| Name of Student | Year of Graduation | Dissertation Title | Advisor | First Job Employment |
| Marco Scuderi | 2005 | “Bayesian approaches to learning from data how to untangle the travel behavior and land use relationships” | Dr. Kelly Clifton | New Zealand |
| Vikas Mehta | 2006 | “Lively Streets: Determining Environmental Characteristics to Support Social Behavior” | Prof. Sidney Brower | Assistant Professor, School of Architecture and Community Design, University of South Florida |
| Arnab Chakraborty | 2007 | “An Experiment in Statewide Scenario Analysis: Towards an Even Smarter Growth for Maryland” | Dr. Gerrit Knaap | Assistant Professor, of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
| Doan Nguyen | 2008 | “The Spatial and Social Dimensions of Innovation” | Dr. Marie Howland | Lecturer, Vietnam National University |
| Andi Livi Smith | 2008 | “The Relationship Between Neighborhood Environment and Walking Behavior: The Influence of Perceptions” | Dr. Kelly Clifton | Assistant Professor, Department of Historic Preservation, University of Mary Washington |
| Rodney Harrell | 2008 | “Understanding Modern Segregation: Suburbanization and the Black Middle Class” | Dr. Howell Baum | Senior Strategic Policy Advisor, Public Policy Institute, AARP |
| Maria Teresa Xavier Souza | 2009 | “The Effect of Land Use Regulation on Housing Price and Informality: A Model Applied to Curitiba, Brazil” | Dr. Gerrit Knaap | Social Science Analyst at the Office of Policy Development and Research in U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development |
| Xingshou Zhao | 2010 | Market Forces and Urban Spatial Structure: Evidence from Beijing, China | Dr. Chengri Ding | Researcher, Ministry of Urban-Rural Development, Beijing, China |
| Feng Zhang | 2010 | Traveler Responses to Real Time Transit Passenger Information Systems | Dr. Marie Howland | Assistant Professor Department of Urban Planning and Design Hong Kong University |
| Rebecca Lewis | 2011 | Do Smart Growth Instruments in Maryland make a Difference | Dr. Gerrit Knaap | Assistant Professor of Planning, Public Policy and Management, University Of Oregon |
| Chao Liu | 2011 | Exploring the influence of urban form on travel and energy consumption, using structural equation modeling | Dr. Fred Ducca | Adjunct Faculty and Researcher at the National Center for Smart Growth, University of Maryland |
| Selma Hepp | 2011 | Metropolitan Spatial Structure: Measuring the Change | Dr. Gerrit Knaap | Senior Economist, California Association of Realtors |
| Lynette Boswell | 2011 | Do Neighborhood Housing Market Typologies Matter? Measuring the Impacts of the HOME Investment Partnership Program Investments in Baltimore, Maryland | Dr. Alex Chen | Director of Schools and Facilities Planning at Baltimore City Public Schools |
| Aysegul Yilmaz | 2012 | Evaluating the Impacts of Top-down Protected Area Governance on Local Livelihood – The Case of the Turkish Village of Kapikiri | Dr. Marie Howland | Department of Tourism Management, Bogazici University, Istanbul |
| Mark Braza | 2012 | The Impact of Conservation Easements on Habitat Loss | Dr. Alex Chen | U.S. Government Accounting Office |
| Scott Dempwolf | 2012 | Network Models of Regional Innovation Clusters and their Impact on Economic Growth | Dr. Marie Howland | Associate Research Scientist, University of Maryland |
| Joe Costanzo | 2012 | Practicing local culture as a vehicle of integration? Immigrants and Brussels’ Zinneke Parade. | Prof. Sidney Brower | Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Immigration Research, Sociology & Anthropology Department, George Mason University |
| Yi Niu | 2012 | Three Essays on the Understanding of Urban Development | Dr. Chengri Ding | Assistant Professor at the International School of Economics and Management, Capital University of Economics and Business, Beijing. |
| Tim Welch | 2013 | Climate Action Plans – Fact or Fiction? Evidence from Maryland | Dr. Fred Ducca | Assistant Professor, School of City and Regional Planning, Georgia Institute of Technology
Assistant Director, Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development |
| Carolina Valdemarin Burnier | 2014 | Children's Activities and School Travel: A tour based analysis of the influence of children's out-of-home activities on the choice of school travel patterns. | Dr. Marie Howland | Noblis Non-Profit Consulting, Washington. D.C. |
| Kevin Adams | 2015 | Urban Agriculture Typologies, Socio-Ecological Capital Creation, and the Evolution of a Resilient, Local Food System in Atlanta, GA. | Dr. Victoria Change | Planning Consultant at Benchmark Planning in Charlotte, NC |
| Yuchen Cui | 2016 | Defining the resolution of a network for transportation analyses: a new method to improve transportation planning decisions. | Dr. Rolf Moeckel | SRF Consulting Group, Madison WI |
