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FSU’s PhD Alumni          [Directory of current PhD Students here]
(in reverse chronological order of degree date)

Deden Rukmana (PhD '06) Advisor: Charles E. Connerly
       
Rukmana Assistant Professor of Urban Studies
Department of Political Science, Pubilc Administration and Urban Studies
Savannah State University
rukmanad@savstate.edu
      Dissertation: The Spatial Origins of the Homeless: How the Homeless Vary in their         Geographic Distribution. Available online.

Bhuiyan Alam (PhD '05) Advisor: Gregory L. Thompson
Alam 2006
Assistant Professor
Department of Geography and Planning
University of Toledo
bhuiyan.alam@utoledo.edu
Dissertation: "Influence of Transit Accessibility to Jobs on the Employabiiity of Welfare Recipients: The Case of Broward  County, Florida." Available online. Master's thesis online.

Ayșin Dedekorkut (PhD '04) Advisor: Robert E. Deyle
Dedekorkut Assistant Professor   

Department of City and Regional Planning

Izmir Institute of Technology, Izmir, TURKEY                aysindedekorkut@iyte.edu.tr

        Dissertation: "Determinants of Success in Interorganizational Collaboration
        for Natural Resource Management" Available online

Dawn Jourdan (PhD '04) Advisor:  Charles E. Connerly

Jourdan
Assistant Professor
Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning
Texas A&M University
djourdan@archone.tamu.edu


Dissertation: "Planning to reduce worry designing an intergenerational planning   process to lessen relocation-related anxieties experienced by those displaced in the pursuit of a HOPE VI revitalization grant"  Available online.

Carissa Schively
(PhD '04) Advisor: Bruce Stiftel 
Schively Assistant Professor                                 
H. H. Humphrey Inst. of Public Affairs    
University of Minnesota                            
cschively@hhh.umn.edu
Summary of ongoing research.

            Dissertation: "Risk Perception, Uncertainty, and Facility Siting: Lessons
            from Merchant Power in California" available online

Dewi Susilastuti (PhD '03) Advisor: Rebecca Miles

Susilastuti
Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology
University of Kentucky
dsusilas@mailer.fsu.edu
          Dissertation: "Women's Education, Work And Autonomy: An Egyptian Case"           Available online
 
Charles Warnken (PhD '03) Advisor: Charles E. Connerly
Warnken
Assistant Professor
Division of Regional and City Planning
University of Oklahoma
cwarnken@ou.edu

          Dissertation: "The Price Effects Of The Urban Service Area Boundary in
          Tallahassee, Florida" available online
 
Amal Ali (PhD '02) Advisor: Petra Doan

Ali
Assistant Professor
Department of Geography and Geosciences
Salisbury University
akali@salisbury.edu

        Dissertation:  "Measuring Decentralization: Local Power Over                                  Decision-making for Comprehensive Planning in Florida"
         

 

Jerry Anthony (PhD '00) Advisor: Charles E. Connerly
Anthony
Associate Professor
Department of Urban and Regional Planning
University of Iowa
jerry-anthony@uiowa.edu

          Dissertation: "The Impact of State Growth Management Regulation on
          Affordable Housing in Florida"
 
Mohammed Al-Mbaid
(PhD '00) Advisor: Petra Doan
Al Mbaid
Chief of Party
Tamkeen Project
Chemtronics International
WEST BANK
malmbaid@yahoo.com; malmbaid@tamkeen.org
www.tamkeen.org.
         

          Dissertation: "Planning Under Uncertainty: the Case of Health NGOs in
          Palestine"

Michael R. Boswell  (PhD.'00) Advisor: Robert E. Deyle
Boswell
Associate Professor & Master's Program Coordinator
City & Regional Planning Department
California Polytechnic State University--San Luis Obispo
mboswell@calpoly.edu

          Dissertation: "Redefining Environmental Planning: Evidence of the Emergence           of Sustainable Development and Ecosystem and Ecosystem Management in           Planning for the South Florida Ecosystem"
 
Ute Krappen-Clancy
(PhD '99) Advisor: Petra Doan
          Dissertation: "The Determinants of Female Labor Force Participation in the           Philippines"
 
Sergio Peña  (PhD '99) Advisor: Petra Doan
Pena
Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science
University of Texas, El Paso
spena2@utep.edu
          Dissertation: "Informal Markets Organization: Street Vendors in Mexico City"
 
