The urban-economic faculty at Clark (Professors Angel, Aoyama, Hanson, Martin, Murphy, and Peet) have diverse, complementary, intersecting interests that generate an exciting learning environment.
Three core areas describe the Clark urban-economic program:
Each faculty member has core expertise in one of these areas, with interests and experience that extend to at least one of the others. In addition, faculty in this group pursue cross-cutting themes that link to other faculty clusters at Clark, as with Nature-Society. At the moment key themes of study are global economic change; regulation, policy, and governance; gender; and environmental quality.
The urban-economic faculty at Clark embrace a diversity of theoretical and methodological approaches, ranging from feminist theory to Marxism, from in-depth interviews to archival work, and from quantitative to qualitative analyses.
These synergies mean that much of our current work takes place at the boundaries and interstices between the three core areas. Current faculty research focuses on these questions: