Urban Doctoral Symposium

2004

• Peter Brown, City Planning, “Port Authorities as Redevelopment Agencies: Politics, Organizations, and Institutions On A Changing Waterfront”
• Daniel Campo, City Planning, “On the Waterfront: Vernacular Recreation at Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal”
• Jeffrey Casello, Engineering, “Improving Regional Transportation System Performance Through Increased Suburban Intermodalism: A User Cost Modeling Approach”
• Susan Clampet-Lundquist, Sociology, “Hope or Harm?: Deconcentration and the Welfare of Families in Public Housing”
• Annemarie Constainescu-Strihan, City Planning “Patterns of Interaction Across Borders: Space, Language and Architecture- A Network Model Applied to Border Regions in Belgium and Spain”
• Joseph Cytrynbaum, Social Work, “Missed Opportunities: Managing Achievement and Difference in an Urban Public College Preparatory Magnet High School”
• David Grossman, Education, “Assisting Communities Through University Partnerships: A Study of the Program in Non-Profits, Universities, Communities, and Schools”
• Rebecca Kissane, Sociology, “Welfare Reform and the Private Safety Net”
•  Christopher Klemek, History, “Urbanism as Reform: Modernist Planning and the Crisis of Urban Liberalism in Europe and North America, 1945-1975”
•  Lynn Mandarano, City Planning, “Protecting Habitats: New York- New Jersey Harbor Estuary Program - Collaborative Planning and Scientific Information”
• Yunwoo Nam, City Planning, “Spatial Variation of Residential and Employment Land Consumption Rates in a Metropolitan Region: Atlanta, Chicago, Sacramento, San Antonio”
• Francis Padraig Ryan, History, “Everyone Royalty: AFSCME, Municipal Workers and Urban Power in Philadelphia, 1921-1983”
• Peter Siskind, History, “Growth and Its Discontents: Localism, Protest and the Politics of Development on the Postwar Northeast Corridor”
• Domenic Vitiello, City Planning, “Engineering the Metropolis: The Sellers Family and Industrial Philadelphia”
• Hara Wright-Smith, City Planning, “The Impact of Inner City Commuter and Community Congregations on Civic Engagement and Social Action”

2005

• Mona Basta, Social Work, “Child Care Decision Making for Single Mothers Leaving Welfare”
• Victor Calanog, Wharton, “Essays on the Economics of Development Strategies”
• Elisha Dumser, Archaeology and Anthropology, “The Architecture of Maxentius: A Study in Architectural Design and Urban Planning in Early Fourth-Century Rome”
• Robert Fairbanks, Social Welfare, “Communal Re-Appropriation of Blighted Spaces: Governmentality and the Politics of Everyday Life in the Kensington Recovery House Movement”
• Kevin Gillen, Wharton, “The Impact of Tenant-Based Section 8 Housing Voucher Concentration on the Real Estate Market in the City of Philadelphia”
• Jonathan Stanger-Ross, History, “The Choreography of Community: Italian Ethnicity in Postwar Toronto and Philadelphia”
• Jeanine Staples, Education, “Reading the World & the Word After School: African American Urban Adolescents’ Reading Experiences and Literacy Practices in Relationship to Media Texts”

2006

• Gnana K. Bharathy, Engineering, “Agent Based Human Behavior Modeling: A Knowledge Engineering Based Systems Methodology for Integrating of Social Science Frameworks for Modeling Agents with Cognition, Personality, & Culture”
• Victor Canalog, Wharton, “Business Improvement Districts: Crime Deterrence or Displacement?”
• Reagan M. Daly, Criminology, “Delinquent Networks in Philadelphia: The
• Structure of Co-Offending Among Juveniles”
• Rosina Miller, Folklore and Folk Life, “Performing the Urban Village: Art, Place-Making, and Cultural Politics in North Central Philadelphia”
• Hassan Radoine, Architecture, “An Encompassing Madina: Toward New Definition of City in Morocco”

2007

• Maia Cucchiara, Education, “Marketing Schools, Marketing Cities: Urban Revitalization, Public Education and Social Inequality”
• Elizabeth Greenspan, Anthropology, “Scaling Tragedy: Memorialization and Globalization at the World Trade Center Site”
• Michael Janson, Political Science, “A Christian Century: Liberal Protestantism, The New Deal, and the Origins of Post-War American Politics”
• Karen Beck Pooley, City Planning, “Effective Neighborhood Revitalization Strategies: The Array and Impact of Subsidized Place-Based Investments in Philadelphia”
• Christopher Puchalsky, Engineering, “Use of Bi-Level Optimization Techniques for the Problem of Transit-Frequency Determination - New Formulation and Solution Techniques”

