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TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS:
• Community Planning
DEGREES:
Ph.D. (1978) Geography and Resource Planning, Oregon State University
M.A. (1973) Geography, East Carolina University
B.A. (1971) Geography, and Urban and Regional Planning, East Carolina
University
PROFILE:
My professional and research interests are centered around the broad
area of community planning. This translates into an eclectic combination
of research activities including rural to urban community change,
neighborhood-level social and economic restructuring, and the social
construction of “places” by planning and economic development
interests. My academic training is in geography, urban and regional
planning, and resource planning. This foundation, along with my
earlier work as a public-sector planner in Florida and planning
consultant in the Carolinas, has guided my professional life.
At the present time, I serve as the Associate Provost for Metropolitan
Studies and Extended Academic Programs at UNC Charlotte. The units
that I direct have active community engagement and applied research
activities across the Charlotte region and in other parts of the
state. A link to these organizations is included in my homepage
(www.provost.uncc.edu/MSExAP).
My administrative responsibilities enable me to actively participate
on a variety of ways connecting the university to regional decision-makers;
and also help steer funding to graduate students. This is exciting
and rewarding work. However, because of these time commitments,
I am not currently teaching in the doctoral program. Having said
that, I do work with doctoral students and other graduate students
on independent studies, as well as, serving on graduate committees.
Currently, Dr. Heather Smith, and I are working with colleagues
at UNC Charlotte, Carolinas Medical Center, and the Latin American
Coalition on long-term projects examining the Charlotte region’s
rapidly growing and changing Latino immigrant community. If you
have interest in migration and restructuring processes associated
with immigration, please feel free to contact Heather or myself.
Our book, “Latinos in the New South: Transformations of Place,”
was published by Ashgate Publishing in October 2006.
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