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People

As the largest planning department in the United States, DUSP has unparalleled breadth and depth of expertise. A list of current faculty, staff, and students can be found by using the dropdown menu below.
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Lecturer of International Development and Urban Studies

Viktorija Abolina

Lecturer of Urban Design and Planning

Assistant Professor of Urban Planning and Public Health

On Leave Fall 2017

Nicholas Ashford

Professor of Technology and Policy

Eran Ben-Joseph

Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning

Department Head

Leventhal Professor of Advanced Urbanism

Co-Director, LCAU, Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism ; Director, P-REX lab

Garnette Cadogan

MLK Visiting Scholar

Gabriella Carolini

Assistant Professor of International Development and Urban Planning

Professor Emeritus

Joseph Coughlin

Director, MIT AgeLab

Senior Lecturer

Dayna Cunningham

Lecturer

Executive Director, CoLab

Alexander D'Hooghe

Associate Professor of Architecture and Urbanism

John de Monchaux

Professor Emeritus

Peter Del Tredici

Visiting Lecturer of Applied Ecology and Planning

Professor Emeritus

John Fernández

Professor; Director of the Building Technology Program; Director of the Urban Metabolism Group

Joseph Ferreira

Professor of Urban Information Systems and Planning

Onesimo Flores Dewey

Visiting Lecturer of Transportation Planning

Robert Fogelson

Professor of Urban Studies and History

Dennis Frenchman

Professor of Urban Design and Planning

Ralph Gakenheimer

Professor Emeritus

Professor of Real Estate Finance

Judy Geyer

Lecturer of Urban Economics and Planning

Professor of Economic Geography and Regional Planning

Co-Chair PhD Program

Ezra Haber Glenn

Lecturer

Chair, UG Program

Gary Hack

Professor Emeritus

Lecturer of International Development and Planning

Director, Sam Tak Lee MIT Real Estate Entrepreneurship Lab

David Hsu

Assistant Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning

Technical Instructor of GIS, Data Visualization and Graphics

Assistant Professor of Political Economy and Urban Planning

Associate Professor of Medical Anthropology and Urban Studies

Director, MIT Global Health and Medical Humanities Initiative

Professor Emeritus

Senior Lecturer Emeritus

Professor

Director of the MIT Scheller Teacher Education Program

Janelle Knox-Hayes

Associate Professor of Economic Geography and Planning

Co-Head, Environmental Policy and Planning Group

Marie Law Adams

Lecturer of Urban Design and Planning

Tunney Lee

Professor Emeritus

Frank Levy

Professor Emeritus

Professor of Science, Technology and Society

Head, Program in Science, Technology and Society

Visiting Professor of Law

Associate Professor of Architecture and Urbanism

Director of the Urban Risk Lab at MIT

Ceasar McDowell

Professor of the Practice

Co-Chair, MCP Program

Lecturer of Real Estate Finance

Lecturer of Environmental Planning and Sustainability

Director, MIT Office of Sustainability

Mary Anne Ocampo

Lecturer in Urban Design

Professor of Human Resources and Management at the Sloan School of Management MIT, Ph.D. MIT

Karen R. Polenske

Professor Emeritus

Balakrishnan Rajagopal

Associate Professor of Law and Development

Head, International Development Group

Professor of the Practice

Director, SENSEable City Lab

Elisabeth Reynolds

Lecturer of Innovation and Economic Development

Executive Director, MIT Industrial Performance Center

Peter Roth

Lecturer of Real Estate

Associate Professor of Urban Design and Planning

Head, City Design and Development Group, Chair, PhD Program

Associate Professor of Urban Economics and Real Estate

Director, Center for Real Estate

Frederick Salvucci

Senior Lecturer of Transportation Planning and Engineering

Adèle Naudé Santos

Professor of Architecture, Planning and Urban Design

Professor of International Development and Planning

Director of the Special Program in Urban and Regional Studies / Humphrey Fellows Program

Professor of Architecture and Planning, Dean SA+P

Senior Lecturer of Organization Studies

Rafi Segal

Associate Professor of Architecture and Urbanism

Senior Lecturer of Economic Development and Planning

Bob Simha

Lecturer

Amy Smith

Senior Lecturer

Anne Whiston Spirn

Professor of Landscape Architecture and Planning

Assistant Professor of Law and Urban Planning

Lawrence Susskind

Professor of Environmental and Urban Planning

Co-Head, Environmental Policy and Planning Group

Adjunct Professor of Community Development and Urban Planning

J. Phillip Thompson

Associate Professor of Political Science and Urban Planning

Head, Housing, Community and Economic Development Group

Ford Professor of Urban Design and Planning

Co-Chair PhD Program

Bruno Verdini Trejo

Lecturer in Urban Planning and Negotiation

Executive Director MIT-Harvard Mexico Negotiation Program

Professor of Landscape Architecture

William Wheaton

Professor Emeritus

Clarence Williams

Professor Emeritus

Associate Professor of Technology and Urban Planning

P. Christopher Zegras

Associate Professor of Transportation and Urban Planning

Associate Department Head

Associate Professor of Transportation and Urban Planning

Siqi Zheng

Samuel Tak Lee Associate Professor of Real Estate Development and Entrepreneurship

Faculty Director, Samuel Tak Lee Real Estate Entrepreneurship Lab