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BRIAN Y. AN

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APPOINTMENTS

Co-Director, Center for Urban Research, Georgia Tech (since April 2024)

Director of Master of Science in Public Policy (MSPP) (since Jan 2023)

Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Finance (since Aug 2020)

School of Public Policy

Adjunct Assistant Professor, School of City and Regional Planning (since Feb 2022)

Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech)

Adjunct Professor, Graduate School of Science and Technology Policy (since Jan 2025)

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

Faculty Affiliate, Georgia Tech Energy Policy and Innovation (EPI) Center (since July 2024)

Research Advisory Committee, Southeast Energy Efficiency Alliance (SEEA) (since Jan 2024)

Co-Founder and Director of Lab GROWER (Grid Resilience, Outage, Weather, & Emergency

Response) (since Jan 2024)

Vertically Integrated Projects, Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Director of Housing and Urban Policy (HUP) Lab (since November 2020)

Georgia Tech School of Public Policy

Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Public Administration (2019-2020)

Department of Political Science || Master of Public Policy and Administration Program

University of Tennessee, Knoxville

EDUCATION

University of Southern California, Price School of Public Policy

Ph.D. in Public Policy and Management, May 2019

Henry Reining Award, the best dissertation written in public policy and management awarded by

USC Price School of Public Policy

Georgetown University, Walsh School of Foreign Service

M.S. in Foreign Service, 2014

Yonsei University, College of Social Sciences

B.A. in Political Science and International Studies, 2009

RESEARCH FOCUS

Public Policy: Urban & Housing, Community & Economic Development, Public Finance

Energy & Environment, Infrastructure Resiliency

Public Management: Collaborative & Regional Governance, Social Equity, Sustainable Environment

PUBLICATIONS

Refereed Journal Articles (* indicates a corresponding author and + denotes a student co-author)

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An, B. and *Chung, J. 2025. “Who Bears the Brunt of Disruptive Innovation? The Effect of Grocery E- Commerce on Local Retail Competitors.” Journal of Regional Science. [Link] (Open Access Article)

+Polimeni, N. and *An, B. 2025. “Uncovering Neighborhood-level Portfolios of Corporate Single- Family Rental Holdings and Community Wealth Loss.” Journal of Urban Affairs. [Link]

An, B., +Moody, J., Drew, R., Jakabovics, A., *Orlando, A., and Rodnyansky, S. 2024. “Community

Development Block Grant-Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR), Rental Requirements, and Rental Market

Impacts.” Cityscape: A Journal of Policy Development and Research 26(3): 137-156. [Link] (Open

Access)

*An, B. 2024. “Self-Organizing Special Districts: A Tool for Community Change and Development.”

Journal of Planning Education and Research 44(3): 1347-1366. [Link]

*McDonald, B., Larson, S., Maher, C., Kavanagh, S., Hunter, K., Goodman, C., Minkowitz, H.,

McCandless, S., Afshan, S., Jordan, M., Abbott, M., Afonso, W., Alibašić, H., Allen, J., Allore, J.,

Altizer, L., Amador, R., An, B., et al. 2024. “Establishing an Agenda for Public Budgeting and Finance

Research.” Public Finance Journal 1(1): 9-28. [Link] (Open Access Article)

*An, B.,

+Barboza-Wilkes, C., and Resh, W. 2024. “Applying an Intersectional Understanding of

Extra Work Behavior and Emotional Exhaustion in Local Public Service.” Public Administration

102(4): 1578-1603. [Link] (Open Access Article)

*An, B., Jakabovics, A., Orlando, A.W., Rodnyansky, S., and +Son, E. 2024. “Who Owns America? A

Methodology for Identifying Landlords’ Ownership Scale and the Implications for Targeted Code

Enforcement.” Journal of the American Planning Association: 1-15. [Link] (Open Access Article)

*An, B., Porcher, S., and Tang, S.Y. 2024. “Global Diffusion of COVID-19 Policies: The Role of

Geographic, Institutional, and Cultural Cues.” Policy Studies Journal 52(1): 169-198. [Link]

*An, B. 2024. “The Influence of Institutional Single-family Rental Investors on Homeownership: Who

Gets Targeted and Pushed Out of The Local Market?” Journal of Planning Education and

Research 44(4): 2231-2250. [Link]

An, B., *Porcher, S., Tang, S.Y., and +Maille-Lefranc, O. 2023. “COVID-19 Emergency Policies,

Financial Security, and Social Equity: Worldwide Evidence.” Public Administration Review

83(5): 1300-1318. [Link]

*An, B. Y., M. Butz, A., +Cha, M. K., & Mitchell, J. L. 2023. “Following Neighbors or Regional

Leaders? Unpacking the Effect of Geographic Proximity in Local Climate Policy Diffusion.” Policy

Sciences 56(4): 825-868. [Link]

An, B., Jakabovics, A., Liu, J., *Orlando, A., Rodnyansky, S., Voith, R., Zielenbach, S., and Bostic, R.

2023. “Factors Affecting Spillover Impacts of LIHTC Developments: An Analysis of Los Angeles.”

