Anne Mosher Associate Professor, Geography Co-Director, The Space and Place Initiative: Global to Local Anne Mosher is associate professor of geography whose research interests include geography awareness and the historical geography of North American industrial restructuring, company towns, employer-assisted and informal housing, urban planning, downtown development, and tourism. She teaches courses in U.S. and world geography and urban historical geography. Mosher’s Ph.D. dissertation won the Association of American Geographer’s Nystrom Award and is in press as Capital’s Utopia: The Steel Industry's Search for Urban Order at Vandergrift, 1854-1916 (Johns Hopkins University Press). Her work has appeared in the Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Journal of Historical Geography, and Geographical Review. Mosher is currently involved in a multidisciplinary “mental mapping” and oral history project that focuses on the Erie Canal Corridor. Past editor of Historical Geography and past book review editor for Journal of Historical Geography, she serves on the editorial boards for Geographical Review and Historical Geography. Mosher earned her Ph.D. from The Pennsylvania State University in 1989. She’s also a former competitive skater, loves progressive rock music, traveling, and spending time exploring the world with her 2 kids (Meghan and Matthew) and husband, Carl. More Info...   Deborah Pellow Professor, Anthropology Co-Director, The Space and Place Initiative: Global to Local Deborah Pellow is a Professor of Anthropology at Maxwell whose research focuses on cultural and sub-cultural groups living in urban areas of plural society under conditions of social change. She has particular interest in West Africa, particularly Ghana and northern Nigeria, and in issues of urbanization, gender, ethnicity, space and place, and in American and world politics. Professor Pellow has also done research in Shanghai, China, while a visiting professor of history at Fudan University, and in Osaka and Kyoto, Japan, while a Fulbright lecturer. She is the author of four books and numerous articles. Professor Pellow completed her Ph.D. at Northwestern in 1974 with a dissertation titled Women in Accra: Options for Autonomy. Prior to that, she completed an MA in Anthropology at Northwestern University and a BA in Anthropology at U Penn. Between degrees, she worked as an Applied Anthropologist at Council for Community Services, in Metropolitan Chicago. More Info...   Kristi Andersen Professor, Political Science Committee Member, The Space and Place Initiative: Global to Local Prof. Andersen's research has focused on the ways citizens participate in civic and political life. She has written about the mobilization of new groups (immigrants, women, and working class people) during the New Deal realignment and the entry of women into partisan and electoral politics after the advent of women's suffrage in the 1920s. She is currently working on a project, which will examine whether and how political parties and NGOs work to incorporate recent immigrants into the American political system. Several years ago she taught a course on "Politics and Architecture" and hopes that participation in the Space and Place Initiative will provide the motivation to re-tool and re-teach this course.   Elen Deming Assistant Professor, Landscape Architecture - SUNY-ESF Committee Member, The Space and Place Initiative: Global to Local Her scholarship focuses on expanding the research methods by which we understand the histories and theories of landscape architecture. In particular, influences from fine arts, architecture and art education that stimulated profound changes in landscape representation in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, leading to new design paradigms. Her work examines the relationships between landscape representation and design in early modernism, with ramifications for contemporary practice.   Ann Grodzins Gold Professor, Department of Religion and Department of Anthropology Committee Member, The Space and Place Initiative: Global to Local Ph.D. Anthropology, University of Chicago, 1984 I specialize in teaching and research on Hindu traditions in modern India, religion and gender, and religion and the natural environment. My research in North India has included studies of pilgrimage, world-renunciation, women’s expressive traditions, the transmission of ecological knowledge, and memories of environmental change. My current work concerns origin tales and miracle tales at shrines to regional deities whose healing powers are linked to protected landscapes and natural beauty. This project engages ongoing debates over whether India's many sacred groves actually help to conserve biodiversity; through a collaborative "seed grant" from SU's EnSPIRE Office of Environment and Society, I have begun to expand my research horizons to look at similar issues in Brazil. My publications include articles on gender and authority, ethnographic practice, children's environmental perceptions, moral interpretations of climate change, conflicts surrounding seeds, and four books: Fruitful Journeys: The Ways of Rajasthani Pilgrims (1988); A Carnival of Parting (1992); Listen to the Heron's Words: Reimagining Gender and Kinship in North India (1994; co-authored with Gloria Raheja); and most recently an ecological history, In the Time of Trees and Sorrows: Nature, Power and Memory in Rajasthan (2002; co-authored with Bhoju Ram Gujar). I am co-editor, with Philip Arnold, of Sacred Landscapes and Cultural Politics: Planting a Tree (Ashgate, 2001). More Info...     