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Michael Hibbard, Mentor
Planning, Public Policy and Mgmt.

Joy Gipson, McNair Scholar
Roseanna Boyer, McNair Scholar

Michael Hibbard earned his Ph.D. from UCLA and joined the UO faculty in 1980. Currently a professor of community and regional development in the Department of Planning, Public Policy, and Management, Hibbard is also director of the Institute for Policy Research and Innovation. He is interested in sustainable regional development and the social impacts of economic change, especially natural resource and agricultural development, on small towns, indigenous communities, and rural regions in developed countries. One of his current projects reflects those interests economic development planning for Kake, Alaska, a Tlingit community in southeast Alaska that has historically been dependent on logging, fishing, and subsistence. Recent publications include “Some Community Socio-Economic Benefits of Watershed Councils: A Case Study from Oregon” (with S. Lurie), Journal of Environmental Planning and Management (forthcoming); “Tribal Sovereignty, the White Problem, and Reservation Planning,” Journal of Planning History (2006); and “Doing It for Themselves: Transformative Planning by Indigenous Peoples” (with M. Lane), Journal of Planning Education and Research (2006).