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 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 Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies of the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. He also serves as Program Director for Comparative Urban Studies at the Woodrow Wilson Center. A native of New York, Dr. Ruble worked previously at the Social Science Research Council in New York City, as well as at the National Council for Soviet a...
Associate Dean for Research and Mike Hogg Professor of Urban Policy, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin
Wilson holds a Public Policy Scholar appointment at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (January-July, 2011). He is the Associate Dean for Research and Mike Hogg Professor of Urban Policy at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin. He has served as director of the UT-Austin Brazil Center and the Urban Issues Program and the PhD in Public Polic...
