Ann Markusen, professor of planning and public policy and director of the Project on Regional and Industrial Economics (PRIE) at the Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, was named the Fesler-Lampert Chair in Urban and Regional Affairs for 2004–2005.
Myron Orfield, director of the Institute on Race and Poverty (IRP) and associate professor at the University of Minnesota School of Law, was named the 2005–2006 Fesler-Lampert Chair in Urban and Regional Affairs.
Katherine Fennelly, professor of public affairs at the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey School of Public Affairs, was named the 2006–2007 Fesler-Lampert Chair in Urban and Regional Affairs. Fennelly used the resources provided by her appointment to conduct a statewide census of “diversity coalitions”—organizations that have been established to help recent immigrants integrate into the rural and suburban communities where many of them work and live.
Susan Galatowitsch, professor of restoration ecology in the Department of Horticultural Science, was named the 2007–2008 Fesler-Lampert Chair in Urban and Regional Affairs in June 2007. Galatowitsch’s research has focused primarily on smaller scale wetland ecosystem restoration projects and methods for re-establishing native plant populations, controlling invasive plant species, and analyzing related wildlife habitat loss and recovery.
Scott McConnell, professor in the Department of Educational Psychology and director of community engagement at the Center for Early Education and Development (CEED), was named the Fesler-Lampert Chair in Urban and Regional Affairs in June 2008.
Ann Masten, Distinguished McKnight University Professor at the Institute of Child Development, was named the 2011–2012 Fesler-Lampert Chair in Urban and Regional Affairs.
Date:
March 16, 2013
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Hari Osofsky, associate professor at the University of Minnesota Law School and interim director of the Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment, and the Life Sciences, has been named the 2013–2014 Fesler-Lampert Chair in Urban and Regional Affairs.
Date:
July 17, 2015
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Myles Shaver, Professor of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship at the Carlson School of Management, has been named the 2015–16 Fesler-Lampert Chair in Urban and Regional Affairs. Shaver is also the Pond Family Chair in the Teaching and Advancement of Free Enterprise Principles at Carlson.
Applications are evaluated on the degree to which the proposed project:
1. Produces research that enhances the capacity of Minnesota organizations and communities. This includes
Below is a list of current and past holders of the Fesler-Lampert Chair in Urban and Regional Affairs. The award was given annually until 2009, and is now given biannually or as endowment funds are available. Appointments are for one academic year.
2017-2018: Jeylan T Mortimer, Department of Sociology
2015–2016: Myles Shaver, Carlson School of Management