Cityscape: A Journal of Policy Development and Research 25(2): 309-364. [Link] (Open Access)

*An, B., and Tang, S.Y. 2023. “When Agency Priorities Matter: Risk Aversion for Autonomy and Turf

Protection in Mandated Collaboration.” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 33(1):

106-121. [Link]

An, B., Bostic, R.W., Jakabovics, A., *Orlando, A.W., and Rodnyansky, S. 2022. “Small and Medium

Multifamily Housing: Affordability and Availability.” Housing Studies 37(7):1274-1297. [Link]

Richard, V., Liu, J., Zielenbach, S., Jakabovics, A., An, B., Rodnyansky, S., *Orlando, A.W., and Bostic,

R.W. 2022. “Effects of Concentrated Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) Development on

Surrounding House Prices.” Journal of Housing Economics 56:101838. [Link] (Open Access)

*An, B., Butz, A., and Mitchell, J. 2022. “A Contingent Diffusion Model of Local Climate Change

Policy Adoption: Evidence from Southern California Cities.” Cities: The International Journal of

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Urban Policy and Planning 120:103418. [Link]

*An, B., Porcher, S., Tang, S.Y., and +Kim, E. 2021. “Policy Design for COVID-19: Worldwide

Evidence on the Efficacies of Early Mask Mandates and Other Policy Interventions.”

Public Administration Review 81(6): 1157-1182. [Link]

*An, B., Tang, S.Y., and Leach, W. 2021. “Managing Environmental Change through Inter-agency

Collaboration: Protective Governance in Mandated Sustainability Planning.” Environmental Science &

Policy 125: 146-156. [Link]

Leach, W., *An, B., and Tang, S.Y. 2021. “Evaluating California’s Sustainable Groundwater

Management Act: The First Five Years of Governance and Planning.” JAWRA Journal of the American

Water Resources Association 57(6): 972-989. [Link]

*An, B., and Bostic, R.W. 2021. “What Determines Where Public Investment Goes?

Regional Governance and the Role of Institutional Rules and Power.” Public Administration Review

81(1): 64-80. [Link]

*** Also included in Public Administration Review’s Virtual Issue (2022) “Advancing Public Policy

Research through the Lens of Public Administration.” [Link]

*An, B. 2021. “Bottom-up or Top-down Local Service Delivery? Assessing the Impacts of Special

Districts as Community Governance Model.” American Review of Public Administration 51(1): 40-56.

[Link]

*An, B., Bostic, R.W., Jakabovics, A., Orlando, A.W., and Rodnyansky, S. 2021.

“Why Are Small and Medium Multifamily Properties So Inexpensive?” Journal of Real Estate Finance

and Economics 62(3): 402–422. [Link]

*An, B. Y., & Tang, S. Y. 2020. “Lessons from COVID-19 Responses in East Asia: Institutional

Infrastructure and Enduring Policy Instruments.” American Review of Public Administration, 50(6-7):

790-800. [Link]

*An, B., Levy, E. M. and Hero, E. R. 2018. “It’s Not Just Welfare: Racial Inequality and the Local

Provision of Public Goods in the United States.” Urban Affairs Review 54(5): 833-865. [Link] (Urban

Affairs Review Best Paper: Winner of the 2018 Best Paper Award in Urban and Local Politics,

American Political Science Association)

*Thom, M., and An, B. 2017. “Fade to Black? Exploring Policy Termination through the Rise and Fall

of State Tax Incentives for the Motion Picture Industry.” American Politics Research (45)1: 85-108.

[Link]

Invited Articles

*An, B. 2021. Review of Book “Hometown Inequality: Race, Class, and Representation in American

Local Politics.” By Brian F. Schaffner, Jesse H. Rhodes, and Raymond J. La Raja. New York:

Cambridge University Press, 2020. Perspectives on Politics 19(4): 1331-1333. [Link]

Manuscripts Under Review

*An, B., Kang, D., Kim, J., and Thu, M.K. “Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) and Smart Energy

Cities: Techno-Socioeconomic Analysis of Global Energy Plans” Applied Geography. Special Issue

“Urban Innovation in the Smart City: Technologies, Transformations, and New Regimes of

Governance.” Working Paper [Link]

An, B., Jakabovics, A., *Orlando, A.W., Rodnyansky, S., and Bostic, R.W. “The Trajectory of Rental

Housing in the Wake of Natural Disasters” to RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social

Sciences (invited)

Manuscripts with Revisions Requested

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An, B., Jakabovics, A., Orlando, A., and *Rodnyansky, S. “Preservation of Affordable Rural Rental

Properties by Understanding Owners, Managers, Subsidies, and the Local Market.” Housing Policy Debate

Manuscripts in Preparation for Submission

Kim, J., and *An, B. “Assessing Electric Grid Vulnerabilities via Extreme Weather and Infrastructure

Disruption Events: Neighborhood-Level Analysis Using High Resolution and Real-Time Power Outage

Data” to Nature Energy

Um, I., and *An, B. “An Inverted U-Shaped Relationship Between R&D Investment and Economic

Growth: A Panel Time Series Approach Addressing Cross-Sectional Dependence” to Science and

Public Policy

Um, I., and *An, B. “Understanding the Innovation and Economic Growth Nexus in National Innovation

Systems: A Dynamic Network Data Envelopment Analysis Approach” to Research Policy

An, B., Chen, C., Kim, J., Lyu, G., and Wang, Y. “Energy Burden and Other Drivers of Energy

Efficiency: Evidence from Utility-scale Analysis” Energy Efficiency. Note: The order of authorship not

yet determined but alphabetically listed.

