CORE FACULTY
Dan Abramson, Urban Design and Planning
DUP 1998, Tsinghua University
Urban identity, conservation and design; housing and community development; urban studies in emergent/resurgent market economies and transnational communities
Email: abramson@uw.edu
Arthur Acolin, Real Estate
Ph.D. 2017, University of Southern California
Housing economics, international housing policy and finance
Email: acolin@uw.edu
Marina Alberti, Urban Design and Planning
Ph.D. 1992, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Environmental planning, urban ecology, impact assessment, geographic information systems
Email: malberti@u.washington.edu
Christine Bae, Urban Design and Planning
Ph.D. 1994, University of Southern California
Transportation planning, growth management and land use planning, community development
Email: cbae@u.washington.edu
Jeff Ban, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Ph.D. 2005, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Transportation network system modeling and simulation; urban traffic system modeling and operations; intelligent transportation systems (ITS)
Email: banx@uw.edu
Rachel Berney, Urban Design and Planning
Ph.D. 2008, University of California, Berkeley
Community sustainable design and development in an international context; urban design and planning history and theory with an emphasis on social and environmental factors; and qualitative and quantitative research methods for evaluating the efficacy of urban form, including challenges of cross-cultural research
Email: rberney@uw.edu
Branden Born, Urban Design and Planning
Ph.D. 2003, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Planning process and social justice, particularly with regard to the inclusion of marginalized populations in societal decision-making; land use planning and regionalism; urban food systems planning and policy
Email: bborn@u.washington.edu
Ann Bostrom, Public Policy and Governance
Ph.D. 1990, Carnegie Mellon University
Risk perception, communication, and management; and environmental policy and decision making
Email: abostrom@u.washington.edu
Christopher Campbell, Urban Design and Planning
Ph.D. 2002, University of California, Los Angeles
Community processes and structures, social and place identity, participatory and democratic planning processes, planning education
Email: ccamp1@u.washington.edu
Manish Chalana, Urban Design and Planning
Ph.D. 2005, University of Colorado
Historic preservation planning, international planning and development; and urban history
Email: chalana@uw.edu
Cynthia Chen, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Ph.D. 2001, University of California, Davis
Infrastructure and smart cities, engineering and health, large-scale human mobility and urban analysis, social and physical systems, resilient systems.
Email: qzchen@u.washington.edu
Kyle Crowder, Sociology
Ph.D. 1997, State University of New York, Albany
The dynamics and consequences of residential stratification
Email: kylecrow@uw.edu
Sofia Dermisi, Real Estate & Urban Design and Planning
Doctor of Design Studies 2002, Harvard University
Understanding the evolution of office markets and the effect of internal and external shocks, focusing on major downtown locations, with three areas of emphasis: sustainability, disasters (terrorism, life – safety issues) and market analysis
Email: sdermisi@u.washington.edu
Elaine Faustman, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences
Ph.D. 1980, Michigan State University
Developmental toxicology, risk assessment methodologies, toxicology of N-nitroso compounds
Email: faustman@u.washington.edu
Jon E. Froehlich, Computer Science and Engineering
Ph.D. 2011, University of Washington
Accessibility, urban informatics, environmental sustainability, and STEM education.
Email: jonf@cs.uw.edu
Himanshu Grover, Urban Design and Planning
Ph.D. 2010, AICP, Texas A&M University
Urban sustainability and climate change, hazard mitigation and community resiliency, and environmental planning
Email: groverh@u.washington.edu
David Layton, Public Policy and Governance
Ph.D. 1995, University of Washington
Environmental and natural resource policy
Email: dflayton@u.washington.edu
Don MacKenzie, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Ph.D. 2013, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Transportation energy demand; electric vehicle charging behavior; vehicle automation; policy evaluation
Email: dwhm@u.washington.edu
John Marzluff, Forest Resources, College of the Environment
Ph.D. 1987, Northern Arizona University
Wildlife habitat relationships, avian ecology, animal behavior, conservation biology, endangered species recovery
Email: corvid@u.washington.edu
David Montgomery, Earth and Space Sciences
Ph.D. 1991, University of California, Berkeley
Evolution of topography and the influence of geomorphological processes on ecological systems and human societies
Email: bigdirt@uw.edu
Monika Moskal, Forest Resources, College of the Environment
Ph.D. 2005, University of Kansas
As director of the Remote Sensing and Geospatial Analysis Laboratory (RSGAL), her research goal is to understand multiscale and multidimensional dynamics of landscape change through the application of remote sensing, GIS and geospatial tools.
