Richard Booth, Professor of City and Regional Planning
Nancy Brooks, Visiting Associate Professor of City and
Regional Planning
Nancy Chau, Associate Professor of Applied Economics and Management
Neema Kudva, Assistant Professor of City and Regional Planning
David B. Lewis, Director of the Cornell Institute for Public Affairs
Norman Uphoff, Professor of Government
Jerome M. Ziegler, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Policy Analysis and Management
Richard Booth
J.D.
George
Washington
University, 1972
Professor of City and Regional Planning
117 Sibley Hall
607.255.4025
RSB6@cornell.edu
Richard
Booth is a professor in the Department of City
and Regional Planning. He teaches the core foundation course CRP 6012: Legal Aspects of Public Agency Decision-Making.
A lawyer by training, he specializes in land use and environmental law,
critical area preservation, environmental politics, and regional land-use
planning. He joined Cornell as a faculty member in 1977. From 1991 to 1995,
Booth served as a member of the New York State Low-Level Radioactive Waste
Siting Commission. He was elected alderperson on the City of
Ithaca’s Common Council in 1985 and served
for a decade, including six years as chair of the city’s Budget and
Administration Committee. In 2001, he was elected to the first of two four-year
terms on the Tompkins County Legislature (he was again elected in 2005).
However, in November, 2007, he resigned from the county legislature in order to
take a position on the eleven-member New York State Adirondack Park Agency,
which holds major responsibilities regarding the use and protection of the six
million–acre
Adirondack
Park in northern
New York. Booth was appointed to the agency
by New York State Governor Eliot Spitzer. In many ways, his service on the
Adirondack Park Agency is the continuation of a journey he began a long time
ago, having served as a lawyer on the agency’s original staff from 1972 to
1975. In addition, from 1975 to 1977, he served as a lawyer for the New York
State Department of Environmental Conservation, rising to the position of
assistant counsel dealing with land-use affairs. Professor Booth is currently
writing a book dealing with the failure of American politics to confront a
rising tide of global environmental problems. He received his J.D. from
George
Washington
University in 1972 and his bachelor's degree from Amherst College in 1968.
Nancy Brooks
Ph.D.
University of
Pennsylvania,
1995
Visiting Associate Professor of City and
Regional Planning
212 Sibley Hall
607.255.2186
NB275@cornell.edu
Nancy
Brooks’s research centers on policy-oriented
theoretical and empirical microeconomics with an emphasis on environmental and
urban/regional economics. Her focus is multidisciplinary, overlapping with
geography, regional science, and sociology. Specifically, she is interested in
the implications, for equity and efficiency, of various types of
‘externalities’—instances where the costs or benefits of an economic
transaction are imposed on someone who is not part of the transaction. Prior to
coming to Cornell, Professor Brooks was a faculty member in the Department of
Economics at the University of Vermont (U.V.M.). At U.V.M., she was co-director
of the HUD–funded U.V.M./Burlington Community Outreach Partnership Center
Economic Impacts Project and was active in service-learning teaching on the
topic of local economic development. She has published in Journal
of Environmental Economics and Management, Journal of
Economic Behavior and Organization, and Journal of
Economic Education. Professor Brooks teaches the CIPA core foundation
courses CRP 5120: Microeconomics for Public Policy and Administration,
and CRP 5450: Introduction to Public Policy Analysis and Management.
She received her Ph.D. in economics from the
University of
Pennsylvania
in 1995.
Nancy Chau
Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University, 1995
Associate Professor of Applied Economics and Management
Nancy
Chau is an associate professor in the Department of Applied Economics
and Management. She brings faculty leadership to the international component of
CIPA. In an increasingly globalized world, students seek expertise in
international trade and the global flow of information, a need addressed by
Professor Chau’s extensive background in international economics. Her research
interests lie in three main areas: international trade, regional economics, and
economic development, with particular emphasis on the economics of information
and uncertainty. Recent research focuses on index measurement of trade
restrictiveness that accounts for second-best argumentation of trade policies,
market-based approaches to foster labor and environmental standards via
international trade, and the impact of direct farm payments and import barriers
on export promotion. She was the recipient of a 2007 Humboldt Research
Fellowship and spent the year in
Bonn,
Germany,
researching globalization and labor markets in developing countries. She has
published widely, including articles in International
Economic Review, Journal of Economic Growth, Journal of Labor Economics, Brookings Trade Forum, and European Economic Review. Professor Chau teaches the CIPA core foundation course, AEM 4300: International Trade Policy. She received her Ph.D.
from
Johns
Hopkins
University
in 1995.