An, B., Brown, M, Graff, M., and Anthony, R. “Frontiers of Weatherization: Evolving Programmatic

Needs and Expanding Evaluation Tools” to Renewable and Sustainable Energy Review. Note: The

order of authorship not yet determined but alphabetically listed.

An, B., Fitzpatrick, C., Jakabovics, A., *Orlando, A., Rodnyansky, S., Voith, R., & Zielenbach, S. “The

Effects of Affordable Housing Development on Local Rental Markets.” to Housing Policy Debate

Policy Briefs/Reports

An, B., Spiller, A., and Kim, J. “A Pathway Forward for the Weatherization Assistance Program

Evaluation: Measurement and Verification 2.0.” (2024). Prepared for Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Energy Science and Technology Directorate Buildings and Transportation Science Division. (Link to the

paper to be posted soon)

An, B., and Polimeni, N. “Community Equity Loss Driven by Corporate Single-Family Rental Holdings:

The Case Study Findings from the Atlanta Local Housing Market during 2010-2022.” (2024). Sponsored

by Focused Community Strategies (Link to the paper to be posted soon)

Martin, C., Drew, R., Orlando, A., Moody, J., Rodnyansky, S., An, B., Jakabovics, A., Patton, N., and

Donoghoe, M. (2023). “Disasters and the rental housing community: Setting a research and policy agenda.”

Brookings Institution. [Link]

An, B., Bostic, R.W., Jakabovics, A., Orlando, A.W., and Rodnyansky, S. (2017) “Understanding the

Small and Medium Multifamily Housing Stock.” Enterprise Community Partners. [Link]

Published Work in Professional Magazines & Blogs

*An, B., Jakabovics, A., Orlando, A.W., Rodnyansky, S., and Son, E. October, 2024. “Holding

Landlords Accountable.” Journal of the American Planning Association Blog. [Link]

*An, B., Porcher, S., and Tang, S.Y. May 15, 2024. “Global Diffusion of COVID-19 Policies: The Role

of Geographic, Institutional, and Cultural Cues.” Policy Studies Journal Blog [Link]

*An, B. October 26, 2023. “I studied 1 million home sales in metro Atlanta and found that Black

families are being squeezed out of homeownership by corporate investors.” The Conversation [Link]

*An, B., and Tang, S.Y. June 24, 2022. “Designers of collaboration mandates for sustainable natural

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resource management must address public agencies’ concerns about losing autonomy and influence.”

The London School of Economics’ USAPP-American Politics and Policy [Link]

*An, B., Roth, G., Oliverio, G., Conville, M., Pickard, N., Lambert, N., Polimeni, N., and Kim, A. April 30,

2022. “Atlanta Through the Archives: A Century of Racialized Urban Development in Atlanta. ArcGIS

StoryMaps. [Link]

*An, B., Porcher, S., Tang, S.Y., and +Kim, E. November 18, 2021. “In the Early Global Fight against

COVID-19, Quick Mask Mandates Were Most Effective.” The London School of Economics’ USAPP- American Politics and Policy [Link]

Tang, S.Y., and *An, B. July 7, 2020. “Responses to COVID-19 in China and the United States: How

Governance Matters.” The National Interest [Link]

POLICY & SOCIETAL IMPACTS: INVITED TALKS & RECOGNITIONS

Invited Presenter, “Environmental and Socioeconomic Drivers of Energy Infrastructure Disruptions:

Neighborhood-Level Analysis of Power Outages Using High Resolution, Real-Time Data” presented at the

Atlanta Regional Commission, September 16, 2024

Research “The Influence of Institutional Single-Family Rental Investors on Homeownership: Who Gets

Targeted and Pushed Out of the Local Market?” (Published in the Journal of Planning and Education

Research) cited by the Government Accounting Office in the “Rental Housing: Information on

Institutional Investment in Single-Family Homes,” May 22, 2024.

Research “Effects of Concentrated Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) Development on

Surrounding House Prices” (Published in the Journal of Housing Economics in 2022) cited by the White

House Council of Economic Advisers in the “2024 Economic Report of the President (Chapter 4:

Increasing the Supply of Affordable Housing),” March 21, 2024.

Invited Presenter, “CDBG-DR (Community Development Block Grant-Disaster Recovery) and Rental

Housing in the Wake of Natural Disaster” presented at the Disaster Recovery and Risk Reduction

Knowledge Collaborative Meeting, hosted by U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Office

of Policy Development & Research, November 30, 2023.

