Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy
Faculty
Kathe Newman

Kathe Newman, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
B.A., Manhattan College; Ph.D., Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York

 

Contact Information

Civic Square Building, room 358

Phone (732) 932-3822 x556

Fax (732) 932-2253

E-mail knewman@rutgers.edu

Website http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~knewman

 

Research Interests

  • Urban politics
  • Gentrification
  • Affordable Housing
  • Predatory Lending
  • Power, race, class, and gender

 

Undergraduate Courses

 

Graduate Courses

 

Publications and Activities

  • Newman, Kathe and Robert W. Lake. 2006. “Democracy, Bureaucracy and Difference in Community Development Politics Since 1968.” Progress in Human Geography. January. 30 1:1-18.
  • Newman, Kathe and Elvin Wyly. 2006. “The Right to Stay Put, Revisited: Gentrification and Resistance to Displacement in New York City.” Urban Studies. 43 1:1-35.
  • Newman, Kathe. 2004. “Avoidance and Decline: Desire and Renewal.” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 594 (July) 34-48.
  • Newman, Kathe and Philip Ashton. 2004. “Neoliberal Urban Policy and New Paths of Neighborhood Change in the American Inner City.” Environment and Planning A. 36:1151-1172. 
  • Newman, Kathe and Elvin Wyly. 2004. “Geographies of Mortgage Market Segmentation in Essex County, New Jersey.” Housing Studies. 19 (1): 53-83.
  • Lake, Robert W. and Kathe Newman. 2002. “Differential Citizenship in the Shadow State.” GeoJournal 58(2-3): 109-120.

 

Profile

Kathe Newman is an Assistant Professor in the Urban Planning and Policy Development Program at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, a member of the Graduate Faculties in the Department of Geography and an affiliated member of the Department of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies at Rutgers University. Dr. Newman holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the Graduate School and University Center at the City University of New York.  Her research explores how and why cities change and how those changes affect people of color, women, and the poor.  She is particularly interested in how capital flows transform urban places.  He research has explored gentrification, foreclosure, urban redevelopment and community participation.  Dr. Newman has published articles in Urban Studies, Urban Affairs Review, Shelterforce, Progress in Human Geography, Housing Studies, GeoJournal, and Environment and Planning A.

 

 

Complete Curriculum Vitae (C.V.)