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SUS Faculty Accomplishments 2023 - 2024 (updated 9/19/2024)
Lund, Gregory
- Promotion to Associate Professor
Pendras, Mark
- Publications:
- "Questioning pandemic recovery: a regional second city perspective" (2024) (Co-authored with Charles Williams), Urban Studies (accepted and forthcoming), 1-16.
- "Planning, Manufacturing, and Sustainability: Three Research Themes" (2023) (Co-authored with Yonn Dierwechter), Urban Planning, V.8 (4): 1-4.
- "Departures from the Norm: Innovative Planning for Creative Manufacturing" (2023) (Co-authored with Adam Nolan and Ashleigh Williams). Urban Planning, V.8 (4): 225-235.
Quizar, Jessi
- Publications:
- Collectively written book (by the Black | Indigenous 100s Collective. Soy Listen: Writing as Care, NP:2024. https://www.np-press.org/say-listen
- Article (2023): "Mutual Futurity: Against Incommensurability between Indigenous Sovereignty and Black Freedom." Theory, Culture, and Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/02632764231194493
- Awards:
- UW Tacoma's 2024 Engaged Scholarship Award
Safarova, Bara
- Grants:
- State of Washington Department of Commerce: Washington State Zoning Atlas ($375,000 Collaborator, Co-PIs: Makers Architecture and Urban Design, BHC Consultants, UW Natural Resource Spatial Informatics Group).
- UWT SUS: Student's voices in UWT Masterplan: An interdisciplinary community engaged capstone studio 2025 - Pilot & Preparation ($2,420.36 PI).
- Founders Endowment, UWT: Community engaged civil engineering and urban design learning experience at UWT ($10,000 Co-PI, with Co-PI Nara Almeida).
- Publications:
- Chalana, M., Guy, T., Jourdan, D., Rogerude, J., Safarova, B., Turesky, M. (2023). Special Editorial: The inclusive Acdemy. Journal of Planning and Research, 43(4), 454-454.
- Durst, N., Safarova, B., Gutierrez Lanza, D., Xu, Ch. (under review). Neighborhood Morphology and residential segregation in metropolitan Amerca. Housing Policy Debate. Preprint available: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4905718
- Safarova, B. (2025). A Partial Right to the City: Affordable but Unhealthy, the Case of South Texas informal homestead subdivisons. In Stiphany, l. & E. Ely-Ledesma (eds.), Insurgent Urbanism in the Americas. Routledge.
Taufen, Anne
- Publications:
- Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Cities and Landscapes, August 2024
Yerena, Anaid
- Publications:
- Casas, R. and Yerena, A. 2024. Towards the "Just" Park: on the Potentiality of Urban Parks". (Eds.) K. Walker, R. Casas & C. Hinojosa Symposium on Community-Engaged Environmental Justice Rhetorics, Rhetoric Review, 43:4, 227-302, DOI: 10.1080/07350198.2024.2398838
- Jackson, A., Yerena, A. Garcia, I., Chrisinger, B., Lee, C.A., Harjo, L. and Harwood, S. "Anti-Racist Futurities: Disrupting Racist Planning Practices in Workplaces, Institutions, and Communities" Journal of the Emarican Planning Association
- Yerena, A. 2024. Sustainable Low-Income Housing: Analyzing Green Building Initiatives within the LIHTC Program across U.S. States. In Housing and Sustainability - Achieving a Sustainable Future. doi: 10.5772/intechopen.1006705
- Grants:
- Faculty Research Grant to Advance Equity and Inclusion, Office of Equity and Inclusion and the Milgard School of Business, UWT
Jessi Quizar, Ph.D.
2024 Engaged Scholarship Award
The UW Tacoma Office of Community Partnerships (OCP) is pleased to announce the launch of the inaugural Engaged Scholarship Award. At OCP, we highly value the creation of a culture that supports and recognizes engaged scholarship on our campus. We believe that the commitment of our faculty to impactful community engagement deserves acknowledgment.
Anaid Yerena, Ph.D.
2019 UW Tacoma Distinguished Teaching Award
The Distinguished Teaching Award recognizes a faculty member who demonstrates a mastery of their subject matter, the ability to engage diverse students both within and outside of the classroom, and strives for innovation in course design.
Yonn Dierwechter, Ph.D.
2014 UW Tacoma Distinguished Research Award
The Distinguished Research Award was established in 2004 to recognize faculty members who have achieved a record of notable scholarship or creative activity, generated new knowledge in their discipline and contributed to the intellectual development of UW Tacoma and its communities.
Ali Modarres, Ph.D.
2014 Urban Affairs Association Service Honor Roll
For more than 40 years, the Urban Affairs Association (UAA) has relied on the commitment, intellect, and energy of its service leaders. Without these contributions, UAA would not have developed into the strong and dynamic organization it is today, and the field of urban studies would lack its current breadth and richness.
The Urban Affairs Association has created the UAA Service Honor Roll to recognize those members who have contributed outstanding service over the years to the association.
James W. Harrington, Ph.D.
2014 American Association of Geographers Ronald F. Abler Distinguished Service Honors
AAG Honors, the highest awards offered by the American Association of Geographers, are offered annually to recognize outstanding accomplishments by members in research and scholarship, teaching, education, service to the discipline, public service outside academia, and for lifetime achievement. Although the AAG and its specialty groups make other important awards, AAG Honors remain among the most prestigious awards in American geography and have been awarded since 1951.
Mark Pendras, Ph.D.
2010 UW Tacoma Distinguished Teaching Award
The Distinguished Teaching Award recognizes a faculty member who demonstrates a mastery of their subject matter, the ability to engage diverse students both within and outside of the classroom, and strives for innovation in course design.
