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Affiliated PhD Student

Tayeba Batool

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Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Anthropology

About

Tayeba Batool is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. Her dissertation research focuses on the urban and political ecologies of Miyawaki urban forests in Islamabad, Pakistan, by examining the impacts and transformations of a transnational ecological method on local practices, politics, knowledges, and experiences of greening in a postcolonial planned city. She employs participant and institutional ethnography as well multi-modal methods and spatial mapping in her analysis of how the Miyawaki urban forests are discoursed and adapted towards urban climatic resilience, landscape management, or spatial affect and aesthetic. Her preliminary dissertation work piloted methods to study tree care and practices in arboretums and urban spaces, as well as how landscapes shape forest imaginaries, and was supported by the Humanities, Urbanism, and Design Initiative, and Center for Experimental Ethnography at Penn. Tayeba holds a MA in International Affairs from American University, Washington DC. Her master's thesis investigated the politics of conservation, urban heritage, and community identity in the Walled City of Lahore, Pakistan. Prior to her time at Penn, she worked on international development projects in Pakistan that facilitated institutional capacity building, gender equity in economic participation, and private-public sector collaboration.

Affiliated PhD Student

Stephanie Gibson

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PhD Candidate in the History of Art Department

School/Department

Areas of Interest

    About

    Stephanie Gibson is an art/architectural historian and cultural critic interested in the ways in which groups and societies construct their monumental landscape. She holds a BA magna cum laude from Emory University and an MA from the University of Pennsylvania. Her dissertation looks at monuments of the Black Atlantic to examine the varied ways architects and other designers have responded to the large and important challenges of representing and repairing the trauma and loss suffered by these communities. Her work provides a theoretical framework, rooted in Black memory studies, for understanding the methods and techniques that are utilized in the creation of new monuments that memorialize trauma and pain in an effort to correct the historical record. 

    She has presented her work at conferences including the 5th Annual Wollesen Memorial Graduate Symposium, The Art of Passage: Transnational Encounters and the Convergence of Cultures at the University of Toronto and the 2021 Bermuda Cultural Stakeholder Conference. Her paper “The Same but not Quite: An Exploration of the Mythology and Mimicry of the Bermudian Gombey Costume” was published in the peer-reviewed University of Toronto art journal, The Wollesen.

    Penn IUR Scholar

    Andrey D. Pavlov

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    Professor of Finance, Beedie School of Business, Simon Fraser University

    Areas of Interest

      About

      Andrey D. Pavlov is a Professor of Finance at Beedie School of Business. He specializes in risk management for real estate investment, mortgage lending, financial derivatives and digital assets at the Beedie School of Business, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, where he is professor of finance. He has also worked on the modelling of aggressive lending practices, risk management for publicly traded real estate companies, and mortgage and equity securitization. He earned his Ph.D. from the Anderson School at the University of California, Los Angeles (1999) and was a visiting Associate Professor at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania during the 2006 – 2008 period and taught real estate finance for the Wharton Executive Education program during the 2008 - 2020 period. He is a fellow of the Ziman Real Estate Center at UCLA, a winner of the Homer Hoyt Advanced Studies Institute Best Dissertation Award (2000), and a post-doctoral honoree of the Homer Hoyt Advanced Studies Institute (2005). Professor Pavlov has a wide range of academic and industry-oriented publications. He has consulted for the U.S. Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Government of Canada, the Government of British Columbia, the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation, and private sector insurers, mortgage lenders and hedge funds. 

      Selected Publications

      Davidoff, Tom, Andrey Pavlov, and Tsur Somerville. (2022). Not in my neighbour’s back yard? Laneway homes and neighbour’s property values. Journal of Urban Economics, 128.

      Davidson, Andrew, Alex Levin, Andrey Pavlov, and Susan Wachter. (2016). Why are aggressive mortgage products bad for the housing market? Journal of Economics and Business, 84, 148-161.

      Monfared, Sam and Andrey Pavlov. (2017). Political risk affects real estate markets. Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, 58(1), 1-20.  

      Pavlov, Andrey, Eduardo Schwartz, and Susan Wachter. (2021) Price Discovery Limits in the Credit Default Swap Market. Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, 62(2), 165–186.

      Pavlov, Andrey, and Tsur Somerville. (2020). Immigration, capital flows and housing prices. Real Estate Economics, 48(3), 915-949.

      Pavlov, Andrey, Eva Steiner and Susan Wachter. (2017). The consequences of REIT index membership for return patterns. Real Estate Economics, 46(1), 210-250.

      Pavlov, Andrey, Eva Steiner and Susan Wachter. (2016). REIT Capital Structure Choices: Preparation Matters. Real Estate Economics, 46(1), 160-209.

