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Contributors Douglas R. Appler, Ph.D., AICP, holds the Helen Edwards Abell Chair in Historic Preservation at the University of Kentucky. He received his doctorate in City and Regional Planning from Cornell University and holds a Master’s degree in Urban and Regional Planning and a B.A. in History from Virginia Tech. His research draws attention to innovative historic preservation practices developed in response to local cultural, geographic, and economic conditions. Aaron Cavin completed his Ph.D. in History at the University of Michigan. He is a visiting assistant professor at Gettysburg College. He researches the intertwined histories of metropolitan development, race, and American politics and society. He is currently working on a book on grassroots politics, civil rights activism, and economic justice in Silicon Valley. Nancy A. Denton is a professor of Sociology at the University at Albany, State University of New York, where she is also department chair of the Developmental Core of the Center for Social and Demographic Analysis. Her research interests include race, residential segregation, urban sociology, demography, and housing. With Douglas S. Massey, she is the author of American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass. Currently she is working on projects on the neighborhood contexts of children in immigrant families, multiple race identification, and the changing demographics of upstate New York. Lisa M. Feldstein, J.D., is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of California at Berkeley. Her research focuses on urban food access, urban politics, and social equity. She is the author of several books and articles on topics in urban planning, equity, and public health. Lisa graduated magna cum laude from the University of Massachusetts at Boston with a B.A. in American Studies—Urban Focus and earned her J.D. from 256 Contributors the Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California at Berkeley. She believes planning is a powerful tool for enacting progressive social change. Casey Gallagher is a graduate student in Sociology at the University of California , Davis. A native of eastern Contra Costa County, his research has focused on the politics of race, sociospatial exclusion, and the suburbanization of the San Francisco Bay region. Over the past year, he has assisted local homelessrights organizations as a volunteer civil rights researcher. Anne Galletta is an associate professor at the College of Education and Human Services at Cleveland State University. As a social psychologist, her research interests include the nature of social and structural relations as they relate to equity in education. She also attends to the complexity of contextual influences on youth social-identity development and educational participation. Dr. Galletta is currently involved with projects at several urban and inner-ring suburban school districts, where she studies societal problems along with parents, students, and educators—those most deeply impacted yet infrequently engaged in the deliberation of solutions. Joseph R. Gibbons is a Ph.D. candidate in the Sociology Department of the University at Albany, SUNY. He received his Master’s degree in Sociology at the New School for Social Research. His dissertation looks at how communitybased organizations adapt to changing ethnic communities. Robert Gioielli is an assistant professor of History at University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College. He has been published in the Journal of Urban History and the Radical History Review and is currently completing a manuscript on urban environmental activism in postwar America. L. Owen Kirkpatrick is currently a Society of Fellows Postdoctoral Scholar and an assistant professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, at the University of Michigan. His current work examines the social, political, economic , and infrastructural dimensions of urban and regional contraction. JoAnna Mitchell-Brown holds a Ph.D. in Regional Development and Planning from the University of Cincinnati. She has more than twelve years of experience working for both nonprofit organizations and local and regional governments in housing, community development and planning, and transportation planning. At present, Mitchell-Brown is a senior research fellow with Sagamore Institute in Indianapolis. As a researcher and community planner, she collaborates with local jurisdictions, community stakeholders, and nonprofit and private housing developers to develop workforce housing plans for inner-ring suburban communities in Indiana and Ohio. [3.134.85.87] Project MUSE (2024-04-17 17:05 GMT) Contributors 257 Christopher Niedt is the academic director of the National Center for Suburban Studies and an assistant professor of Sociology at Hofstra University. His research has examined the political history of inner-ring...