Neema Kudva
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 2001
Assistant Professor of City and Regional Planning
217 W. Sibley
607.255.3939
NK78@cornell.edu
Neema
Kudva, an assistant professor in the Department
of City and Regional Planning, is trained as an architect and a planner with
both
U.S.
and international expertise. Her research focuses on institutional structures
for planning and development, particularly the role of NGOs in political and
economic change, and on urbanization processes in the global South with an
emphasis on rapidly growing small cities and towns. Current projects include a
study of transformations in a small urban
region in southwestern coastal
India,
and a collaborative research/internship project focused on urban livelihoods
and shelter in three African cities with Mercy Corps, an international NGO. She
has published widely in both books and journals, and is the co-editor (2005,
with Lourdes Beneria) of Rethinking Informalization:
Precarious Jobs, Poverty, and Social Protection (
Ithaca: Internet First University Press).
Professor Kudva teaches the course, CRP 6150: Current Issues
and Debates on NGOs. She received her Ph.D. in city and regional
planning from the
University of
California at
Berkeley
in 2001, and masters degrees in both city planning and architecture from
Berkeley in 1993.
David B. Lewis
Ph.D. Cornell University, 1972
Director of the Cornell Institute for Public Affairs
Professor of City and Regional Planning
292 Caldwell Hall/ 203 West Sibley
607.255.0177/ 607.255.5240 (fax)
DBL2@cornell.edu
David
Lewis is a professor in the Department of City
and Regional Planning. He has served as the director of CIPA since 2001.
Prior to his appointment at CIPA, he served as the director of the Institute
for African Development and chair of the Department of City and Regional
Planning. He specializes in regional planning, administrative systems, and
decision-making in developing countries. Frequently a consultant on these
issues in the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Asia, and
Africa,
his investigations focus on the role of governments in allocating resources as
needs outstrip administrative capacity. He has served for extended periods as
senior advisor to the Ministry of Finance and Planning in
Kenya, regional development advisor to the Amman
Urban Region Planning Group (Jordan), and small industry development advisor in
Pakistan.
Professor Lewis teaches the CIPA core foundation course, CRP
6210: Quantitative Techniques for Policy Analysis and Program Management,
as well as the course, CRP 6750: Workshop on Project Planning
in Developing Countries. He received his Ph.D. from
Cornell
University
in 1973.
Daniel P. Loucks
Ph.D. Cornell University, 1965
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
311 Hollister Hall
607.255.4896
DPL3@cornell.edu
Daniel
(Pete) Loucks teaches and directs research in the
application of economic theory, ecology, environmental engineering, and systems
analysis methods. A professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental
Engineering, he has been a research fellow at Harvard University and a visiting
professor at numerous universities, including the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, the University of Colorado at Boulder, and the universities of
technology in Aachen, Germany, and Delft, The Netherlands. Professor Loucks
served as an economist at the
Development
Research
Center
of the World Bank, a research scholar at the International Institute for
Applied Systems Analysis in
Austria,
and as a consultant for various international organizations and government
agencies including the U.N. and NATO, on issues related to natural-resource
management and regional development. Professor Loucks teaches the CIPA core
foundation course, CEE 6930: Public Systems Modeling.
He received his M.A. in forest management from
Yale
University and his Ph.D. in
environmental systems engineering from
Cornell
University.
Theodore J. Lowi
Ph.D. Yale University, 1961
John L. Senior Professor of American Institutions
Professor of Government and American Studies
115 White Hall
607.255.6205/ 607.255.4530 (fax)
TJL7@cornell.edu
Theodore
J. Lowi, the John L. Senior Professor of American
Institutions and a professor in the Department of Government, taught at the
University of
Chicago before coming to Cornell. He has
contributed significantly to the study of politics in areas including political
theory, public-policy analysis, and American political institutions. He has
written or edited a dozen books, among them The Pursuit of
Justice with Robert F. Kennedy (1964). His 1985 book, The Personal President—Power Invested, Promise Unfulfilled,
won the 1986 Neustadt prize for the best book published on the presidency. He
is co-author of one of the leading American government texts, American Government—Power and Purpose, 10th ed. (1990, 2008).
