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Beyond planning programs

Planning scholars in other departments

50 people who hold a PhD from a planning program and whose research sits in planning, but whose appointment is in another unit: environmental science, public policy, geography, real estate, landscape architecture, engineering, public health. They are listed here beside the rankings, not in them, and are not counted in any percentile, ranking or department figure. The list was assembled in October 2026 and is a first pass, not a census; if you belong on it, or should not be on it, get in touch.

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NameDepartment or schoolUniversity RankCitationsh-indexPhD
Susan Handy OA Department of Environmental Science and Policy UC Davis Professor 30,169 74 UC Berkeley, 1992
Yan Kestens OA École de santé publique Université de Montréal Professor 9,198 55 Université Laval, 2004
Kevin J. Krizek OA Program in Environmental Design University of Colorado Boulder Professor 6,441 39 University of Washington, 2001
Kevin Manaugh OA Department of Geography McGill University Associate Professor 4,856 33 McGill University, 2013
Steven C. Bourassa OA Runstad Department of Real Estate University of Washington Professor 4,503 35 University of Pennsylvania, 1988
Brent Doberstein OA Department of Geography and Environmental Management University of Waterloo Professor 2,766 25 University of British Columbia, 2001
Geneviève Boisjoly OA Department of Civil, Geological and Mining Engineering Polytechnique Montréal Associate Professor 2,489 23 McGill University, 2019
Xiang Yan OA Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering University of Florida Assistant Professor 2,196 24 University of Michigan, 2019
Annie Seong Lee OA Department of Public Administration University of North Texas Assistant Professor 2,181 9 Rutgers University, 2021
William Riggs OA School of Management University of San Francisco Professor 1,942 24 UC Berkeley, 2011
Keunhyun Park OA Department of Forest Resources Management University of British Columbia Associate Professor 1,635 23 University of Utah, 2018
Gavin Smith OA Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning North Carolina State University Professor 1,597 17 Texas A&M
Ann-Margaret Esnard OA Department of Public Management and Policy, Andrew Young School Georgia State University Professor 1,558 21 University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Chris Benner OA Department of Sociology UC Santa Cruz Professor 1,450 18 UC Berkeley, 2000
Catherine Brinkley OA Department of Human Ecology UC Davis Associate Professor 1,349 20 University of Pennsylvania, 2013
Cathy Yang Liu OA Department of Public Management and Policy, Andrew Young School Georgia State University Professor 1,292 19 USC
Dillon Mahmoudi OA Department of Geography & Environmental Systems University of Maryland, Baltimore County Associate Professor 1,269 11 Portland State University, 2017
Laurie Schintler OA Schar School of Policy and Government George Mason University Associate Professor 1,204 20 University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1996
Kevin Lanza OA Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health UTHealth Houston Assistant Professor 1,168 19 Georgia Tech, 2019
George Homsy OA Environmental Studies Program Binghamton University Professor 1,122 17 Cornell University, 2014
Benjamin Chrisinger OA Department of Community Health Tufts University Assistant Professor 1,059 19 University of Pennsylvania, 2015
Katrin B. Anacker OA Schar School of Policy and Government George Mason University Professor 1,046 16 Ohio State University, 2006
Anna Livia Brand OA Department of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning UC Berkeley Associate Professor 952 12 MIT, 2012
Arthur Acolin OA Runstad Department of Real Estate University of Washington Professor 903 16 USC, 2017
Sergio Montero OA Department of Human Geography University of Toronto Scarborough Associate Professor 761 14 UC Berkeley
Jesus Barajas OA Department of Environmental Science and Policy UC Davis Associate Professor 733 15 UC Berkeley, 2016
C.J. Gabbe OA Department of Environmental Studies and Sciences Santa Clara University Associate Professor 649 16 UCLA, 2016
Susannah Bunce OA Department of Human Geography University of Toronto Scarborough Associate Professor 562 11 York University, 2008
Christina Rosan OA Department of Geography, Environment and Urban Studies Temple University Professor 550 13 MIT, 2007
Richard Funderburg OA School of Public Management and Policy University of Illinois Springfield Professor 406 12 UC Irvine, 2006
Marie-Hélène Vandersmissen OA Département de géographie Université Laval Professor 389 10 Université Laval, 2000
Tapan Kumar Dhar OA Trent School of the Environment Trent University Assistant Professor 386 7 University of Waterloo, 2016
Jason Spicer OA Marxe School of Public and International Affairs Baruch College, CUNY Associate Professor 382 11 MIT, 2018
Jaewon Lim OA School of Public Policy and Leadership University of Nevada, Las Vegas Associate Professor 361 10 University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2007
Dafeng Xu OA Evans School of Public Policy & Governance University of Washington Assistant Professor 329 14 Cornell University, 2017
Joaquín Herranz Jr. OA Evans School of Public Policy & Governance University of Washington Associate Professor 314 8 MIT, 2004
Ruoniu Wang OA Runstad Department of Real Estate University of Washington Associate Professor 279 10 University of Florida, 2015
Marcela González Rivas OA Graduate School of Public and International Affairs University of Pittsburgh Associate Professor 276 7 UNC
Danielle Zoe Rivera OA Department of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning UC Berkeley Assistant Professor 251 7 University of Michigan
Nick R. Smith OA Department of Architecture and Urban Studies Program Barnard College, Columbia University Assistant Professor 241 7 Harvard University, 2015
Efadul Huq OA Environmental Science and Policy Program Smith College Assistant Professor 200 7 University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2021
Hilary Botein OA Marxe School of Public and International Affairs Baruch College, CUNY Associate Professor 197 7 Columbia University, 2005
Laura Wainer OA Spitzer School of Architecture City College of New York Assistant Professor 183 5 MIT, 2022
Ramon Borges-Mendez OA Department of Sustainability and Social Justice Clark University Associate Professor 179 7 MIT, 1995
Lyana Patrick OA Faculty of Health Sciences Simon Fraser University Associate Professor 143 6 University of British Columbia, 2019
Kristine Stiphany OA Department of Architecture University at Buffalo Assistant Professor 102 5 University of Texas, Austin, 2015
Douglas Appler OA Department of Historic Preservation University of Kentucky Associate Professor 99 5 Cornell University, 2011
Steven Moga OA Landscape Studies Program Smith College Associate Professor 74 5 MIT, 2010
Michelle Zuniga OA Department of Earth, Environmental and Geographical Sciences UNC Charlotte Assistant Professor 67 5 UC Irvine, 2021
Chendi Zhang OA Department of Landscape Architecture University of Florida Assistant Professor 28 4 UCLA

Rows marked OA have no Google Scholar profile we know of, so their figures come from OpenAlex and are likely undercounts. We check for Scholar profiles daily. See Methods.