Email: lmmoskal@uw.edu
Gundula Proksch, Architecture
M.Arch 2000, Cornell University
Urban sustainability, building integrated agriculture, urban agriculture, aquaponics, equitable housing models, data visualization
Email: prokschg@uw.edu
Mark Purcell, Urban Design and Planning
Ph.D. 1998, University of California, Los Angeles
Urban, political, economic, and social geography; citizenship and democracy; urban social movements, especially Los Angeles and Seattle
Email: mpurcell@u.washington.edu
Qing Shen, (Director of Ph.D. Program), Urban Design and Planning
Ph.D. 1993, University of California, Berkeley
Urban economics, transportation planning, statistical methods and geographic information systems; alternative patterns of urban growth and the ways in which information technologies are shaping cities; effects of new and shared mobility services
Email: qs@u.washington.edu
Jan Whittington, Urban Design and Planning
Ph.D. 2008, University of California, Berkeley
Understanding the economic and environmental consequences of large scale infrastructure projects, comprehensive planning and implementation.
Email: janwhit@uw.edu
AFFILIATE FACULTY
Joel Baker, Environmental Science, UW Tacoma
Ph.D. 1988, University of Minnesota
The transport of organic contaminants in the environment, specifically atmospheric transport and deposition, aerosol chemistry, the dynamics of contaminant transport in estuaries, and modeling the exposure and transfer of bioaccumulative chemicals in aquatic food webs
Email: jebaker@u.washington.edu
Kam Wing Chan, Geography
Ph.D. 1988, University of Toronto
Urban and economic geography; migration; labor market, urban finance; China
Email: kwchan@uw.edu
Tzu-Hsin Karen Chen, Urban Design and Planning & Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences
Ph.D. 2020, Aarhus University
Environmental health, urban sustainability and spatial planning, climate change, remote sensing, geographic information systems, data science
Email: kthchen@uw.edu
Patrick Christie, Marine and Environmental Affairs & International Studies
Ph.D. 1999, University of Michigan
Climate change & ocean acidification, coastal zone, ecosystem & resource management, environmental protection & restoration, policy process & analysis, sustainability science
Email: patrickc@uw.edu
Alison Cullen, Public Policy and Governance
Sc.D. 1992, Harvard University
Environmental risk analysis, environmental science and policy, quantitative uncertainty analysis, statistical decision theory
Email: alison@u.washington.edu
Andrew Dannenberg, Urban Design and Planning & Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences
MD, Stanford University, MPH, Johns Hopkins University
Health aspects of community design, including land use, transportation, urban planning, climate change and other issues related to the built environment.
Email: adannen@uw.edu
Nives Dolšak, Marine and Environmental Affairs
Ph.D. 2000, Indiana University, Bloomington
Climate change governance, environmental policy, environmental non-governmental organizations, civil society, policy process, sustainability science, equity and environmental justice.
Email: nives@uw.edu
Adam Drewnowski, Epidemiology and Medicine
Ph.D. 1977, Rockefeller University
Relationship between poverty and obesity and the links between obesity and diabetes rates in vulnerable populations
Email: adamdrew@u.washington.edu
Glen Duncan, Epidemiology
Ph.D. 1997, University of Tennessee
Relationships among cardiovascular fitness, body fatness, and metabolic disease (e.g., metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes); Lifestyle interventions involving increased habitual physical activity and/or exercise training and dietary modifications in the prevention and treatment of metabolic and cardiovascular disease; and, Non-biological determinants of physical activity and obesity (e.g., access, income, and the physical environment).
