Drawing from architecture, human geography, and urban planning, Michael Rios’ research focuses on the intersection between marginality, urbanism and public space. A theme emerging from this work is “placemaking” as an assemblage of different practices that involves negotiations of belonging, authorship, and power; a means for marginalized communities to produce different imaginations of space, action, […]

Jacob Avery's primary research interests include urban poverty and inequality, social service provision, culture, social interaction, and fieldwork methods. Through an immersed ethnographic account of street life in Atlantic City, NJ, Avery examines how a network of chronically homeless and chemically addicted individuals experience their precarious condition on a daily basis, and how and why […]

Peter M. Ward earned his Ph.D. in geography from the University of Liverpool in 1976. He held senior teaching positions at the Universities of London and Cambridge before moving in 1991 to The University of Texas at Austin, where he is a Professor in the Department of Sociology and at the LBJ School of Public […]

After graduating from Yale Law School, Gregg Kettles held two judicial clerkships, first with the Honorable J. Clifford Wallace, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and then with the Honorable Irma E. Gonzales, United States District Court for the Southern District of California.  Kettles then practiced for six […]