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Teaching Assistant Professor
Stefan Chavez-Norgaard is a Teaching Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Korbel School's Douglas and Mary Scrivner Institute of Public Policy. He teaches courses related to urban planning, public policy analysis, ethics, and policy writing, as well as an applied lab-based course on housing policy. Chavez-Norgaard's research lies at the intersection of procedural justice and urban development, with an eye toward equity. Specific areas of focus include urban planning history and theory, local-government and planning law, and mixed-methods research focused on planning practice and urban governance in the related but distinct late-liberal contexts of South Africa and the United States. Stefan is passionate about participatory democracy and how cities' public/private arrangements affect equitable urban development. His dissertation examined areas of apartheid-era forced relocation in South Africa and how master plans have been implemented and repurposed in these geographies by residents and planners. His forthcoming research will explore possibilities for equitable, democratic urban development in Denver.
Chavez-Norgaard received his PhD in Urban Planning from the Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation in 2024. He also holds a Master in Public Policy degree from the Harvard Kennedy School, and a Bachelor of Arts in Public Policy and Urban Studies from Stanford University, with interdisciplinary honors in Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. He is an active member of several professional associations, including the American Association of Geographers (AAG); American Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP); Urban Affairs Association (UAA); and Society for American City and Regional Planning History (SACRPH).
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Chavez-Norgaard, Stefan. 2024. "Repurposing Racial Modernism: Specters of Planning's Past, a Contested Present, and Alternative Planning Futures." Journal of Planning Literature. OnlineFirst: 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1177/088541222412563.
Chavez-Norgaard, Stefan. 2024. "Place Renaming, Jurisdictional Integration, and Political Representation: Lessons from South Africa." Planning Perspectives. OnlineFirst: 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/02665433.2024.2324010.
Norgaard, Stefan. 2023. "A Narrow View of Planning, with Enduring Consequences: The Case of California High-Speed Rail." In Interface: Resistance and Response in Planning, Susan S. Fainstein and John Forester, eds. Planning Theory and Practice. 24(2): 264-268. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649357.2023.2190681.
Meyer, Miranda and Stefan Norgaard. 2022. "Mnemonic Land War: Memory Constellations Through Lebanon and South Africa." Memory Studies, 15(6): 1393-1405. https://doi.org/10.1177/17506980221133516.
Norgaard, Stefan. 2022. "From 'Citizen Jane' to an Institutional History of Power and Social Change: Problematizing Urban Planning's Jane Jacobs Historiography." Journal of Planning History, 22(2): 95-118. https://doi.org/10.1177/15385132211070512.
Norgaard, Stefan. 2022. "Planning, Violence, and Crisis in Sociohistorical Perspective: Crime, Capital, Commodities, and Cartelization in Tancítaro, Michoacán." Critical Planning, 25: 147-168. https://doi.org/10.5070/CP825051413.
Norgaard, Stefan. 2021. "Violence as a Genre of Urban Life: Urban Sustainability and (in)Security in South African Cities." Journal of Urban Affairs, 45(3): 630-646. https://doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2021.1977140.
Norgaard, Stefan. 2021. "Modernization through Capitalization: The Hidden costs of Ethiopia's Gibe III Dam and NESTown Initiative." Human Geography, 14(3): 381-395. https://doi.org/10.1177/19427786219991.
Chavez-Norgaard, Stefan. 2024. "Chapter 10: Speculative Desire and Residential Reappropriation: Johannesburg's Ponte City from Apartheid to the Present." In In Whose Place? Confronting Vestiges of Colonialism and Apartheid. Ali Hlongwane, Hilton Judin and Arianna Lissoni, eds. Johannesburg: Jacana Media. https://jacana.co.za/product/in-whose-place-confronting-vestiges-of-colonialism-and-apartheid/.
Chavez-Norgaard, Stefan. 2023. "Chapter 11: On the Need for Sustainable Digital Urban Infrastructure in 21st Century South African Cities." In Reimagining Urban Planning in Africa. Cobbinah, Patrick B. and Eric Gaisie, eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://www.cambridge.org/us/universitypress/subjects/earth-and-environmental-science/environmental-policy-economics-and-law/reimagining-urban-planning-africa.
Chavez-Norgaard, Stefan, Leah Montange, Jah Sayers, and Megan Ybarra. 2022. "Introduction:' Making Abolition in Geography." Society + Space. https://www.societyandspace.org/forums/making-abolition-in-geography.
