Graduate Student, Urban Studies and Planning
Ph.D. Candidate (ABD) and Instructor (URSP600)
Thesis Title: Planning to Integrate: Immigrant Participation in Intercultural Community Projects
About
Way back in the 20th Century I received my master's degree in Applied Demography from Georgetown University (1998) and bachelor's degree in Political Science from the Pennsylvania State University (1993).
Throughout my Washington, DC-based professional life (1993 to 2007) I wore many different hats as a Researcher, Analyst, Demographer, Consultant, Survey Statistician, and Acting Chief (of Immigration Statistics and of International Relations) for government agencies and think tanks alike working on issues such as: victims of human trafficking, the redesigned U.S. Naturalization Test, immigrant integration, and illegal migration.
In 2007 I left my full-time civil service career behind to become a PhD. Student in the Urban Studies and Planning Program at the University of Maryland-College Park.
Although you wouldn't know it from this list, I have "narrowed" my doctoral research interests to: collective actions and movements (protests and parades), immigrant organizations and integration, collective memory, environment-behavior-society (EBS), and applying research designs and techniques to studying "difficult" populations (illegal migrants) and events (protests).
Also, although not active of late, I sit on the advisory board of the Masters Concentration in Public Sociology at American University in Washington, DC.
After conducting my fieldwork in Belgium in 2010, I hope to defend my dissertation, and then land the perfect full-time teaching (and advising and researching) gig.
Another great quote:
"a little gossip or a friendly hand is good for the complexion" - "The City" (1939)
Contact Information
http://www.arch.umd.edu/people/faculty_and_staff/bio.cfm/732
Brussels, Belgium (fieldwork)
College Park, MD USA (school)
Washington, DC USA (home)
