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Emerging Scholar

James Morone

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Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science, Haverford College

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    About

    James is completing his PhD in political science at the University of Pennsylvania in the summer of 2019.  He will begin as a Visiting Assistant Professor of political science at Haverford College in the Spring of 2020. James’ researches examines the development of institutions in urban neighborhoods through the interaction of neighborhood activism, local governments, and the philanthropic and private sectors. His research inquires how these historically emergent institutions shape neighborhood residents’ political options, creating opportunities for market-based projects and public-private partnerships, while discouraging mass mobilization. Other research projects currently in progress include a comparison of state laws specifying landlord discretion to determine fines and fees in the tenant-landlord relationship, and an analysis of urban government’s use of “community control” discourses to legitimize neoliberal education and housing policies. James is passionate about engaged research believing that social science can be informed by and contribute to social justice practice, without compromising scientific rigor. He was a Summer Fellow at the Center on Democracy and Organizing at University of California, Berkeley in the Summer of 2019.

    Penn IUR Scholar

    Rolf Pendall

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    Professor and Head of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Illinois

    Areas of Interest

      About

      Rolf Pendall is the Head of the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. He has more than 30 years’ experience as a practitioner, scholar, and educator on urban growth and development issues, including land-use planning and regulation; federal, state, and local affordable housing policy and programs; metropolitan growth patterns; and racial residential segregation and the concentration of poverty. Pendall joined the University of Illinois after having been center director, codirector, and Institute fellow in the Urban Institute’s Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center from 2010 to 2018. Pendall was previously an associate professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning at Cornell University. He holds an MA in Latin American studies and MS in community and regional planning from the University of Texas at Austin and a PhD in city and regional planning from the University of California, Berkeley.

      Selected Publications

      Pendall, Rolf and Leah Hendey. 2013. A Brief Look at the Early Implementation of Choice Neighborhoods (Research Report). Washington, DC: Urban Institute.

      Pendall, Rolf, Sandra Rosenbloom, Diane Levy, Elizabeth Oo, Gerrit Knaap, Jason Sartori, and Arnab Chakraborty. 2013. Can Federal Efforts Advance Federal and Local De-Siloing? Lessons from the HUD-EPA-DOT Partnership for Sustainable Communities (Research Report). Washington, DC: Urban Institute.

      Pendall, Rolf. 2012. The Next Big Question Facing Cities: Will Millennials Stay? The Atlantic Cities, September 11.

      Pendall, Rolf, Brett Theodos, Kaitlin Franks. 2012. The Built Environment and Household Vulnerability in a Regional Context (Research Brief). Washington, DC: Urban Institute.

      Pendall, Rolf. 2007. The Changing Nature of Housing Markets in Upstate New York. Housing and Society, 34: 65-75.

      Faculty Fellow

      Jennifer Ponce de León

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      Assistant Professor of English

      About

      Jennifer Ponce de León is an interdisciplinary scholar whose research focuses on cultural production and antisystemic movements in the Americas since the 1960s. She works across studies of contemporary visual arts, literature, and performance; transnational Latinx and Latin American studies; Marxist aesthetics; and social theory, including anticolonial and postcolonial thought. She is also faculty in Latin American and Latinx Studies (LALS), affiliated faculty in Gender Sexuality and Women’s Studies (GSWS) and Cinema Studies, a member of the Graduate Group in Comparative Literature, and a Faculty Fellow at Lauder College House.

      Dr. Ponce de León is Associate Director of the Critical Theory Workshop/Atelier de Théorie Critique, which holds an intensive summer research program at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris every summer, as well as annual spring symposia at the University of Pennsylvania, and she is Co-Editor of the book series Reinventing Critical Theory at Rowman & Littlefield International. She is also an independent curator. Most recently, she curated the exhibition and film series Resurgent Histories, Insurgent Futures for the Slought Foundation in Philadelphia. She was a 2018-2019 Ford Postdoctoral Fellow and a Visiting Scholar at the Chicano Studies Research Center at the University of California, Los Angeles.

      Selected Publications

      “Through an Anticolonial Looking Glass: On Restitution, Indigenismo, and Zapatista Solidarity in Raiders of the Lost Crown” in American Quarterly (March 2018)

      “How to See Violence: Artistic Activism & the Radicalization of Human Rights” in ASAP/Journal (May 2018)

      “On the Zapatistas’ Little School of Freedom (A Student’s Notes)” in Dancing with the Zapatistas (Duke U. Press, 2015)

      Voices, Variations, and Deviations: From the LACE Archive of Southern California Performance Art” in Live Art in LA, 1970-1983 (Routledge, 2012)

      Penn IUR Scholar

      Steven Raphael

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      Professor and James D. Marver Chair in Public Policy, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley

      Director of the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment

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        About

        Steven Raphael is Professor and James D. Marver Chair in Public Policy, Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. His areas of expertise are labor and employment, race and ethnicity, criminal justice, employment discrimination, labor economics, racial inequality, and urban economics. Raphael has authored several research projects investigating the relationship between racial segregation in housing markets and the relative employment prospects of African Americans. He has also written theoretical and empirical papers on the economics of discrimination, the role of access to transportation in determining employment outcomes, the relationship between unemployment and crime, the role of peer influences on youth behavior, the effect of trade unions on wage structures, and homelessness.

