Sonoma State University Alumna Dr. Amy Glasmeier has joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as the first woman to head its Department of Urban Studies and Planning.
In January, Glasmeier took over the longest-running continuous planning program in the United States, repeatedly ranked #1 in the nation. She is the twelfth department head since the program was established in 1933 and the first woman to lead what is now the largest planning faculty in the US, possibly in the world.
Glasmeier holds a BS in Environmental Studies and Planning from Sonoma State University and an MA and PhD in City and Regional Planning from Berkeley. She has worked and traveled all over the world, including Asia, Africa, Europe and Latin America, and is currently engaged in a retrospective examination of poverty and poverty policy in the US, work that is leading to new perspectives on the nature and extent of persistent poverty here.
An expert in economic geography, regional planning and spatial statistics, Glasmeier was previously on the faculty of the Pennsylvania State University and the University of Texas at Austin. Most recently, she was the E. Willard Miller Professor of Economic Geography at Penn State and the John Whisman Scholar of the Appalachian Regional Commission.
For more information, visit http://sap.mit.edu/resources/portfolio/glasmeier/
Posted by wasp at February 12, 2009 3:04 PM