The Center for Housing & Urban Development is led by a small leadership team. CHUD also connects faculty across Texas A&M University through our faculty fellow program. Students who conduct research through the center can apply to be doctoral fellows.
Join the Center for Housing & Urban Development
If you are interested in becoming a fellow or affiliate with the center, please contact us at 979.862.4320 or gnewman@arch.tamu.edu.
Leadership
Galen Newman
Director, Lead for the GRIDD Unit
Research Interests: Urban regeneration; land use science; spatial analytics; urban flood resilience
Wei Li
Executive Associate Director, Program lead for the Smart Cities Program
Research Interests: Planning for smart and connected communities; societal impacts of autonomous vehicles; sustainable and active transportation; environmental economics
Xinyue Ye
Associate Director, Lead for the Urban Informatics Unit
Research Interests: Geospatial artificial intelligence; big data; smart cities; urban computing
Jaimie Masterson
Associate Director of Outreach
Research Interests: Community engagement; plan evaluation; government & public policy; research communication; environmental justice
Shannon Van Zandt
Senior Fellows, Program Lead for the Fair and Affordable Housing Program
Research Interests: Coastal resilience; social vulnerability to disasters; low-income housing; environmental equity
CHUD Fellows
Center for Housing and Urban Development Senior Fellows
- Randy Birdwell
College of Architecture Fellows
- Gabriela Campagnol
- John Thomas Cooper Jr.
- Mark J. Clayton
- Charles H. Culp
- Diedra Davis
- Edelmiro F. Escamilla, Jr.
- Jose L. Fernandez-Solis
- Cecilia Giusti
- Wei Li
- June Martin
- Jaimie Masterson
- Forster Ndubisi
- Galen Newman
- Michael O’Brien
- Walter Gillis Peacock
- George O. Rogers
- Andrea Roberts
- James Michael Tate
- Shannon Van Zandt
- Jorge Vanegas
- Xinyue Ye
- Xuemei Zhu
Interdisciplinary Fellows
- Ann O’M. Bowman
- Mark Fossett
- David Matarrita-Cascante
- Marlynn May
Doctoral Fellows
- Wayne Day