CURRICULUM VITAE ROBERT K. WHELAN I.

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PERSONAL DATA Address:

6512 Sunnyland Lane Dallas, Texas 75214

Telephone:

(214) 365-8092

Email:

[email protected]

EDUCATION Ph.D.

University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, 1971, Government and Politics Dissertation Topic: "Decision-Making Processes and Goals in Urban Renewal: The Cases of Gay Street One and Inner Harbor One in Baltimore, Maryland."

B.A.

Columbia College, New York, NY, 1963, Government.

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE University of Texas – Dallas, Clinical Professor, Fall 2009- present University of Texas – Arlington, School of Urban and Public Affairs, Visiting Professor, Fall 2006Spring 2009. University of New Orleans, College of Urban and Public Affairs, Associate Professor, August 19821987. Professor, 1987-present. MPA Coordinator, 1982-1998. Associate Dean of CUPA, 1989-2000, Ph.D. Coordinator, 1998-1999, received tenure, 1984. Acting Dean, July 2000May 2002. Ph.D. Coordinator, Acting Spring, 2001. Received Emeritus Status, 2008. University of North Florida, Department of Political Science and Sociology, Associate Professor, December 1977-July 1982; MPA Coordinator, September, 1979-July 1982; Acting Chairperson (Summer 1979 and Summer 1981), received tenure, May 1980. Georgia Institute of Technology, Department of Social Sciences, received tenure in 1977; Associate Professor, 1976-December 1977; Assistant Professor, 1971-1976. University of Maryland, Bureau of Governmental Research, Urban Research Group, Faculty Research Assistant, 1970-1971.

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PUBLICATIONS A.

Books

Urban Policy and Politics in a Bureaucratic Age (with Clarence N. Stone and William J. Murin), Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1979. Second edition, 1986. B.

Book chapters, articles in refereed journals, refereed bulletin

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“ Urban Politics: The Case for a Polity Approach” (with Clarence N. Stone”, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF URBAN AND REGIONAL RESEARCH 35,4 (July 2011), 858-860. “Through a Glass Darkly: The Once and Future Study of Urban Politics” (with Clarence N. Stone) in Richardson Dilworth, ed., The City in Political American Development, Routledge Group: New York, NY, 2009, pp. 98-118. "Rebuilding Lives Post-Katrina: Choices and Challenges in New Orleans‟ Economic Development” (with Denise Strong), in Robert D. Bullard and Beverly Wright (eds.), Race, Place, and the Environment After Katrina, Westview Press: Boulder, CO, 2009, pp. 183-203. “Tradition and Modernity in the Montreal Megacity” (with Richard Vengroff) in Marie-Christine Weidmann Koop (ed), “Le Québec à l'aube du nouveau millénaire: entre tradition et modernité”, Sainte-Foy: Presses de l'Université du Québec, 2008, pp. 98-104. “A History of the Conduct of Inquiry in Public Administration” in Jack Rabin, W. Bartley Hildreth, and Gerald J. Miller (eds.), Handbook of Public Administration, 3rd edition (Boca Raton, FL: Taylor & Francis, 2007), pp. 825-850. “An Old Economy for the „New‟ New Orleans? Post-Katrina Economic Development Efforts” in Chester Hartman and Gregory D. Squires (eds.), There is No Such Thing As A Natural Disaster: Race, Class, and Hurricane Katrina. (New York: Rutledge, 2006), pp. 215-231. “Municipal Consolidation Quebec Style: A Comparative North American Perspective” (with Richard Vengroff), Canadian-American Public Policy, no. 62 (April 2005), 1-56. “Fragmented Infrastructure and Suburban Sprawl: A Case Study of St. Tammary Parrish, Louisiana,” published in Proceedings – International Conference Urban Engineering - Lille 2005 (with Isabelle Maret), 1-8. “Montreal demergers: an update” (with Pierre Joncas), Inroads, no. 16 (Winter-Spring 2005), 94-99. “New Orleans: Metropolis Against Itself” (with James Brandt) in Donald Phares (ed.), Metropolitan Governance Without Metropolitan Government?, Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2004, pp. 135-153. “Breaking up is hard to do: Merger and demerger in the Montreal megacity” (with Richard Vengroff and Pierre Joncas), Inroads, no. 15 (Summer-Fall 2004), 96-105. “Tenant Organizing in Public Housing: A Case Study of Kansas City, Missouri and New Orleans, Louisiana,” (with Robert O. Washington) in Fritz Wagner et.al (eds.), Human Capital Investment for Central City Revitalization (New York: Routledge, 2003), pp. 78-99. “Canadian Municipal Government in an Age of Neoliberalism,” (with Richard Vengroff), International Journal of Public Administration, vol. 24, no. 6 (2001), pp. 503-510 “Public Land and Amenities” (with Wayne Babovich) in Deborah Ballati (ed.), Privatizing Governmental Functions (New York: Law Journal Press, 2001), pp. 12-1 to 12-85. “Louisiana” (with Richard Engstrom) in Dale Krane et.al (eds.) Home Rule in America: A Fifty State Handbook. (Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 2001), pp. 173-182.

