Marie Howland

Professor Howland is an expert in employment, urban and regional economic planning, economic development, and urban form, with a focus on Post-Soviet Russia. She authored "Worker Displacement, The Regional Issues" and co-authored "Combines to Computers: Rural Development in the Information Age." As a co-principal investigator, she contributed to a five-year grant under the U.S. Department of Education's Urban Community Service Program, providing technical assistance in Southeast Baltimore and Palmer Park. Currently, she holds a five-year grant from the U.S. Economic Development Administration to establish a University Center at the University of Maryland. Dr. Howland has received grants from the National Rural Studies Committee, Ford Foundation, International Research Exchange Board, and Economic Development Administration. She has served on the executive board of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning and as an editorial advisor for the Journal of the American Planning Association and Economic Development Quarterly. Under a U.S. Department of State grant, she developed an urban planning curriculum at St. Petersburg's School of Architecture and received a Lincoln Land Institute grant to study brownfields in Baltimore. From 2006 to 2009, she and Jim Cohen assessed industrial land in Prince George's County. Additionally, she received a University of Maryland grant to create a Global Class with the Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburg, Russia, taught jointly with Professor Leonid Limonov. The class, focusing on regional economic development and planning, will enroll 60 students in spring 2016.

Education:

• PhD in Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Master of City Planning, University of California, Berkeley
• Bachelor of Arts in Economics, University of California, Berkeley