The Road through the Rust Belt: From Preeminence to Decline to Prosperity

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307 Authors Ziona Austrian is director of the Center for Economic Development and a college fellow at the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State University. Her focus is on urban and regional economics, industrial clusters, the high-tech economy, entrepreneurship, and evaluation of economic development initiatives. Austrian received her PhD in economics from Case Western Reserve University. Chieh-Chen Bowen is associate professor of psychology and director, Consumer and Industrial Research Program, College of Sciences and Health Professions , at Cleveland State University. Her work focuses on applying psychological principles in the workplace to improve organizational efficiency and employees’ wellbeing. Bowen is an industrial and organizational psychologist with a PhD from Penn State University. William M. Bowen is a native of Cleveland and attended the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, the College of Charleston, and the University of South Carolina, and Indiana University. He has published four books and nearly 50 peer-reviewed articles in a wide range of fields including public policy and administration, geography, psychology, regional science, operations research, demography, expert systems, economic development, and urban studies. He earned his PhD in regional analysis and planning in 1990. Joan Chase holds a master’s in urban studies with a concentration in economic development from the Levin School of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State University. Joan is a member of the grant-making committee of the Cleveland Foundation’s Neighborhood Connections program and a member of the board of directors at Cogswell Hall, a residence for adults facing critical life challenges . She also works in economic development finance in northeast Ohio. Benjamin Y. Clark is assistant professor of public administration in the Levin College of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State University. His research focuses on collaboration, public budgeting and finance, and reducing health disparities. Dr. Clark received his PhD in public administration from the University of Georgia. David R. Elkins is associate professor of political science in the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at Cleveland State University. His interests include public policy in urban communities, urban economic development, Bowen.indb 307 Bowen.indb 307 12/16/2013 2:14:47 PM 12/16/2013 2:14:47 PM 308 conflicts and coalition building, and taxation policy. Elkins received his PhD from the University of Kansas. Joel Elvery is an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland and does applied urban and labor economics research. Elvery earned his PhD in economics from the University of Maryland and received the Upjohn Institute 2005 Dissertation Award Honorable Mention. Edward W. (Ned) Hill is the Dean of the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State University. He is also a Nonresident Senior Fellow of the Metropolitan Policy Program at The Brookings Institution and a Nonresident Visiting Fellow of the Institute of Government Studies at the University of California at Berkeley though his membership in the MacArthur Foundation’s Research Network on Building Resilient Regions. He earned his PhD in both economics and urban and regional planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Kelly Kinahan is a doctoral candidate in urban policy and development in the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs, Cleveland State University . Her research focus is community and economic development, with specific interests in urban revitalization and historic preservation. Kinahan holds a Master of Urban and Regional Planning degree from Virginia Commonwealth University. Merissa C. Piazza is a research associate in the Center for Economic Development at the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State University. Merissa has a Master of Public and International Affairs from the University of Pittsburgh. In addition to working full time as a researcher, she is a doctoral student in urban studies and public policy at Cleveland State University. Haifeng Qian is assistant professor of economic development in the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State University. His research interests include economic development, economic geography, innovation and entrepreneurship, and public policy. Qian received his PhD in public policy from George Mason University. Gregory M. Sadlek is the founding dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, a college that includes departments in the fine arts, at Cleveland State University. He received his PhD in English language and literature from Northern Illinois University and has been affiliated with urban/metropolitan universities since 1989. Bowen.indb 308 Bowen.indb 308 12/16/2013 2:14:47 PM 12/16/2013 2:14:47 PM [18.119.213.235] Project...