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“Privatizing Government Services in New Orleans” (with Marc H. Morial), in Paul J. Andrisani et.al (eds.) Making Government Work: Lessons from America‟s Governors and Mayors (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000), pp. 211-222. “The Politics of Planning and Developing New Sports Facilities: The Case of Zephyrs Park and the New Orleans Arena,” (with Alma H. Young) in Wilbur C. Rich (ed.), The Economics and Politics of Sports Facilities (Westport, CT: Quorum, 2000), pp. 111-123. “Public Administration – The State of the Discipline: A View from the Urban and Local Management Literature,” Public Administration Quarterly, vol. 23, no. 1 (Spring 1999), pp. 46-64 “Response to Holzer‟s „Communicating Commitment‟,” Public Administration and Management, 4, 2 (1999), 208-214 “Data Administration and Research methods in Public Administration” in Bart Hildreth, Gerry Miller, and Jack Rabin (eds.), Handbook of Public Administration, 2nd ed. (Marcel Dekker, 1998), pp. 777805. “Les Africains-Americains au nord et au sud des Etats-Unis. Comparaison entre quatre villes: Atlanta, Baltimore, Detroit et La Nouvelle Orleans (with Alma H. Young et Mickey Lauria), Herodote, no. 85, 2 (1997), 109-132. “Sports and Economic Development North of the Border” (with Mark Rosentraub) in Major League Losers, Mark Rosentraub (ed.), (New York: BasicBooks, 1997). “Planning Theory and Political Economy: Planning Theory 14 (Winter 1995), 8-33.

The Need for Reintegration” (with Mickey Lauria),

The Revitalization of New Orleans (with Mickey Lauria and Alma H. Young) in Urban Revitalization: Policies and Programs, Fritz W. Wagner, et.al (eds.), Thousand Oaks: Sage, 1995), 102-127. Urban Regimes and Racial Politics in New Orleans (with Mickey Lauria and Alma H. Young), Journal of Urban Affairs 16: 1-21. 1994. "Strategic Planning for the Port of New Orleans," (with Alma H. Young) in Peter Meyer (ed), Comparative Studies in Local Economic Development (Wesport, CT: Greenview Press, 1993), 131145. "New Orleans: The Ambivalent City" (with Alma H. Young) in H.V. Savitch and John Clayton Thomas (eds.), Big City Politics in Transition, Volume 38, Sage Urban Affairs Annual Reviews, 1991, pp. 132-148. "The Politics of Urban Redevelopment in Montreal: Regime Change from 'Drapeau to Dore,'" Quebec Studies 12 (Spring/Summer 1991): 155-169. "Performance Appraisal in Local Government: A Current Update" (with Kenneth Lacho & Kent Stearns), Public Productivity and Management Review XIV (Spring 1991), 281-296. "Montreal: The Struggle to Become a World City" (with Jacques Leveillee) in Dennis Judd and

