Ph.D. Student Job Market Candidates
Urban Planning and Development
Sue Dexter
Ph.D. in Urban Planning and Development
Education: Master of Science in Operations Research, London School of Economics and Political Science; Bachelor of Arts in Management Science, University of California, San Diego
Research Interests: Sustainable urban freight, transportation planning and infrastructure, land use policy, environmental policy, climate change mitigation, international development
Committee Chair: Dr. Genevieve Giuliano
Arnab Dutta
Ph.D. in Urban Planning and Development
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Education: Masters of Science in Quantitative Economics, Indian Statistical Institute, India; Bachelor of Science in Economics, University of Calcutta, India
Research Interests: Urban economics, real estate economics, regional science, environmental economics
Committee Chair: Dr. Richard K. Green
Jaime Lopez
Ph.D. in Urban Planning and Development
Education: Master of City Planning, University of California, Berkeley; Bachelor of Arts in Film and Television, Bachelor of Arts in History, University of California, Los Angeles
Research Interests: Community Engagement Research, Participatory Planning, Environmental Justice/Planning, Sustainability, Land Use, Media and Film
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Lisa Schweitzer
Gregory Randolph
Ph.D. in Urban Planning and Development
Education: Bachelor of Arts in South Asian Studies, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
Research Interests: Urban systems, equity and distribution, labor, migration, rapid urbanization and structural transformation, emerging economies
Committee Chair: Dr. Elizabeth Currid-Halkett
Ben Toney
Ph.D. in Urban Planning and Development
Education: Bachelor of Arts in Urban and Environmental Policy, Occidental College
Research Interests: Long term public planning, equity implications of the shifting role of the public sector, critiques of new public management, social justice, distributive justice, planning theory
Committee Chair: Dr. Gary Painter
Public Policy and Management
Heonuk Ha
Ph.D. in Public Policy and Management
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Education: Master of Public Policy and Applied Economics, University of Michigan; Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and Philosophy, Korea University
Research Interests: Fiscal (distributive) politics, fiscal federalism, financial management, bureaucratic politics, program evaluation, machine learning and artificial intelligence
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Jeff Jenkins
Noah Miller
Ph.D. in Public Policy and Management
Education: Master of Public Policy, University of Southern California; Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Japanese, University of California, Davis
Research Interests: Environmental economics; climate change; associated issues of mitigation, adaptation, and resilience; migration and mobility; health and pollution; policy choice in second-best context
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Antonio Bento
Hilary Olson
Ph.D. in Public Policy and Management
Education: Master of Public Policy and Certificate in International Policy and Planning, University of Southern California; Bachelor of Arts in Diplomacy and World Affairs and minor in Economics, Occidental College
Research Interests: Social innovation, social finance, impact investing, program evaluation, co-production, co-creation, collaborative governance, systems change, and international development
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Gary Painter