Alumni & Friends

2008

Rodney Harrell (e-mail)
http://www.aarp.org/research/ppi/

Mr. Harrell's dissertation, "Understanding Modern Segregation: Suburbanization and the Black Middle Class," asks why middle class African-Americans who live in African-American neighborhoods live where they do. This study focuses on majority-black Prince George's County, Maryland, a prominent example of this phenomenon, and compares middle-class black households in predominately black Prince George's with middle-class black households in predominately white neighborhoods in neighboring Montgomery County, Maryland.

Harrell is working as a Senior Strategic Policy Advisor, Director of Research at the American Association of Retired People's Public Policy Institute.

Andi Livi Smith (e-mail)

Andi Livis Smith is teaching at the University of Mary Washington in the Department of Historic Preservation. She completed her dissertation on "The Relationship Between Neighborhood Environment and Walking Behavior: The Influence of Perceptions" (advisor Kelly Clifton).

Doan Nguyen (e-mail)

Doan Nguyen is a post-doctoral Faculty Research Assistant at the University of Maryland. Nguyen completed a dissertation on "The Spatial and Social Dimensions of Innovation" (advisor Marie Howland). He is currently a faculty member at Vietnam National University.

2007

Arnab Chakraborty (e-mail)
http://www.urban.uiuc.edu/faculty/chakraborty/index.html

Mr. Chakraborty graduated in 2007. He is Assistant Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

2006

Vikas Mehta (e-mail)

Mr. Mehta graduated in 2006. He is currently Assistant Professor, School of Architecture and Community Design, University of South Florida.

2005