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Michael Parkinson (eds.), Leadership and Urban Regeneration, vol. 37, Urban Affairs Annual Reviews (Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1990), pp.152-170. "New Orleans: Public-Private Partnerships and Uneven Development" in Gregory D. Squires (ed.) Unequal Partnerships: The Political Economy of Urban Redevelopment in Postwar America (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1989), pp. 222-239. "Port Cities Face Complex Challenges" (with Ralph E. Thayer), in Richard V. Knight and Gary Gappert (eds.), Cities in a Global Society, vol. 35 Urban Affairs Annual Reviews (Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1989), pp. 120-131. "Rural Enterprise Zones: Evaluating Their Effectiveness in Louisiana" (with Arthur C. Nelson) Economic Development Commentary, 13, 3 (Fall 1989), 27-35. "Data Administration and Research Methods in Public Administration" in Bart Hildreth, Gerry Miller, and Jack Rabin (eds.), Handbook of Public Administration (Marcel Dekker, 1989), pp. 657-682. "Evaluating Graduate Public Administration Programs," Public Administration Quarterly 11 (Summer 1987), 188-197 (with Ralph E. Thayer). "L'action economique de la ville de la Nouvelle-Orleans," in Jean Bouinot (ed.), L'Action Economique Des Grandes Villes En France Et A L'Etrangers (Paris: Ed Economica, 1987), 33-64. "Some Political Costs of Coprovision: The Case of the New Orleans Zoo," Public Productivity Review 40 (Winter 1986), 69-76 (with Robert Dupont). "The Impact of Florida's Matrix-Model Organization On Implementation of the Older Americans Act," Journal of Health and Human Resources Administration 7 (Summer, 1984), 84-116 (with Jane E. Decker). "City Profile: New Orleans," Cities 1 (May 1984), 314-321 (with Peter Sorant & Alma H. Young). "New Towns: An Idea Whose Time Has Passed?" Journal of Urban History 10 (February 1984), 195209. "The Northeast Florida Area Agency on Aging: A Case Study in Organizational Design and Evaluation," in Lloyd Nigro (ed.), Decision Making in the Public Sector (New York: Marcel Dekker, 1984), 209-238 (with Jane E. Decker). "The Impact of the Reagan Administration's Budget Cutbacks on State and Local Governments," Politics 2 (April 1982), 26-31. "Mayors and Group Processes: A Discussion of Mayoral Roles," in James C. Strouse, Richard P. Claude, and John D. Huss (eds.), Making Government Work: Essays in Honor of Conley H. Dillion (Washington, DC: University Press of America, 1981). "Urban Service Delivery," International Journal of Public Administration 3 (1981), 243-254. "The Concept of Self-Help in Urban Neighborhoods: Theory and Practice" in Peter Homenuck and Harvey Newman (eds.), Selected Papers From the 1979 Annual Meeting of the Council of University Institutes of Urban Affairs (Atlanta: School of Urban Life, Georgia State University, 1980), 152-173.

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"Post-Reform Politics: The Changing Context of Citizen Participation" (with Clarence N. Stone), The Midwest Quarterly 20 (Spring 1979), 300-315. "The Urban Technology Systems Experiment: A Case Study in the Utilization of Scientific and Technical Information in Urban Policy-Making," Urban Systems, vol. 3, no. 4 (1978), 235-241. "Citizen Evaluation of Federal and City Governments" (with John Havick), Public Service 5 (September 1978), 5-7. "Community Development Block Grants: Some Questions Raised by the Brookings Institution and Other Studies," in Peter Gluck and Edward Hanten (eds.), The University and the City: Selected Papers From the 1978 Annual Meeting of the Council of University Institutes of Urban Affairs (Akron: Center for Urban Studies, University of Akron, 1978), 37-42. "Study Unit on Urban Politics," published in Newspapers: Primary Sources for Political Science Study (Washington, DC: American Newspaper Publishers Association Foundation, 1977), 29-31. "Republicanism in Georgia: A Contemporary Perspective" (with Michael W. McKinney), Journal of Political Science (Spring 1975), 109-121. "Coalition Politics in a Southern City: The Atlanta Mayoralty Election of 1973" (with Michael W. McKinney), Georgia Political Science Association Journal (Fall 1975), 123-146. "Communication: Are Black Elected Administrators Unique?" Public Administration Review (JulyAugust 1975), 436. "Urban Political Leadership: An Essay?", Public Administration Review (November-December 1975), 652-657. "Leadership Styles in Urban Societies" (with Sevgi O. Aral), (Tucson, Arizona: Institute of Government Research, 1974), published in the Occasional Paper ("Peephole") series. C.

