Faculty Bio: Rosalie Ray
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Common Courses Taught
URBG 790 Urban Development WorkshopIntro to Urban Policy Processes
Education
PhD in Urban Planning, Columbia UniversityMasters in Urban and Regional Planning, UCLA
BA in Economics Smith College
Biography
Rosalie Ray is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Urban Policy and Planning at Hunter College. Her research explores how and under what conditions urban political processes shift transportation institutions to more sustainable modes, using policy histories and process tracing to unpack the conditions under which change occurs. She is a co-editor of the Handbook of Transportation and Public Policy and her work has been published in the Journal of Transportation and Land Use, Journal of the American Planning Association, Public Works Management and Policy, Urban Geography, and the Journal of Planning Education and Research. She is currently serving as a subject matter expert on a Transit Cooperative Research Program grant exploring the links between transit funding sources, governance models, and measures of agency success, including ridership and funding.
Her teaching focuses on community-engaged and applied research, building ongoing partnerships with government and community organizations to provide needed research while building student skills. She teaches the Urban Development Workshop and Introduction to Urban Policy Processes.
Prior to Hunter, Dr. Ray was an assistant professor at Texas State University in San Marcos, TX, where she collaborated with the city to pilot a Transportation Equity Cabinet using internal grants. She also worked with funded undergraduate research assistants to assess travel behavior and transportation infrastructure needs at low-income housing complexes and used her Researching the City class to partner with the local Main Street program to develop a vacancy database.
Dr. Ray received her PhD in Urban Planning from Columbia University, her Masters in Urban and Regional Planning from UCLA, and her BA in Economics from Smith College. Before getting her MURP, she worked as an economist at the US Department of Transportation’s Volpe Center.