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School of Urban Affairs and Public Policy
Dr. Katherine Lambert-Pennington has a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology and a graduate
certificate in African and African American Studies from Duke University. She serves
as the Director of School of Urban Affairs and Public Policy (SUAPP) and an associate
professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Memphis. Her research
focuses on community development, food justice, social inequalities, participatory
action research, and community-university partnerships and engaged scholarship. Full Bio
Dr. Charlie Santo has a Ph.D in Urban Studies from Portland State University. He serves as the associate director of the School of Urban Affairs and Public Policy (SUAPP). His research and teaching focus on urban economic analysis, public finance and planning, and planning research methods. He is co-author of Sport and Public Policy: Social, Political and Economic Perspectives. He is currently involved in the Memphis 3.0 plan with the City of Memphis and other projects throughout the community.
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Department Chairs
Sharon Wrobel, Ph.D. associate professor in the Department of Public and Nonprofit Administration, teaches human resource, public personnel management, public policy, education policy, research methods, policy analysis and program evaluation.
K. B. Turner Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, has teaching interests in the area of judicial decision-making, theory, race and crime, and police issues.
Charlie Santo Ph.D, associate professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning, teaches courses that focus on urban economic analysis, public finance and planning, and planning research methods.
Susan Barnes-Neely, Ph.D, professor in the Department of Social Work, teaches courses that focus on mental health and disabilities, scientific methods in social work, public policy statistics and human behavior in the social environment. Her research interests include developmental disabilities, disabilities studies, and social work education.