| Christine Henry | 2016 | Le Droit Park, Portrait in Black and White: A Study of Historic Districts, Social Change, and the Process of Neighborhood Placemaking | Dr. Don Linebaugh | Assistant Professor, Department of Historic Preservation, Mary Washington College, Fredericksburg, VA. |
| Elijah Knaap | 2016 | The Spatial Structure of Opportunity and the Location Dynamics of Housing Mobility Programs | Dr. Casey Dawkins | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of California, Riverside |
| Zubin Adrianvala | 2017 | The Ethnic Community: Urban Form, Peace, Conflict, and Violence in Urban India | Dr. Howell Baum | City of Norfolk's Office of Resilience as a Management Analyst III |
| Ting Ma | 2017 | Estimating the Impacts of Capital Bikeshare on Metrorail Ridership in the Washington Metropolitan Area | Dr. Gerrit Knaap | DC Department of Transportation |
| Naka Matsumoto | 2017 | Negotiating Diversification: Immigrant Settlement and Neighborhood Change - The Case of Greektown in Baltimore City, MD | Dr. Howell Baum | Lecturer, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Kaio University, Japan |
| Jae Sik Jeon | 2017 | A Better Neighborhood for Housing Voucher Households: Obstacles and Opportunities | Dr. Casey Dawkins | Sage Computing, Inc. |
| Boaz Kedar | 2017 | The Power of Synthesis: the Pursuit of Environmental Sustainability and Social Equity Through Design Practice | Garth Rockcastle/Dr. Marie Howland | YOZMOT - Green Initiatives, Tel Aviv, Israel |
| Yu Qiao | 2017 | Three Essays on Agglomeration and Firm Dynamics | Dr. Chengri Ding | |
| Li Fang | 2018 | Do industrial clusters encourage establishment innovation? | Dr. Gerrit Knaap | Assistant Professor, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL |
| Hossein Sadat Lavasani Bozor | 2018 | Impact of Green Building Certifications on the Economic Performance of Real Estate Office Assets | Dr. Marie Howland | |
| Basheer Saeed | 2018 | A Micro-Level Examination of the Impact of Rail Transit Investments on the Patterns of Firm Dynamics | Dr. Hiroyuki Iseki | Lecturer of Urban Planning, College of Spatial Planning and Applied Science, University of Duhok, Iraq |
| Georgeanne Matthews | 2019 | A Look at Cohousing: Why Baby Boomers are Self Developing Alternative Housing Options | Dr. Marie Howland / Dr. Casey Dawkins | Visiting Assistant Professor at the Catholic University of America |
| Johnna Blythe Semmer | 2019 | Assessing User Understanding of Heritage in the Environment: Preservation Strategies for the Use of Place | Dr. Donald Linebaugh | |
| Zuxuan Deng | 2019 | Three Essays on Urban Transportation Studies in Washington D.C.: Safety Effect of All-Way Stop Control, Safety Effect of Reversible Lane and Loading Zone Allocation | Dr. Gerrit Knaap | Supervisory Engineer at the District Department of Transportation |
| Jinyhup Kim | 2020 | Housing Demand and Tenure Choice for Senior Citizens: Lessons from Three Essays |
Dr. Casey Dawkins
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| David Boston | 2020 | Modeling the Relationship Between the Housing First Approach and Homelessness | Dr Willow Lung-Amam | Planning and Zoning Manager, City of Ocala/Cofounding Director of Bears Consulting |
| Qiong Peng | 2020 | Housing Value and Light Rail Transit Construction: Evidence from Three Essays |
Dr. Gerrit Knaap | Software Engineer at Google |
| Maria Beltran Rodriguez | 2020 | The People's Park: A study of the relationship between design and convivial behavior in Superkilen | Madlen Simon | |
| Christopher Leh Dorney | 2021 | Are Houston's Land Use Relationships Unique? | Dr. Gerrit J. Knaap | |
| Hyunjoo Eom | 2021 | Recent Intra-Metropolitan Patterns of Jobs and Workers: Implications for the Spatial Mismatch Hypothesis | Dr. Casey Dawkins | |
| Carlos Arturo Manjarrez | 2021 | Small, Slow and Steady: Assessing the Impact of Arts District Designation and Arts-Led Development Strategies on Enterprise Growth in a Small, Mid-Atlantic Town | Dr. Marie Howland | |
| Binbin Peng | 2021 | Exploring Public Health Risks and Vulnerabilities to Extreme Heat Through Urban Built Environment | Dr. Marccus Hendricks | |
| Zhenpeng Zou | 2021 | Planning towards an equitable sharing economy: On housing, on transportation, on policymaking | Dr. Gerrit J. Knaap | |
| Nicholas Finio | 2022 | The Endurance of Gentrification: Three Essays on Meaning, Measurement, and Consequences | Dr. Gerrit J. Knaap | |
| Alex Donahue | 2024 | Do Interior Privately Owned Public Spaces Foster Urban Public Life? A Comparative Study of Four NYC Public Space Typologies | Madlen Simon, AIA | |
| Minkyu Park | 2024 | Persisting Social Vulnerability, Stormwater Infrastructure, and Planning for Flooding and Resilience in Washington, D.C. | Dr. Marccus D. Hendricks | |
