The City Planning Graduate Group

The Graduate Group in City and Regional Planning draws faculty from the University. While the University governs the basic PhD requirements, the Graduate Group Faculty are responsible for discipline-related requirements, admissions, and the supervision of qualifying and candidacy examinations and the dissertation. In consultation with the Graduate Group chair, PhD students select the chairs of their examining and dissertation committees from the following list:

Francesca Ammon, Associate Professor of City & Regional Planning (Weitzman School) fammon@design.upenn.edu

Nikhil Anand, Assistant Professor of Anthropology (SAS)
nikhil.anand@sas.upenn.edu

Eugénie L. Birch, Lawrence C. Nussdorf Professor of Urban Research and Education (Weitzman School) elbirch@design.upenn.edu

Ram Cnaan, Professor of Social Work (School of Social Policy and Practice) 
cnaan@sp2.upenn.edu

Thomas L. Daniels, Crossways Professor of City & Regional Planning (Weitzman School) thomasld@design.upenn.edu

Akira Drake Rodriguez, Assistant Professor of City & Regional Planning (Weitzman School) akriad@design.upenn.edu 

Elizabeth Delmelle, Director of MUSA Program, Associate Professor of City & Regional Planning (Weitzman School) delmelle@design.upenn.edu

Gilles Duranton, Dean's Professor of Real Estate (Wharton) 
duranton@wharton.upenn.edu 

Lance Freeman, James W. Effron University Professor of City & Regional Planning (Weitzman School) lancefre@design.upenn.edu

David Grazian, Professor of Sociology and Communications (SAS)
dgrazian@soc.upenn.edu  

Jamaal Green, Assistant Professor of City & Regional Planning (Weitzman School) jamaalg@design.upenn.edu

Erick Guerra, Associate Professor of City & Regional Planning (Weitzman School) erickg@design.upenn.edu

David Gouverneur, Associate Professor of Practice, City & Regional Planning and Landscape Architecture (Weitzman School) 
dgg@design.upenn.edu 

Amy Hillier, Associate Professor of Social Policy & Practice (Social Policy & Practice)
ahillier@upenn.edu  

Mark Alan Hughes, Professor of Practice (Weitzman School) 
mahughes@upenn.edu

Allison Lassiter, Assistant Professor of City & Regional Planning (Weitzman School) alass@design.upenn.edu 

Zhongjie Lin, Associate Professor of City & Regional Planning (Weitzman School) zlin@design.upenn.edu 

Sarah Lopez, Associate Professor of City & Regional Planning (Weitzman School) slopez1@design.upenn.edu

Randall F. Mason, Professor of City & Regional Planning & Historic Preservation (Weitzman School) rfmason@design.upenn.edu 

Lisa Mitchell, Associate Professor of South Asia Studies (SAS) 
lmitch@sas.upenn.edu

Laura Perna, Professor of Education (Education) 
lperna@gse.upenn.edu

Vincent Reina, Associate Professor of City & Regional Planning (Weitzman School) vreina@design.upenn.edu 

Megan Ryerson, UPS Associate Professor of Transportation (Weitzman School) mryerson@design.upenn.edu

Lisa Servon, Kevin and Erica Penn Presidential Professor of City & Regional Planning (Weitzman School) servon@upenn.edu 

Frederick R. Steiner Paley Professor and Dean (School of Design)
fsteiner@design.upenn.edu 

Mark Stern, Professor of Social Welfare and History 
stern@sp2.upenn.edu

Marilyn Jordan Taylor, Professor of Architecture and Urban Design (Weitzman School) mjtaylor@design.upenn.edu  

Domenic Vitiello, Associate Professor of City & Regional Planning (Weitzman School) vitiello@design.upenn.edu

Susan M. Wachter, Richard B. Worley Professor of Financial Management; Professor of Real Estate and Finance (Wharton and Weitzman School) 
wachter@wharton.upenn.edu 

Amber Wiley, Presidential Associate Professor of Historic Preservation (Weitzman School) ambwiley@design.upenn.edu

Richard Weller, Professor and Chairman, Martin and Margy Meyerson Chair of Urbanism, Landscape Architecture (Weitzman School) 
rjweller@design.upenn.edu