Students come to the department from around the globe.
The educational backgrounds of students cover a wide range of undergraduate fields. Among them
are architecture, biology, business, economics, engineering, forestry, geography, geology, history,
landscape architecture, philosophy, planning, political science, psychology, public administration,
sociology, and urban studies. Although some come to the department directly upon completion of
undergraduate work, a larger number first gain experience in planning or in other fields.

Students in the department are very active.
Each semester students publish a nationally recognized journal, Carolina Planning Journal, which
focuses on planning issues in the southeast United States.  Student projects have won national and
state-level awards from the American Planning Association.  Planning students, collaborating with
students from the Law School and the Business School, have sponsored and built several homes
under the Habitat for Humanity program and raised money for other worthy causes, not only in the
U.S., but in Central America, Eastern Europe, and other parts of the world.  Students serve on
departmental committees in the areas of curriculum, admissions, faculty recruitment, and doctoral
program.  Planners' Forum, the planning student organization, also sponsors a program of visiting
speakers, a vigorous intramural sports program, and an active social agenda.

Augustus Anderson
BA (History), Howard University 2004;
MS (History) Howard University 2006.
(email)

Lilan Besser
BS (Biology), Olgethorpe University 1998;
MSPH(Occupational and Environmental Health/Epidemiology), Emory University, 2004.
(email)

Christine Boyle
BA (East Asian Languages and Cultures), Columbia University, 1998;
MRP (City and Regional Planning), University of North Carolina, 2007.
(email) (cv)

Jason Bremner  
BS (Biology), Emory University, 1995;
MPH (Public Health), Emory University, 1998.
(email) (cv)

Aurélie Brunie  
MS (Engineering), Ecole Centrale de Lyon, France, 2001;
MS (Environmental Pollution Control) Penn State University, 2002.
(email)

Eun Joo Cho
BA (Geography) Kyunghee University, South Korea, 1994;
MA (Geography) Kyunghee University, South Korea, 1996;
MURP (City and Regional Planning) Michigan State University, 1999.
(email)

Gihyoug Cho
BS (Urban Enginnering) Seoul National University, 1999;
MS (Urban Enginnering) Seoul National University, 2001;
MUP (Urban and Regional Planning) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2004.
(email)

Tabitha Combs
BS (Biology) Davidson College, 1999;
MRP University of North Carolina, 2006.
(email)

Michael Creed
BS (Civil Engineering), North Carolina State University, 1973;
MS (Engineering), North Carolina State University, 1984.
(email)

Richard DeBose
BSAD (Architecture) Massachusetts Institute Technology, 1986;
MUP (Urban Planning) Texas A&M College Station, 1993.
(email)

Mary Donegan
BA (Economics, Russian), Wellesley College, 2001;
MRP (City and Regional Planning), University of North Carolina, 2006
(email)

Joshua Drucker
BS (Mathematics and Economics), University of Michigan, 1998;
MRP (City and Regional Planning), University of North Carolina, 2000.
(email) (cv)

Annelies Goger
BA (Sociology), Brandeis University, 1999.
MCP (City and Regional Planning), University of California, Berkeley, 2003.
(email)

Tracy Hadden
BA (Urban Studies) Brown University, 2004;
BS (Applied Math and Computer Science) Brown University, 2004.
(email)

Hye-Sung Han
BS (Architecture) Seoul National University, 1995;
MS (Architecture) Seoul National University, 1997;
MCP (Master of City Planning) Massachusetts Institute Technology 2000.
(email)

Lingmei P. Howell
BA (Political Science), Soochow University, 1984
MPA (Public Administration), University of South Alabama, 1988
MDA (Development Administration), Western Michigan University, 1989.
(email)

Marc Howlett
BA (History) Northwestern University, 2002;
MUEP (Environmental Planning) University of Virginia, 2007.
(email)

Ward Lyles
BA (Geology) Middlebury College, 1998;
MS (Land Resource) University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2002.
(email)

Anna Osland
BA (Politics, Spanish) Willamette University, 1999;
MRP (City and Regional Planning) University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2005.
(email)(web)

Xiaohong Pan
BEng (Transportation Engineering), Southwest University, China, 2000;
MEng (Civil Engineering), National University of Singapore, Singapore, 2004.
(email)

Jessica Pearlman
BA (Sociology/Anthropology), Carleton College, 1991
MA (Applied Anthropology), University of South Florida, 2001
(email)

Marcela González Rivas
BA (International Relations) Universidad de las Américas (México), 1994;
MS (Development Studies) The London School of Economics (UK), 1997.
(email)

Mark Stevens
BA (English/Economics) University of Oregon, 1996;
MA (Community and Regional Planning) University of Oregon, 2001.
(email)

Bev Wilson
BA (Economics and Political Science), Duke University, 1997;
MRP (City and Regional Planning), University of North Carolina, 2002.
(email) (cv)

Alyssa Wittenborn
BA (Environmental Science), 19995;
MA (Environmental Science), 2001.
(email)     

Ted Zoller 
BA (Government/English) College of William & Mary, 1987;
MPA (Technology and Information Policy) Maxwell School of Public Affairs/Syracuse University, 1988.
(email)