2008

• Rene Luis Alvarez, History, “Minority Education in the Urban Midwest: Culture, Identity, and Mexican Americans in Chicago, 1910-1977”
• Russell P. Cole, Education, “The Distributed Leadership Experiment: First Year Impacts on School Culture, Teacher Networks, and Student Achievement”
• Leah Gordon, History, “The Question of Prejudice: Social Science, Education, and the Struggle to Define ‘The Race Problem’ in Postwar America, 1940-1960”
• Cheryl Jones-Walker, Education, “(CO) Construction Identities in Urban Classrooms”
• Melissa Saunders, City Planning, “Civic Design Organizations”

2009

• Daniel Amsterdam, History, “The Roaring Metropolis: Business, Civic Welfare, and State Expansion in 1920s America”
• Nianbo Dong, Education, “Drawing Causal Inferences from a Longitudinal Cluster of Randomized Experiment with Crossovers: A Study of a Distributed Leadership Program in Urban Schools”
• Alexander Eisenschmidt, Architecture, “The Formless Großstadt and Its Potent Negativity: Berlin, 1910 through the Eyes of Endell, Scheer, and Hegemann”
• Hillit Meidar-Al, City Planning, “Measuring the Utility of Urban Infrastructure Systems: A First Step Towards a Comprehensive Evaluation of Non- Transportation Infrastructure Systems”
• Daniel A. Moscovici, City Planning, “Land Preservation’s Eect on the Environment, Economy, and Society of the Northern Forest of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and the Adirondack Region of New York”

2010

• Amy Bach, Education, “The Possibilities and Complexities of Creating and Distributing Non-Commercial Public Media in a Private and Commercial World”
• Clarisse Haxton, Education, “The Role of Families and Schools in Philadelphia’s High School Application Process: Information Access, Application, and Admissions”
• Catherine C. McDonald, Nursing, “Community Violence Exposure and Positive Youth Development in Urban Youth”
• Stephanie Ryberg, City Planning, “Neighborhood Stabilization through Historic Preservation: An Analysis of Historic Preservation and Community Development in Cleveland, Providence, Houston, and Seattle”
• Nicholas L. Stapp, City Planning, “A Methodology of the Documentation and Analysis of Urban Historic Resources”
• Khaled Tarabieh, City Planning, “A Framework for Energy Performance Indicators: Applying the Composite Indicator Method to a University Campus”

2011

• Peter Clericuzio, History of Art, “Nancy as the Center of Art Nouveau Architecture, 1895-1914”
• Rosemary Frasso, Social Policy & Practice, “Exploring the Association Between Maternal Health Literacy and Pediatric Health Care Utilization: Is Low Health Literacy a Barrier of Concern?”
• Lia Howard, Political Science, “The Great Equalizer? A Five State Study of Compulsory School Attendance Age Policy and Administration”
• Amanda Johnson, City Planning, “Arts Anchored Redevelopment Districts”
• Sisi Liang, City Planning, “Physical Planning Strategies of National High- Technology Industrial Development Zones in China”
• Christopher Soto, Education, “Laboring to Connect: The Challenges of Student-Teacher Inter-Subjectivity at an Urban Charter High School”

2012

• Shahana Chattaraj, Lauder Institute, “Shanghai Dreams: Urban Restructuring in Globalizing Mumbai”
• Erika Kitzmiller, Education Culture & Society and History,“The Roots of Educational Inequality: Germantown High School 1907-2011”
• Anne Bradley Mitchell, Nursing,“Perceptions of Neighborhood Built Environment and Health on Walking in Minority Urban Older Adults” Urban Politics and Policy in the United States and Britain, 1976-2000” Nancy Peter, Teaching, Learning, & Curriculum, “Peer Networking as Professional Development for Out-of School Time Staff”
• Timothy Weaver, Political Science, “Neoliberalism in the Trenches”

2013

• Carolyn Chernoff, Sociology and Education, “Imagining the City: Community-Based Art and the Experience of Urban Diversity”
• Jordan Hyatt, Criminology, “The Impact of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy on the Recidivism of High Risk Probationers: Results from a Randomized Trial”
• Whitney LeBoeuf, Education Policy, “The Effects of Intradistrict School Monility and High Student Turnover Rates on Early Reading Achievement”
• Lisa Merrill, Education Policy, “The Relationship Between Teacher Turnover and School Performance in New York City’s Middle Schools”

2014

• Claire Robertson-Kraft, Education, “Teachers’ Motivational Responses to New Teacher Performance Management Systems: An Evaluation of the Pilot of Aldine ISD’s INVEST System”
• Amy Lynch, City Planning, “Is it Good to be Green?: An Assessment of County Green Infrastructure Planning in Colorado, Florida, and Maryland”
• Jamaica Corker, Demography, “Urbanization and Demographic Change in Sub-Saharan Africa: Three Essays on Fertility and Child Mortality Differentials in a Rapidly-Urbanizing Context”
• Seung Ah Byun, City Planning, “Nonpoint Source Pollution Control: An Evaluation of Policies and Programs to Achieve Healthy Waters”
• Stuart Andreason, City Planning, “Will Talent Attraction and Retention
• Improve Metropolitan Labor Markets? The Labor Market Impact of Increased Educational Attainment in U.S. Metropolitan Regions 1990-2010”

