: Opposition to Affordable Housing: How Perceptions of Race and Poverty Influence Views
Andrée Tremoulet
Dissertation School: Portland State University
Dissertation Title: Policy Responses to the Closure of Manufactured Home Parks in Oregon
Anita L. Zuberi
Dissertation School: Northwestern University
Dissertation Title: Neighborhood Safety and Moving to Opportunity: Understanding Gender and Life Course
Differences Using a Mixed-Methods Approach
2008 Grantees
Meghan A. Burke
Dissertation School: Loyola University Chicago
Dissertation Title: Active Members of Diverse Communities: Race and the Doing of Diversity
Barbara Harris Combs
Dissertation School: Georgia State University
Dissertation Title: The Ties That Bind: The Role of Place in Racial Identity Formation, Social Cohesion, Accord, and
Discord in Two Historic, Black-Gentrifying Atlanta Neighborhoods
Courtney Cronley
Dissertation School: University of Tennessee
Dissertation Title: www.homeless.org/culture: A Cross-Level Analysis of the Relationship Between Organizational
Culture and Technology Use Among Homeless Service Providers
Martha M. Galvez
Dissertation School: New York University
Dissertation Title: Defining “Choice” in the Housing Choice Voucher Program: The Role of Market Constraints and
Household Preferences in Location Outcomes
Timothy J. Haney
Dissertation School: University of Oregon
Dissertation Title: Off to the (Labor) Market: Women, Work, and Welfare Reform in 21st Century American Cities

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Richard Koenig
Dissertation School: Southern New Hampshire University
Dissertation Title: Improving Tenants’ Lives Through Affordable Rental Housing: Quality-of-Life Impacts of Five
Capitals by Developer and Location
Constantine E. Kontokosta
Dissertation School: Columbia University
Dissertation Title: The Political Economy of Inclusionary Zoning: Adoption, Implementation, and Neighborhood
Effects
Amanda J. Lehning
Dissertation School: University of California, Berkeley
Dissertation Title: Local Government Innovation Creating Aging-Friendly Communities: A Strategy for Aging in
Place
Rachel Meltzer
Dissertation School: New York University
Dissertation Title: Public Goods, Private Solutions: Essays on Private Governments and the Supplementation of
Public Services
Jonathan S. Spader
Dissertation School: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dissertation Title: Implications of Risk-Based Pricing for Affordable Homeownership and Community
Reinvestment Goals
Kristie A. Thomas
Dissertation School: University of Pennsylvania
Dissertation Title: Homelessness and Domestic Violence: Examining Patterns of Shelter Use and Barriers to
Permanent Housing
Danielle Wallace
Dissertation School: University of Chicago
Dissertation Title: An Investigation of Individual Perceptions, Neighborhoods, and Disorder
Julia M. Wesley
Dissertation School: University of Illinois
Dissertation Title: Revivals Among the Urban Poor: A Look at Civic Participation and Collective Efficacy in
Churches
2009 Grantees
Len Albright
Dissertation School: University of Chicago
Dissertation Title: Community Social Organization and the Integration of Affordable Housing Residents in a
Suburban New Jersey Community
Suzanne Lanyi Charles
Dissertation School: Harvard University
Dissertation Title: Suburban Gentrification: Residential Redevelopment and Neighborhood Change, A Case Study
of the Inner-Ring Suburbs of Chicago, Illinois, 2000–10

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Andrew J. Greenlee
Dissertation School: University of Illinois at Chicago
Dissertation Title: A Relational Analysis of Mobility in Illinois’ Housing Choice Voucher Program
Michael C. Lens
Dissertation School: New York University
Dissertation Title: Estimating the Spatial Relationships Between Subsidized Housing and Crime
Brian McCabe
Dissertation School: New York University
Dissertation Title: Are Homeowners Better Citizens? Community Engagement, Civic Participation, and the
American Dream
Kelly Mills-Dick
Dissertation School: Boston University
Dissertation Title: Voices From the Street: Exploring How Older Adults and Outreach Workers Define and
Mitigate Problems Associated With Urban Elder Homelessness
Alexandra K. Murphy
Dissertation School: Princeton University
Dissertation Title: The Social Organization of Black Suburban Poverty: An Ethnographic Community Study
Michael Powe
Dissertation School: University of California
Dissertation Title: Loft Living in Skid Row: Policies, Plans, and Everyday Practices in a Distressed Neighborhood
Richard J. Smith
Dissertation School: University of California
Dissertation Title: Immigrant and Minority Entrepreneurship in Federal Community Development Programs
2010 Grantees
Jocelyn Apicello
Dissertation School: Columbia University
Dissertation Title: Gentrification and Healthy Habitats in New York City: 1990 to Present
Justin Betz
Dissertation School: Northeastern University
Dissertation Title: Explaining Racial Differences in Housing Choice Voucher Wait Times
Lynette K. Boswell
Dissertation School: University of Maryland at College Park
Dissertation Title: Do Neighborhood Housing Market Typologies Matter? Measuring the Impact of the HOME
Partnership Investment Program in Baltimore, Maryland
James Connolly
Dissertation School: Columbia University
Dissertation Title: Processes of Institutional Change in Urban Environmental Policy
Corina Graif
Dissertation School: Harvard University
Dissertation Title: Mobility in Isolation: Neighborhood Effects, Spatial Embeddedness, and Inequality in the
Migration Pathways of the Urban Poor

