Stefan
Chavez-Norgaard
Teaching Assistant Professor, Public Policy
Douglas and Mary Scrivner Institute of Public Policy at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies
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University of Denver (DU), Denver, CO
Welcome to my website! I am a scholar who researches urban politics, planning, and development. I consider urban planning institutionally, as a negotiated and historically informed social relation. My research interests include urban and planning theory, local-government and planning law, public policy and planning implementation, ethics and public policy, and planning practice and urban governance in the related but distinct late-liberal contexts of South Africa and the United States.
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I hold a PhD in Urban Planning from Columbia University (see dissertation here). In 2023–2024, I was based in Cambridge, MA, where I am a Research Assistant with the Harvard University's Bloomberg Center for Cities and was a Visiting Democracy Fellow with Harvard University’s Ash Center for Democratic Governance and a scholar-in-residence at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.