Norman Kutcher Associate Professor of History, Maxwell School Committee Member, The Space and Place Initiative: Global to Local Norman Kutcher is Associate Professor of History in the Maxwell School of Syracuse University. A specialist on the history of Qing China (1644-1911), he is the author of Mourning in Late Imperial China: Filial Piety and the State. His writings have appeared in various venues including The American Historical Review, the Journal of Asian Studies, and the Wilson Quarterly. This presentation is related to his new project, a study of Chinese eunuchs in the long eighteenth century. More Info...     Anne Munly Professor, School of Architecture Committee Member, The Space and Place Initiative: Global to Local Anne Munly joined the Syracuse University faculty in 1989. In addition to undergraduate and graduate design stduio, she teaches a seminar in analysis of American urbanism. She has received several grants in support of her work on the American city, including grants from the NEA and the Boston Foundation for Architecture. As part of an interdiscplinary team of architecture and geography professors, she received a 1999 Vision Fund Grant in support of the Urban Mapping Research Initiative, an ongoing project. In 1995 she won the Rome Prize for Architecture, and spent a year at the American Academy in Rome working on her research project. She was the director of the Architecture Program in Florence in 1996-97. In 1986 she formed Munly/Brown Architects in partnership with Theodore Brown. The partnership has been premiated in many national and international competitions, including the Casa Piu Bella in Reggio Emila, Italy and KOMA (Korean Museum of Art and Culture) in Los Angeles. Professor Munly received a B.S. in Architecture from the University of Virginia in 1978 and master of architecture degree from Princeton University in 1980. More Info...   James F. Palmer Assistant Professor, Faculty of Landscape Architecture, SUNY ESF Committee Member, The Space and Place Initiative: Global to Local I am interested in people's perception/cognitions of the environment. My investigations normally take the form of quantitative assessments of landscape qualities (e.g., scenic beauty, spaciousness, naturalness, complexity) represented through photographs. These responses may be complemented by descriptive (i.e., qualitative) text. Ideally I would use a GIS to analyze the views so evaluated, and extrapolate to a larger area. I am concerned with issues of validity and reliability associated with such studies.   Tom Perreault Assistant Professor, Geography Committee Member, The Space and Place Initiative: Global to Local Tom Perreault is an Assistant Professor of Geography at Maxwell, and teaches famously challenging courses on sustainable development, environmental politics, and environmental pollution and policy. Tom’s research interests include political ecology, rural development, indigenous peoples' social movements, environmental conservation and resource management, and Latin America. Currently, his work focuses on the political, practical, and discursive processes involved in legalizing communal indigenous lands (tierras comunitarias de origen) in the Bolivian Andes, which will provide a comparative basis for his ongoing research in Ecuadorian Amazonia. Tom’s most recently published and forthcoming titles are Making space: community organization, agrarian change, and the politics of scale in the Ecuadorian Amazon; Developing identities: indigenous mobilization, rural livelihoods, and resource access in Ecuadorian Amazonia: and Social capital, development and access to resources in highland Ecuador, which he co-authored with geographer Anthony Bebbington. Tom received a Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2000, and an MA, in Geography (Minor in Botany) from the University of Texas at Austin in 1994. More Info...   David Robinson DellPlain Professor, Geography Committee Member, The Space and Place Initiative: Global to Local David Robinson is DellPlain Professor of Latin American Geography whose research focuses on how development is increasingly affecting the day-to-day lives of Latin Americans. His current interests include decentralized development in Latin America, particularly the Andean countries; participatory community tourist development; the impact of NAFTA and other macro-regional trading blocks on livelihoods at the local level; transnational migration patterns; problems of municipal development; and the impact of Hispanic colonialism. Robinson is co-editor of the Journal of Historical Geography; U.S. Representative to the Geography Commission, Panamerican Institute of Geography and History; and has written extensively on Latin American geography, both in English and Spanish. His English language books include Migration in Colonial Spanish America (Cambridge University Press, 1990) and Studies in Spanish American Population History (Westview Press). Robinson directed a USAID Technical Assistance team on Integrated Regional Development in Peru for three years in the 1980s, and also served as geographical advisor to the Argentine Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He earned his Ph.D. in geography from University College in London. More Info...     