USP Department Faculty

Isaac Martin

Department Chair, Urban Studies and Planning
Professor, Urban Studies and Planning 
Ph.D., Sociology, University of California Berkeley

Abigail Andrews

Associate Professor, Urban Studies and Planning
Ph.D., Sociology, University of California Berkeley

Email  [email protected]  
Specializations  Community-Action Research; Migration; State Violence; Gender; Borders; Space and Place; Climate Justice; Latin America; Postcolonial and Feminist Theory
Faculty website  abigailandrews.com

John C. Arroyo

Assistant Professor, Urban Studies and Planning
Core Faculty, Chicanx and Latinx Studies
Ph.D., Urban Planning, Policy, and Design, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
AICP

Email  [email protected]  
Specializations  Urban planning and design; Chicano/a/x and Latina/o/x studies; Race and ethnicity; Migration and transnational processes; Community development; Housing; Suburbs; Public space; Arts and culture; Historic preservation and cultural heritage; Qualitative research methods
Faculty website  jcarroyo.ucsd.edu 

Deepti Chatti

Assistant Professor of Climate Justice, Urban Studies and Planning
Core Faculty, Critical Gender Studies
Ph.D., Environmental Studies; Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Yale University
P.E., LEED Accredited 

Email  [email protected] 
Specializations  Political ecology; Feminist science and technology studies; Ethnographic research methods; Energy, climate, and environmental justice; Sustainable development; South Asia
Faculty website  dchatti.ucsd.edu

Caroline Collins

Lawrence D. Frank

Professor, Urban Studies and Planning
Ph.D., Urban Design and Planning, University of Washington
AICP; CIP

Email  [email protected] 
Specializations  Land use, air quality, and health; Urban policy; Walkable cities; Built environment, active transportation, and health; Public health

Guadalupe García

Associate Professor, Urban Studies and Planning
Ph.D., History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

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Kathleen Garcia

Continuing Lecturer, Urban Studies and Planning
M.L.A., Harvard University

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Juli Beth Hinds

Continuing Lecturer, Urban Studies and Planning
M.C.R.P., Rutgers University
AICP

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Nancy Kwak

Associate Professor, History
Ph.D., History, Columbia University

Email  [email protected]  
Specializations  History of cities; Urban planning; Housing policy; Housing affordability; Racial and income segregation; Cities and Climate Change
Faculty website  nancykwak.net

Amy Lerner

Associate Professor, Urban Studies and Planning
Ph.D., Geography, University of California Santa Barbara

Email  [email protected]  
Specializations  Human dimensions of environmental change; Rural-urban transitions; Sustainable agriculture; Green infrastructure; Urban resilience and response to environmental change; City-university partnerships; Science-policy interface; Sustainable development; Latin America
Faculty website  amlerner.ucsd.edu 

Leslie R. Lewis

Continuing Lecturer, Urban Studies and Planning
Ph.D., Anthropology, University of California San Diego

Email  [email protected]  
Specializations  Public health and health equity; Environmental and climate justice; Aging/life course; Community resilience; Housing and homelessness; Critical pedagogy; Community-based participatory action research
Faculty website  llewis.ucsd.edu

Nathan Moeder

Continuing Lecturer, Urban Studies and Planning
MSRE, University of San Diego

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Kelema Lee Moses

Assistant Professor, Urban Studies and Planning
Ph.D., Art History, Pennsylvania State University

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Specializations  Architectural and urban history; Film; Pacific Studies; Decolonial theory and politics
Faculty website  klmoses.ucsd.edu

Mai Thi Nguyen

Professor, Urban Studies and Planning
Faculty Director, Design Lab
Ph.D., Urban Planning, University of California, Irvine

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Specializations  Housing policy and planning; Disaster resilience; Climate Change adaptation; Community and economic development; Community Design

Susan Peerson

Senior Continuing Lecturer, Urban Studies and Planning
M.L.A., University of Pennsylvania

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Specializations  Urban design; Site analysis; Graphic communication and design visualization; Landscape architecture; How policies and regulations shape the physical environment
Faculty website  speerson.ucsd.edu

Keith Pezzoli

Professor, Urban Studies and Planning
Ph.D., Urban and Regional Planning, University of California Los Angeles

Email  [email protected] 
Specializations  Bioregions; Food justice; Science communication; Sustainable development; Urban World Systems; Field research methods
Faculty website  https://sites.google.com/ucsd.edu/keith-pezzoli-website/home 

Mirle Rabinowitz-Bussell

Director of Undergraduate Studies, Urban Studies and Planning
Associate Professor, Urban Studies and Planning
Ph.D., Urban Planning, University of California Los Angeles

Nora Louise Schwaller

Assistant Professor, Urban Studies and Planning
Ph.D., City and Regional Planning, University of North Carolina

Email  [email protected] 
Specializations  Post-disaster adaptation; Post-disaster migration; Environmental planning; Urban and regional resilience; Climate adaptation; Spatial analysis
Faculty website  nschwaller.ucsd.edu

Manuel Shvartzberg Carrió

Assistant Professor, Urban Studies and Planning
Ph.D., Architecture, Columbia University

Email  [email protected]  
Specializations  Architectural History and Theory; Architectural Design; History of Urban Development; Science and Technology Studies; Philosophies of the City
Faculty website  msc.ucsd.edu

Feiyang Sun

Assistant Professor, Urban Studies and Planning
Ph.D., Urban Planning, University of Washington

Email  [email protected] 
Specializations  Sustainable Real Estate; Infrastructure Finance; Urban Economics; Housing; Urban Informatics 
Faculty website  fsun.ucsd.edu

Julie Wartell

Continuing Lecturer, Urban Studies and Planning
M.P.A., San Diego State University

Email  [email protected]
Specializations  GIS; Crime analysis; Crime prevention; Breweries and neighborhoods
Faculty website  jwartell.ucsd.edu

Behram Wali

Teo Akande Wickland

William Anderson

Ravi Bajaj

Matthew Boomhower

Christopher Clark

Matilde Córdoba Azcárate

Teddy Cruz

Paul Curcio

Christina Devereux

Maryam Entezam

Gary Fields

Fonna Forman

Zoltan L. Hajnal

PhD, Professor, Associate Dean

Lawrence Herzog

Lilly Irani

Leigh Kyle

Sarah Mctague

Alex Norr

David Osias

S. Alihan Polat

Danielle Raudenbush

Sharon Rose

Michael Shenkman

Mor Shilon

Yael Shmaryahu- Yeshurun

Christo Sims

Diego Velasco

K. Wayne Yang