First name,Last name,Preferred title,Overview,Position,Department,Individual
Andrea,Roberts,Assistant Professor,"Dr. Andrea Roberts is an Assistant Professor of Urban Planning at Texas A&M University. She is also the founder of The Texas Freedom Colonies Project, a research & social justice initiative documenting Black placemaking history and grassroots preservation. Dr. Roberts engages in ethnographic, archival, and action research using digital humanities platforms to make marginalized groups' endangered places visible and relevant to scholars, policymakers, and practitioners. Dr. Roberts has written peer-reviewed articles on black placemaking history and practice, digital engagement, intersectionality, and preservation policy. Her current project is a book on Black historic preservation practice. The Urban Affairs Association recognized her with the 2019 Marilyn J. Gittell Activist Scholar Honorable Mention Award. She is also a 2020 Visiting Scholar at Yale's Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition and a 2019 recipient of a National Trust African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund grant. Dr. Roberts earned a Ph.D. in community and regional planning at The University of Texas at Austin.",Associate Director||Assistant Professor,Center for Housing and Urban Development||Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n661156d9
Hope Hui,Rising,Assistant Professor,"Dr. Rising has expertise in Civil Engineering, Landscape Architecture, Social Sciences, and Urban, Technological, and Environmental Planning. She investigates multi-hazard community resilience as community-initiated, self-organizing interactions between humans, disasters, and the built environment to mitigate and reduce the impacts of hazards; focusing on psychophysiological and socioenvironmental factors that contribute to consensus-based and individual decision-making to make the commons more sustainable and accessible.
She has won Best Paper Awards from the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture and the Environmental Design Research Association, the EDRA Research Award, the Young Investigator Research Award from the Association of European Schools of Planning. Her engagement-based educational program was selected for Landscape Architecture Foundation's Educational Grant and the Alaska Airlines' Imagine Tomorrow Award.
Dr. Rising founded the Adaptive Water Urbanism Initiative, an integrated program of education, research, and outreach for adapting individuals and communities to the impacts of extreme weather and disruptive events. She co-leads the TAMU Space Governance and Habitability Research Group and the Space Habitat Challenge Innovation X Project, an applied multidisciplinary project. She was a Visiting Scholar at the U. of Venice, a Visiting Professor at Penn State, a Promising Scholar at the U. of Oregon, and a Barbour Scholar at the U. of Michigan where she conducted policy research on water security for the Urban Security Group and the Intelligent Transportation Systems for the Transportation Research Institute.
Hope previously provided studio-level design leadership for the HOK Planning Group in New York City and worked as a project manager and lead designer for EDAW's and AECOM's East Coast headquarters. She received over a dozen design awards, including three from the American Society of Landscape Architects and four from the American Institute of Architects.",Fellow||Assistant Professor,Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning||Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nbd5e4e16