His most widely cited book is The End of Liberalism (1969,1979). Professor Lowi was elected to membership in the
American
Academy
of Arts and Sciences (1977), and served as president of the International Political
Science Association from 1997 to 2000. He is also a past president of the
American Political Science Association and the Policy Studies organization. In
2006, he was awarded the Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellowship for
Excellence in Teaching. Professor Lowi teaches the CIPA core foundation course,
GOVT 7281: Government and Public Policy. He received
his Ph.D. from
Yale
University in 1961.
Kathryn S. March
Ph.D. Cornell University, 1979
Director of Graduate Studies, Anthropology
Professor of Anthropology
226 McGraw Hall
607.255.6779/ 607.255.3747 (fax)
KSM8@cornell.edu
Kathryn
S. March is a professor in the departments of
Anthropology and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. She
has worked on questions of anthropology, gender, and social change in Himalayan
Asia since 1973. Her present interests in the political and economic pressures
on local ethnic communities have evolved directly from earlier commitments to
understanding how society and culture interact through time, and how
individual’s lives are framed within these contexts, with particular reference
to gender, women’s lives, and social justice. She has done research across much
of north-central
Nepal,
among Sherpa and, especially, Tamang communities there. Professor March founded
and continues to supervise the Cornell–Nepal Study Program, a joint research
and training initiative with the national
Tribhuvan
University;
she has led CIPA’s involvement with this program. Her writings include a book
on gender and development, a multi-authored bilingual cross-cultural diary, and
a new book on women’s life histories and song compositions. In 2004, she was
the recipient of Cornell’s Stephen and Margery Russell Distinguished Teaching
Award. She also received a Fulbright Senior Lecturing Research Award, and
grants from the U.S. Department of Education; the National Science Foundation;
the Woodrow Wilson, Mellon, and Fulbright Foundations; and the National
Endowment for the Humanities. She received her Ph.D. in anthropology from
Cornell
University in 1979.
Norman Uphoff
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1970
Director of Graduate Studies, CIPA
Professor of Government
31 Warren Hall
607.255.0831
Norman
Uphoff is a professor in the Department of
Government and the former director of the Cornell International Institute for
Food, Agriculture, and Development. His work has focused on development
administration, irrigation management, local participation, and strategies for
broad-based rural development. His current development interests have expanded
beyond the social sciences to include agro-ecology and particularly the system of
rice intensification. His numerous publications include two books co-authored
with Warren Ilchman, The Political Economy of Change
(1969) and The Political Economy of Development
(1972). Other books include Puzzles of Productivity in Public Organizations (1992), Local Institutional Development (1986), and Reasons for Success: Learning from Instructive Experiences in Rural Development (1997). He has served on USAID’s Research Advisory Committee and the South Asia
Committee of the U.S. Social Science Research Council, and has been a
consultant for the World Bank, USAID, the United Nations, the Ford Foundation,
the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, and other
agencies. Professor Uphoff teaches the CIPA core foundation course, GOVT 6927: Planning and Management of Agricultural and Rural Development.
He received his M.P.A. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and
International Affairs in 1966, and his Ph.D. in political science, public
administration, and development economics from the
University
of
California at
Berkeley in 1970.
392 Caldwell Hall
607.255.9347/ 607.255.5240 (fax)
JMZ4@cornell.edu
Jerome
Ziegler is a professor emeritus in the Department
of Policy Analysis and Management and former dean of the
College of
Human Ecology.
He is interested in ethics and public-policy leadership, professional development
for public school officials, urban education, and urban social/economic
development. He has served as a public administrator at the federal, state, and
local levels. He is a former commissioner of higher education in the
Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania
and former chief
executive officer of the
Pennsylvania
State
Colleges and University.
His
current research investigates why students drop out of high school and the
effects of raising the minimum age for leaving high school in
New
York
State.
He is also examining the prospects for reform in American education. Professor
Ziegler teaches the CIPA core foundation courses, PAM 6310:
Ethics, Public Policy in American Society, and PAM
6320: The Intergovernmental System: Analysis of Current Policy Issues.
He earned his M.A. in political science and anthropology from the
University of
Chicago and did his doctoral studies at
the London School of Economics and Political Science.
