Jennifer R. Wolch is a professor of

Urban Planning Urban planning, also known as town planning, city planning, regional planning, or rural planning, is a technical and political process that is focused on the development and design of land use and the built environment, including air, water, ...

Geography Geography (from Greek: , ''geographia''. Combination of Greek words ‘Geo’ (The Earth) and ‘Graphien’ (to describe), literally "earth description") is a field of science devoted to the study of the lands, features, inhabitants, and ...

and dean of the

UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design The College of Environmental Design, also known as the Berkeley CED, or simply CED, is one of fourteen schools and colleges at the University of California, Berkeley. The school is located in Bauer Wurster Hall on the southeast corner of the mai ...

. Before accepting the dean position, Wolch was the Founder and Director of the Center for Sustainable Cities at the

University of Southern California The University of Southern California (USC, SC, or Southern Cal) is a Private university, private research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Founded in 1880 by Robert M. Widney, it is the oldest private research university in C ...

. She received her

Ph.D A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, Ph.D., or DPhil; Latin: or ') is the most common Academic degree, degree at the highest academic level awarded following a course of study. PhDs are awarded for programs across the whole breadth of academic fields ...

in Urban Planning from

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial Colleges, fourth-oldest ins ...

, her dissertation focusing on Urban Social Policy and Planning,

Human-Animal Relations Anthrozoology, also known as human–nonhuman-animal studies (HAS), is the subset of ethnobiology that deals with biological interaction, interactions between humans and other animals. It is an interdisciplinary field that overlaps with other ...

Cultural Diversity Cultural diversity is the quality of diverse or different cultures, as opposed to monoculture, the global monoculture, or a homogenization of cultures, akin to cultural evolution. The term "cultural diversity" can also refer to having different cu ...

and Attitudes Toward Animals and

Urban Sustainability Sustainable urbanism is both the study of cities and the practices to build them (urbanism), that focuses on promoting their long term viability by reducing consumption, waste and harmful impacts on people and place while enhancing the overall wel ...

Awards

* Distinguished Scholarship Honors by the

Association of American Geographers The American Association of Geographers (AAG) is a non-profit scientific and educational society aimed at advancing the understanding, study, and importance of geography and related fields. Its headquarters is located in Washington, D.C. The ...

, 2005 * Rockefeller Fellowship Recipient, Residential Fellow at the

Rockefeller Foundation The Rockefeller Foundation is an American private foundation and philanthropic medical research and arts funding organization based at 420 Fifth Avenue, New York City. The second-oldest major philanthropic institution in America, after the Carneg ...

's Bellagio Center in Italy, 2003 *

Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...

Recipient, 1997 * USC Raubenheimer Outstanding Senior Faculty Award, 1997 * Residency at the

Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) is an interdisciplinary research lab at Stanford University that offers a residential postdoctoral fellowship program for scientists and scholars studying "the five core social a ...

, 1995–1996

Works

* Wolch, J. R., Pascale Joassart-Marcelli, Alejandro Alonso & Nathan Sessoms (2005). "Spatial Segregation of the Poor in Southern California: A Multidimensional Analysis". ''

Urban Geography Urban geography is the subdiscipline of geography that derives from a study of cities and urban processes. Urban geographers and urbanists examine various aspects of urban life and the built environment. Scholars, activists, and the public have ...

'', 26(7):587-609, * Wolch, J. R., Emel, J. (1998). ''Animal Geographies: Place, Politics and Identity in the Nature-Culture Borderlands''. Verso. * Wolch, J. R., Dear, M. J. (1993). ''Malign Neglect: Homelessness in an American City'' (Jossey Bass Public Administration Series). Jossey Bass Wiley. * Wolch, J. R. (1990). ''The Shadow State: Government and Voluntary Sector in Transition''.

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. * Wolch, J. R., Dear, M. J. (1989).
The Power of Geography: How Territory Shapes Social Life
'. Unwin Hyman. * Wolch, J. R., Dear, M. J. (1987).

'. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.

References

External links

*http://berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/04/29_wolch.shtml *http://college.usc.edu/cf/faculty-and-staff/faculty.cfm?pid=1003832&CFID=12972854&CFTOKEN=12467346 {{DEFAULTSORT:Wolch, Jennifer Living people UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design faculty University of Southern California faculty Princeton University alumni American geographers Women geographers Year of birth missing (living people)