EDUCATION

University of Pennsylvania , Philadelphia, PA, 1991-1997. Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning, 1997. Dissertation: "Stories of the Land: Rhetoric and Reconciliation in the Mojave National Preserve."

J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management , Northwestern University, Evanston , IL . Master of Management, with concentration in Finance, 1986.

Cleveland State University , Cleveland , OH . Bachelor of Business Administration, 1984.

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

University of Massachusetts , Amherst , Massachusetts , 2001 - present

Associate Professor of Regional Planning, Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning. Assistant professor, 2001 - 2007.

Courses include: Growth Management, Sustainable Communities, Seminar in Regional Planning, Regional Planning Studio. Organizer/facilitator for monthly PhD workshops.

Graduate Program Director, PhD in Regional Planning, 2002 - present

Faculty Associate, Center for Rural Massachusetts , 2001-present.

Faculty Associate, Center for Public Policy and Administration, 2003 - present.

Iowa State University , Ames , Iowa .

Assistant Professor of Community and Regional Planning, 1997 - 2001.

Temporary Assistant Professor of Community and Regional Planning, 1995 - 1997.

Primary courses include : Growth Management; Sustainable Communities; Seminar in Planning Theory (graduate).

Other 3-credit courses taught include : Theory of the Planning Process (undergraduate); Technology and the City; Community Development Planning and Programming (capstone studio).

One-credit courses include : graduate methods modules in Land Use Planning, Financing Urban Projects, and Population Projection and Demographic Analysis; and one-credit honors seminars in The Future of the Great Plains (co-taught); Design Multi-disciplinary Colloquium (co-taught); The Good City.

SIGNIFICANT PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

RCG/Hagler Bailly, Inc., Philadelphia , PA. Consulting Associate (half-time), 1994 - 1995.

Evaluated community-based energy conservation programs for large utilities. Conducted focus groups and staff interviews, prepared and interpreted surveys, and wrote up findings. Researched community volunteer programs for siting a low-level hazardous waste facility for a state agency.

Homart Development Co ., Chicago , IL . Real Estate Finance Manager, 1988 - 1991.

Financial manager for office building and regional shopping center development portfolio valued in excess of $250 million, with projects in all stages of development. Created and tracked budgets, met with planning officials, prepared tax increment financing proposals, liaison with joint venture partners.

Kenneth Leventhal & Co ., Chicago , IL . Consultant, 1986 - 1988.

Prepared valuation and market studies for existing and proposed real estate projects. Project types included apartment buildings, resort and hotel facilities, and care facilities for the elderly.

RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS

Peer Reviewed Books

Hamin, Elisabeth. Mojave Lands: Interpretive Planning and the National Preserve. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press (2003).

Hamin, Elisabeth, Priscilla Geigis and Linda Silka, eds. Preserving and Enhancing Communities: A Guide for Residents, Planners and Government Officials. University of Massachusetts Press, 2007.

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

Hamin, E.M. and N. Gurran (2008 forthcoming). "Urban Form and Climate Change: Balancing Adaptation and Mitigation in the U.S. and Australia ." Habitat International.

Hamin, E. M. and D. J. Marcucci (2008). "Ad hoc rural regionalism." Journal of Rural Studies 24: 467-477.

Ryan, R.L. and E.M. Hamin (2008 forthcoming). "The salvage logging controversy and other myths: Three wildland-urban inner-face communities voice their opinions about treating burned forests." Western Journal of Applied Forestry.

Ryan, R.L. and E.M. Hamin (2008 forthcoming). "Wildfires, communities and agencies: Stakeholders' perceptions of post-fire rehabilitation and restoration." Journal of Forestry.

Hamin, Elisabeth, Margaret Ounsworth and Wendy Sweetser. "Grassroots Growth Management: the Community Preservation Act." Journal of Planning Education and Research (2006) 25 : 1-13.

Hamin, Elisabeth. "Reading (Conservation Subdivision) Plans." Planning Theory (2006) 5 (2): 147-172.

Hamin, Elisabeth. "Legislating Growth Management: Power, Politics and Planning." Journal of the American Planning Association, (2003) 69(4): 368-380.