Chavez-Norgaard, Stefan. 2024. "Review of: Bourdieu in the City: Challenging Urban Theory." Journal of Cultural Geography. 41(2): 209-211. http://doi.org/10.1080/08873631.2024.2357890.
Norgaard, Stefan. 2023. "Review of: America's Frozen Neighborhoods: The Abuse of Zoning, by Robert C. Ellickson." Journal of the American Planning Association (JAPA). 89(4): 598-599. http://doi.org/10.1080/01944363.2023.2206325.
Norgaard, Stefan. 2022. "Review: The Paradox of Urban Revitalization: Progress and Poverty in America's Postindustrial Era, by Howard Gillette, Jr." Journal of the American Planning Association, 89(1): 151-152. https://doi.org/10.1080/01944363.2022.2109927.
Norgaard, Stefan. 2021. "Review of: Safari Nation, by Jacob Dlamini." Historical Geography. Vol. 49. 84-87. https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/article/896239.
Norgaard, Stefan and Victor Chen. 2023. "Denver, CO" and "Pueblo, CO." Essays on City Histories of Redlining. Support from the American Council of Learned Societies Mapping Inequality Project. Available at: https://dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/redlining/map/CO/Pueblo/context and https://dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/redlining/map/CO/Denver/context.
Norgaard, Stefan et al. 2020. "In The Weeds: Securing a Grass-Mowing Contract in Stockton, CA"; "You Get What You Pay For: Reforming Procurement in Naperville, Illinois"; and "In The Green: Negotiating Rail Expansion in Somerville, MA." Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative. Cases each include written research manuscript, educator and practitioner teaching guides, and slideshows. 22 June. https://www.cityleadership.harvard.edu/cases/negotiation-teaching-case-set.
Chavez-Norgaard, Stefan. 2024. "Grover Cleveland (1885-1889, 1893-1897): Regulating Railroads and Intervening in Labor Disputes." The Eno Center for Transportation. 16 August. https://enotrans.org/article/grover-cleveland-1885-1889-1893-1897-regulating-railroads-and-intervening-in-labor-disputes/.
Moreno, Juan, Stefan Chavez-Norgaard, and Mia Winther-Tamaki. 2023. "Mesh Together." Urban Omnibus. 4 May. https://urbanomnibus.net/2023/05/mesh-together/.
Norgaard, Stefan. 2021. "Transformations and Continuities: Historicizing America's National Interest in Cities." Columbia GSAPP URBAN Magazine. December. https://www.arch.columbia.edu/books/reader/823-urban-mag-fall-2021/#reader-anchor-2.
Norgaard, Stefan. 2018. "Distant Neighbors: Innovative Approaches to Development across Geographies." The Harvard Kennedy School Review. Cambridge, MA: Vol. 18: 153-162. https://studentreview.hks.harvard.edu/distant-neighbors-innovative-approaches-to-development-across-geographies/.
Norgaard, Stefan. 2018. "In South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa Can Save the ANC." The Harvard Kennedy School Review. 30 March. https://studentreview.hks.harvard.edu/in-south-africa-cyril-ramaphosa-can-save-the-anc/.
Norgaard, Stefan. 2016. "Why We Need to Build Just and Inclusive Cities." The Ford Foundation Equals Change Blog. 10 June. http://www.fordfoundation.org/ideas/equals-change-blog/posts/why-we-need-to-build-just-and-inclusive-cities/."
Resident, "Counterpath." Denver, CO. Spring 2024 - present.
Recipient, Gary Gaile Travel Award, Development Geographies Specialty Group (DGSG), American Association of Geographers (AAG). Denver, CO. Spring 2023.
Recipient, Graduate Student Travel and Research Award, AAG Socialist and Critical Geography Specialty Group. New York, NY. Spring 2022.
Participant, Detroit Fellowship, Humanity in Action (HIA), Detroit, MI, Fall 2019.
Member, Board of Directors, Rikers Debate Project. New York, NY. 2016-2018.
Sigmund G. Ginsburg Urban Fellows Founder's Award, New York City Urban Fellows Program. New York, NY. May 2017. "
PPOL 3701 Urban Politics (Fall 2024)
PPOL 3300 Ethics in Public Policy (Winter 2025)
PPOL 4702 Policy Writing (Winter 2025, Spring 2025)
PPOL 2701.2 Public Policy Analysis (Spring 2025)
PPOL 4350 Policy Lab: Housing Policy (Spring 2025)
Ph.D., Urban Planning, Columbia University, 2024
M.P.P., Political and Economic Development, Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government, 2019
B.A., Public Policy and Urban Studies, Stanford University, 2015
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