Project Director

William Jhon Hanna

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Address: Room 0116 Caroline Hall, The University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-9150
E-mail: BHANNA@URSP.UMD.EDU Telephone number: (301) 405-4005
Fax Number: (301) 314-9897

Prof. Hanna was trained in political science with strong multi-disciplinary and international emphases. He has conducted research and traveled in many countries. Currently, his primary research, educational, and service focus is immigrant neighborhoods within the United States.

B.S., M.S., Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California at Los Angeles. Formal fields of study included administrative behavior, American political behavior, comparative politics, international politics, and operations research + computer programming. Additional examination responsibility in political sociology. Certificate, MIT, l979, in Planning for Neighborhood Change. A summer seminar offered by MIT's Laboratory of Architecture and Planning combining neighborhood planning theory with field work in Boston. Certificate, The Grantsmanship Center, l98l. A multi-session training program held in Washington, D. C. Certificado, Univeresidad Tecnologica Equinoccial (Quito, Ecuador), "por haber asistido al Curso de Español Dictado del 1 de Julio al 9 de Agosto de 1996."

Special interests include strategies for improving the quality of life in immigrant communities, individual and collective decisionmaking, community planning, and urban life and urbanization in the Two-Thirds World (especially Black Africa) and Russia. Publications in such fields as African studies, anthropology, communications, history, political science/public policy, psychodynamics, Russian/Soviet studies, sociology, and urban/housing. Contracts and/or grants with OE, HUD, NSF, Ford Foundation, Montgomery County, MD, etc.

Faculty positions with administrative responsibilities at The City University of New York, The University of Texas at Dallas, and The University of Maryland at College Park. He is currently Professor, Urban Studies and Planning Program, The University of Maryland.

Primary non-US field research in Mexico, Nigeria, and Uganda. Short-term visits to Ecuador, Russia, Thailand, Turkey, etc. Current US field research site: Langley Park, Maryland (a Latino immigrant neighborhood).

Primary service activity: Founder and Executive Director of Action Langley Park, Inc., a 501c3 non-profit neighborhood organization.Courses Taught (selected): "African Political Elites"; "African Political Systems"; "American Political Systems"; "Approaches to the Study of Urbanization and Urban Areas" (in Anthropology, History, Political Science, Psychology, and Sociology); "Community Development"; "Comparative Urban Life and Change"; "Cross-Cultural Research Methods"; "Research Design and Data Collection"; "Seminar on Contemporary African Politics"; "Survey of Sub-Saharan Africa"

Bibliography (selected): Independent Black Africa: The Politics of Freedom, 1964; "The Effect of International Events upon Soviet Orthodoxy," Political Studies, 1965; University Students and African Politics, 1975; The Political Economy of Urbanization in Asia, edited, 1983; Contemporary Urbanization Research in Latin America, edited, 1985; "Decision Making in the Public Sector," AMA Management Handbook, 1994; "Urban Planning: Major Issues," in Survey of Social Science, 1995; Langley Park: A Preliminary Needs Assessment (co-authored), 1995; MarylandÌs International Corridor (co-authored), 1997; Isidro Fabela (co-authored, 2000); ÏSocial Mobility and the Marginal Latino,Ó JNE March 2003. He is currently preparing a book of scholarly reports with the working title, "Gringo in Latinoland."