Ryadi Adityavarman Assistant Professor, Design Participant, The Space and Place Initiative: Global to Local Ryadi Adityavarman is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Design/Interiors program at Syracuse University. He is interested on the notion of place and space of built environment within cultural context particularly on the issues of tradition and modernity in Indonesian architecture. He has multidisciplinary academic background in architecture, interior design, historic preservation and anthropology with design experience in Indonesia and United States. Prior coming to Syracuse this fall, he taught at the University of Texas, Texas Tech University, and Kansas State University.   Douglas Armstrong Maxwell Professor of Teaching Excellence, Anthropology Participant, The Space and Place Initiative: Global to Local Dr. Armstrong is an anthropological archaeologist specializing in historical archaeology. His research interests involve studies of culture change as related to situations of contact and interaction. He's also involved in the study of public policy and archaeology, revolving around work in the Caribbean on Diaspora related topics and in New York on public policy and “Freedom Trail” topics. Dr. Douglas has directed a variety of projects focusing on cultural transformation and the emergence of African Caribbean communities in plantation and “free village” settings. More Info...     Phil Arnold Director of Graduate Studies, Religion Participant, The Space and Place Initiative: Global to Local (Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1992) specializes in native traditions of the Americas with special emphasis on Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilizations and Iroquois traditions. His work in Nahuatl texts and archeological materials from central Mexico has focused on connections between indigenous rituals and their material world. His articles have included topics on ritual symbolism, cultural contact, and "book culture" in native communities. His current interests are on the problems of interpreting American religions in their material contexts utilizing the issues and insights of Native American traditions. This work highlights the local history and religious landscape of New York state known as the "Burned over District.". His book Aztec and European Occupation of Tlalocan, Eating Landscape was published earlier this year. Arnold teaches courses on a number of aspects of American religions including Native American religions, colonialism, urbanism, consumerism, industrialism, ecology, ritual, and sacred space.     Clifford Blizard Doctoral Student, Graduate Program in Environmental Science, SUNY/ESF Participant, The Space and Place Initiative: Global to Local Mr. Blizard holds a BA in Geology from Carleton College, and an MS in Geology from Colorado State University. Prior to enrolling at SUNY/ESF, he also pursued graduate studies in geology and education at Cornell University, and obtained an Elementary I Certificate from the Institute for Advanced Montessori Studies. For five years, Mr. Blizard taught Montessori at the elementary and middle school levels in Ithaca, New York. He has co-authored several papers with his brother, Mark, an architecture professor at University of Texas, San Antonio. The papers examined place naming, vernacular landscapes, and the role of roadside historic markers in re-storying landscape. His current research interests include storytelling and sense of place in middle childhood, as well as cultural landscape interpretation at historic sites. Mr. Blizard hopes to complete his doctoral studies in the summer of 2005.     Julia Czerniak Professor, School of Architecture Participant, The Space and Place Initiative: Global to Local A member of the faculty since 1995, Professor Czerniak's research focuses on landscape design theory and critism. She received a master of architecture degree from Princeton University. She also holds a research master of architecture degree from the Glasgow School of Art and a B.S. in landscape architecture from Penn State University. Before joining the faculty, she was project architect at Kieran, Timberlake & Harris, Architects in Philadelphia where she worked on projects at Villanova University, the Tatnall School, and the University of Pennsylvania. More Info...   Marjorie DeVault Associate Professor, Sociology Participant, The Space and Place Initiative: Global to Local Dr. DeVault’s research and teaching interests include gender and feminist studies, and qualitative and feminist research methods. Prior to her arrival at Maxwell, Dr. DeVault worked at Brandies, the Universities of Massachusetts at Amherst and Boston, Northwestern University, and Roosevelt University. She completed a Ph.D. in Sociology, at Northwestern University after earning an MS in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Madison-Wisconsin and a BA in Psychology, University of Madison-Wisconsin. She has written on feminism and research methodology, public health and nutrition narratives, and racial-ethnic knowledge in sociological research. More Info...   