Invited Presenter and Panelist, “Homes for Profit: Speculation and Investment in Greater Boston” hosted

by Metropolitan Area Planning Council, November 30, 2023. [Link]

Invited Presenter and Panelist, “Keys to Opportunity in the Housing Market: How Financial Models

Advance and Constrain Low-Income Communities: Investor-Owned Single-Family Homes” hosted by

Federal Reserve Community Development Research Seminar Series, October 2, 2023. [Link] [Recording]

Invited Presenter, “Understanding Commercial Property Tax Appeals: Preliminary Analysis of Fulton

County 2011-2022.” Hosted by Just Growth Circle, Partnership for Southern Equity, August 10, 2023

Invited Presenter, “Commercial Property Tax Appeals Legislative Request,” jointly hosted by Fulton

County Department of External Affairs and Atlanta City Mayor’s Office and Office of Housing &

Community Development: Presented to chief appraisers of Fulton, DeKalb, Cobb, and Cherokee County,

ACCG-Georgia’s County Association and Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA),

January 19, 2023

Invited Speaker, Policy Research Seminar hosted by Mortgage Bankers Association, November 4, 2022

Invited panelist, “Gwinnett County Housing Innovation Forum” hosted by Congresswoman Carolyn

Bourdeaux (GA 7th District), November 2, 2022

Member of advisory exert panel on property tax assessment for the City of Atlanta (Mayor’s Office and

Office of Housing and Community Development), 2022 September—present

Member of Atlanta Thriving Neighborhood Index Governance Team, 2022 April—present

Invited Speaker, Atlanta Regional Housing Forum hosted by Atlanta Regional Commission and Atlanta

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Neighborhood Development Partnership, June 1, 2022. [Recording]

POLICY & SOCIETAL IMPACTS: MEDIA COVERAGE

Urban Institute “How the Los Angeles Fires Are Compounding the Risk of Homelessness” January 15,

2025 [Link]

Bloomberg “High Prices, Low Supply: Three Swing State Cities Show the Housing Crunch” October 21,

2024. [Link]

Bloomberg CityLab Housing “Should Evictions Be Banned After Hurricanes and Climate Disasters?”

October 8, 2024. [Link]

WSB-TV Channel 2 “Family lives months without A/C after metro Atlanta landlord struggles with repairs.”

Aired on August 25, 2024. [Link]

Inman News “Legislation takes aim at hedge fund landlords, but challenges remain.” June 18, 2024. [Link]

FOX News “Institutional investors cashing in on hot renter market.” Aired on June 12, 2024. [Link]

WSB-TV Channel 2 “Residents Talk About Negative Impact, Code Violations of Corporation-Owned

Homes.” Aired on May 31, 2024. [Link]

Yahoo News “Residents Talk About Negative Impact, Code Violations of Corporation-Owned Homes.”

May 31, 2024. [Link]

Georgia Public Broadcasting (Georgia Statewide National Public Radio/Public Broadcasting Service).

“Study says Atlantans lost more than a billion dollars in real estate wealth to corporate investors.” A radio

interview with the host Peter Biello on All Things Considered. Aired on May 22, 2024. [Link]

Globest “Corporate Buyers Underpay for SFRs Compared to Individuals: Corporate buyers in Atlanta

bought single family properties for 37.6% less than individuals were able to, while selling them for 7.4%

more.” May 14, 2024. [Link]

Commercial Observer “Flood of Property Assessment Appeals Could Wallop U.S. Cities: A lot of owners

and operators have what they perceive as significant data to support a 40 percent or 50 percent reduction.”

May 9, 2024. [Link]

Atlanta Daily World “Atlanta’s Black Communities Lost $681 Million In Home Equity After Corporate

Investors Seize On Real Estate Market.” May 8, 2024. [Link]

WSB-TV “Study finds Atlantans lost $1.25 billion in equity in real estate dealings with corporations.” Aired

on May 7, 2024. [Link]

Metro Atlanta CEO –––––––––––– May 9, 2024. [Link]

MSN.com –––––––––––– May 7, 2024. [Link]

WABE 90.1 FM (Atlanta Metro National Public Radio/Public Broadcasting Service) “Georgia Tech

professor offers solutions to mass corporate homeownership in metro Atlanta.” A live-show radio interview

with the host Rose Scott on Closer Look. Aired on April 16, 2024. [Link]

Georgia Public Broadcasting (Georgia Statewide National Public Radio/Public Broadcasting Service).

“After a natural disaster, renters receive less assistance than homeowners, study finds.” A radio interview

with the host Peter Biello on All Things Considered. Aired on March 12, 2024. [Link]

Atlanta Civic Circle “Cost of Living: The Great Divide.” February 15, 2024. [Link]

Mid-America Regional Council “Institutional owners of single-family housing are active in Kansas City.”

December 27, 2023. [Link]

The News & Observer “Corporate landlords reduce homeownership in Black Charlotte

neighborhoods, study says.” December 11, 2023. [Link]

Atlanta Civic Circle “Georgia’s tax appeal “loophole” means big money for big corporations.” November

16, 2023. [Link]

Atlanta Civic Circle “Is Atlanta losing out on $290 million a year in commercial property taxes?”

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November 1, 2023. [Link]

CounterPunch “How Black Families are Being Squeezed Out of Homeownership by Corporate Investors.”

November 1, 2023. [Link]

The Tolerance Webzine Tolerance.ca “I studied 1 million home sales in metro Atlanta and found that Black

families are being squeezed out of homeownership by corporate investors.” October 26, 2023. [Link]

Phys.org “Black families are being squeezed out of homeownership by corporate investors.” October 26,

2023. [Link]

Fortune “I studied 1 million home sales in metro Atlanta and found that Black

families are being squeezed out of homeownership by corporate investors.” October 26, 2023. [Link]

Yahoo News “I studied 1 million home sales in metro Atlanta and found that Black

families are being squeezed out of homeownership by corporate investors.” October 26, 2023. [Link]

FloridaRealtors “Study: Affordable Homes Don’t Hurt Home Values.” September 1,

2023. [Link]

Phys.org “Investors force Black families out of home ownership, new research shows.” August 8, 2023.

