Teaching & Advising

Prospective students: I am delighted to work with motivated, creative, and hard-working students. Please contact me at your earliest convenience at the application cycle with your research idea, CV, and writing samples to be considered for funding opportunities.

Please note that I am not recruiting Ph.D. students for the academic year 2024-25.

I am recruiting 2 postdoctors. See details here.

Students: If you are a graduate student and plan to do a thesis in my research area, please prepare a page of your ideas, your CV, and past publications, and stop by my office to have a chat. See profiles of some of my past and current students who have conducted research with me here.

I am co-teaching UEP251Economics for Planning and Policy Analysis with Prof. Mary Davis at Tufts University in Spring 2024. Please follow the course canvas site at Tufts for details.

I have taught the following courses at MSU.

- - - UP 801: Concepts and Issues in Planning and Development (taught many years at MSU, last in Fall 2021; required core course for Master and Ph.D. students in URP, currently taught by Prof. Deyanira Martinez)
    - UP 816: Advanced Research Method in Planning (offered in Spring 2023, with Prof. Noah Durst; elective course, for Master Plan A (thesis option) and Ph.D. students in URP)
    - UP 854: Local Economic Planning (taught in Fall 2021, with Prof. Mark Wilson)
    - UP 855: Urban Sustainability and Climate Change/Urban Environmental Planning (developed and taught multiple years; required core course for Master students in URP)