Faculty Achievements

SUS Faculty Accomplishments 2023 - 2025 (updated 10/22/2025)

Dierwechter, Yonn

• Publications:
  • Di Vita, S and Y Dierwechter. (In press). Italian Manufacturing within the Ecological Transition: Approaches, Visions, and Challenges in Industrial Land Use Planning. In Grodach C and J Ferm (eds). Planning the Productive City: Rethinking Urban Industrial Spaces.  London; Routledge.
  • Pendras, M and Y Dierwechter (In press). Blueing the green: Nurturing Manufacturing as Green City Strategy. In Grodach C and J Ferm (eds). Planning the Productive City: Rethinking Urban Industrial Spaces.  London; Routledge.
• Presentations/Conferences/Talks:
  • Dierwechter, Y. "Did Biden build back better? Planning implications and legacies." XXI Enanpur (National Meeting of the National Association of Postgraduate Studies and Research in Urban and Regional Planning). Curitiba, Brazil.
  • Dierwechter, Y, Di Vita, S and M Pendras. "New forms of industrial space: Manufacturing within the ecological transition." Regional Studies Association Annual Conference. Special Session "The Productive City, Industry Agglomeration and the Role of Planning." Florence, Italy.
  • Dierwechter, Y. "Blue collars in green cities: New places for manufacturing sustainability?" Symposium Presentation. Politecnico di Torino. Torin, Italy.
  • Dierwechter, Y. "Typologies of productive space:  USA, South Africa, Europe.”  Symposium Presentation.  Politecnico di Milano, June 18.  Milan, Italy.
  • Dierwechter, Y.  Planning for a Changing Climate: Key Considerations. Session 1. Annual Ph.D. Symposium of Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in Urban Design & Planning.
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• Elected:
  • Elected Board Member for the Planning Association of Washington, Executive Council

Hoffman, Lisa

• Publications:
  • Lead editor with Jennifer Hubbert and Zhilin Liu on the Sage Handbook on Urbanization in China to be published in January 2026.
  • To be published in 2025, Chapter with Josh Tenenberg titled "Cancer Risk Assessment Scores: Personalized Risk and Mundane Genomics"
• Presentations/Conferences/Talks:
  • Co-local organizer for the 4S conference that was in Seattle in 2025.
• Elected:
  • Joined the Stimson Center Board of Directors, a Washington DC based security think tank.

Kelley, Matt

• Ongoing Project Direct for the Action Mapping Project (AMP): Working with thousands of youth in every middle school and high school in Tacoma and Franklin Pierce School districts

Lund, Gregory

• Promotion to Associate Professor

Pendras, Mark

• Promotion to Professor
• Publications:
  • "Questioning pandemic recovery: a regional second city perspective" (2024) (Co-authored with Charles Williams), Urban Studies (accepted and forthcoming), 1-16.
  • "Planning, Manufacturing, and Sustainability: Three Research Themes" (2023) (Co-authored with Yonn Dierwechter), Urban Planning, V.8 (4): 1-4.
  • "Departures from the Norm: Innovative Planning for Creative Manufacturing" (2023) (Co-authored with Adam Nolan and Ashleigh Williams). Urban Planning, V.8 (4): 225-235.

Quizar, Jessi

• Publications:
  • Collectively written book (by the Black | Indigenous 100s Collective. Soy Listen: Writing as Care, NP:2024. https://www.np-press.org/say-listen
  • Article (2023): "Mutual Futurity: Against Incommensurability between Indigenous Sovereignty and Black Freedom." Theory, Culture, and Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/02632764231194493
  • Quizar, Jessi; Raboeane, Mpho; and Rabie, Kareem (2025), "The Liberatory Politics of Land, from Los Angeles to Palestine" in Roy, Ananya; Graziani, Terra; and Powers, Annie (eds.) Insurgent Ground: Land, Housing, Property. Los Angeles: UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6mf8k3zg
  • Quizar, Jessi (2024). "Detroit and the Cultivation of Otherways," Dialogues in Urban Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/275412582412300
  • Quizar, Jessi (2024). "Review of Sara Safransky's The City after Property: Abandonment and Repair in Postindustrial Detroit," Antipode. https://antipodeonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/book-review_Quizar-on-Safransky.pdf
• Awards:
  • UW Tacoma's 2024 Engaged Scholarship Award
• Presentations/Conferences/Talks:
  • Speaker on the 2025 AAG Presidential Plenary, Detroit