[Link]

The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education “How Investors Have Thwarted Black Home Ownership and

Widened the Racial Wealth Gap.” August 8, 2023. [Link]

The News & Observer “Corporate landlords caused billions in lost wealth, study says.” June 7, 2023. [Link]

The Registry “Study Finds Wall Street-Backed Residential Landlords Caused Removal of Billions in

Wealth from Some Metro Areas.” June 7, 2023. [Link]

Atlanta Journal-Constitution “American Dream For Rent: Investors elbow out individual home buyers.”

February 9, 2023. [Link]

Atlanta Journal-Constitution “American Dream For Rent: Investors zero in on Black neighborhoods”

February 9, 2023. [Link]

Pew Charitable Trusts “Investors Bought a Quarter of Homes Sold Last Year, Driving Up Rents.” July 22,

2022. [Link]

Route Fifty “Governments Begin Pushing Back on Investors Snatching Up Homes.” July 4, 2022. [Link]

Atlanta Journal-Constitution “Investor-owned housing emerging as key issue for metro Atlanta officials.”

June 1, 2022. [Link]

CBS46 “Corporate investors flooding Atlanta’s housing market.” June 2, 2022. [Link]

Axios Atlanta “Metro Atlanta becomes hotbed for real estate investors.” June 2, 2022. [Link]

GRANTS, CONTRACTS, & AWARDS

Interdisciplinary Community-Based Research Grant, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Co-PI

for “Building Equity in the Intersections of Climate Change, Built Environment, and Environmental

Health: A Community and Social-Technological Integration-Based Research for Solutions” ($2,000,000;

PI: Chien-fei Chen, University of Tennessee, Knoxville), 2025 February 1 – 2028 January 31

Institutional Research Contract, Department of Energy and Oak Ridge National Laboratory National

Security Sciences Directorate, PI for “Climate Change, Power Outage, and Grid Resilience Analysis Year 2”

($150,000), 2025 April 1 – 2025 September 30

Institutional Research Contract, Oak Ridge National Laboratory National Security Sciences Directorate, PI

for “Climate Change, Power Outage, and Grid Resilience Analysis Year 1” ($100,000), 2024 August 27 –

2025 February 28

Institutional Research Contract, Department of Energy and Oak Ridge National Laboratory Energy

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Science and Technology Directorate, PI for “ORNL-GT Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP)

Evaluation” ($200,000; Co-PI: Marilyn Brown at Georgia Tech School of Public Policy), 2023 June 12 –

2024 December 31

2024 Outstanding Achievement in Interdisciplinary Activities Award (awarded to a faculty member who

has made significant interdisciplinary contributions to teaching, research, and/or service in the college),

Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, Georgia Tech (with $6,000 discretionary research funds and

payment)

Special Opportunity for Faculty Development Activities (SODA)-A Award, Ivan Allen College of

Liberal Arts, Georgia Tech, “External Funding Seeking for Power Grid Modernization and Resilience”

($5,000), March 15, 2024.

Unrestricted Research Gift, Beneficial Electrification League, “Support for GROWER Lab (Grid

Resilience, Outage, Weather, & Emergency Response),” ($10,000), January 8, 2024.

Research Gift, Focused Community Strategies, “Uncovering Corporate Investment in the Single-Family

Rental Housing Market in South Atlanta Neighborhoods and Estimating Communities’ Equity Loss”

($30,000), 2023 June 1 – 2023 August 31 *$15,000 as independent research contract

Independent Research Contract, Brookings Institution and Enterprise Community Partners, “Natural

Disasters, Renters, and Disaster Policy Reform” ($25,000), 2023 *Sponsor: Walmart Foundation

Independent Research Contract, Enterprise Community Partners ($106,000), 2015-2020; ($168,500)

2022-2025 *Sponsor: JPMorgan Chase Foundation

Short-term Opportunity for Professional Development and Scholarly Activities, “Proprietary Power Outage

Data Purchase for Targeted Research Initiative,” Strategic Energy Institute, Georgia Tech ($5,400), 2023

2022 Faculty Excellence in Research Award, Ivan Allen College, Georgia Tech (with $10,000 discretionary

research funds), 2022 Spring

COVID-19 Faculty Relief Research Fund, Office of the Provost, Georgia Tech ($10,000), 2022-2023

“Redlining and Digital Neighborhood Tour: A Story of Racialized Urban Development in Atlanta 1930-

2020,” Digital Integrative Liberal Arts Center, Ivan Allen College, Georgia Tech ($21,345), 2021-2022

*Notes: The grant additionally covered tuition for two graduate students for a year, equivalent to $40,000.