Email: duncag@u.washington.edu
Mark Ellis, Geography
Ph.D. 1988, Indiana University
Immigration, labor markets, race and ethnicity
Email: ellism@u.washington.edu
Sarah Elwood-Faustino, Geography
Ph.D. 2000, University of Minnesota
Geographic information systems, geovisualization, justice, mapping poverty, social stratification/inequality, urban studies
Email: selwood@uw.edu
Bill Howe, Computer Science and Engineering & eScience Institute
Ph.D. 2007, Portland State University
Management of very large or very complex science data; data-intensive scalable computing, scientific databases, visualization, mashups, integration of ad hoc science data
Email: billhowe@cs.washington.edu
Phil Hurvitz, Urban Design and Planning & Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
Ph.D. 2010, University of Washington
The relationship between physical activity and built environment at fine spatial and temporal scales
Email: phurvitz@uw.edu
Soo Hyung Kim, Forest Resources
Ph.D. 2001, University of California, Davis
Examining how plants interact with abiotic and biotic factors in the environment at scales from leaf to whole-plant through canopy and ecosystem
Email: soohkim@u.washington.edu
Joshua Lawler, Forest Resources
Ph.D. 2000, Utah State University
Conservation biology and landscape ecology. How human activities affect ecological systems at large spatial scales.
Email: jlawler@u.washington.edu
Miles Logsdon, Ocean and Fishery Sciences
Ph.D. 1997, University of Washington
Spatial pattern analysis in ecosystem sciences and the applications of Geographic Information Science (GIS) and Remote Sensing in ecosystem models
Email: mlog@u.washington.edu
Lynne Manzo, Landscape Architecture
Ph.D. 1994, City University of New York
The study of the interrelationships between people and their physical surroundings, including not only natural and built settings, but also the socio-cultural and political milieu that shape the appearance, meanings, and use of space
Email: lmanzo@u.washington.edu
Scott Meschke, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences
Ph.D. 2001, University of North Carolina
Pathogen mobility, persistence, detection and control of pathogens in environmental media (Air, Water, Food, and Surfaces)
Email: jmeschke@u.washington.edu
Helen Pineo, Urban Design and Planning
Ph.D. 2019, University College London
Healthy and sustainable urbanism, housing models for health and sustainability, climate impacts and health, evidence use by policy-makers, urban health indicators, equitable and inclusive design and planning models
Email: hspineo@uw.edu
Vikram Prakash, Architecture
Ph.D. 1994, Cornell University
Interdisciplinary perspectives of culture studies applied to architecture, non-western architecture, modernism and culture theory
Email: vprakash@u.washington.edu
Dorothy Reed, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Ph.D. 1980, Princeton University
Structural and wind engineering; the investigation of the resiliency and sustainability of civil infrastructure systems – both green and gray aspects- with particular emphasis on post-hurricane performance of power delivery systems
Email: reed@u.washington.edu
Clare Ryan, Forest Resources
Ph.D. 1996, University of Michigan
Natural resource policy processes and administration, natural resource conflict management
Email: cmryan@u.washington.edu
Brian Saelens, Pediatrics and Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Ph.D. 1998, SUNY Buffalo
Pediatric obesity intervention, environmental and policy factors related to physical activity and diet
Email: bsaelens@u.washington.edu
Dylan Stevenson, Urban Design and Planning
Ph.D. 2023, Cornell University
Indigenous Planning, Historic Preservation, Environmental Planning, Intangible Cultural Heritage, Restoration Planning and Management, Culture and Place, and Intergovernmental Collaborations
Email: dylste@uw.edu
Sandor Toth, Environmental and Forest Sciences
Ph.D. 2005, Pennsylvania State University
Developing quantitative decision support tools to aid forest and natural resource management
Email: toths@u.washington.edu
Rebecca J. Walter, Real Estate
Ph.D. Geosciences (Urban Geography), 2012, Florida Atlantic University
Effect of housing policy on inequality and opportunity, housing barriers in the reentry process, geographical distribution of crime.
Email: rjwalter@uw.edu
Ruoniu (Vince) Wang, Real Estate
Ph.D. 2015, University of Florida
Residential mobility, community land trust, inclusionary housing, geography of inequality and opportunity
Email: vrwang@uw.edu
Suzanne Withers, Geography
Ph.D. 1992, University of California, Los Angeles
Quantitative and longitudinal methods; poverty; urban housing; population; spatial demography
Email: swithers@u.washington.edu
Lingzi Wu, Construction Management
Ph.D. 2020, University of Alberta
Connected and Resilient Infrastructure, Simulation-Enabled Data-Driven Decision Support Systems, Construction Informatics, and STEM Education
Email: lingwu@uw.edu
Ken Yocom, Landscape Architecture
Ph.D. 2007, University of Washington
Developing ecologically based design frameworks examining the relationships between natural and socio-economic processes that have created and support the patterns of our urban environments.
