Recent Ph.D. Graduates Graduation Date M/Y Last Name First Name Title of Dissertation Chair U15 Adhikari Sarin Community Characteristics Associated with Local Intergovernmental Cooperation U14 Meares Wesley Walk this Way: The Impact of Walkability on Neighborhood Dynamics (Expected) John U14 Deobhakta Shireen Analysis of Social Costs of Gentrification in Over-the- Rhine: A Qualitative Approach (Expected) S14 Iskandar Doddy Assessing Urban Freeway Deconstruction: A Survey of 21 Cities with Case Studies of San Francisco and Milwaukee S14 Addison Carey Housing First, Neighborhood Second? Impacts of community characteristics for formerly homeless individuals S14 Sufiyan Abu Disaster and Poverty: The Differential Impacts of Disaster on the Poor in the Gulf Coast Region S14 Foster Chad Broadband Infrastructure in the 21 st Century: An Evaluation of Local Outcomes and Conditions
F13 Payne Sean Social Capital, Neighborhoods and Economic Success Frank Goetzke S13 Kassa Derese Stranded Strangers: Ethiopian Refugees and the Quest for Urban Citizenship in Nairobi Ronald Vogel/ David L. Imbroscio S13 Reed John Support of Police Consolidation: Assessing the Impact of Perceived Complexity S13 Phillips Lynn Land Use Controls, Equine Landscapes, and the Role of Political Culture in Managing Sprawl Development U12 Brennan Michael Competition, Choice and Civic Capacity: Keys to Urban School Reform Koven U11 Wilson James Assisted Living Facilities in Louisville, Kentucky: A Case Study to Examine Aging in Place S11 Grant Joseph Louisville-Jefferson County Police Consolidation: Officer's Perception of Organizational Justice F10 Smith Abi Suburbia, Poverty, and Local Political Stewards: Examining Suburban Economic Disadvantage, Suburban Poverty Indicators and the Role of Suburban Mayoral Leadership
F10 Houlihan Allison Exploring the Role of Participatory Democracy in Local Economic Development Decisions: The Brownfields Institute, Louisville, Kentucky U10 Kelly Patrick The Production and Migration of Educational Capital: Some STates Win and Others Lose Wayne Usui S10 Schartung Charles A Study of Severe Repetitive Loss Flooding: Identifying Costs, Risks, Vulnerable Populations, Community Values and Response S10 Ambrosius Joshua Religion and Regionalism: Congregants, Culture, and John I. U09 Odogba Ismaila City-County Consolidation in Louisville, Kentucky S09 Hagan Angela S09 Hanka Matthew Race and City-County Consolidation: Black Voting Participation and Municipal Elections From Vice to Nice: A Case Study of the HOPE VI Program in Newport, Kentucky Ronald K. Vogel/Hank Savitch John S09 Osgood Jeffery Exurban Dynamics: An Analysis of Migration, Policy, and Territorial Scale S09 Katirai Matin Sprawl, Equity and Fire Department Response Times Across the U.S. David SImpson
F08 Yin Ming Costs and Benefits of State Growth Management Programs: Evaluating Their Impacts on Sprawl and Housing Markets in the U.S., 1990-2000 C. F08 Houvenagle David Advancing the Knowledge of Local Healthcare Policy through the Growth Machine Thesis Ronald K. Vogel U08 Tirey Paul F07 Kutzhanova Nailya Mercury Emissions From Coal-Fired Power Plants: A Local or a Global Pollutant? Entrepreneurial Skill Development and How Best to Assist Entrepreneurs: Policy Implications for Enterprise Development Practice Thomas Lyons U07 Rausch Stephen Creativity and Economic Development: Exploring the Relationship Between Index Rank, Index Components and Economic Development Context U07 Sun Jian Property Taxes and Large-lot Zoning: Are There Fiscal Incentives in Suburban Government Land Use Decisions? S07 Valiyev Anar Urban Terrorism: Do Terrorists Target Cities and Why S07 Opp Susan Laboratories of Democracy and State Brownfield Programs: Bureaucratic Discretion and Political Control Peter Meyer U06 Ye Lin Urban Sprawl, Amenities and Quality of Life Hank V. Savitch
S06 Impellizzeri Leonard Urban Transportation - Analysis of Causes Leading to the Rebirth of Light Rail in America J. Allen Whitt F05 Tsukamoto Takashi Regionalism in the New Globalized Economy: Politics of Scale and the Discourse of Regionalism-- Comparative politics of two Japanese global cityregions Ronald K. Vogel U05 Li Songmei High Tech Spatial Concentration: Human Capital, Agglomeration Economies, Location Theories and Creative Cities Thomas S. Lyons U05 Mims James U05 Greenberg Jason U05 Cherubin Hervil Rated Preference, Complexity and Familiarity for Neo- Traditional and Modern Development Patterns Using Alternative Visual Medium Light Rail Transit in the United States Since 1980: If You Build It, Will They Come? Community Reinvestment Act Assessing the Distribution of Small and Minority Business Lending in Urban America, 2000 Louis F. Cohn Peter B. Meyer G. Koven S05 Martin-Rutherford John Personalization and Its Place in the New Urbanism Peter B. Meyer S05 Ardashev Grigory Fragmentation Sprawl & Economic Development Hank V. Savitch S05 Pan Zhenfeng Housing Tenure Choice of Immigrants in the United States C.