        Selected Publications

        Raphael, Steven, and R.G. Gonzales Gonzales. 2017. “Undocumented Immigrants and Their Experience with Illegality.” Russell Sage Foundation, Journal of Social Sciences, Volume 3 Number 4.

        Raphael, Steven. 2014. The New Scarlet Letter? Negotiating the U.S. Labor Market with a
        Criminal Record, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, Kalamazoo, MI. 

        Card, David and Steven Raphael, eds. 2013. Immigration, Poverty, and Socioeconomic Inequality. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

        Raphael, Steven and Michael Stoll. 2013. Why Are So Many Americans in Prison? New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

        Johnson, Rucker and Steven Raphael. 2012. How Much Crime Reduction Does the Marginal Prisoner Buy? Journal of Law and Economics, 55(2): 275-310.

        Raphael, Steven and Michael Stoll, eds. 2009. Do Prisons Make Us Safer? The Benefits and Costs of the Prison Boom. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

        Faculty Fellow

        Akira Drake Rodriguez

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        Assistant Professor

        About

        Akira Drake Rodriguez's research examines the politics of urban planning, or the ways that disenfranchised groups re-appropriate their marginalized spaces in the city to gain access to and sustain urban political power. Using an interdisciplinary and multiple method approach, her research engages scholarship in urban studies, political science, urban history, black feminist studies, community development, urban policy, and critical geography using both qualitative and quantitative data and methods. This research agenda is particularly relevant in these politically unstable times, where cities continue to marginalize underrepresented minority groups by defunding public institutions, promoting urban policies that subsidize their displacement while limiting affordable housing options, and continuing the funding and support of a militarized police force. Prior to her fellowship, Dr. Rodriguez taught in the Planning department at Temple University and the Political Science department at Rutgers University–Newark. Dr. Rodriguez is currently working on her manuscript, Deviants in Divergent Spaces: The Radical Politics of Atlanta’s Public Housing, which is under contract with the University of Georgia Press. The book explores how the politics of public housing planning and race in Atlanta created a politics of resistance within its public housing developments. This research offers the alternative benefits of public housing, outside of shelter provision, to challenge the overwhelming narrative of public housing as a dysfunctional relic of the welfare state.   

        Selected Publications

        “Remaking Black Political Spaces for Black Liberation.” Metropolitiques. 1 December 2016.

        Penn IUR Scholar

        Jesse Rothstein

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        Professor of Public Policy and Economics, University of California Berkeley

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          About

          Jesse Rothstein is Associate Professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy and the Department of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research spans topics including local public finance, school and teacher accountability and performance measurement, higher education admissions, racial gaps in educational and economic outcomes, and tax and transfer policy. From 2003 to 2009, Rothstein was an Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University. In 2009-2010, he served as Senior Economist for labor and education at the Council of Economic Advisers and then as Chief Economist at the US Department of Labor.  His work has been published in the American Economics Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Public Economics, the Chicago Law Review, and the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, among other outlets.

          Selected Publications

          Cellini, Stephanie, Fernando Ferreira, and  Jesse Rothstein. 2010. The Value of School Facility Investments: Evidence from a Dynamic Regression Discontinuity Design. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 125(1): 215-261.

          Rothstein, Jesse and Cecilia Rouse. 2011. Constrained After College: Student Loans and Early Career Occupational Choices. Journal of Public Economics, 95(1-2): 149-163.

          Card, David , Alexandre Mas, and Jesse Rothstein. 2008. Tipping and the Dynamics of Segregation. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 123(1): 177-218. 

          Rothstein, Jesse. 2012. The Labor Market Four Years Into the Crisis: Assessing Structural Explanations. Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 65(3): 467-500.

          Affiliated PhD Student

          Jeffrey Sharlein

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          Doctoral Candidate in Social Welfare, School of Social Policy and Practice, University of Pennsylvania

          School/Department

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            About

            Jeffrey Sharlein is a PhD student in social welfare in the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Social Policy and Practice (SP2).  Prior to entering the program, he worked directly with urban youth in numerous contexts in New York City and Detroit.  Sharlein holds a BA from Wesleyan University and an MSW from Hunter College, where he was awarded the 2006 Jacob Goldfein Award for Scholarship.  A 2012-2013 recipient of SP2’s Chai Doctoral Fellowship, Sharlein’s dissertation research focuses on understanding how inner-city youth who have engaged in serious offending behavior understand that behavior in relation to the neighborhood context.

             

            Fellow

            Patricia L. Smith

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            President and CEO, The Funders Network

            About

            Patricia L. Smith is President and CEO of The Funders Network (TFN), where she drives TFN’s organizational and operational initiatives and systems and provides oversight and direction to its funder working groups and grant and fellowship programs. She also serves as program lead for TFN’s Inclusive Economies working group, which applies a three-part focus—race, place and prosperity—to economic growth and development.