      Pavlov, Andrey, Susan Wachter, and Albert Zevelev. (2016). Transparency and Coordination in the Mortgage Market. Journal of Financial Services Research, 49(2/3), 265 – 280.

      Affiliated PhD Student

      Jane Abell

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      Doctoral Candidate in Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania

      About

      Jane Lief Abell is a thirdyear doctoral student in Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research explores Islam in the United States, with a particular focus on how race and religion inform relations among “native” and immigrant Muslim groups. Currently, she is working with Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture, an Arabic language and arts organization based in West Philly, and conducting fieldwork in Northeast Philadelphia. Prior to entering graduate school, Jane held several research and editorial positions at the Center for Middle East Studies at Harvard University; Harvard Divinity School; the Berkman Center for Internet & Society; the Consortium on Gender, Security, and Human Rights; and Law People Management, LLC. Jane holds a BA with High Honors in Sociology & Anthropology and Islamic Studies from Swarthmore College. 

      Penn IUR Scholar

      Arthur Acolin

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      Assistant Professor and Bob Filley Endowed Chair, Department of Real Estate, University of Washington

      Areas of Interest

        About

        Arthur Acolin is an Assistant Professor and Bob Filley Endowed Chair at the Department of Real Estate at the University of Washington with a broad interest in housing economics and a focus on international housing policy and finance. He completed his PhD in Urban Planning and Development at the University of Southern California in 2017. Recent research projects include a study of the presence of discrimination against different immigrant groups in the rental market in France with Raphael Bostic and Gary Painter, an examination of the effect of non-traditional mortgages on homeownership in the US with Xudong An, Raphael Bostic and Susan Wachter and the development of housing affordability indicators incorporating location for the metropolitan region of Sao Paulo, Brazil with Richard Green. Prior to doing his Ph.D., Acolin was a Research Associate at the Penn Institute for Urban Research working on housing, urbanization and economic development issues. He obtained a master in Urban Policy from the London School of Economics and Sciences Po Paris and an undergraduate degree in Urban Studies from the University of Pennsylvania.

        Selected Publications

        Acolin, Arthur, and Domenic Vitiello. “Who owns Chinatown: Neighbourhood preservation and change in Boston and Philadelphia.” Urban Studies (2017): 0042098017699366.

        Acolin, Arthur, Xudong An, Raphael W. Bostic, and Susan M. Wachter. “Homeownership and Nontraditional and Subprime Mortgages.” Housing Policy Debate 27.3 (2017): 393-418.

        Acolin, Arthur, Raphael Bostic, and Gary Painter. “A field study of rental market discrimination across origins in France.” Journal of Urban Economics 95 (2016): 49-63.

        Acolin, Arthur, Jesse Bricker, Paul Calem, and Susan Wachter. “Borrowing constraints and homeownership.” The American Economic Review 106.5 (2016): 625-629.

        Acolin, Arthur, and Richard K. Green. “Measuring housing affordability in São Paulo metropolitan region: Incorporating location.” Cities 62 (2017): 41-49.

        Faculty Fellow

        Francesca Ammon

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        Associate Professor

        About

        Francesca Russello Ammon is an Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning and Historic Preservation at the School of Design. As a cultural historian of the built environment, her teaching, research, and writing focus on the changing shapes and spaces of the 20th- and 21st-century American city. She grounds her interdisciplinary approach to this subject on the premise that the landscape materializes social relations, cultural values, and economic processes. In particular, she is interested in the ways that visual culture informs planning and design, the dynamic relationships between cities and nature, and the politics of place and space. 

        Before joining the School of Design faculty, Ammon was a Visiting Scholar at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has also held the Sally Kress Tompkins Fellowship, jointly sponsored by the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) and the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS). While completing her Ph.D. in American Studies, she held long-term fellowships as a Whiting Fellow in the Humanities, Ambrose Monell Foundation Fellow in Technology and Democracy at the Miller Center of Public Affairs, and John E. Rovensky Fellow with the Business History Conference.

        For the past year and a half, Ammon has been a Researcher on the Mellon Foundation-funded project on “Photography and/of Architecture” at the Canadian Centre for Architecture. She is also currently a colloquium member of the Penn/Mellon Foundation Humanities + Urbanism + Design Initiative, and she is a recent past fellow of Penn’s Price Lab for Digital Humanities. 

        Ammon is on the board of the Society for American City and Regional Planning History (SACRPH).

        Selected Publications

        Ammon, Francesca Russello. 2016. Bulldozer: Demolition and Clearance of the Postwar Landscape. New Haven: Yale University Press.

