MUP - Meet our Faculty

Combining a depth of experience in the profession and academy, our faculty are international thought leaders and influencers in fields such as food systems planning, climate resilience, global health equity, urban design, transportation planning and policy, and historic preservation. Passionate educators and mentors, our faculty engage students directly in their research and community-engaged work. 

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  • Emmanuel Frimpong Boamah
    10/26/23
    Emmanuel Frimpong Boamah, associate professor of urban and regional planning, is a prolific scholar with interests in water governance and determinations of the appropriate institutional frameworks for dealing with water issues.
  • Kelly Gregg
    9/3/24
    Assistant Professor
    Department of Urban and Regional Planning
    231 Hayes Hall
    (716) 829-3520
    kgregg@buffalo.edu
  • Hiroaki Hata
    9/3/24
    Associate Professor Hiroaki Hata’s research and creative work focuses on the design, history, theory and criticism of urban structures and community development.
  • Daniel B. Hess
    9/3/24
    Professor Daniel Hess's research is addressing interactions between housing, transportation, land use, and other public concerns. He develops new pathways for understanding the complex socio-economic and ethnic landscape of cities and spatial inequalities. He also explores equal access to resources from urban neighborhoods, focusing especially on the changes in gay neighborhoods and the LGBTQ+ population diffuses to other metropolitan locations.
  • Alexandra Judelsohn
    9/3/24
    Assistant Professor - Department of Urban and Regional Planning
     ajudekso@buffalo.edu - 232 Hayes Hall - (716) 829-5878
  • Lucie Laurian, PhD
    9/3/24
  • Jordana Maisel
    9/3/24
    Jordana Maisel works at the intersection of research, teaching and practice as assistant professor of urban planning and research director for the Center for Inclusive Design and Environmental Access (IDEA Center).
  • Camden Miller
    9/3/24
    Clinical Professor - Department of Urban and Regional Planning
    Director of Operations and Project Management - Rudy Bruner Center for Urban Excellence
     camdenmi@buffalo.edu - 201 Hayes Hall - 716-829-6911
  • Xuanyi “Maxwell” Nie, DDes
    9/3/24
  • JiYoung Park
    9/4/24
    Associate Professor JiYoung Park’s research interests are urban economics and transportation modeling as applied to natural and man-made environmental and security problems.
  • Samina Raja
    9/4/24
    Samina Raja is an international expert in planning and policy for sustainable food systems and healthy communities. She is professor of urban planning, principal investigator of UB's Food Lab and associate dean for research and inclusive excellence.
  • Matthew Roland
    9/4/24
    Matthew Roland, AICP, is the assistant dean for the real estate development program and clinical assistant professor. Matt has over 20 years of real estate experience, working on real estate and planning projects in most municipalities in Western New York and in over 20 states.
  • Robert Shibley
    9/4/24
    SUNY Distinguished Professor
     Director, Rudy Bruner Center for Urban Excellence
    Rudy Bruner Chair in Urban Excellence
    Senior Fellow, UB Regional Institute
    School of Architecture and Planning
  • Robert Silverman
    9/4/24
    Robert Silverman applies urban planning to the study of the non-profit sector, the role of community-based organizations in urban neighborhoods, education reform, shrinking cities, and inequality in inner city housing markets.
  • Ernest Sternberg
    9/4/24
    Professor Sternberg studies the relationship between planning theory and planning practice and has strong interests in the intellectual history of planning thought.
  • Henry Louis Taylor, Jr.
    9/4/24
    Professor - Department of Urban and Regional Planning
     htaylor@buffalo.edu - Hayes Hall 330A - (716) 829-5458
  • Kerry Traynor
    9/4/24
    Director of Graduate Programs and Historic Preservation - Department of Urban and Regional Planning
     klta@buffalo.edu - Hayes Hall 237 - 716-829-5885
  • Alissa Ujie Diamond
    7/2/24
  • Li Yin
    9/4/24
    Associate Professor - Department of Urban and Regional Planning
     liyin@buffalo.edu - Hayes Hall 331 - (716) 829-5883