Jennifer Wolch is a professor of Urban Planning

Urban planning

Urban planning incorporates areas such as economics, design, ecology, sociology, geography, law, political science, and statistics to guide and ensure the orderly development of settlements and communities....

, Geography

Geography

Geography is the science that studies the lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of Earth. A literal translation would be "to describe or write about the Earth". The first person to use the word "geography" was Eratosthenes...

 and dean of the UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design

UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design

The College of Environmental Design, also known as the or simply is one of 14 schools and colleges at the University of California, Berkeley. The school is located in Wurster Hall on the southeast corner of the main UC Berkeley campus...

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

University of Southern California

The University of Southern California is a private, not-for-profit, nonsectarian, research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. USC was founded in 1880, making it California's oldest private research university...

. She received her Ph.D in Urban Planning from Princeton University

Princeton University

Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....

, her dissertation focusing on Urban Social Policy and Planning, Human-Animal Relations, Cultural Diversity and Attitudes Toward Animals and Urban Sustainability

Sustainability

Sustainability is the capacity to endure. For humans, sustainability is the long-term maintenance of well being, which has environmental, economic, and social dimensions, and encompasses the concept of union, an interdependent relationship and mutual responsible position with all living and non...

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Awards

• Distinguished Scholarship Honors by the Association of American Geographers, 2005
• Rockefeller Fellowship Recipient, Residential Fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center in Italy, 2003
• Guggenheim Fellowship Recipient, 1997
• USC Raubenheimer Outstanding Senior Faculty Award, 1997
• Residency at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, 1995–1996

Works

• Wolch, J. R. (2005). Spatial Segregation of the Poor in Southern California: A Multidimensional Analysis. Spatial Segregation of the Poor in Southern California: A Multidimensional Analysis.
• Wolch, J. R., Emel, J. (1998). Animal Geographies: Place, Politics and Identity in the Nature-Culture Borderlands. 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. Malign Neglect: Homelessness in an American City/Jossey Bass Wiley.
• Wolch, J. R. (1990). The Shadow State: Government and Voluntary Sector in Transition. The Shadow State: Government and Voluntary Sector in Transition/Foundation Center.
• Wolch, J. R., Dear, M. J. (1989). The Power of Geography: How Territory Shapes Social Life. The Power of Geography: How Territory Shapes Social Life/Unwin Hyman.
• Wolch, J. R., Dear, M. J. (1987). Landscapes of Despair: From Deinstitutionalization to Homelessness. Princeton, New Jersey: Landscapes of Despair: From Deinstitutionalization to Homelessness/Princeton University Press.

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