Jennifer R. Wolch is a professor of

urban planning Urban planning (also called city planning in some contexts) is the process of developing and designing land use and the built environment, including air, water, and the infrastructure passing into and out of urban areas, such as transportatio ...

geography Geography (from Ancient Greek ; combining 'Earth' and 'write', literally 'Earth writing') is the study of the lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of Earth. Geography is an all-encompassing discipline that seeks an understanding o ...

and former dean of the

UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design The College of Environmental Design, also known as CED, is one of 15 schools and colleges at the University of California, Berkeley. The college is housed in Bauer Wurster Hall at the southeast corner of the main Campus of the University of Califo ...

. Before accepting the dean position, Wolch was the founder and director of the Center for Sustainable Cities at the

University of Southern California The University of Southern California (USC, SC, or Southern Cal) is a Private university, private research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Founded in 1880 by Robert M. Widney, it is the oldest private research university in ...

. She received her

Ph.D. A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, DPhil; or ) is a terminal degree that usually denotes the highest level of academic achievement in a given discipline and is awarded following a course of graduate study and original research. The name of the deg ...

in urban planning from

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial ...

, her dissertation focusing on urban social policy and planning,

human-animal relations Anthrozoology, also known as human–animal studies (HAS), is the subset of ethnobiology that deals with biological interaction, interactions between humans and other animals. It is an interdisciplinary field that overlaps with other disciplin ...

cultural diversity Cultural diversity is the quality of diverse or different cultures, as opposed to Monoculturalism, monoculture. It has a variety of meanings in different contexts, sometimes applying to cultural products like art works in museums or entertainment ...

and attitudes toward animals and

urban sustainability Sustainable urbanism is both the study of cities and the practices to build them (urbanism), that focuses on promoting their long term viability by reducing consumption, waste and harmful impacts on people and place while enhancing the overall we ...

Awards

* Residency at the

Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) is an interdisciplinary research institution at Stanford University designed to advance the frontiers of knowledge about human behavior and society, and contribute to the resoluti ...

, 1995–1996 * USC Raubenheimer Outstanding Senior Faculty Award, 1997 *

Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are Grant (money), grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, endowed by the late Simon Guggenheim, Simon and Olga Hirsh Guggenheim. These awards are bestowed upon indiv ...

Recipient, 1997 * Rockefeller Fellowship Recipient, Residential Fellow at the

Rockefeller Foundation The Rockefeller Foundation is an American private foundation and philanthropic medical research and arts funding organization based at 420 Fifth Avenue, New York City. The foundation was created by Standard Oil magnate John D. Rockefeller (" ...

's Bellagio Center in Italy, 2003 * Distinguished Scholarship Honors by the

Association of American Geographers The American Association of Geographers (AAG) is a non-profit scientific and educational society aimed at advancing the understanding, study, and importance of geography and related fields. Its headquarters is located in Washington, D.C. The ...

, 2005

Works

* Wolch, J. R., Dear, M. J. (1987).
Landscapes of Despair: From Deinstitutionalization to Homelessness
'. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. * Wolch, J. R., Dear, M. J. (1989).
The Power of Geography: How Territory Shapes Social Life
'. Unwin Hyman. * Wolch, J. R. (1990). ''The Shadow State: Government and Voluntary Sector in Transition''.

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. * Wolch, J. R., Dear, M. J. (1993). ''Malign Neglect: Homelessness in an American City'' (Jossey Bass Public Administration Series). Jossey Bass Wiley. * Wolch, J. R., Emel, J. (1998). ''Animal Geographies: Place, Politics and Identity in the Nature-Culture Borderlands''. Verso. * Wolch, J. R., Pascale Joassart-Marcelli, Alejandro Alonso & Nathan Sessoms (2005). "Spatial Segregation of the Poor in Southern California: A Multidimensional Analysis". ''

Urban Geography Urban geography is the subdiscipline of geography that derives from a study of cities and urban processes. Urban geographers and urbanists examine various aspects of urban life and the built environment. Scholars, activists, and the public have ...

'', 26(7):587-609,

References

External links

University of Southern California bio
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