Ann Grodzins Gold Professor, Department of Religion and Department of Anthropology Participant, The Space and Place Initiative: Global to Local Ph.D. Anthropology, University of Chicago, 1984 I specialize in teaching and research on Hindu traditions in modern India, religion and gender, and religion and the natural environment. My research in North India has included studies of pilgrimage, world-renunciation, women’s expressive traditions, the transmission of ecological knowledge, and memories of environmental change. My current work concerns origin tales and miracle tales at shrines to regional deities whose healing powers are linked to protected landscapes and natural beauty. This project engages ongoing debates over whether India's many sacred groves actually help to conserve biodiversity; through a collaborative "seed grant" from SU's EnSPIRE Office of Environment and Society, I have begun to expand my research horizons to look at similar issues in Brazil. My publications include articles on gender and authority, ethnographic practice, children's environmental perceptions, moral interpretations of climate change, conflicts surrounding seeds, and four books: Fruitful Journeys: The Ways of Rajasthani Pilgrims (1988); A Carnival of Parting (1992); Listen to the Heron's Words: Reimagining Gender and Kinship in North India (1994; co-authored with Gloria Raheja); and most recently an ecological history, In the Time of Trees and Sorrows: Nature, Power and Memory in Rajasthan (2002; co-authored with Bhoju Ram Gujar). I am co-editor, with Philip Arnold, of Sacred Landscapes and Cultural Politics: Planting a Tree (Ashgate, 2001). More Info...     Terrance Goode Professor, School of Architecture Participant, The Space and Place Initiative: Global to Local Professor Goode teaches undergraduate and graduate design studio, as well as Advanced Building Systems. Before joining the faculty, Professor Goode taught at the University of Oregon at Eugene and the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. He has participated in numerous urban and architectural design competitions and has acted as a pro-bono design consultant for the town of Cicero, NY. His written research has addressed aspects of contemporary architecture and architectural theory in relation to contemporary culture and experience. Professor Goode received a B.S. in architecture from the University of Southern California and a master of architecture degree from Princeton University. He is a registered architect in New York State. More Info...   Daniel Griffith Professor, Geography Participant, The Space and Place Initiative: Global to Local Dr. Griffith's areas of expertise include economic and urban geography, spatial statistics, applied statistics, statistical consulting. He has also taught at SUNY Buffalo and SUNY ESF. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in 1978. More Info...   Margaret (Peg) Hermann Professor, Political Science Participant, The Space and Place Initiative: Global to Local Margaret (Peg) Hermann is Gerald B. and Daphna Cramer Professor of Global Affairs and Director of The Moynihan Institute of the Maxwell School. Her research focuses on political leadership, foreign policy decision making, and the comparative study of foreign policy. Hermann has worked to develop techniques for assessing the leadership styles of heads of government at a distance and currently has such data on 130 leaders. She has been president of the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP) and the International Studies Association (ISA) as well as editor of the journal, Political Psychology. At present she is editor of the International Studies Review, a journal of the ISA, and Advances in Political Psychology, an annual sponsored by ISPP. She developed the Summer Institute in Political Psychology and was its director for nine years. Her books include The Psychological Examination of Political Leaders; Describing Foreign Policy Behavior; Political Psychology: Issues and Problems; and Leaders, Groups, and Coalitions: Understanding the People and Processes in Foreign Policymaking. Among her journal articles are “Presidents, Advisers, and Foreign Policy,” “Leadership Styles of Prime Ministers,” “Rethinking Democracy and International Peace: Perspectives from Political Psychology,” “International Decision Making: Leadership Matters,” “Ballots, a Barrier Against the Use of Bullets and Bombs,” and “The US Use of Military Intervention to Promote Democracy: Evaluating the Record.” Hermann received her Ph.D. in psychology from Northwestern University.     Elizabeth Kamell Professor, School of Architecture Participant, The Space and Place Initiative: Global to Local In the S.U. School of Architecture, Professor Kamell teaches studio design and is the founder of Civitas, a manufacturer of urban map-related clothing in Boston. Her research is focused on urban housing and residential block design. Professor Kamell is a licensed architect who has practiced in New York City, Boston, and Florence, Italy. At M.I.T. Professor Kamell was a teaching assistant in graduate urban design workshops and design studios, and she was the M.I.T. coordinator for an urban design and transportation study conducted jointly with the University of Miami School of Architecture. More Info...     Mark Linder Professor, School of Architecture Participant, The Space and Place Initiative: Global to Local Mark Linder teaches architectural design, theory and criticism at Syracuse. He received degress in architecture from the University of Virginia, Yale and most recently Princeton, where he was awarded his Ph.D. He has taught previously at several institutions including the Georgia Institute of Technology, the University of Illinois-Chicago, Rice University, the Rhode Island Shool of Design, and the Harvard Graduate School of Design. His research concentrates on twentieth century American archticture, with an emphasis on its intellectual and cultural influences. His most recent work examines the interaction of art and architectural criticism in the 1960s and the resulting incorporation of art practices into architectural design pedagogy. More Info...   