Urban Studies, Urban Economics, and Urbanization Social Science Experts in Space and Place: Urban Studies, Urban Economics, and Urbanization Heading link Copy link Dr. Tarini Bedi | Anthropology urban and political anthropology, infrastructure, roads, and mobilities, cultural geography, gender studies methods: urban ethnography Dr. Kareem Rabie | Anthropology privatization, urban development, and the state-building project in the West Bank methods: urban ethnography Dr. Ashley Muchow | Criminology, Law, Justice causes and consequences of social inequality and the role of policy in alleviating or aggravating these disparities Dr. Marcus Casey | Economics urban economics, public economics, labor economics Dr. Erik Hembre | Economics public economics, labor economics, applied microeconomics Dr. Joseph Persky | Economics urban and regional economics; history of thought; public finance; radical political economy Dr. Evan McKenzie | Political Science urban politics; public law; American politics Dr. Dick Simpson | Political Science (emeritus) political action, ethics, and politics Dr. Yue Zhang | Political Science governance reform, inclusive development, and the welfare of migrant workers Dr. Andy Clarno | Sociology racism, capitalism, colonialism, policing, comparative racial formation, political sociology Dr. Michael Emerson | Sociology race and religion, urban environments Dr. Maria Krysan | Sociology racial residential segregation, racial attitudes methods: survey methods, multi-methods; closed-ended survey analysis with mode of administration experiments, analyses of open-ended survey questions, focus groups, and in-depth interviews