Faculty - Urban and Regional Studies

Faculty - Urban and Regional Studies - UMD CLA

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Adam Pine:

apine@d.umn.edu

I am an urban geographer primarily interested in the relationship between population change and urban development. Given that we are living in the “age of migration” how is this changing the political, economic and cultural life of US cities? I am also deeply interested in questions of social justice and governance, and trying to figure out how urban governments can effectively manage “cities of difference.” Given these interests I have a wide variety of different research projects going on examining (1) Migration and Citizenship; (2) The politics Food Scarcity and Food Deserts; (3) Geographies of Dance.

Dan Martin:

dmartin@d.umn.edu

http://www.d.umn.edu/~dmartin/

Garrick Percival:

percival@d.umn.edu

Garrick Percival completed his Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Riverside in June 2005. His research and teaching interests lie at the nexus of public policy, public administration, and politics, at the state and local levels of the American political system. The theoretical rationale connected to his research centers on how contextual characteristics like public opinion, racial attitudes, and differing institutional arrangements impact the enactment, diffusion, and implementation of public policy. Percival’s most recent research projects examine the politics behind the diffusion of criminal justice reform policies across the U.S. states and how local policy networks manage and implement drug policy at the county level. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Policy Studies Journal, Political Research Quarterly, State and Local Government Review, and the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. In his spare time, Percival enjoys watching baseball (especially the Seattle Mariners), playing racquetball, and hiking along Lake Superior.

Jennifer Jones:

jejones@d.umn.edu

http://www.d.umn.edu/~jejones/

Judy Ann Trolander:

jtroland@d.umn.edu

Prof. Judith Ann Trolander teaches Hist. 3361, "The American City." She has authored two books on the settlement house movement and is currently seeking a publisher for a book, tentatively titled, /Age 55 or Better: A History of Active Adult Communities. /She is also currently serving on a Geographically Focused Advisory Committee for the DNR on its shoreland rules update project. Besides her home on Park Point, she owns an abandoned dairy farm on Cokato Lake in Wright County, where she has land in CRP (Conservation Reserve Program of the USDA) and has a Woodland Stewardship Plan for her property. Don't look for a website.