Other Publications

"Florida's Aging Network and Implementation of Older American's Act: An Organizational Evaluation," report to Aging and Adult Services Program Office, Florida Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services (August 1982), (with Jane E. Decker and Linda P. McClintock). "Developing a Course in Intergovernmental Relations: Some Useful Materials," Proceedings of the Second National Conference on Teaching Public Administration, May 11-12, 1979, Memphis, Tennessee, 167-171. "Urban Renewal Policy and City Politics: Urban Renewal in Atlanta and Baltimore," Proceedings of the Georgia Political Science Association (Athens, Georgia: Institute of Government, 1983), 173-213 (with Clarence N. Stone). "The Office of Lieutenant Governor, in Constitutional Convention Commission of Maryland, Constitutional Revision Study Governments (1968), pp. 160-164. Reviews of:

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Review of “Madison‟s Managers: Public Administration and the Constitution”, American Review of Public Administration 38,4 (December 2008), 501-502. Review of Hiller, ed., “Urban Canada: Sociological Perspectives.” American Review of Canadian Studies 37, 3 (Autumn 2007), 400-403. Review of Eckstein, “Sustaining New Orleans: Literature, Local Memory and the Fate of a City.” Journal of Planning Literature 21, 2 (November 2006), 169-170. Review of Germain and Ross, “Montreal: The Quest for a Metropolis.” Canadian Studies (Summer 2003), 296-298.

American Review of

Review of Waste‟s Independent Cities and Foster‟s The Political Economy of Special Purpose Government, Journal of the American Planning Association, 65, 2 (Spring 1999), 227-228. Review of Bingham and Mier (eds.), Dilemmas of Urban Economic Development, Canadian Journal of Urban Research, 7,2 (December 1998), 260-262. Review of Jargowsky‟s Poverty and Places, Canadian Journal of Urban Research, 6,2 (December 1997), 204-206. Review of Atkinson (eds.), Cities of Pride, Environmental and Planning: A, 29, 9 (September 1997), 1700-1701. Patricia, Roy, "A White Man's Province" and Hugh Johnston's "The Voyage of the Komagata Maru," American Review of Canadian Studies 22 (Spring 1992), 127-131. Susan Clark (ed), "Urban Innovation and Autonomy" in Economic Geography 67, no. 2, 176-179 reprinted in FAUI Newsletter (January 1992), pp. 13-16. Review of Leonard and Léveillée, Montreal After Drapeau Quebec Studies 9 (Fall 1989/Winter 1990), 175-177. Burby, et.al Flood Plain Land Use Management, Emergency Management Dispatch (April-May, 1986), p. 4-5. Berry, "Feeding Hungry People," American Political Science Review (September 1985), 832-833. Zimmerman, "State-Local Relations," American Political Science Review 78 (March 1984: 244-245. Merrett and Gray, "Owner Occupation in Britain," Growth and Change 15 (January 1984), 56. Barfield, "Rethinking Federalism" and Levine et. al, "The Politics of Retrenchment," American Political Science Review 77 (March 1983), 196-197. Dunn, "Miles to Go: European and American Transportation Policies," Policy Studies Journal 10 (December, 1981), 417-418. Krefetz, "Welfare Policy Making and City Politics," Southern Review of Public Administration 1 (December 1977), 396-398.

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Reagan, "The New Federalism," Georgia Political Science Association Journal 1 (Fall 1973), 136138. Neiburg, "Culture Storm," Technology and Culture 14 (October, 1973), 681-683. D.

