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: programs
: ph.d. degree
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
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
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
Dissertation: "Determinants
of Success in Interorganizational Collaboration
for Natural Resource
Management" Available online
Dawn Jourdan (PhD '04)
Advisor: Charles E. Connerly

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Assistant
Professor
Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning
Texas A&M University
djourdan@archone.tamu.edu
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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
Dissertation: "Risk
Perception, Uncertainty, and Facility Siting: Lessons
from Merchant
Power in California" available online
Dewi Susilastuti (PhD '03) Advisor: Rebecca
Miles
Dissertation:
"Women's Education, Work And Autonomy: An Egyptian Case"
Available online
Charles Warnken (PhD '03) Advisor:
Charles E.
Connerly
Dissertation:
"The Price Effects Of The Urban Service Area Boundary in
Tallahassee,
Florida" available online
Amal Ali (PhD '02) Advisor: Petra Doan
Dissertation: "Measuring
Decentralization:
Local Power
Over
Decision-making
for Comprehensive Planning in Florida"
Jerry
Anthony
(PhD '00) Advisor:
Charles E. Connerly

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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

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Chief of
Party
Tamkeen Project
Chemtronics International
WEST BANK
malmbaid@yahoo.com; malmbaid@tamkeen.org
www.tamkeen.org.
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Dissertation: "Planning
Under Uncertainty: the Case of Health NGOs in
Palestine"
Michael
R. Boswell
(PhD.'00) Advisor: Robert E. Deyle

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Associate
Professor
& Master's Program Coordinator
City & Regional Planning Department
California Polytechnic State University--San Luis Obispo
mboswell@calpoly.edu
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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

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Assistant
Professor
Department of Political Science
University of Texas, El Paso
spena2@utep.edu
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Dissertation:
"Informal Markets Organization: Street Vendors in Mexico City"
Joseph Addae-Mensa (PhD '98) Advisor: Charles
E. Connerly
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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
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
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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
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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

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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

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Professor
Department of Regional Development
Chongju University, Chongju, REPUBLIC OF KOREA
cheoljcho@cju.ac.kr or khc2000@dankook.ac.kr
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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
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Dean and
Executive
Director
Western Institute
Missouri Western State College
shove@missouriwestern.edu
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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
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Associate
Professor and
Chair
Department of Urban and Regional Planning
Chulalongkorn
University, Bangkok, THAILAND
Daranee.T@chula.ac.th
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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

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Dean
College of Business
Tennesssee State University
tcurry@picard.tnstate.edu
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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

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Senior
Project
Development Coordinator
New York City Department of Design and Construction
New York, NY
dastidar@ddc.nyc.gov
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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
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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

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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

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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
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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
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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