Email: kyocom@uw.edu
Michael G. Yost, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley
Tools and techniques to measure environmental and occupational exposures using electromagnetic radiation such as ultraviolet, visible and infrared light or lasers.
Email: airion@uw.edu
Bo Zhao, Geography
Ph.D. 2015 Ohio State University
Humanistic GIS, Spatial misinformation, Social, ethical and cultural implications of geospatial technologies, and Urban studies
Email: zhaobo@uw.edu
EMERITUS FACULTY
Hilda Blanco, (Professor Emeritus), Urban Design and Planning
Ph.D. 1989, University of California, Berkeley
Land use planning, comprehensive planning, neighborhood planning, infrastructure, finance
Email: hblanco@u.washington.edu
Alan Borning, (Professor Emeritus), Computer Science & Engineering
Ph.D. 1979, Stanford University
Land use, transportation, and environmental modeling; human-computer interaction; constraint-based languages and systems
Email: borning@cs.washington.edu
Linda Ng Boyle, (Professor Emeritus), Industrial and Systems Engineering & Civil and Environmental Engineering
Ph.D. 1998, University of Washington
Driving behavior, crash countermeasures, crash and safety analysis, and statistical modeling
Email: linda@uw.edu
Gordon Bradley, (Professor Emeritus), Forest Resources
Ph.D. 1986, University of Michigan
Foreign land use, urban forest interface studies, environmental planning
Email: gbradley@u.washington.edu
James W. Harrington, Jr., (Professor Emeritus), Urban Studies, UW Tacoma; Geography
Ph.D. 1983, University of Washington
Economic geography, regional economic development, geography of labor
Email: jwh@u.washington.edu
Stevan Harrell, (Professor Emeritus), Anthropology
Ph.D. 1974, Stanford University
Environmental anthropology, ecosystem resilience, family and demography, ethnicity and ethnic relations, material culture, translation; China and Taiwan
Email: stevehar@u.washington.edu
Jeff Hou, (Professor Emeritus), Landscape Architecture
Ph.D. 2001, University of California, Berkeley
Community design, design activism, insurgent planning, democracy and public space, transcultural urbanism, Asian cities
Email: jhou@u.washington.edu
Timothy Larson, (Professor Emeritus), Civil & Environmental Engineering
Ph.D. 1976, University of Washington
Air Quality (Management Aspects), Atmospheric Chemistry, Measurement Methods for Atmospheric Aerosols, Precipitation Scavenging, Health Effects of Aerosols, Source/Receptor Models.
Email: tlarson@u.washington.edu
Donald H. Miller, (Professor Emeritus), Urban Design and Planning
Ph.D. 1973, University of California, Berkeley
Urban spatial structure, consumer behavior and demand for public services, planning theory and evaluation, urbanization processes
Email: millerd@u.washington.edu
Anne Vernez Moudon, (Professor Emeritus), Urban Design and Planning
Dr es Sc, 1987, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (Switzerland)
Urban design, city form and neighborhood studies, design research
Email: moudon@u.washington.edu
Thaisa Way, (Professor Emeritus), Landscape Architecture
Ph.D. 2005, Cornell University
The development of cultural landscapes, designed landscapes, and the emerging discipline of landscape preservation
Email: tway@u.washington.edu
Richard O. Zerbe, (Professor Emeritus), Public Affairs
Ph.D. 1969, Duke University
Law and economics
Email: zerbe@u.washington.edu
DECEASED FACULTY
William B. Beyers, (Professor Emeritus), Geography
Ph.D. 1967, University of Washington
Regional science, economic geography, location theory, regional analysis
Robert Mugerauer, College of Built Environments
Ph.D. 1973, University of Texas
Sustainability and the impact of technology in built and natural environments; values, social, and cultural factors in design and planning; theory and current research methods