Faculty Research Expertise

Research

• Equity in Urban Development
• Sustainable Development and Resilience Planning
• Neighborhood Indicators
• Built Environment and Public Health
• Environmental Impact Assessment
• GIS Strategies for Urban Planning

Email: david.abraham@uta.edu

Research

• Analysis of Urban Development
• Physical Planning and Urban Design
• Environmental and Land Suitability Analysis Using GIS Technology
• Metropolitan Integrated Land-Use Transportation Planning and Modeling
• Urban and Regional Demographics and Economic Analysis and Forecasting
• Research and Analytical Techniques
• Community Revitalization and Economic Development
• Policy Analysis and
• Quantitative methods

Email: anjomani@uta.edu

Research

• Social, ecological, economic, and policy dimensions of urbanism and the processes of urbanization
• Political economy of shrinking cities, redevelopment, and resilience
• Social equity and the built environment
• Transportation equity and access
• Community development & housing
• Urban design, physical planning, and sustainability
• Information technology and urban form
• Latin American development

Email: audirac@uta.edu

Research

• Nonprofit Management & Organizational Behavior
• Corporate Philanthropy
• Socio-Economic and Community Development
• Cross-Sector Collaborations in Health & Human Service Organizations
• Policy Advocacy and Policy Making
• International NGOs Capacity-Building & Sustainability
• Impact of Micro-Finance Institutions (MFI)
• Program Evaluation & Policy Analysis

Email: bezborua@uta.edu

Research

• Public management, especially public/private comparative research, public service motivation, organizational environments, public personnel retention and recruitment
• Public management information systems, database management, e-gov, policy informatics and big data analysis
• Research methods, especially structural equation models, measurement theory, nonparametric models
• Policy analysis and utilization

Email: dcoursey@uta.edu

Research

• Sustainable Community Development
• Urban/suburban Governance
• Social Equity and Spatial Experience
• Sub-national Policy Advocacy and Policy Making
• Community-based Research
• Qualitative and Mixed-Methods Research

Email: hannah.lebovits@uta.edu

Research

• Economic, Environmental, & Socioecological Impacts of Urban Transportation System
• Transportation & Public Health
• Transportation Finance
• Collaborative Transportation Planning & Management
• Travel Behavior and Residential Decision Modeling
• Information Technology & Smart Cities
• GIS Applications in Urban Planning
• Research Methods & Data Analytics

Email: jjli@uta.edu

Research

• Private foundations and community development
• Philanthropy and nonprofit partnerships
• Civic participation and immigrants
• Latinx student success- mentoring practices, faculty development
• Cultural and social capital

Email: mcosio@uta.edu

Research

• Energy & Environmental Policy
• Public Management
• Environmental Conservation
• Sustainability
• Collaborative Governance
• Environmental Review and Impact Assessment
• Policy Diffusion

Email: evan.mistur@uta.edu

Research

• Philanthropy & Nonprofits
• Policy Analysis
• Evaluation Research
• Higher Education
• Community Development
• Entrepreneurship
• Science & Innovation

Email: emily.nwakpuda@uta.edu

Research

• Urban and Regional Models
• Freight Transportation Planning and Modeling
• Economic Impact Analysis
• Applications of GIS in Urban Studies

Email: qisheng.pan@uta.edu

Research

• Sustainable Housing and Transportation
• Urban Informality in the United States and the Global South
• Environmental Planning and Climate Justice
• Environmental Impact Assessment in Residential Land Use
• International Planning (Latin American Studies)
• Green Cities and Sustainable Communities
• Participatory Planning and Mixed-Method Research Approaches

Email: ariadna.reyessanchez@uta.edu

Research

• Creative Governance
• Collaboration, Teamwork, and Collaborative Governance
• Organizational Culture
• Culture and Urban Planning
• Public Administration Theory
• Leadership Theories
• Government Reform
• Smart and Sustainable Cities
• Latin American Governance

Email: aro@uta.edu

Research

• Public and Nonprofit Management
• Organizational Behavior
• Human Resource Management
• Strategic Management
• Performance and Accountability
• Organizational Communication
• Cross-sectoral and Cross-national Comparison
• Nonprofit Marketing and Fundraising

Email: jiwon.suh@uta.edu