Recent Papers, Presentations

“Quebec‟s 2000 Metropolitan Governance Reforms: A Comparative Perspective with the Rest of Canada and the United States”, presented at meeting of the “American Council for Quebec Studies,” Quebec City, Quebec, November 13-16, 2008. “Municipal Policy Issues in Quebec”, presented at “Quebec Questions: Quebec Studies for the 21 st Century,” Montreal, October 16-19, 2008. “Housing Authority of New Orleans: Pre-Katrina Resident Survey”, (with Richard Cole, Lori Moon, and Nadine Jarmon), presented at “Urban Affairs Association Meeting,” Baltimore, Maryland, April 23-26, 2008. “An Analysis Comparing the Provinces of Alberta and Quebec for U.S. Foreign Direct Investment,” (with Joseph LeMay) presented at ACSUS meeting, Toronto, Canada, November 14-16, 2007. “New Orleanians' Sense of Place Versus Well-Being: Dilemmas for Public Housing Residents and Policymakers After Hurricane Katrina,” presented at ISS, Steinkjer, Norway, June-July 2007. “The Future of Quebec Studies: Quebec Politics and Public Policy,” presented at the State of Quebec Studies Conference – Harvard University, October 2006. “Fragmentation in Post-Katrina New Orleans,” presented at the American Political Science Association – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 2006. “Rebuilding New Orleans Neighborhoods,” presented at International School, European Public Administration Group, Egmond-Aan-Zee, Netherlands, July 2006. “New Orleans: Metropolitan Governance Post-Katrina,” presented at Conference on Metropolitan Governance, St. Louis, Missouri, June 2006. “Municipal Consolidation Quebec Style: A Comparative North American Perspective” (with Richard Vengroff), presented at the Association for Canadian Studies in the U. S. meeting, St. Louis, Mo, November 19, 2005. “Rebuilding New Orleans: Recovery From Katrina in a Fragmented Metropolis,” lecture at Arizona State University, November 1, 2005. “Public Policy Implications of Hurricane Katrina,” lecture at Auburn University, Montgomery, Al, October 4, 2005. “Serving as a Planning Commission”, workshop for Planning Commissioner” workshop for Planning Commissioners – under State training requirements – June, 2005 – Mandeville, LA. “Municipal Consolidation and Breakup: Democratic Governance in Quebec‟s Megacities” (with

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Richard Vengroff), paper presented at the New England Political Science Association, Portland, Me, April 30, 2005. “Municipal Governance, Institutional Structure and the Creative Class” (with Richard Vengroff and Stephanie Lawrence), presented at the Urban Affairs Association, Salt Lake City, Ut, April 2005. “The Montreal Demerger Movement” (with Prof. Richard Vengroff), presented at the American Council for Quebec Studies, Quebec City, QC, November 18-20, 2004. D.

Forthcoming Publications

“Urban Geography: Urban Regimes” (with Mickey Lauria), International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, forthcoming. “New Orleans, Land of Dreams: Metropolitan Governance After Hurricane Katrina”, in Donald Phares, ed., Government vs Governance in Metropolitan North America – forthcoming, M.E. Sharpe, 2009. V.

OTHER SCHOLARLY OR CREATIVE ACTIVITIES Professional Organizations American Society for Public Administration Received Donato J. Pugliese Award for service to SECOPA, 1994. Chairperson, Site Selection Committee, 1988, Southeast Conference Administration. Conference Chair for 1987 Southeast Conference on Public Administration. Chairperson, Southeast Conference on Public Administration, 1985-1986. President, Louisiana Chapter, 1985-1986. President, Northeast Florida Chapter, 1979-1980. Elected to Executive Board, ASPA Section of Intergovernmental Management.

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Urban Affairs Association Treasurer-Secretary to Governing Board, 1988-1989 Elected to Governing Board in 1983 for a three-year term. Re-elected in 1986. Program Chair for 1988 Conference, St. Louis, Missouri American Council for Quebec Studies Received Prix du Quebec for service to the organization, and research in the field, awarded by the ACQS and the Quebec Ministry of International Relations, November, 2008. President, 1999-2001 Treasurer, 1993-1999 Association for Canadian Studies in the United States National Council Member, 1997-2001

