Howell S. Baum, Ph.D.
Professor

Office: 1229    |    Phone: 301-405-6792    |    Email

Ph.D. City and Regional Planning, 1974, University of California, Berkeley; MCP City Planning, 1971, University of California, Berkeley; M.A. American Civilization, 1968, University of Pennsylvania; B.A., Political Science, 1967, University of California, Berkeley.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• History of Baltimore school desegregation
• Approaches to racial reconciliation
• Planning by and for communities
• Educational planning and policy
• Community action for school reform
• Organizational behavior
• Psychology of planning and decision making

TEACHING AREAS

• Community Social Planning
• Planning Theory
• New Issues in Community
• Politics and Planning
• Diversity and the City

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS
Professor Baum has been studying the history of Baltimore school desegregation.  He is writing a book entitled Liberalism, Ignorance of Race, and the American Dilemma: School Desegregation in Baltimore.  The book examines the ways liberalism hinders knowledge of race and limits integration.  He is beginning research on approaches to racial reconciliation in the United States, with particular attention to the psychological dynamics of race relations. 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• “Smart Growth and School Reform: What If We Talked About Race and Took Community Seriously?” Journal of the American Planning Association, 70, 1 (Winter, 2004), pp. 14-26.

• Community Action for School Reform, Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003. 

• “How Communities Can Use Research to Hold Schools Accountable,” The Urban Review, 36, 1 (March, 2004), pp. 37-59.

• “Why School Systems Resist Reform: A Psychoanalytic Perspective,” Human Relations, 55, 2 (Winter, 2002), pp. 1-26.

• “How Should We Evaluate Community Initiatives?” Journal of the American Planning Association, 67, 2 (Spring, 2001), pp. 147-158.

• “Fantasies and Realities of University-Community Partnerships,” Journal of Planning Education and Research, 20, 2 (Winter, 2000), pp. 234-246.

• “Politics, Ethics, Communities, and Organizations,” in Charles J. Hoch, Linda C. Dalton, and Frank S. So, editors, The Practice of Local Government Planning, third edition, Washington: International City/County Management Association, 2000, pp. 439-464.

• “Culture Matters–But It Shouldn’t Matter Too Much,” in Michael A. Burayidi, editor, Urban Planning in a Multicultural Society, Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2000, pp. 115-136.
  

• The Organization of Hope: Communities Planning Themselves, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997.

• Organizational Membership: Personal Development in the Workplace, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990.

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