        Ammon, Francesca Russello. 2015. “Post-Industrialization and the City of Consumption: Attempted Revitalization in Asbury Park, New Jersey.” Journal of Urban History 41(2): 158-174.

        Ammon, Francesca Russello. 2012. “Unearthing Benny the Bulldozer: The Culture of Clearance in Postwar Children’s Books.” Technology and Culture 53(2): 306-336.

        Ammon, Francesca Russello. 2009. “Commemoration Amid Criticism: The Mixed Legacy of Urban Renewal in Southwest Washington, D.C.” Journal of Planning History 8(3): 175-220.

        Penn IUR Scholar

        Elijah Anderson

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        Sterling Professor of Sociology and of African American Studies, Yale University

        About

        Elijah Anderson is the Sterling Professor of Sociology and of African American Studies at Yale University. He is one of the leading urban ethnographers in the United States. His publications include Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City (1999), winner of the Komarovsky Award from the Eastern Sociological Society; Streetwise: Race, Class, and Change in an Urban Community (1990), winner of the American Sociological Association’s Robert E. Park Award for the best published book in the area of Urban Sociology; and the classic sociological work, A Place on the Corner (1978; 2nd ed., 2003). Anderson’s most recent ethnographic work, The Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race and Civility in Everyday Life, was published by WW Norton in 2011. Professor Anderson is the recipient of two prestigious awards from the American Sociological Association, the 2013 Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award and the 2018 W.E.B. DuBois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award, as well as the 2017 Merit Award from the Eastern Sociological Society.

        Dr. Anderson has served on the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Political and Social Science and is formerly a vice-president of the American Sociological Association. He has served in an editorial capacity for a wide range of professional journals and special publications, including Qualitative Sociology, Ethnography, American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, City & Community, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, and the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. He has also served as a consultant to a variety of government agencies, including the White House, the United States Congress, the National Academy of Science and the National Science Foundation. Additionally, he was a member of the National Research Council’s Panel on the Understanding and Control of Violent Behavior.

        Selected Publications

        Anderson, Elijah, Dana Asbury, Duke W. Austin, Esther Chihye Kim, and Vani Kulkarni, eds. 2012. Bringing Fieldwork Back In: Contemporary Urban Ethnographic Research. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 642 (June). Sage Press.

        Anderson, Elijah. 2012. The Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race and Civility in Everyday Life. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.

        Anderson, Elijah, ed. 2009. Urban Ethnography: Its Traditions and Its Future. Ethnography 10(4), Special Double Issue. Sage Press. 

        Anderson, Elijah, ed. 2008. Against the Wall: Poor, Young, Black, and Male. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

        Anderson, Elijah, Scott N. Brooks, Raymond Gunn, and Nikki Jones, eds. 2004. Being Here and Being There: Fieldwork Encounters and Ethnographic Discoveries. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 595 (September). New York: Sage Press.

        Fellow

        Stuart Andreason

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        Assistant Vice President and Director, Center for Workforce and Economic Opportunity

        Areas of Interest

          About

          Stuart Andreason is Assistant Vice President and Director, Center for Workforce and Economic Opportunity at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. In his role he conducts research and works across the country to support Federal Reserve and partner organization efforts in workforce development, the labor market, and economic opportunities for low- and moderate-income workers.

          Andreason has been at the Federal Reserve since 2014 and previously served as a senior adviser on human capital and workforce development. In that role he has published articles on workforce development practice and policy and labor market trends, including deep analysis of opportunity occupations, or middle-skill jobs that pay high wages. He is the editor of Developing Career-Based Training and Models for Labor Market Intermediaries. He was a fellow of the Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences at Penn and a Lincoln Institute of Land Policy C. Lowell Harriss fellow. Previously, he led two nonprofit organizations focused on economic revitalization in central Virginia and worked for the Pew Partnership for Civic Change.

          He is a reviewer for several academic and practice-based journals and publications. Andreason teaches economic development analysis at Georgia Institute of Technology. He has bachelor's and master's degrees in urban and environmental planning from the University of Virginia and a PhD in city and regional planning from the University of Pennsylvania.

          Selected Publications

          Andreason, Stuart and Laura Wolf-Powers. 2012. “Aligning Secondary and Post-Secondary Credentialization with Economic Development Strategy or ‘If Low Educational Attainment = Poor Metropolitan Competitiveness, What Can be Done About It.” In Preparing Today’s Students for Tomorrow’s Jobs in Metropolitan America, Laura W. Perna, ed. University of Pennsylvania Press.