*Final Product: An, B., Roth, G., Oliverio, G., Conville, M., Pickard, N., Lambert, N., Polimeni, N., and

Kim, A. April 30, 2022. “Atlanta Through the Archives: A Century of Racialized Urban Development in

Atlanta. ArcGIS StoryMaps. [Link]

Small Grants for White Papers at the Intersection of Science, Technology, and Public Policy, “Neither by

Hierarchy nor by Market: Federal Incentives and Technology-driven Collaborative Approaches in Climate

Change Policy among State and Local Governments,” Strategic Plan Advisory Group and the Strategic

Energy Institute, Georgia Tech ($7,000), 2021

Special Opportunity for Faculty Development Activities, “Acquiring National Establishment Time-Series

Database for 2.6 million business establishments’ longitudinal records in Georgia,” Ivan Allen College,

Georgia Tech ($15,000), 2021

Small Grant for Research, “A New Governance Index: Culture, Institutions, and Regulations in the Era of

COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis Management,” Ivan Allen College, Georgia Tech ($7,000), 2021

Donald C. Stone Best Paper Award: Best Paper on Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations written in

2019, American Society for Public Administration, 2020

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Major Research Grant, Co-PI for “Institutional Collective-Action Dilemmas and Collaborative

Governance: State Mandates and Sustainable Groundwater Management in California,” John Randolph

Haynes Foundation ($132,000, PI: Shui-Yan Tang at University of Southern California), 2019-2021

Reining Award: Best Dissertation in Public Policy and Management, Price School of Public Policy, 2019

Best Urban and Local Politics Paper presented in 2017, American Political Science Association, 2018

Equity and Inclusion Fellowship, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, 2018-2019

Dissertation Fellowship, Lusk Center for Real Estate, USC ($32,000 plus tuition and fees), 2019

Summer Research Grant, Graduate School Office of the Provost, USC ($7,500), 2017

Research Grant, International Yonsei Foundation ($1,500), 2016

Scholarship, Bou Family Foundation, Georgetown University ($2,500), 2013-2014

Merit-based Tuition Scholarship Award, Georgetown University ($40,000), 2012-2014

TEACHING: COURSE OFFERINGS

Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Public Policy

Instructor, PUBP 8500 PhD Research Seminar

Instructor, PUBP 6108 Capstone Project in the Master of Sustainable Energy and Environmental

Management (MSEEM) Program

Instructor, PUBP 3130 Research Methods

Instructor, PUBP 6112 Research Design in Policy Science

Instructor, PUBP 6118 Public Finance and Policy

University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Department of Political Science

Instructor, POLS 301 Research Methods

University of Southern California, Price School of Public Policy

Assistant Lecturer (Instructor), PPD 303 Statistics for Policy, Planning, and Development

Teaching Assistant, PPD 373 Public Policy and Planning Analysis

Teaching Assistant, PPD 571 International Public Policy & Management Seminar

Teaching Assistant, PPD 542 Policy and Program Evaluation

Teaching Assistant, PPDE 661 Methods for Equity Analysis

Georgetown University, Department of Economics and School of Foreign Service

Teaching Assistant, ECON 543 Advanced International Finance

Teaching Assistant, ECON 544 Advanced International Trade

CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES

Panel Organizer

“Who Owns Urban Places? Understanding Ownership and Management of Urban America Through the

Lens of Multifamily Housing” Urban Affairs Association (UAA) 2022

“Collaborative Governance in Complex Water Resources Management: Studies from California and the

Great Lakes” Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) 2022

“Design, Governance, and Impact of Environmental and Climate Policy” Association for Public Policy

Analysis and Management (APPAM) 2020

“Preserving Affordable Housing Through Big Data” American Planning Association (APA) National

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Conference 2019

“Innovation in Local Environmental Policy: Climate Change and Sustainability Actions” APPAM 2018

“People Come and Go, but Places Don’t: The Mechanism behind the Long-Term Effect of Redlining on

Built Environment” APPAM 2018 Innovation Lounge

“Data and Local Environmental Policy Decisions: The Influence of Institutional Factors” APPAM 2017

“Dynamics of Housing Price Change: Institutional and Government Regulation Forces” APPAM 2017

Panel Chair

“Navigating Social Equity in Multilevel Governance: Perspectives from Policy Domains” APPAM 2024

“Uncovering Inequities and Impacts in Energy Access, Distribution, and Infrastructure” APPAM 2023

“COVID-19 and the Policy Process: Political, Psychological, and Managerial Aspects of State and Local

Policymaking” APPAM 2022

“Challenges with Home Ownership in Local Markets” UAA 2022

“Who Owns Urban Places? Understanding Ownership and Management of Urban America Through the

Lens of Multifamily Housing” UAA 2022

“Entrepreneurship: Ethnicity, Race and Class I” UAA 2022 * Special Track on Urban Entrepreneurship

(Sponsored by Kauffman Foundation)

“Identities, Representation, and Local Experiences of Inequality” Southern Political Science Association

(SPSA) 2021

“The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program: Costs and Consequences” APPAM 2020

“The Impact of Governance Contexts on Participation and Equity in Environmental Policy” APPAM

2020

“Using Big Data to Identify, Build, and Preserve Affordable Housing” APPAM 2019

“Engaging Diverse Communities in Designing and Delivering Public Services” APPAM 2019

“New Research on Residential Segregation, Racial Segregation, and Racial Inequality” APPAM 2015

Panel Discussant

“Energy Insecurity and Disconnection: Who Is Most at Risk and What Drives This?” APPAM 2024

“State Energy Efficiency Governance: Do Network Structure Matter (Student Research Paper)?” APPAM

2023

“The Urban Housing Affordability Crisis: New Policies and Their Impacts” APPAM 2022

“COVID-19 and the Policy Process: Political, Psychological, and Managerial Aspects of State and Local

Policymaking” APPAM 2022

“Hometown Inequality: Race, Class, and Representation in American Local Politics” Book roundtable.