Joseph Addae-Mensa (PhD '98) Advisor: Charles E. Connerly
Addae-Mensa Bureau of Local Planning
Florida Department of Community Affairs
joseph.addae-mensa@dca.state.fl.us
          Dissertation: "Rental Housing in Ghana: A Logistical Regression Analysis of           Housing Tenure"
 
Joseph Cudjoe (PhD '97) Advisor: James Cobbe
Associate Professor and Associate Chair
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Florida Gulf Coast University
jcudjoe@fgcu.edu
          Dissertation: "Understanding Tropical Deforestation: A Structural Equation           Modeling Approach"
 
Neil Sipe (PhD '96) Advisor: Bruce Stiftel
Sipe
Head of School
School of Environmental Planning
Griffith University, Brisbane, AUSTRALIA
N.Sipe@mailbox.gu.edu.au

          Dissertation: "Mediating Environmental Enforcement Disputes: An Empirical           Analysis"
 
Ho-cheol Kim (PhD '93) Advisor: Charles E. Connerly
Assistant Professor
School of Social Science
Dankook University, Seoul, REPUBLIC OF KOREA
khc2000@dankook.ac.kr
          Dissertation: "The Effects of Local Economic Development Efforts on the                     Success of Enterprise Zone Programs: Florida Case Study"

Farshad Nourian (PhD '93) Advisor: Charles E. Connerly
Nourian Department Chair
Department of Urban Planning
University of Tehran, IRAN
fnoorian@ut.ac.ir

          Dissertation: "Regional Economic Development, Housing Needs and Their                     Impacts on the Growth of Housing Cooperatives in the Islamic Republic of
          Iran"
 
Carmen Warren (PhD '93) Advisor: David Sly
          Dissertation: "Expectations about Occupational Attainment And Demographic           Behavior Among Young Women in Jamaica: Implications for Development                     Planning"
 
Kyung-Ku Chun (PhD '93) Advisor: P. Doan
Chun Dean
College of Public Administration
Daegu University,  Kyungsan City, REPUBLIC OF KOREA
kkchun@webmail.daegu.ac.kr

          Dissertation: "Non-unique equilibrium in the Central Place System and
          Structure of City Size Distributions"
 
Yeremias Keban (PhD '93) Advisor: P. Doan
          Dissertation: "A Study of Migration Intentions: The Case of Migrants in Three           Cities in Indonesia"
 
Omondi Odhiambo  (PhD '92) Advisor: Michael Micklin and Bruce Stiftel
Odhiambo
Population and Reproductive Health Consultant
Nairobi, KENYA
omosh@africaonline.co.ke
          Dissertation: "Men and Family Planning in Kenya: Alternative Policy                              Intervention Strategies for Reducing Population Growth"

Cheol-Joo Cho
(PhD '90)Advisor: James E. Frank
Cho
Professor
Department of Regional Development
Chongju University, Chongju, REPUBLIC OF KOREA
cheoljcho@cju.ac.kr or
khc2000@dankook.ac.kr
          Dissertation: "The Equity-Efficiency Trade-off Model for the Optimum                 Location Pattern for Public Facilities: The Case of Medical Care Facilities"

Frank LaRosa (PhD '90) Advisor: Michael Micklin 
          Dissertation: "An Analysis of Urban Primacy: Reasserting the Need for                   National Spatial Planning in Developing Countries"

Phillip Rond (PhD '90) Advisor: Allen W. Imershein
Health Strategies, Inc.
Tallahassee, FL
          Dissertation: "Elite Fragmentation and Structural Change in Health Care"

Emanuel Oranika (PhD '88) Advisor: Isaac F. Megbolugbe
Transportation Coordinator
Alabama Department of Transportation
Montgomery, AL
           Dissertation: "Comparing nations: the impact of typological factors
           on development patterns and profiles of African nations"

Christopher Shove (PhD. '88) Advisor: Charles E. Connerly
Shove Dean and Executive Director
Western Institute
Missouri Western State College
shove@missouriwestern.edu
           Dissertation:  "Analysis of the locational characteristics of  industrial
           research & development activities "

