Congratulations to Assistant Professor Dr. Willow Lung-Amam for her acceptance to the prestigious Woodrow Wilson Center Residential Fellowship, a highly competitive award that attracts scholars from all over the world focusing on public policy and global issues.
The Wilson Center is an internationally renowned think tank based in Washington, D.C., that fosters research and discourse on national and global policy. Lung-Amam will be joining the center’s Urban Sustainability Laboratory during her sabbatical leave in the 2019-2020 academic year, and will continue work on her second book titled, The Right to Suburbia: Redevelopment and Resistance on the Urban Edge.
While serving as Director of Community Development at the National Center for Smart Growth Research and Education, Lung-Amam is also Affiliate Faculty at American University's Metropolitan Policy Center and at the University of Maryland's Consortium on Race, Gender, and Ethnicity, the Department of American Studies, the programs in Historic Preservation and Asian American Studies and at the Maryland Population Research Center.
Lung-Amam teaches graduate and undergraduate courses focused on urban inequality and diversity, social planning and community development.
You can read her full bio here and story about her recent promotion to Associate Professor here.