Safarova, Bara

• Grants:
  • State of Washington Department of Commerce: Washington State Zoning Atlas ($375,000 Collaborator, Co-PIs: Makers Architecture and Urban Design, BHC Consultants, UW Natural Resource Spatial Informatics Group).
    • Published: https://www.commerce.wa.gov/growth-management/data-research/waza/
  • UWT SUS: Student's voices in UWT Masterplan: An interdisciplinary community engaged capstone studio 2025 - Pilot & Preparation ($2,420.36 PI).
  • Founders Endowment, UWT: Community engaged civil engineering and urban design learning experience at UWT ($10,000 Co-PI, with Co-PI Nara Almeida).
• Publications:
  • Chalana, M., Guy, T., Jourdan, D., Rogerude, J., Safarova, B., Turesky, M. (2023). Special Editorial: The inclusive Acdemy. Journal of Planning and Research, 43(4), 454-454.
  • Durst, N., Safarova, B., Gutierrez Lanza, D., Xu, Ch. (under review). Neighborhood Morphology and residential segregation in metropolitan Amerca. Housing Policy Debate. Preprint available: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4905718
  • Safarova, B. (2025). A Partial Right to the City: Affordable but Unhealthy, the Case of South Texas informal homestead subdivisons. In Stiphany, l. & E. Ely-Ledesma (eds.), Insurgent Urbanism in the Americas. Routledge.
  • Safarova, B. Affordable but Unhealthy: A Partial Right to the City in South Texas informal subdivisions. In Stiphany, K. & E. Ely-Ledesma (eds.), Insurgent Urbanism in the Americas. Routledge. https//www.routledge.com/insurgent-urbanisms-in-the-america/stiphany-ely-ledesma/p/book/9781032553825

Taufen, Anne

• Publications:
  • Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Cities and Landscapes, August 2024

Yerena, Anaid

• Publications:
  • Casas, R. and Yerena, A. 2024. Towards the "Just" Park: on the Potentiality of Urban Parks". (Eds.) K. Walker, R. Casas & C. Hinojosa Symposium on Community-Engaged Environmental Justice Rhetorics, Rhetoric Review, 43:4, 227-302, DOI: 10.1080/07350198.2024.2398838
  • Jackson, A., Yerena, A. Garcia, I., Chrisinger, B., Lee, C.A., Harjo, L. and Harwood, S. "Anti-Racist Futurities: Disrupting Racist Planning Practices in Workplaces, Institutions, and Communities" Journal of the Emarican Planning Association
  • Yerena, A. 2024. Sustainable Low-Income Housing: Analyzing Green Building Initiatives within the LIHTC Program across U.S. States. In Housing and Sustainability - Achieving a Sustainable Future. doi: 10.5772/intechopen.1006705
  • Yerena, A. Homebuying and Homeownership. In K.B. Anacker, A.t. Carswell, & S.D. Kirby (eds.), Introduction to Housing (3rd ed.), Routledge, Uk.
  • Yerena, A. Sustainable Low-Income Housing: Analyzing Green Building Initiatives within the LIHTC Program across U.S. States. (Ed.) Lousada, S. Housing and Sustainability - Achieving a Sustainable Future. IntechOpen. doi: 10.5772/intechopen.1006705
• Grants:
  • Faculty Research Grant to Advance Equity and Inclusion, Office of Equity and Inclusion and the Milgard School of Business, UWT
  • International Research Experience for Students, National Science Foundation