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michael douglass Douglass, Mike (michaeld@hawaii.edu)
Co-Director, Globalization Research Center
Professor, Urban & Regional Planning, University of Hawaii at Manoa

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Mike Douglass (Ph. D. UCLA 1982) is Professor and former Chair of the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Hawai'i. He previously taught at the Institute of Social Studies (Netherlands) and at the School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia (U.K.). He has also been a Visiting Professor at Stanford University, UCLA, and Thammasat University. He has lived and worked for many years in Japan, Korea, Indonesia and Thailand where he has been a consultant for governments and international agencies on urban policy.

Current research on globalization in Pacific Asia: Livable cities; urbanization and civic space; mega-urban region dynamics; global migration and the globalization of householding; the rural-urban transition in Asia; rural-urban linkages and rural regional development.

Publications: Globalization, the Rise of Civil Society and Civic Spaces in Pacific Asia Cities (Routledge, 2007). International Development Planning Review, Editor of special Issue on 'Global Householding in East and Southeast Asia', 28:4, 2006. Japan and Global Migration (Routledge, 2000; UH Press 2003). International Development Planning Review, Editor of special Issue on "Globalization and Civic Space in Pacific Asia," 24:4, 2002. Cities for Citizens (John Wiley, 1998). Culture and the City in East Asia (Oxford University Press, 1997).

Awards: Finalist, Graduate Student Mentor of the Year, University of Hawaii (2006); Visiting Scholar, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore (2004); Excellence in Research, College of Social Sciences, UH (2001-2002); Canada Research Chair, urbanization and urban policy in Asia (2001); Fulbright Senior Specialist (current); Shorenstein Distinguished Lecturer, Institute for International Studies, Stanford University (1998); Rockefeller Foundation Scholar at Bellagio (1998); Perloff Chair in Urban Planning at UCLA (1996); Japan Society for Promotion of Science Visiting Scholar, Tokyo University (1985). The University of Hawaii identifies him as one of its "fabulous faculty".

james spencer Spencer, James (jhs@hawaii.edu)
Co-Director, Globalization Research Center

Professor, Political Science, University of Hawaii at Manoa

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His focus is the Political Economy of Regional Development, with particular attention to theories of labor market dynamics, theories of regional economic development and the spatial mismatch hypothesis. He is currently conducting research on people- and place-based policy efforts to provide economic opportunities for disadvantaged groups in metropolitan areas, the effect of urban unrest on economic growth, and the effect of spatial concentration of the poor on socioeconomic development. His overall research interest focuses on assessing the real, intended and unintended impacts of government and other kinds of policy interventions to create opportunities for the poor. His most recent work focuses on Los Angeles and in particular the experience of South Central Los Angeles neighborhoods since the unrest of 1992. Other current work includes evaluation studies of health programs in Viet Nam. Previous research work has focused on community forestry loan programs in Viet Nam and natural resource property rights, and previous practitioner work with foundations and NGOs has focused on US-Southeast Asia policy and local Community Development Corporations in the US.

Publications: Technology and Urban Poverty: Understanding the Barriers to Equality (2001), Projections: The MIT Student Journal of Planning. Spring, Vol.2. Why the Spatial Mismatch Hypothesis Still Matters (2000), Critical Planning 7: 63-86. The Underclass: Long Term Unemployment, Race and Space in the American Context (1999 with Michael Storper), Chapter in Technical Change, Inequalityand Labor Market Marginalization. Report to the International Labor Organization. Public Forests and Private Paddies in the Mekong Delta of Viet Nam (1995), Tropical Resources Institute Working Paper #90: Yale University: New Haven, CT.

deane neubauer Neubauer, Deane (deanen@hawaii.edu)
Senior Fellow, Globalization Research Center
Professor Emeritus, Political Science, University of Hawaii at Manoa

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Deane Neubauer (Ph.D., Yale, 1965), is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Political Science at the University of Hawaii, Manoa, Senior Research Fellow of the Globalization Research Center (UHM) and Senior Advisor to the Education 2020 Program of the East West Center. Educated at the University of California, Riverside and Yale University, he has taught additionally at the University of California (Berkeley and Irvine), Waikato University (NZ) and the University of Sydney. His research interests lie in health policy, political economy and globalization. His work explores globalization phenomena as a major vector of social change throughout the world. He served as the founding dean of the College of Social Sciences at the University of Hawaii, Manoa (1980-88). In 1999 he founded the Globalization Research Center at the University of Hawaii, Manoa and subsequently the Globalization Research Network, a collaboration of four U.S. universities. He served as Interim Chancellor of the University of Hawaii, Manoa from 2001-2002 and as Interim Vice President for Academic Affairs for the University of Hawaii System from 2001-2004.

Glenn, Scott (sjglenn@hawaii.edu)

Graduate Assistant, Globalization Research Center

M.A. Student, Urban Regional Planning, University of Hawaii at Manoa

Ishii, Chihiro (ishiichi@hawaii.edu)
Graduate Assistant, Globalization Research Center

Ph.D Student, Urban Regional Planning, University of Hawaii at Manoa

She is currently working on her master's degree in Urban and Regional Planning here at UH. She holds BS and MS in computer science from University of British Columbia and Columbia University respectively. Chihiro went back to Japan after graduation and worked in Tokyo for three years before coming to Hawaii. Her research interests include global householding, international migration development and livability of the migrants.

Nguyen, Hao (hanogrc@gmail.com)
Graduate Assistant, Globalization Research Center
Ph.D Student, Urban and Regional Planning, University of Hawaii at Manoa

Before pursuing the program at UHM, he worked as a researcher at the Institute of Sociology, under the Vietnam National Center for Social Sciences and Humanities in Hanoi. His main concerns include issues of urbanization and environment, urban water and sanitation, internal and international migration, urban poverty, and decentralization in the developing world. Hao received a Bachelor of Sociology at the College of Social Sciences and Humanities from the National University of Hanoi, Vietnam. He has been awarded the Harvard-Yenching Institute's Scholarship from Harvard University to pursue the Doctorate Program in Urban and Regional Planning. He has co-authored several publications.

Zambonelli, Vera (veraz@hawaii.edu)
Graduate Assistant, Globalization Research Center

Ph.D Student, Urban Regional Planning, University of Hawaii at Manoa

Vera holds a Bachelor's Degree from the University of Venice, Ca' Foscari, in Japanese studies, a Diploma in Advanced International Studies from the SAIS Bologna Center and a Master's Degree in Political Science from the Johns Hopkins University. She is completing her Master in in Urban and Regional Planning and has been already admitted to the Doctorate program in the same department. Her research interests include processes of place-making, place and space, vernacular architecture, multiculturalism and right to the city, and she is currently exploring the potential applications of multimedia, particularly video, in the planning field as being one of the most ideal formats to understand people's relations with place.