Urban Studies Experts
Professor at Central University of Venezuela and Director, Social Science Laboratory (LACSO) Caracas, Venezuela
I was born in Valera, Trujillo State, Venezuela, and I was enrolled in basic education in La Salle Schools in Barranquilla, Colombia and in Caracas, Venezuela. I studied sociology at Central University of Venezuela where I obtained a degree in Sociology in 1974. In 1975 I studied in the University of Grenoble in France and was connected with the “Center of Social Ethnology and Psycho-sociolo...
Professor of Sociology at the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada
Ted has published extensively on issues related to social movements and population health, local government, and international cooperation for urban development in Latin America. A leading Canadian authority on Brazil, his work has appeared in monographs, edited works, and a range of academic journals including Cities, Journal of Latin American Studies, Journal of Developing Areas, Thir...
Associate Professor of History and African American Studies and Affiliated Professor of Performing Arts (Jazz) at Georgetown University
I came to academia after many years working as a Community and Human rights organizer and before that as a shipyard rigger, longshoreman and house painter. My wife, Laura Ginsburg, and I have two children. Lena is a graduate of the National Cathedral School for Girls and the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and Miles is a graduate of St Albans School for Boys and the University of M...
Professor of International Affairs and Government, Georgetown University, and former Title VIII-Supported Short-Term Research Scholar, Kennan Institute
Charles King is Professor of International Affairs and Government at Georgetown University, where he previously served as Chairman of the Faculty of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. King is the author or editor of six books, including Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams (Norton, 2011), The Ghost of Freedom: A History of the Caucasus (Oxford, 2008),...
Associate Professor of Architecutre, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Dr. Zhongjie Lin is an associate professor of architecture at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and a co-founder of the school’s Master of Urban Design program. He received a Ph.D. in architecture from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Bachelor of Architecture and a Master of Architecture from Tongji University in Shanghai, China. He was a visiting professor at Tongji U...
Professor of History, University of Maryland, College Park
Education
M.A. and Ph.D. in American Civilization, Brown University; B.A. in Philosophy, Barnard College
Honors
Fulbright Senior Scholar, Germany, 2009; Woodrow Wilson Center Fellow, 2005-6; Shelby Cullom Davis Center Fellowship, Princeton University, 1995-96; Social Politics recognized by Library Journal as one of "10 Best New Journals of 1994"; Fulbright Scholar Abroad, Sweden, 1994; National...
Assistant Professor of Sociology and Global Urban Studies, Michigan State University
and Faculty Associate, Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan
Born and raised in Mainland China, I moved to Tokyo in 1999 to study urban planning and came to the United States in 2001 to pursue a doctoral degree in sociology at the University of Chicago. My research interests include urbanization, governance, development, architecture and the built environment.My first book Building Globalization: Transnational Architecture Production in Urban China (2011, T...
Blair A. Ruble is currently Director of the Wilson Center’s Program on Global Sustainability and Resilience and Senior Advisor to the Center’s Kennan Institute. Previously, he served as the long-time Director of the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies (1989-2012) as well as of the Wilson Center’s Comparative Urban Studies Program (1992-2012). A native of New...