FACULTY and STAFF DIRECTORY

Faculty Administration | Support Staff | Faculty | Adjunct Faculty | Faculty Emeritus

Faculty Administration

Mark Wilson, Associate Professor and Program Director
Ph.D. Regional Science, University of Pennsylvania
Research Interests: electronic commerce
e-mail: wilsonmm@msu.edu

Support Staff

Dawn M. Brown, Undergraduate & Graduate Secretary
101 Urban Planning and Landscape Architecture Building
e-mail: browndaw@msu.edu

Tom Cocozzoli, Library Assistant
Charles Barr Planning and Design Library (PLA)
212 Urban Planning and Landscape Architecture Building
e-mail: cocozzo1@msu.edu

Kyungsik Irene Shim
Korean Programs
201A Urban Planning and Landscape Architecture Building
e-mail: shimkyun@msu.edu

Faculty

Kenneth E. Corey, Professor
Ph.D. Geography, University of Cincinnati
Research Interests: international approaches to urban and regional policy analysis and planning
e-mail: kenneth.cory@ssc.msu.edu

Peilei Fan, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Economic Development, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research Interests: high-tech industrialization, Asia's urbanization, spatial analysis
e-mail: fanpeile@msu.edu

Roger E. Hamlin, Professor
Ph.D. Urban & Regional Planning, Syracuse University
Research Interests: fiscal/regional planning and economic development
e-mail: hamlin@msu.edu

Rene C. Hinojosa, Professor
Ph.D. Urban Planning, University of Washington
Research Interests: research and evaluation methods, regional analysis, international planning and housing, transportation planning
e-mail: hinojosa@msu.edu

Zenia Kotval, Associate Professor
Co-Director, Urban Planning Partnerships
Ph.D. Regional Planning, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Research Interests: local economic development; industrial development policy
e-mail: kotval@msu.edu

Rex LaMore, Senior Specialist
Director, Community Economic Development Program
Ph.D. Education and Community Development, University of Michigan
Research Interests: community development
e-mail: lamore@msu.edu

Patricia L. Machemer, Assistant Professor (joint with the Landscape Architecture Program)
Ph.D. Resource Development, Michigan State University
Research Interests: land use, landscape management, growth management, participatory design process
e-mail: machemer@msu.edu

Herbert P. Norman, Jr., Graduate Program Coordinator & Undergraduate Advisor
Ph.D. Social Science-Urban & Regional Planning, Michigan State University
Research Interests: land use planning, land management, planning process theory, and international applications
e-mail: normanh@msu.edu

John Schweitzer, Professor, URPP/Community Economic Development Program
Ph.D. Educational Psychology, Michigan State University
Research Interests: urban residential neighborhoods, community development, urban school reform
e-mail: schweit1@msu.edu

Eric J. Strauss, Professor
J.D., Northwestern University
Ph.D. Urban Planning, University of Wisconsin- Madison
Research Interests: urban and rural land use planning, environmental management, planning law
e-mail: strausse@msu.edu

Igor Vojnovic, Adjunct
Associate Professor of Geography
Michigan State University
e-mail: vojnovic@msu.edu

Mark Wilson, Associate Professor and Program Director
Ph.D. Regional Science, University of Pennsylvania
Research Interests: electronic commerce
e-mail: wilsonmm@msu.edu

Adjunct Faculty

Alfred V. Diebel, Adjunct Professor
Comerica Securities, Detroit
Master of Urban Planning, Michigan State University
M.S. Finance, Walsh College of Accounting and Business
Academic Interests: public finance

Schun Hagiwara, Adjunct Professor
Schun Hagiwara & Associates, Inc., Tokyo
Ph.D. Social Science- Urban Planning, Michigan State University
Research Interests: urban design, international economic development, real estate development, location theory

Calin Hintea, Adjunct Professor
Babes Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania
Academic interests: public administration
B.A. Political Science, Babes Bolyai University
Ph.D. Sociology, Babes Bolyai University

Christine Ziegler-Hennings, Adjunct Professor
University of Dortmund (Germany), Professor of Spatial Planning
Diplom-Ing. Landscape Ecology, University of Munich
Research Interests: landscape architecture, environmental planning

Faculty Emeritus

Sanford S. Farness, Professor Emeritus
Master of City Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Carl Goldschmidt, Professor Emeritus
Director Emeritus, MSU School of Urban Planning & Landscape Architecture
Ph.D. Urban Affairs, University of Pittsburgh
e-mail: cg@msu.edu

Keith M. Honey, Professor Emeritus
Master of Urban Planning, Michigan State University

Miriam E. Rutz, Professor Emeritus
M.S. Landscape Architecture, University of Arizona