Graduate Group Faculty
The Community Development Graduate Group Faculty includes members from a multitude of campus departments, including Human & Community Development, Landscape Architecture, Environmental Design, Statistics, Sociology, and various Ethnic Studies programs. Such a diverse collection of faculty allows students a great degree of flexibility in designing a program of study related to their particular interests.
Faculty Contact Information
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| Name | Department | Areas of Interest | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chris Benner | Human and Community Development | Social implications of information technology, urban labor markets and restructuring of work, regional development and social equity, social movements and innovative community/labor organizing. | |
| Marc Blanchard | Comparative Literature | Research interests are in Comparative Literature, Theory, Semiotics and the Critique of Culture. | |
| Stephen Brush | Human and Community Development | Agricultural ecology and the conservation of crop genetic resources. | |
| David Campbell | Human and Community Development | Public policy and community governance; citizenship and civic engagement; non-profit and faith-related organizations; program evaluation. | |
| Adela De La Torre | Chicana/o Studies | Health care access and finance issues that affect the Latino community as well as Border health issues, education and occupational location of Hispanics | |
| Deborah Elliot-Fisk | Wildlife, Fish, and Conservation Biology | Biogeography; ecosystem analysis and management; soils and geomorphology; viticultural geography; mountain and coastal systems; Environmental and Natural Resources. | |
| Gail Feenstra | (SAREP) | Conducting applied and evaluative research that strengthens community development efforts and coordinating education and outreach to community-based groups to build their capacity and leadership skills. | |
| Yvette Flores | Chicana/o Studies | Intimate partner violence among Mexicans on both sides of the border. | |
| Mark Francis | Environmental Design | Theory and design of urban and community landscapes. | |
| Isao Fujimoto | Human and Community Development | Strategies for community empowerment, rural revitalization, celebrations and symbols for building community solidarity, sustainable agriculture and appropriate technology, San Joaquin Valley, Third World, Pacific Rim, Japan, and Micronesia. | |
| Ryan E. Galt | Human and Community Development | People-environment geography, cultural and political ecology, agricultural and environmental governance, political economy of sustainable agriculture, cartographic design. | |
| James Grieshop | Human and Community Development | Community based education, Latino and immigrant communities, leadership, transnational communication. | |
| Luis E. Guarnizo | Human and Community Development | Economic Sociology, transnational migration, immigrant entrepreneurs, comparative international development, citizenship. | |
| Joyce Gutstein | Public Service Research Program | Research and education on issues of public concern with particular emphasis on collaborative, interdisciplinary approaches to resource management and environmental policy and education. | |
| Susan Handy | Environmental Science and Policy | Relationships between transportation and land use, including the impact of land use on travel behavior and the impact of transportation investments on land development patterns. In addition, my work is directed towards strategies for enhancing accessibility and reducing automobile dependence, including land use policies and telecommunications services. | |
| Paul Heckman | School of Education | Curriculum theory and change, Educational Ecology of communities, Educational Leadership, School, curriculum and community change, School culture: change and cognition. | |
| Robin Hill | Art, Art History | Public art, She believes art is about tuning in to the frequency of daily life and seeing things as they truly are. "Ideas are encountered, rather than gotten. | |
| Frank Hirtz | Human and Community Development | Sociology of development; anthropology and sociology of law; comparative social policy and social welfare; charity, solidarity and reciprocity; third sector and communities; rural development; social theory; Southern Africa, Haiti, Southeast Asia, Western Europe and California. | |
| Susan Kaiser | Textiles and Clothing | Fashion theory and feminist epistemologies, Youth style and cultural anxiety, Cultural studies approach to appearance style and identity, focusing on intersections among gender, race and ethnicity. | |
| Martin Kenney | Human and Community Development | Globalization, venture capital, development of innovative clusters, evolution of high-technology industries, the relocation of services to developing nations. | |
| David Kyle | Sociology | International migration, development and globalization. | |