            Pat is formerly a senior policy advisor for the Reinvestment Fund, a national leader working to revitalize low-income communities through the strategic and innovative use of capital, data and partnerships. She led the Reinvestment Fund’s efforts to improve access to healthier foods in underserved urban and rural communities, and was instrumental in expanding fresh food finance across the industry of community development finance institutions, helping secure over $243 million in federal funding for that work. Prior to joining the Reinvestment Fund, Pat directed the City of Philadelphia’s Neighborhood Transformation Initiative (NTI), a $295 million public-private partnership to stimulate investment in Philadelphia neighborhoods. NTI contributed to a paradigm shift in urban redevelopment policy and resource allocation by creating a data-driven framework for assessing opportunities in distressed urban markets.

            Pat is a current member of the Association of Black Foundation Executives (ABFE), and serves on the technical advisory committee for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s national initiative, Aligning Systems for Health, led by the Georgia Health Policy Center.

            Fellow

            Margery Austin Turner

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            Institute Fellow at the Urban Institute

            Senior Vice President for Program Planning and Management, Urban Institute

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              About

              Margery Austin Turner is an Institute Fellow at the Urban Institute, where she leads efforts to frame and conduct a forward-looking agenda of policy research. A nationally recognized expert on urban policy and neighborhood issues, Ms. Turner has analyzed issues of residential location, racial and ethnic discrimination and its contribution to neighborhood segregation and inequality, and the role of housing policies in promoting residential mobility and location choice.

              Ms. Turner served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Research at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) from 1993 through 1996, focusing HUD’s research agenda on the problems of racial discrimination, concentrated poverty, and economic opportunity in America’s metropolitan areas. During her tenure, HUD’s research office launched three major social science demonstration projects to test different strategies for helping families from distressed inner-city neighborhoods gain access to opportunities through employment and education.

              Selected Publications

              Turner, Margery Austin et al. Housing Discrimination Against Racial and Ethnic Minorities 2012. U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Housing Development and Research. June 2013.

              Turner, Margery Austin, Austin Nichols and Jennifer Comey. The Benefits of Living in High-Opportunity Neighborhoods: Insights from the Moving to Opportunity Demonstration. The Urban Institute. September 2012.

              Coulton, Claudia J., Brett Theodos, and Margery Austin Turner. Family Mobility and Neighborhood Change: New Evidence and Implications for Community Initiatives. The Urban Institute. November 2009.

              Turner, Margery Austin and Lynette A. Rawlings. Promoting Neighborhood Diversity: Benefits, Barriers, and Strategies. The Urban Institute. August 2009.

              Turner, Margery Austin et al. Quality Schools, Healthy Neighborhoods and the Future of D.C. The Urban Institute. October 2008.

              Affiliated PhD Student

              Alexandra Wimberly

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              PhD Candidate in Social Policy and Practice, University of Pennsylvania

              School/Department

              Areas of Interest

                About

                Alexandra Schepens is a Ph.D. student at the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy and Practice. Her research looks at the cross-section of criminal justice and substance use. This work aims to develop substance use interventions for people in the criminal justice system with the goal of decreasing the imprisoned population.

                 

                Affiliated PhD Student

                Tali Ziv

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                PhD Candidate in the Department of Anthropology

                About

                Tali Ziv is currently a PhD student in the Department of Anthropology with certificates in both Africana and Urban studies. Her research explores the contemporary decarceration efforts in Philadelphia, examining the community-based institutional transformation that has shaped the incarceration alternative landscape. She does this through a structural analysis of the historical economic and political forces that shaped both carceral and decarceral approaches to the social issues of addiction and poverty as well as an intimate analysis of individual experiences navigating these systems. In sum, her dissertation research explores the transformation of urban approaches to racialized poverty from both a structural and intimate vantage point. She conducted this research in collaboration with various city agencies, participating in applied projects both technically and advocacy-based in the field of re-entry. She engages her public health training to bring the qualitative data from her anthropological research into conversation with applied initiatives and interventions at the municipal level.

                Selected Publications

                Ziv, Tali. 2020. Alienation in the Black Marxist Tradition: Exploring critical epistemology and consciousness in Black Politics. American Quarterly. Under Review.

                Ziv, Tali.  2017. “It be hard just existing”: Institutional Surveillance and Precarious Objects in the Northeast Rustbelt. Ethnography. Vol. 18(2):153-174.

                Myers, Neely, Ziv, Tali. 2016. “No one ever even asked me that before”: Autobiographical Incoherence, Psychosis and Recovery among African Americans in a High Poverty, Urban Neighborhood. Medical Anthropology Quarterly. Vol. 30 (3): 395-413.

                Barg, Frances, Kellom, Katherine, Ziv, Tali et al. 2017. LVAD-DT: Culture of Rescue and Liminal Experience in the Treatment of Heart Failure. American Journal of Bioethics. Vol. 17(2): 3-11.

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