SPSA 2021

“What Does It Take to Turn Around a Struggling Neighborhood?” APPAM 2020

“Intersectionality” Public Administration Review Symposium on Race, Gender, and Social Equity 2020

Roundtable Speaker

“Addressing Energy and Housing Insecurity in Georgia and the Southeast Region” (Moderator) Southeast

Energy Summit 2023

“Equity and Inclusion Session: The Choice is Yours: Practice vs. Academia?” APPAM 2019

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“Exploring the Challenges of and Opportunities for Diversity and Representation in Collaborative

Governance” APPAM 2019

Panel Paper Presentation

“Environmental and Socioeconomic Drivers of Power Outages: Neighborhood-Level Analysis Using Real- Time Power Outages Data” APPAM 2024

“Uncovering Neighborhood-Level Portfolios of Corporate Single-Family Rental Holdings and Equity

Loss” APPAM 2024

“Systemic Inequity or Random Events? Neighborhood-Level Analysis of Power Outages Using Real-Time

Data” APPAM 2023

“Methodology for Identifying Landlords’ Ownership Scale and the Implications for Targeted Code

Enforcement” APPAM 2023

“Rental Affordability in the Wake of Natural Disasters” APPAM 2023; Urban Economics Association

(UEA) 2020

“COVID-19 Emergency Policies, Financial Security, and Social Equity: Worldwide Evidence” APPAM

2022

“Concentrated Home Purchasing By Institutional Investors: Who Gets Pushed out of the Market?” APPAM

2022

“Mapping of Institutional Decision Making that Perpetuated Discriminatory Place-Based Planning:

An Archival Review of Urban Development in Atlanta, 1930-2000” Atlanta Studies Symposium 2022

“Concentrated Home Purchasing in Atlanta: Who Gets Pushed Out of the Market?” UAA 2022

“Unpacking the Intersectional Dimension of Business Opportunities in Historically Redlined

Neighborhoods” UAA 2022

“When Other Conditions Matter More: The Limitations of Government Mandates on Collaboration for

Sustainability Planning.” MPSA 2022; Public Management Research Conference (PMRC) 2022

“Diffusion of COVID-19 Policy Adoption and Termination as Global Governance: The Role of

Geography, Culture, and Institutions” COVID-19 Public Health and Social Measures (PHSMs)

Research Outcome Conference 2021

“Non-pharmaceutical Interventions, Fiscal Stimuli and Households’ Economic Worries during COVID- 19” COVID-19 Public Health and Social Measures (PHSMs) Research Outcome Conference 2021

“Applying an Intersectional Understanding of Extra Work Behavior and Emotional Exhaustion in Local

Public Service” PMRC 2021

“The Racial Structure of Inequality and Economic Policy Mood” SPSA 2021

“The Effect of Immigration from Mexico on U.S. Local Government Fiscal Health” SPSA 2021; APPAM

2019

“The Physical Legacy of Racism: How Redlining Cemented the Modern Built Environment” Southern

Economic Association (SEA) 2020; American Real Estate and Urban Economics

Association (AREUEA) 2019; Western Regional Science Association (WRSA) 2019

“Agency-Level Incentives and Risk Management in Mandated Collaboration” APPAM 2020

“The Role of LIHTC-Financed Developments in the Urban Affordability Crisis: Lessons from Los

Angeles” APPAM 2020

“Preserving Affordable Housing Through Big Data Analysis” UAA 2020 (cancelled due to COVID-19);

APPAM 2019

“Preservation of Affordable Rural Rental Properties by Understanding Market Competitiveness” UAA

2020 (cancelled due to COVID-19)

“Protective Governing Rules and Institutional Collective Action: Modeling Anticipated Success in

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Sustainable Groundwater Management” APPAM 2019

“Agency-level Incentives and Collaborative Governance: State Mandates and Sustainable Groundwater

Management in California” PMRC 2019; Consortium on Collaborative Governance (CCG) 2019

Workshop at the University of Arizona, School of Government and Public Policy * by invitation only

“Capitalizing on Collective Action: Special Districts as Community’s Institutional Choice for

Governance Redesign” SPSA 2019

“Political Homophily and Intergovernmental Strategy: Municipal Investment in Joint Infrastructure

Development.” UAA 2019; SPSA 2018

“Examining a Non-Stationary Approach to Policy Diffusion: Exploring the Municipal Spread of Climate

Action Policies within Southern California” Western Political Science Association (WPSA) 2019;

SPSA 2019; APPAM 2018; California Council on Science and Technology (CCST) 2018 Climate

Science Translators Showcase

“Does Local Control Bring More Benefits to Communities? Evidence from Special Districts and

Housing Prices.” WRSA 2018; APPAM 2017

“What Determines Where Public Goods Funding Goes? Regional Governance and The Role of

Institutional Rules and Power” PMRC 2019; APPAM 2017; MPSA 2017

“Racial Inequality and the Local Provision of Public Goods” APSA 2017; MPSA 2016; APPAM 2015

“Why are Small and Medium Multifamily Housing So Affordable?” AREUEA 2017

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“Who Owns Urban America? A Methodology for Identifying Landlords’ Ownership Scale.” April 2024

Yonsei University Department of Global Public Administration “Local to Global Perspectives in Policy

Diffusion Scholarship: New Ideas, Data, and Theories.” August 2023

Public Administration Review (PAR) Symposium on The Nexus Between Emergency Management,

Public Health, and Equity: Responding to Crisis, and Mitigating Future Hazards “COVID-19 Policies,

Economic Security, and Social Equity: Worldwide Evidence.” February 2022

Central Police University, Taiwan. Public Administration Review (PAR) Symposium on Redefining

Public Administration: New Paradigms for the Post Pandemic Era “Diffusion of COVID-19 Policy

Adoption and Termination as Global Governance: The Role of Geography, Culture, and Institutions.”