Hamin, Elisabeth. "Western European Approaches to Landscape Protection." Journal of Planning Literature (2001) 16(3): 339-358.

Hamin, Elisabeth. " U.S. Partnership Parks: Collaborative Responses to Middle Landscapes." Land Use Policy (2001 ) vol. 18:123-135.

Hamin, Elisabeth, Dan Marcucci and Mary Wenning. "Teaching Planning -- The First-Year Experience." Journal of Planning Education and Research (2000) 20(1): 88-99.

Book Chapters and Other Publications

Peer Reviewed, Competitive Entry Book Chapters

Geigis, Priscilla, Elisabeth Hamin, and Linda Silka. "Smart Growth and Community Preservation: One Citizen at a Time." In Partnerships for Smart Growth: University-Community Collaboration for Better Public Places , edited by G. Knaap and W. Wiewel. Armonk , New York : M.E. Sharpe, forthcoming (2005). Sponsored by the Associated Collegiate Schools of Planning and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Chapters were competitively peer reviewed and selected for acceptance.

Hamin, Elisabeth and Jon D. Witten. 2002. "Regionalism in Massachusetts ." In Memos to the Governor: Ideas for Meeting the State's Next Challenges . Boston : American Society for Public Administration. Chapters were competitively peer reviewed and selected for acceptance.

Book Chapters

Hamin, Elisabeth. "Teaching Sustainability: The Case of the Incredible Shrinking Professor," in R. Forrant and L. Silka, Education for Sustainability , Amityville NY : Baywood Press (forthcoming 2006).

Hamin, Elisabeth, Linda Silka and Priscilla Geigis. "Introduction to Preserving and Enhancing Communities," in Elisabeth Hamin, Priscilla Geigis and Linda Silka, eds . Preserving and Enhancing Communities: A Guide for Residents, Planners and Government Officials (forthcoming).

Hamin, Elisabeth and Jeffrey Levine. "Getting Involved: Local Leaders in the Process" in Elisabeth Hamin, Priscilla Geigis and Linda Silka, eds . Preserving and Enhancing Communities: A Guide for Residents, Planners and Government Officials (forthcoming).

Hamin, Elisabeth. "Community Sustainability Indicators," in Elisabeth Hamin, Priscilla Geigis and Linda Silka, eds . Preserving and Enhancing Communities: A Guide for Residents, Planners and Government Officials (forthcoming).

Geigis, Priscilla, Linda Silka and Elisabeth Hamin. "Community Preservation in Massachusetts " in Elisabeth Hamin, Priscilla Geigis and Linda Silka, eds . Preserving and Enhancing Communities: A Guide for Residents, Planners and Government Officials (forthcoming).

Published Reports and Conference Proceedings

Gurran, Nicole, Elisabeth Hamin and Barbara Norman. "Planning for climate change: Leading Practice Principles and Models for Sea Change Communities in Coastal Australia" Prepared for the Australian Sea Change Task Force, 2008, 62 pgs.

Hamin, E. (2007). Do bylaws matter? Evaluating conservation subdivision design. Working paper. Cambridge, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy: 34 pgs. Available at: http://www.lincolninst.edu/pubs.

Ahern, Jack, principle author with David Glassberg, Ethan Carr and Elisabeth Hamin. "People and Places on the Outer Cape : A Landscape Character Study." October, 2004, 167 pgs.

Awards and Honors

2007 International Visiting Research Fellowship, University of Sydney, Australia.

2006 Planning and Development Fellow, Lincoln Institute for Land Policy, Cambridge, Mass.

2006 Outstanding Planning Student Project Award from Massachusetts Chapter of the American Planning Association, for studio project Holyoke Canalwalk prepared in Studio I - RP 645 2005.

2005 EDRA/Places Award for Research: People and Places on the Outer Cape : A Landscape Character Study , by Jack Ahern, Ethan Carr, Elisabeth Hamin, and David Glassberg.

2004 Outstanding Planning Student Project Award from Massachusetts Chapter of the American Planning Association, for studio projects Holyoke ! Pioneer of the Valley : Planning the 21st Century Milltown prepared in Studio I - RP 645 2003.