Mary Lovely Associate Professor, Maxwell School Economics Department Participant, The Space and Place Initiative: Global to Local Mary Lovely, Associate Professor of Economics and International Relations Faculty Associate at the Maxwell School, teaches course in international trade and finance, trade theory and policy. Her fields are international and public economics, and her research interests include optimal policy with increasing returns, interregnal differences in wages. Prior to teaching at S.U., Lovely received a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Michigan in 1989, and a Master’s degree in City and Regional Planning from Harvard in 1980. In the interim, she worked with Charles River Associates as the principal investigator for evaluations of federally funded urban transportation demonstration programs. Dr. Lovely’s publications cover a range of topics, from cross-border tax evasion, to the implications of the Uruguay Round for federal tax policies, to trade flows and wage premiums. More Info...   Don Mitchell Associate Professor, Geography Participant, The Space and Place Initiative: Global to Local Dr.Mitchell specializes in issues related to migratory labor and agricultural landscapes, urban public spaces (including their privatization), the homeless and other marginal populations in U.S. cities, and cultural geography. He is the author of two books, The Lie of the Land: Migrant Workers and the California Landscape (University of Minnesota Press, 1996) and Cultural Geography: A Critical Introduction (Blackwell Publishers, 2000), as well as numerous articles on public space, homelessness, migratory workers, and culture. In 1998 Mitchell was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. His research has also been supported by the National Science Foundation. Mitchell is the founder and director of The People’s Geography Project, which brings the insights of radical and critical contemporary geography to lay audiences, activists, and teachers. He earned his Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 1992. More Info...   Mark Monmonier Distinguished Professor, Geography Participant, The Space and Place Initiative: Global to Local Professor Monmonier's research focuses on 20th century cartography; the use of maps for surveillance and as analytical and persuasive tools in journalism, politics, public administration, and science; map design; and environmental cartography. In 2001, he was awarded the American Geographical Society’s O. M. Miller Medal for contributions to cartography. Monmonier has authored 12 books and has been editor of The American Cartographer and president of the American Cartographic Association. He has published numerous papers on map design, automated map analysis, cartographic generalization, the history of cartography, statistical graphics, and mass communications. He is a member of the National Research Council’s Mapping Sciences Committee; he writes a column on recent map history for Mercator’s World; and his current research projects include a book on geographic information, surveillance, and privacy. Monmonier received his Ph.D. from The Pennsylvania State University in 1969. More Info...   Beverley Mullings Assistant Professor, Geography Participant, The Space and Place Initiative: Global to Local Beverley Mullings is an Assistant Professor of Geography at The Maxwell School. Her research interests include globalisation and industrial change in developing countries; international trade in services; telecommunications and information technology in the Caribbean; and women, work and industrial change. Prof. Mullings completed a Ph.D. at McGill University in 1996, after earning a M.Sc. at the London School of Economics and a B. A., University of West Indies (Mona, Jamaica). She has also worked with The Open University, UK , and the World Bank. Professor Mullings teaches a standing-room-only course on theories of development, as well as a team-taught course with Prof. Susan Wadley on gender and development. She has published on topics ranging from tourism and the sex trade to Jamaica’s export information services. More Info...     Matthew Potteiger Associate Professor, Landscape Architecture - SUNY-ESF Participant, The Space and Place Initiative: Global to Local Matthew Potteiger is an Associate Professor and is Landscape Architecture Faculty. He received his B.S. from Pennsylvania State University in 1978 and his M.L.A. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1982. He has been the Faculty of Landscape Architecture Off-Campus Director from 1990 to the present. Mr. Potteiger is also the Mollet Club Advisor. He taught at Ball State University for three years and has been teaching at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry for 14 years. More Info...   