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Administrative Duties University of Texas – Arlington Visiting Professor, 2006-present. University of New Orleans, School of Urban and Regional Studies, College of Urban and Public Affairs Emeritus Professor, 2008. Acting Dean, July 2000-July 2002. Associate Dean, April 1989-2000. Associate Director, August 1985-1989. MPA Coordinator, August 1982-1997. Ph.D. Coordinator, 1998-1990, Spring 2001 (acting). University of North Florida, Department of Political Science and Sociology MPA Coordinator, January 1978-July 1982 Editorial Boards of Journals Public Administration Review, 1997-2000. Public Administration Quarterly, 1978-present. Journal of Urban Affairs, 1983-1998. Canadian Journal of Urban Research - 1996-2000. VI. PUBLIC SERVICE Member, City of Slidell Planning and Zoning Commission, May 1985-2006, Vice-Chairman, January 1987-1998; Chairman, 1998-2006. Member of Governor-Elect Roemer's Task Force on State Organization, 1988. Member of South Carolina Governor's Commission on Emergency Management, 1990. Participant, Project Alianza Louisiana for the Reconstruction of Honduras, February 19992003. Reviewer, HUD Work-Study Program, March 1999. Member, Slidell Hospital Board Selection Committee, 2004-2006. UNIVERSITY SERVICE Policy Committee, 1988-1990, 2002-2004. University Planning Advisory Committee, 1991-1992. VII.

GRANTS SEED Grant, UTA College of Liberal Arts, (with Ray Eve), November, 2008, $10,000 Canadian Studies Research Grant, 2004-2005, from Canadian Embassy, $6,000 IRE Grant (with Isabelle Maret), from UNO, to seek funding for research on Comparative Urban Sprawl, 2005.

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Principal Investigator, US AID Contract in Honduras - $150,000, 1999-2002. Research, Annie E. Casey Foundation, Study of workforce system development in New Orleans, $20,000 contract, 2000-2002. Service delivery study for Terrebonne Parish Consolidated Government - 1994-95, $150,000 (approximately). Gulf of Mexico program - Study for state-local activities affecting nutrient load in Gulf – 1995, $15,000. VIII. MASTERS THESES DIRECTED Since 1982 - 70 approximate DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS DIRECTED Louis Crust – Fall 2007 (co-director) Carlos Valle – Fall 2007 Bridget Bordelon – Summer 2003 Robert Collins – Fall 2000 Linda Clarke – Fall 2000 Regent Cabana – Fall 1999 (co-director) Silas Lee – Fall 1999 (co-director) Wayne Babovich – Fall 1998 Major Areas of Research Interest 1. Urban politics and policy a. Working on a book with Clarence N. Stone, tentatively titled, The City as a Political Arena. Our proposal will be submitted to the University of Kansas Press in December 2008. b. Preparing a paper with Harvey Newman of Georgia State University on the treatment of urban policy issues in the Journal of Urban Affairs. This paper will be presented at the 2009 meeting of the UAA. 2. Canadian metropolitan areas a. Revising chapter on “Municipal Policy Issues in Quebec” for inclusion in a volume to be published by Oxford University Press. b. Preparing a paper with Professor Richard Vengroff of Kennesaw State University on metropolitan governance in Canada in comparative perspective. This paper will be presented at the 2008 meeting of the International Political Science Association. 3. New Orleans post-Katrina a. Working with Professor Ray Eve of UT-Arlington Sociology Department on who has returned to New Orleans, who has not returned, and why.

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International Experience

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Invited Professor, Université ďArtois, Bethune, France, IUP, urban planning and engineering, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2003. Invited Professor, Université de Paris VIII, St. Denis, France, Dept. of Geography, 1996. Taught Comparative Urban Planning (Canada) – took CUPA students to Canada – 1986, 1988, 1991, 1995, 1999, 2003. Taught Comparative Urban Planning (Mexico) – took CUPA students to Mexico – 2000. Received summer study research grants from the Canadian Embassy in Washington and the Quebec Ministry of International Affairs in Quebec City. Participated in Alianza Louisiana – U. S. Aid project in Honduras 1999-2003. Selected for and attended NEH Seminar on French politics – Paris, Summer, 1989. Taught in Florida State University London program – Spring 1982. Spent portion of three sabbaticals in Canada, especially Montreal – 1990, 1997, 2004. May 2009