Rodney Harrell, PhD candidate

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Rodney Harrell's dissertation focuses on the residential patterns of the African American middle class, and the connection between suburbanization and continuing racial segregation. His areas of specialization include urban and regional development, planning and politics, and planning theory. He teaches the course HISP 619J - Heritage Tourism: Issues and Impacts.
As a Governor's Policy Fellow, Mr. Harrell worked with the Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development and the Maryland Heritage Areas Authority, where he managed the Maryland Heritage Areas Program and was the recipient of a Governor's Citation for his work there. He has also a been a research fellow for the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and a consultant for the Empower Baltimore Management Corporation and Four Rivers Heritage Area.
Mr. Harrell has master's degrees in public affairs and in urban and regional planning from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University and graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor's degree in political science from the honors program at Howard University.
He has presented papers based on his dissertation at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Conference and will present at the Conference of the Urban Affairs Association in April 2007. He has also given talks on topics related to heritage tourism, economic development, suburbanization and homeownership.

Selected Publications:

"From Renting to Homeownership: Using Tax Incentives to Encourage Homeownership Among Renters" by K. Covington and R. Harrell. Cambridge MA: Harvard Journal of Legislation, (accepted for publication)

"Investing in Our Communities: Maryland's Heritage Areas Program 2003 (Report to the General Assembly." Crownsville, MD: Maryland Heritage Areas Authority, 2003