Jane Read Assistant Professor, Geography Participant, The Space and Place Initiative: Global to Local Dr. Read's research interests include environmental/bio-geographical applications of geographic information systems and remote sensing, with special emphasis on tropical environments; in particular, human-environment interactions and global change. Her regional specialty is Latin America (Costa Rica, Bolivia). She teaches GIS courses at S.U. Professor Read completed her Ph.D. at Louisiana State University, an M. Sc. in surveying at the University College London, University of London, and a B. Sc. in Environmental Science at Queen Mary Westfield College, University of London. More Info...   Maureen Schwarz Assistant Professor, Anthropology Participant, The Space and Place Initiative: Global to Local Maureen Trudelle Schwarz is a cultural anthropologist whose area of specialization is Native North Americans, particularly the Navajo Indians. Her first book, published in 1997, studied Navajo perspectives on the human body, with special emphasis on manipulations of the body for ceremonial purposes. Her interest in contemporary issues has resulted in a series of articles and a book entitled, Navajo Lifeways: Contemporary Issues, Ancient Knowledge (University of Oklahoma, 2001). Schwarz’s current projects focus on the life-courses of Navajo women who are ceremonial practitioners, or “singers,” and how natives are represented in venues ranging from museum exhibits to tattoo “flash.” Schwarz earned an M.A. in museum studies in 1991 and a Ph.D. in 1995, both from the University of Washington. More Info...   Sudipta Sen Associate Professor, History Participant, The Space and Place Initiative: Global to Local Sudipta Sen is associate professor of history in the fields of late medieval and modern India and the British Empire. His first book, Empire of Free Trade: The East India Company and the Making of the Colonial Marketplace (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998), was a study of trade, marketplaces, and the rise of the English East India Company’s rule in India. Sen’s forthcoming book, A Distant Sovereignty: National Imperialism and the Origins of British-India (Routledge, 2002), is on state formation and early colonial rule in India. Future projects include the history of criminal law in colonial India and the intellectual history of Indian nationalism. A recipient of research grants from the American Institute of Indian Studies and the Fulbright-Hays foundation, Sen is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Historical Sociology. He received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Chicago in 1994. More Info...     Ana Servigna Ph.D. Student, Anthropology Participant, The Space and Place Initiative: Global to Local Ana L. Servigna is from Maracaibo, Venezuela. She is an Architect with a M.Sc. in Anthropology . In 2002, she received a Fulbright Scholarship to pursue a Ph D Program in Anthropology at Maxwell School as a full time graduate student. In Venezuela, she worked as a professor in the University of Zulia, School of Architecture at the History of Architecture Department. Her research interests are related to Cultural Identities, History and Space/place representations applied to architecture and urban design. She has been involved in research projects related with Architecture, Spaces, Identities and Heritages with a particular Anthropology approach. The dissertation project of her M.Sc. program was titled "House-Body-World: Approach to the symbolic spatial categories of the Añun in the Sinamaica Lagoon. Her particular interest is Latin America and the Caribbean.   Heidi Swarts Assistant Professor, Political Science Participant, The Space and Place Initiative: Global to Local Professor Swarts' research interests include social movements, religion and American politics. She is a Ph.D. candidate from Cornell University.   Richard Van Deusen Doctoral Student, Geography Participant, The Space and Place Initiative: Global to Local Richard holds a master's degree in Landscape Architecture and currently works as a doctoral candidate in the Department of Geography. His dissertation focuses on the role of urban designers in the production of public space. He recently won a Fulbright Fellowship to France for 2002-2003 in order to conduct field work in Belleville, Paris. The EU summer grant will enable him to determine the role of the urban designer at the scale of the European Community, by analyzing how the EU’s urban development policies operate in the context of European urban design schemes and public spaces.     Pam Walker Research Associate, Center on Human Policy, School of Education Participant, The Space and Place Initiative: Global to Local Dr. Walker has worked at the Center on Human Policy at Syracuse University since 1985. She received her B.A. in geography/anthropology from Vassar College; her M.A. in geography from Syracuse University; and her Ph.D. in Special Education (Disability Studies) from Syracuse University. Her research interests include: housing and support issues for people with disabilities, and related public policy issues; community inclusion and membership for people with disabilities, including issues related to people's experience of place.   John Western Maxwell Professor of Teaching Excellence and Department Chair, Geography Participant, The Space and Place Initiative: Global to Local Dr. Western's research interests include social, cultural, and political geography, comparative urbanization, Southern Africa, and Europe. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles, his M. A. from the University of Westerrn Ontario (Canada), and a B. A from Oxford University (UK). More Info...