Women's Studies Program

Sharon Krefetz 

Sharon Krefetz, Ph.D. - Chair


Associate Professor of Government
Director, Urban Development and Social Change Program

Department of Government
Clark University
Worcester, MA 01610-1477

email: skrefetz@clarku.edu

Current Research and Teaching

Her most recent research is on low income or affordable housing policies in Massachusetts.

Selected Publications

Welfare Policy Making and City Politics, Praeger Publishers, New York, 1976.

The State of the Nation's Housing 2001 , Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard University, June 2001, co-author.

"The Impact and Evolution of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Permit and Zoning Appeals Act: Thirty Years of Experience with a State Legislative Effort to Overcome Exclusionary Zoning", Western New England Law Review , vol. 22, Number 2, June 2001

"Urban Economic Revitalization as a Catalyst for Urban Political Change," in Daniel J. Elazar, ed., Urban Revitalization , Lanhan-Md: University Press of America and the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, 1992

Review of Without Precedent.- The Life and Career of Eleanor Roosevelt (Edited by J. Hoff-Wilson and M. Lightman), Women's Studies International Forum , vol. 13, Number 3, November 1990

"Suburbs' False Innocence," (co-author) The Boston Globe , November 1, 1986

"The Politics of Opening up the Suburbs," in Dale Rogers Marshall and Roger Montgomery, eds., Housing Policy in the 1980s , Lexington, MA.: D.C. Heath, 1980

"Low and Moderate-Income Housing in the Suburbs: The Massachusetts Anti-Snob Zoning Law," Policy Studies Journal , vol. 8, December 1979

"The Introductory Political Science Course: A'Do-As-We-Do' Approach," Teaching Political Science , vol. 6, July 1979

"The Role of Political Factors in City-County Merger Attempts" (co-author), National Civic Review , vol. 66, April 1977

"Participation for What or for Whom: Some Considerations for Research" (co-author), Journal of Comparative Administration , vol. 5, November 1973, pp. 367-80