Elisabeth Infield, Curriculum Vitae

Elisabeth M. Infield
Professor, Regional Planning


Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
325 Design Building
Amherst, MA

01003 ORC ID: 0000-0001-8925-1823

eminfield@umass.edu

 

EDUCATION

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 1991-1997. Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning, 1997. Dissertation: Stories of the Land: Rhetoric and Reconciliation in the Mojave National Preserve. Dissertation Co-chairs: Ann Louise Strong and Seymour Mandelbaum, with Roger Raufer, member. 

J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. Master of Management, with concentration in Finance, 1986.

Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH. Bachelor of Business Administration, 1984.

 

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

University of Massachusetts, Dept. of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning Amherst, Massachusetts.

  • Professor of Regional Planning, 2013 - present.
  • Co-chair, Chancellor’s Task Force on Campus Resiliency Planning, 2018-2020
  • Director, Graduate Certificate in Climate Change & Green Infrastructure, 2015-present.
  • Director, Center for Resilient Metro-Regions at UMass Amherst, 2017 - present
  • Department Head, 2013 – 2017. Managed 21 faculty and staff, budget, student enrollment of 223 full-time equivalent, six degree programs from Associates to PhD. Position rotates among department faculty.
  • Graduate Program Director, UMass PhD in Regional Planning, 2002 – 2012
  • Associate Professor of Regional Planning, 2007 – 2012
  • Assistant Professor of Regional Planning, 2001 – 2007

Current courses:

  • Theory and Practice of Public Participation (REGIONPL 630, 3 credits)
  • Research Issues in Regional Planning and Landscape Archit. (REGIONPL/LANDARCH 635, 3 credits)
  • Planning for Climate Change (REGIONPL 585, 3 credits)
  • Climate Change and Resilient Cities (SUSCTOMM 297G, 3 – 4 credits)

Other courses previously or occasionally taught or co-taught include:

  • Advanced Planning Theory (REGIONPL 890, 3 credits)
  • Introduction to Land Use/Growth Management (REGIONPL 650, 3 credits)
  • Regional Planning Studio (REGIONPL 675, 6 credits)
  • Planning and Wind Energy Studio (REGIONPL 791, 3 credits, 2012 and 2014)
  • PhD workshop (REGIONPL 892D, 1 credit)
  • Real Estate Law and Development Finance (REGIONPL 692R, 3 credits, 2010)
  • Sustainable Communities (REGIONPL 591B/ENVDES 591B, 2001-2004)

 

Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa.

  • Assistant Professor of Community and Regional Planning, 1997 – 2001.
  • Temporary Assistant Professor of Community and Regional Planning, 1995 - 1997.

Courses taught most years: Growth Management; Sustainable Communities (note that this was one of the first such courses in the country); Seminar in Planning Theory (graduate), plus three different 1-credit methods modules and co-teaching for three different honors seminars.

Other courses taught include: Theory of the Planning Process; Technology and the City; Community Development Planning and Programming (capstone studio); and a variety of one-credit modules.

 

Academic Affiliations: Associated Collegiate Schools of Planning, Global Planners Education Group, UN-Habitat Planners 4 Climate Action.