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Catherine Guimond
Dissertation School: University of California
Dissertation Title: Contested Renewal: The Rebuilding of the South Bronx
Keren Horn
Dissertation School: New York University
Dissertation Title: School Quality, Neighborhoods, and Household Residential Decisions
William Larson
Dissertation School: The George Washington University
Dissertation Title: Evaluating Alternative Methods of Forecasting House Prices: A Post-Crisis Reassessment
Wanda Liebermann
Dissertation School: Harvard University
Dissertation Title: Body Building: Architectural Narratives of Ability and Disability
Anne Martin
Dissertation School: University of California
Dissertation Title: After Foreclosure: The Social and Spatial Reconstruction of Everyday Lives in the San Francisco
Bay Area
Abbilyn M. Miller
Dissertation School: University of Illinois
Dissertation Title: Determining Critical Factors in Community-Level Planning of Homeless Service Projects
Benjamin Roth
Dissertation School: University of Chicago
Dissertation Title: Immigration Integration in Two Chicago Suburbs: Barriers and Strategies Among the Mexican
Second Generation
Jamie Taylor
Dissertation School: The New School
Dissertation Title: Housing Assistance as a Work Support for Households Experiencing Homelessness
Hannah Thomas
Dissertation School: Brandeis University
Dissertation Title: Foreclosure Sales Through the Eyes of Real Estate Agents in Boston: An Institutional
Ethnography
Catherine M. Vu
Dissertation School: University of California
Dissertation Title: Factors Associated With Ethnic Minority Human Service Utilization: A Community and
Organizational Analysis
Laurie Walker
Dissertation School: Colorado Seminary, University of Denver
Dissertation Title: Public Housing Resident Engagement and Transition
Alyssa Whitby Chamberlain
Dissertation School: University of California
Dissertation Title: Community Change and Recidivism: The Interrelationship Between Neighborhood Ecology and
Prisoner Reintegration

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2011 Grantees
Mary Ellen Brown
Dissertation School: Louisiana State University
Dissertation Title: Investing in the Civic Economy: Social Capital and Choice Neighborhoods
Bell Clement
Dissertation School: The George Washington University
Dissertation Title: Creative Federalism, Empowered Citizens: Shaping the Great Society City
Michael Gedal
Dissertation School: New York University
Dissertation Title: Housing Affordability, the Holdout Problem, and Land-Use Regulations
Hye-Sung Han
Dissertation School: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dissertation Title: The Impacts Abandoned Properties Impose Upon Neighborhoods
Megan Heckert
Dissertation School: Temple University
Dissertation Title: The Economic, Environmental, and Social Justice Impacts of Greening Vacant Lots: An
Integrated Spatial Assessment of Urban Revitalization and Sustainability Outcomes
Julie Hilvers
Dissertation School: Loyola University Chicago
Dissertation Title: Neighborhood Satisfaction and Mobility Patterns Among the Currently and Formerly
Homeless: A Study of Chicago’s Residential Homelessness System
Nancy Hood
Dissertation School: The Ohio State University
Dissertation Title: Smoke-Free Policies in Subsidized Housing
Tanja Kubas-Meyer
Dissertation School: Brandeis University
Dissertation Title: Impact of Rental Housing on Asset Development: Low-Income Female-Headed Households
Carrie Makarewicz
Dissertation School: University of California
Dissertation Title: Examining the Influence of the Urban Environment on Parent’s Time and Resources for
Engagement in Their Children’s Learning
Carrie E. Menendez
Dissertation School: The University of Illinois at Chicago
Dissertation Title: Assessing the Role of Universities as Place-Based Institutions: Developing Uniform Metrics of
Engagement
Reuben Miller
Dissertation School: Loyola University Chicago
Dissertation Title: Halfway Home: An Ethnographic Study of Ex-Offender Community Reintegration

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Kelly Owens
Dissertation School: University of New Orleans
Dissertation Title: Examining Social Relations in Mixed-Income Communities: An Examination of Individual
Processes and Social Mechanisms that Shape Neighbor Interaction
Kathleen Powell
Dissertation School: University of Maryland Baltimore
Dissertation Title: In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: Neighborhood Relations in a College Town
Darrel Ramsey-Musolf
Dissertation School: University of Wisconsin
Dissertation Title: An Evaluation of Municipal Effort to Provide Low-Income Housing
Eva Rosen
Dissertation School: Harvard University
Dissertation Title: The End of Poverty, or the Emergence of the Horizontal Ghetto? Post-Public Housing, Spatial
Concentration and Young Adult Transition in Baltimore
Amy Starecheski
Dissertation School: City University of New York
Dissertation Title: From Squatters to Homeowners: Civic Engagement, Property, and Social Networks in a Time of
Crisis
Karen G. Williams
Dissertation School: City University of New York
Dissertation Title: From Coercion to Consent?: Governing the Formerly Incarcerated in the 21st Century United
States

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