1998 Finalist for Associated Collegiate Schools of Planning Barclay Jones Prize for Best Planning Dissertation.

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

"Climate Change and Green Infrastructure." ISSRM, Burlington VT , July 2008.

"Urban Form and Climate Change: Balancing Adaptation and Mitigation on Two Continents." Elisabeth Hamin and Nicole Gurran. ACSP/AESOP, Chicago , July 2008.

"Mentoring the Design Graduate Student." Mark Hamin and Elisabeth Hamin. ConnectEd Conference, Sydney , Australia July 9-12, 2007 .

"Wildfires, Communities, Agencies: Learning from Disaster." ACSP 2006 Annual Conference, Fort Worth , Texas , November 9-12, 2006 .

Roundtable organizer and participant for "Conserving land and building communities: Evaluating conservation subdivisions and open-space communities." ACSP 2006 Annual Conference, Fort Worth , Texas , November 9-12, 2006 .

"Building Community through Post-fire Restoration." International Symposium of Society and Resource Management, Vancouver B.C., June 3-8 2006 .

"Do Bylaws Matter? An Evaluation of Conservation Subdivision Design." Urban Affairs Association Annual Meeting, Montreal QC , April 2006.

"Progressive Rural Regionalism." Associated Collegiate Schools of Planning 46 th Annual Conference, Kansas City Missouri , October 27-30, 2005 .

"Reading (Conservation Subdivision) Plans." Associated Collegiate Schools of Planning 45 th Annual Conference, Portland Oregon , October 21-24 2004 .

"Roundtable on Supporting and Mentoring Doctoral Students" panel organizer and moderator at the Associated Collegiate Schools of Planning 45 th Annual Conference, Portland Oregon , October 21-24 2004 .

"What Communities Want: Results from Massachusetts ' Community Preservation Act" Urban Affairs Association Annual Meeting, Washington , D.C. , Winter 2004

"Sustainable Learning Communities: The Incredible Shrinking Professor" presentation to the Seventh Annual CITA Conference on Education for Sustainable Development, UMass Lowell, October 24, 2003 .

"Representing the Public: Qualitative Methods in the Planning Process" presentation to the Associated Collegiate Schools of Planning 44 th Annual Conference, Baltimore , November, 2002.

"Sustainability and Protected Landscapes" presentation to the Associated Collegiate Schools of Planning 43 rd Annual Conference, Cleveland, Ohio, November, 2001.

"A Case Study in Growth Management Politics: Iowa, 1996 - 2000" presented at 14 th Conference on the Small City and Regional Community, Madison, Wisconsin, September 28-29, 2000.

"The National Park System and Working Lands : Uneasy Alliances, Bright Futures," presentation to Keep America Growing: Balancing Working Lands and Development Conference, Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , June 1999.

"The New Faculty Experience," presentation to the Associated Collegiate Schools of Planning 40 th Annual Conference, Los Angeles , California , 1998. Co-presenter was Dan Marcucci; Mary Wenning is a co-author of the research.

"Communicative Conflict Resolution," presentation ( in absentia/maternity ) to the Associated Collegiate Schools of Planning 39 th Annual Conference, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, 1997.

"Stories of the Wilderness," presentation to the Associated Collegiate Schools of Planning 38th Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada, 1996.

"Parks as LULUs: Causes and Resolution of Local Conflicts," presentation to the Associated Collegiate Schools of Planning 36 th Annual Conference, Tempe, Arizona, 1994.

EXTERNAL SERVICE

2008-present. Wetland Commissioner, Town of Amherst, Mass.

2004-present. Committee Member for ACSP's Edward McClure Award, awarded to the Best Master's Student Paper.

2002-present. Committee Member for ACSP's Junior Faculty Mentoring Committee.

2004-2006. Treasurer, North Amherst Community Farm, Inc. Non-profit group founding a community-supported agriculture farm in North Amherst.

2000 Member of National Park Service Steering Committee on Preservation Options for the Loess Hills Landform.

1997 Commissioner on Iowa State Legislature's Commission on Urban Planning, Growth Management of Cities, and Protection of Farmland.