2015

• Johnathan Argaman, Political Science, “International, Connected, and on the Edge: Aspirational City Planning in Cairo”
• Peter Blair, Real Estate and Finance, “The Effect of Outside Options on Neighborhood Tipping Points”
• Benjamin Chrisinger, City Planning, “If You Build It, Will They Come, and What Will They Eat? Investigating Supermarket Development in Food Deserts”
• Megan Ehlenz, City Planning, “Anchoring Communities: The Impact of University Intervention in Neighborhood Revitalization”
• Yu Shu (Joseph) Su, City Planning, “Rebuild, Retreat, or Resilience: Can Taipei Plan for Resilience?”
• Albert Alex Zevlev, Real Estate and Finance, Regulating Mortgage Leverage: Fire Sales, Foreclosure Spirals, and Pecuniary Externalities

2016

• Albert T. Han, City and Regional Planning, “Evaluating the Performance of the Greenbelt Policy for Present and Future Urban Growth Management and Environmental Protection: A Case Study in the Seoul Metropolitan Area of South Korea”
• Mary Rocco, City and Regional Planning, “Partnership, Philanthropy and Innovation: 21st Century Revitalization in US Legacy Cities”
• Kenneth Steif, City and Regional Planning, “Toward School Improvement Districts: School Quality & the Equitable Revitalization of Neighborhoods”
• Dan Treglia, Social Policy and Practice, “Using Positive Psychology to Explain Shelter Use: A Study of Homeless Families in New York City”

2017

• Theo Lim, City and Regional Planning, “Land, Water, Infrastructure, and People: Considerations of Planning Distributed Stormwater Management Systems”
• Chia-Hui Lu, East Asian Studies and Folklore, “Healing and the Borderland of Medicine and Religion: A Folklore Study of Healthcare in Taiwan”
• Julia McWilliams, Anthropology and Education, “Branding Against Closure: Philadelphia Neighborhood Schools and the Management of Risky Futures
• Anthony Pracher, History, “Occupational Inequality, Racial Integration, and the Spatial Development of Maryvale, Phoenix, 1970-1990”

2018

• Nour Halabi, Communications, “Radical (In)hospitality: American Media and Regulatory Stances Towards Immigration & Travel Bans”
• Jae Min Lee, City and Regional Planning, “Hidden Cities: Reinventing the Non-space Between Street and Subway”
• Aaron Shapiro, Communications, “Design, Control, Predict: Cultural Politics in the Actually Existing Smart City”
• Eliza Davenport Whiteman, City and Regional Planning, “Eating at the End of the Month: The SNAP Cycle, Its Management and Impacts on the Health of Low-Income Households”

2019

• Cameron Anglum, Education Policy, “Credit Constrained? How the Cost ofCapital Affects District Resources and Student Achievement”
• James Morone, Political Science, “Institutions, Social Networks, and theProduction of Neighborhood-Level Racial Justice Activism”
• M. Zoë Warner, City & Regional Planning, “Influence of Landscape Spatial Patterns and Land Use Planning on Grassland Bird Habitat Occupancy in Chester County, Pennsylvania”

2022

• Summer Dong, City & Regional Planning, “A Philadelphia Ride-share Story:An Investigation of Ride-Share’s Impact on Transit”
• Samuel Geldin, City & Regional Planning, “Rethinking the Heavy Hand of Flood Prevention in Informal Settlements: An Investigation of Retreat- Related Practices in the Philippines”
• Phillip Mulder, Applied Economics, “Mismeasuring Risk: The Welfare Effects of Flood Risk Information”
• Megan Reed, Sociology and Demography, “Marriage and Family in India”
• Jennifer Whitaker, City & Regional Planning, “Opportunities for Engaging Planning’s Core Values and Skills to Improve Maternal and Child Health in Rural U.S. Communities”

2023

• David Mitre Becerril, Criminology, School of Arts & Sciences, “Transforming the Asian Motorcycle City? Evaluating the Travel and Urban Development Effects of the Mass Rapid Transit in Taipei, Taiwan”
• Bing-yu Chiu, City & Regional Planning Weitzman School of Design, “Transforming the Asian Motorcycle City? Evaluating the Travel and Urban Development Effects of the Mass Rapid Transit in Taipei, Taiwan”
• Xuequan Elsie Peng, Economics, School of Arts & Sciences, “The Dynamics of Urban Development: Evidence from Land Use Reform in New York”
• Chris Quattro, City & Regional Planning, Weitzman School of Design, “Investigating Disparate Impact: Zoning’s Spatial Relationship to Low-Income Populations and People of Color in Major U.S. Cities”
• Boqian Xu, City & Regional Planning Weitzman School of Design, “Transforming China’s National New Areas towards Ecological Civilization: A planetary ecological perspective and a scenario modeling method”

2024

• Bruce Zou, Organizational Learning & Leadership, Graduate School of Education, “Localizing International Manufacturing Companies in the U.S. - Examining Successful Labor Practices”