| William B. Lacy | Human and Community Development | Sociology of science, organization and structure of agricultural research and extension (U.S. and international), social psychology of education and outreach, international research and higher education policy and practices. | |
| Michael Lawler | UC Davis Extension | Focus on at-risk families and on how parents perceive the development of their children. Hopefully, my current research will develop into a life-long research agenda. | |
| Jonathan London | Center for the Study of Regional Change | Environmental justice, Environmental/ natural resource policy, Community and youth participation, Political ecology, Rural development, Social movements. | |
| Jeff Loux | Land Use and Natural Resources/ UC Davis Extension | ||
| Mark Lubell | Environmental Science and Policy | Watershed management, environmental activism, and agricultural best management practices. | |
| Janet Momsen | Human and Community Development | Gender and development, tourism, women and agriculture, small-scale agriculture, regional geography of the Caribbean, Brazil, Central America, Eastern Europe, and South Asia. | |
| Ben Orlove | Environmental Science and Policy | Human dimensions of inter-annual climate variability," especially the ways how people cope with El Niño events. I study such topics as traditional forms of forecasting among peasant and indigenous people; the use of forecasts in modern societies; and the influence of globalization on current responses to climate variability. | |
| Patsy Eubanks Owens | Environmental Design | Environments of children and adolescents, community participation. | |
| Richard Pan | Medicine, General Pediatrics | Teach physicians to partner with community organizations to build healthier communities. I am interested in the relationship between social capital and child health and development. | |
| Debra Paterniti | UCDHS: Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care | Physician-patient interaction, patient decision-making, quality of life and aging, and informed consent. She focuses on the application of qualitative research methods in health services research.Assistant adjunct professor of medicine and sociologist at the Center for Heath Services Research in Primary Care. Award for Excellence in Service to Grad STudents - UCD Health System. | |
| Dennis Pendleton | UC Davis Extension | Natural resources policy, planning and administration; environmental assessment; simulation/optimization modeling of ecological systems. | |
| Carolyn Penny | Common Ground, UC Davis Extension | Conflict resolution, issue-framing, meeting design, facilitation of multi-stakeholder decision making, organizational planning, mediation, facilitation of public engagement processes, training, and analysis and writing. | |
| Michael Rios | Environmental Design | Research interests center on the assessment of public policy, professional practice, and citizen participation in the planning and design of the built environment. The aim of this collective work is to understand how institutions, practitioners, and citizens develop capacities for collective action, praxis, and meaningful participation as members of political communities. | |
| Michael Peter Smith | Human and Community Development | Transnationalism and citizenship, globalization, urban social theory, urban political economy and culture, racial and ethnic formation. | |
| Julie Sze | American Studies | Her research is at the intersection of interdisciplinary fields: American studies, environmental, urban and ethnic studies. She focuses on race, class, gender and environment, environmental justice movement, urban environmentalism and environmental health. | |
| Bernadette Tarallo | Human and Community Development | Economic development; transnational immigration; labor process studies; and, social inequities in the community. | |
| Tom Tomich | Human and Community Development | Agricultural sustainability, sustainable food systems, sustainability metrics and indicators, sustainability science. | |
| Jessica Utts | Statistics | Applied statistics with emphasis on parapsychology. | |
| Mark Van Horn | PSTC/SF | ||
| Karen Watson-Gegeo | School of Education | Classroom discourse; Education in Developing Countries; Ethnography and Ethnographic research; Language Acquisition; Language development and socialization; Literacy and Language policy; Organizational structure/effectiveness; Pidgin/creole languages; Sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics. | |
| Miriam Wells | Human and Community Development | Political and economic anthropology, ethnicity, economic development, unionization/social movements, immigration and immigration policy, the social organization of agriculture. | |
| Steve Wheeler | Environmental Design | Sustainable development; urban design; city and regional planning; land use; climate change. | |
| Diane Wolf | Sociology | Gender and development, family/households, fieldwork, Southeast Asia, immigration. | |