Urban Affairs Emerging Topics Draft
Subnational and local actors, like state and city governments, are increasingly playing a role in international affairs. Through events, research and media commentary, Elliott School experts explore how policies implemented at a local level can effect change globally.
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OUR URBAN AFFAIRS EXPERTS
Director, Institute for Middle East Studies; Associate Professor of Geography and International Affairs
Dr. Atia specializes in Islam and the Middle East, international development, charity and philanthropy, transnationalism, geopolitics.
Professor of Economics and International Affairs
Dr. Carrillo specializes in the intersection between real estate, urban economics, public economics and econometrics.
Professor of Geography and International Affairs
Dr. Chacko specializes in immigration, urban geography, development, medical geography, and South Asia.
Professor of Economics, Public Policy and Public Administration, and International Affairs; Co-Director of the GWU Regulatory Studies Center
Dr. Cordes specializes in public finance, taxation, and corporation financial policy.
Professorial Lecturer
Dr. Gaskin Reyes specializes in climate change, development studies, water & natural resource conflicts, urban & regional planning, & Latin America & Caribbean.
Professor of Economics and International Affairs; Director of the Institute for International Economic Policy
Dr. Jedwab specializes in development economics, regional and urban economics, public economics, political economy, and Sub-Saharan Africa.
Associate Professor of Public Policy & International Affairs; Director of the International Science and Technology Policy (ISTP) MA Program
Dr. Kelsey specializes in renewable energy policy, the political economy of the environment, and international environmental negotiations, politics, and policy.
Department Chair, Geography; Associate Professor of Geography and International Affairs
Dr. Rain specializes in urban geography, population geography, economic development, Africa, GIS, and nature and society.
Assistant Professor of Economics and International Affairs
Dr. Regan specializes in the economics of housing, land tenure, urban planning, and property tax in developing country cities.
Professorial Lecturer
Dr. Rozanova-Smith specializes in Arctic governance, Russian Arctic regions, Indigenous urbanization, urban sustainability, & gender empowerment in the Arctic.
Professor of Sociology, International Affairs, and Public Policy & Public Administration
Dr. Silver specializes in European Studies, migrant integration & inequality in Europe, social exclusion, homelessness, & poverty, & comparative urban studies.
Associate Professor of Geography and International Affairs
Dr. Streletskiy specializes in climatic variability & change, Arctic environment, permafrost & glaciology, geomorphology, spatial statistics & GIS, and Russia.
Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Public Policy and Public Administration, and International Affairs
Hal Wolman specializes in urban & metropolitan policy, local & regional economic development, state & local fiscal policy & comparative urban policy & politics.
Professor of Economics
Dr. Yezer specializes in regional and urban economics and the migration of labor and capital.