November 2021

Georgia State University, Department of Public Management and Policy “Who Bears the Brunt of

Disruptive Innovation? The Effect of E-commerce on Local Retail Business Competitors.” November 2021

Cal Poly Pomona, California Center for Ethnics and Policy Securing Housing Justice Seminar “The

Physical Legacy of Racism: How Redlining Cemented the Modern Built Environment.” May 2021

University of Southern California, Lusk Center for Real Estate Annual Symposium for the Lusk

Research Award “Community Development through Special District: Measuring the Effect of

Community-based Governance Reform on Housing Prices.” November 2020

George Washington University, Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration

Public Administration Review (PAR) Symposium on Race, Gender, and Social Equity in Governance

“Applying an Intersectional Understanding of Extra Work Behavior and Emotional Burnout in Local

Public Service.” September 2020

WORK EXPEREICE IN PUBLIC & INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

International Finance Corporation, World Bank Group Washington, DC 2014

Consultant, Global Knowledge Office

United Nations Headquarters New York, New York 2013

Intern, Security Sector Reform Unit, Department of Peacekeeping Operations

ROK-US Combined Air Force Operations Command South Korea 2009-2012

Public Affairs Planning and Education Officer (1st lieutenant)

Good News Corps Overseas Volunteer South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia 2005-2006

Community Teaching Fellow

COMMUNITY SERVICE

Georgetown University School of Foreign Service Washington, DC 2013-2014

President, Asia-Pacific Forum

International Youth Fellowship (non-profit) Los Angeles, CA 2014-2019

Organizer, World Youth Camp and Culture Fair in Los Angeles County

English Camp Teacher for middle-school students in Mexico Mexico 2013-2019

Lighthouse Mind Education Institute (community services organization)

Senior Mind Education Specialist Atlanta, GA 2020-present

PROFESSIONAL AND REVIEWER SERVICE

Editorial Board

2021-2022: Editorial Board & Associate Editor for Nature: Humanities & Social Sciences Communications

Reviewer service

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2025: Perspective on Public Management and Governance; Housing Policy Debate

2024: Nature Communications; Policy StudiesJournal; American Journal of Political Science;

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (x3); Public Administration Review (x2)

Journal of Planning Education and Research; Policy Sciences

2023: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS);Journal of the American Planning

Association; Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space; Housing Policy Debate;

Public Administration Review (x3); American Journal of Political Science;

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory;

National Science Foundation ($850k-3 years Grant Proposal);

2022: Public Administration Review (x3);Journal of Planning Education and Research;

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (x2);

Pacific Affairs;Journal of East Asian Studies; American Political Science Review

2021:Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory; Public Administration Review (x2);

Journal of Public Policy; Territory, Politics, Governance; Public Performance & Management Review;

Nature: Humanities & Social Sciences Communications; Korean Journal of Policy Studies;

InternationalJournal of Public Sector Management; International Review of Public Administration

2020: Nature: Humanities & Social Sciences Communications;

Journal of Politics; World Development, Public Administration Review (x2);

Public Performance & Management Review; Public Administration Quarterly (x2)

2019: Public Administration Review (x2);Journal of Policy Analysis and Management;

Housing Policy Debate; Administrative Sciences

2018: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management

Professional service

2023-2024: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy & Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP)

Award Task Force

2024-present: Co-Director, Center for Urban Research, Georgia Tech

2024-present: Founder and Director of the GROWER (Grid Resilience, Outage, Weather, & Emergency

Response) Lab as part of Vertically Integrated Project (VIP), Georgia Tech School of

Electrical and Computer Engineering

2024-present: Admissions & Coordinating Committee for Joint PhD Program in Public Policy between

Georgia State University Andrew Young School of Policy Studies and Georgia Tech

School of Public Policy

2024: Search Committee for the Dean of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, Georgia Tech

2024: Search Committee for an assistant/associate professor tenure-track position in Social Policy, School

of Public Policy, Georgia Tech

2022-present: Graduate Committee, School of Public Policy, Georgia Tech

2022-2023: Search Committee for an assistant professor tenure-track position in Health Policy, School of

Public Policy, Georgia Tech

2022: Award Committee, School of Public Policy, Georgia Tech

2021: Search Committee for an assistant professor tenure-track position in Public Management or

Organizational Behavior, School of Public Policy, Georgia Tech

2020 Nov-present: Director of the Housing and Urban Policy (HUP) Lab, Georgia Tech

2020-present: Faculty Advisor for the Georgia Tech Student Club International Youth Fellowship

2020-2021: Equity and Inclusion Fellowship Committee for APPAM

2016: Program Committee for APPAM Annual Fall Research Conference