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Dr. Strom’s interest in urban issues was sparked when, after graduating from college, she became a VISTA volunteer and was assigned to work with a community group in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. She also spent several years in the housing and planning office of Brooklyn Catholic Charities, where she worked with neighborhood groups to renovate abandoned buildings and create new housing for low-income families. Dr. Strom’s past research has analyzed urban planning decisions in Berlin after Germany’s reunification as well as the economic development challenges facing the industrial cities of the United States. Results of her Berlin research have been published in Building the New Berlin: The Politics of Urban Development in Germany’s Capital, published by Lexington Books in 2001. Her current work examines cities that have developed cultural facilities as part of their downtown revitalization strategies, and she has carried out case studies on downtown redevelopment in a number of US cities as part of a larger project funded by the Knight Foundation. She is also interested in universities, cultural institutions and other nonprofits as urban political actors. Dr. Strom holds a BA from Swarthmore College, a Masters of City Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and both an MA and PhD from the City University of New York. Her work has been funded by the National Endowment of the Humanities, the Fulbright Program, and the Social Science Research Council, and been published in the Journal of Urban Affairs, Urban Affairs Review, the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, German Politics and Society, and European Urban and Regional Research, and Review of Policy Research. She sits on editorial advisory boards for Politics and Policy and Urban Affairs Review, and on the Governing Board of the Urban Affairs Association. Before joining the USF Department of Geography, Dr. Strom was Associate Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University-Newark. While at Rutgers, Dr. Strom taught courses in Urban Politics, Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations, American Government and Welfare Policies at the undergraduate and graduate level. VIEW VITA (in pdf format)
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