Yang Koh (PhD '83) Advisor: William G. Bell
Dean
College of Social Welfare
Kang Nam University, Kyunngi-Do , REPUBLIC OF KOREA
          Dissertation:
An exploratory study of filial support and the use of formal                     services among the Korean aged in New York City

Daranee Thavinpipatkul (PhD '83) Advisor: Richard A. Smith
Thavinpipatkul Associate Professor and Chair
Department of Urban and Regional Planning
Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, THAILAND
Daranee.T@chula.ac.th

          Dissertation: The study of social structural change in rural communities : a           case study in the central region of Thailand

Winifreed Schmeling (PhD '81) Advisor: Richard A. Smith
Senior Vice President
Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare
Tallahasse, FL
          Dissertation: The impact of utilization review on rates of hospitalization in
          three competing health maintenance organizations

Reginald R. Sutton (PhD '80) Advisor: Andrew Dzurik
Environmental Coordinator
North Carolina Department of Natural Resources and Community Development
Raleigh, NC
      
            Dissertation: Peak-load electricity and decentralized alternative (solar)                 energy

Tilden J. Curry (PhD '78) Advisor: Andrew Dzurik
Curry
Dean
College of Business
Tennesssee State University
tcurry@picard.tnstate.edu
            Dissertation: The state comprehensive plan : an evaluation of its                           relevance to public decision-making and state planning methodology
 
Shefali Sengupta Ghosh Dastidar (PhD '78) Advisor: Andrew Dzurik
Shefali Dastidar
Senior Project Development Coordinator
New York City Department of Design and Construction
New York, NY
dastidar@ddc.nyc.gov

          Dissertation: A quantitative approach to the analysis of regional disparities           and regional development planning
 
Susanta Biswas (PhD '77) Advisor: Seward Smith
          Dissertation: Value orientations, life styles, and preferences in urban                      environments :an empirical analysis

James Brandon  (PhD '77) Advisor: James E. Frank
Brandon Senior Director, Advisory Service Group
Cushman and Wakefield
McLean, Virginia
Jim_Brandon@cushwake.com
          Dissertation: Planning and control in multi-agency service systems : toward a           working model
 
Particia Brantingham (PhD '77) Advisor: Edward McClure
Brantingham
Professor
School of Criminology
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, BC, CANADA
patricia.brantingham@sfu.ca
          Dissertation: Dynamic modelling of the felony court system
 
Gideon Ederiene Omuta (PhD '77) Advisor: Andrew Dzurik
Department of Geography and Regional Planning
University of Benin, Benin, NIGERIA
          Dissertation: A multi-variate regionalization of economic development in           Nigeria
 
Earl Starnes, FAICP (PhD '77) Advisor: Edward McClure
Starnes
Professor Emeritus
Department of Urban and Regional Planning
University of Florida
estarnes@inetw.net
          Dissertation: Individual states and development management : a selected           method for analysis
 
Ronald Wright (PhD '77) Advisor: Kozmas Balkus
School of Public Administration
Academia Istropolitana
Bratislava, SLOVAKIA
          Dissertation: The planning function in development management"

Mulata Wubneh (PhD '76) Advisor: Robert Mitchell
Wubneh Professor and Department Chair
Department of Planning
East Carolina University
wubnehm@mail.ecu.edu

          Dissertation: Spatial dynamics and infrastructure investment : an analysis of           the effects of infrastructure on the development of urban areas and
           locational decisions of firms in Ethiopia

Sachi Ghosh Dastidar (PhD '75) Advisor: Edward McClure
SG Dastidar 2004
Distinguished Professor
Politics, Economics and Society Department
State University of New York, College at Old Westbury
dastidars@oldwestbury.edu

       Dissertation: Optimizing techniques in regional development: an analysis of                eastern India region"

Ann Ford (PhD '75) Advisor: Edward McClure
          Dissertation: The physician's assistant: a national and local analysis"
 
Ann DeWitt Brooks (PhD '74) Advisor: Seward Smith
retired: most recent position: Assistant Administrator
Council on Environmental Quality
Commonwealth of Virginia
mikeannbrooks@worldnet.att.net
          Dissertation: "The political socialization of black and white adolescents:                   implications for planning"


Frank Holloway (PhD '74) Advisor: Kosmas Balkus
retired: most recent position: Professor
Department of Civil Engineering
Tennessee Technical University


 

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