          Lynch, Amy, Stuart Andreason, Theodore Eisenman, John Robinson, Kenneth Steif, and Eugenie L. Birch. Sustainable Urban Development Indicators for the United States. Penn Institute for Urban Research. September 2011

          Birch, Eugenie, Amy Lynch, Stuart Andreason, Theodore Eisenman, John Robinson, and Kenneth Steif. Measuring U.S. Sustainable Urban Development. Penn Institute for Urban Research. September 2011.

          Morse, Suzanne, Stuart Andreason, Tom Cross, and Joanne Tu. Southern Virginia: Building Competitive Advantage. Civic Change Incorporated. 2010.

          Andreason, Stuart. May 2014. Dissertation: “Will Talent Attraction and Retention Improve Metropolitan Labor Markets? The Labor Market Impact of Increased Educational Attainment in U.S. Metropolitan Regions 1990-2010.”  University of Pennsylvania.  

          Emerging Scholar

          Cameron Anglum

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          Assistant Professor, School of Education, Education Policy and Equity, Saint Louis University

          Areas of Interest

            About

            Cameron Anglum is an Assistant Professor in the Saint Louis University School of Education. He earned a Ph.D. in Education Policy with a certificate in Urban Studies from the University of Pennsylvania. His research and teaching concentrate on the economics of education policy and education finance, work which is centered on the study of policy and program effects witnessed by disadvantaged students and the school districts and governments that serve them. In particular, he uses quasi-experimental methods of quantitative analysis to examine how American governments at the local, state, and federal levels invest in inputs to public education, the largest public expenditure at the state and local levels. In 2018 he was awarded a National Academy of Education / Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellowship and an Association for Education Finance and Policy New Scholar Award for his dissertation research examining school district debt issuance, credit constraints, and their relationships with school capital investments and educational inequality. His prior work has examined equity and adequacy considerations in school finance reforms, technology integration in urban schools, and reforms to school discipline policies. Anglum is an active member of the Association for Education Finance and Policy, the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, and the American Educational Research Association.

            Affiliated PhD Student

            Heidi Artigue

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            Doctoral Student, Applied Economics, Wharton

            About

            Heidi is a doctoral student in Wharton's Applied Economics program, focusing on urban and real estate economics. Her ongoing research involves the effects of work from home on real estate markets, and income sorting into small towns. She is also interested in how the location of high-income neighborhoods affects the landscape of low-income jobs. Prior to graduate school, Heidi was a research assistant at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, where she worked with historical geographic data on racial segregation in Philadelphia. Heidi earned her Bachelor of Arts in Economics at Pomona College in 2019, where she also earned minors in Mathematics and Computer Science.

            Affiliated PhD Student

            Jay Arzu

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            Doctoral Candidate, City and Regional Planning

            About

            Jay Arzu currently resides in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is a Co-Founder of the community engagement platform Collective Form, where he handles Strategic Initiatives and Community Engagement.

            Jay began his Ph.D. in City & Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design in Fall 2021. Mr. Arzu was a Transportation & Equity Research Fellow for the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation (CBCF).

            He was responsible for data collection and the production of policy analysis and research. He analyzes best practices and policy solutions to promote integrated and comprehensive policy impacts in black communities nationwide.

            Before joining CBCF, Jay was awarded a U.S. Fulbright Grant. He obtained his Master of Public Administration (MPA) at SDA Bocconi in Milan, Italy, while on Fulbright. Jay was also a Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute (CHCI) intern at the U.S House of Representatives in 2015.

            Selected Publications

            Will Cuomo Botch the Sheridan Expressway Removal?

            I-81 project an opportunity to create equitable, sustainable Syracuse

            New Orleans needs a champion

            Penn IUR Scholar

            Sai Balakrishnan

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            Assistant Professor of Global Urban Inequalities, College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley

            About

            Sai Balakrishnan is an Assistant Professor of Global Urban Inequalities at the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to that, she was an Assistant Professor in International Development at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University, and served as a Postdoctoral Scholar at Columbia Law School’s Center on Global Legal Transformations. She has also worked as an urban planner in the United States, India, and the United Arab Emirates, and as a consultant to the UN-HABITAT in Nairobi.

            Through her research and teaching, Balakrishnan focuses on processes of urbanization and planning institutions in the global south, and on the spatial politics of land-use and property. Her work has been published in the International Journal of Urban and Regional Affairs, Pacific Affairs, Economic and Political Weekly, and in edited book chapters. Her book Shareholder Cities: Land Transformations along Urban Corridors in India was published in 2019 by the University of Pennsylvania Press.

            Balakrishnan holds a Master’s Degree in City Planning from MIT, a Master’s Degree in Urban Design from the University of Michigan, and a PhD in Urban Planning from Harvard University. Her doctoral dissertation was awarded the 2014 Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) Gill Chin Lim Award for Best Dissertation on International Planning.

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