Faculty & Staff
- Laura Smith
- Co-Director of Urban Studies, Associate Professor of Geography
- Urban economic, North America, and Native Americans
- smithl@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6505
- Daniel Trudeau
- Co-Director of Urban Studies; Professor of Geography
- Urban political geography, social welfare policy, housing access, local governance, and city planning
- trudeau@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6872
- Erika Busse-Cardenas
- Assistant Professor of Sociology
- How immigration influences family, gender, identity, work, and culture
- ebusse@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6518
- Ernesto Capello
- Professor of History and Latin American Studies
- Andes, cultural history, art and architecture, transnationalism, cartography, transhemispheric imaginaries, urban history, colonial narratives and nostalgia, and Amazonia
- ecapello@macalester.edu
- Old Main 302, 651-696-6772
- I-Chun Catherine Chang
- Associate Professor of Geography
- Asian, economic, global cities
- ichang@macalester.edu
- Walter Greason
- Professor of History
- wgreason@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6834
- Lesley Lavery
- Associate Professor of Political Science
- American Politics, political behavior, public policy, education policy
- llavery@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6321
- Brian Lozenski
- Associate Professor of Educational Studies
- Urban and Multicultural Education
- blozensk@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6028
- Sarah West
- G. Theodore Mitau Professor of Economics
- Public Finance, Environmental Economics, and Urban Economics
- wests@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6482