GCI

Great Cities Institute at the University of Illinois at Chicago

Faculty Scholar Detail, 2002-2003

Dennis Judd
Professor, Department of Political Science
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
The Fracturing of City Politics: Building the Tourist City in Chicago and St. Louis

In the past, Judd has focused his research interests on the areas of urban political economy, urban economic development, national urban policy, and urban revitalization; more recently he has turned his interests toward issues of tourism. Judd�s research as a GCI Faculty Scholar examined the new institutional environment of urban tourism and its effect on local politics.

While enjoying his term as a Faculty Scholar, he has completed four publications in this area: The Infrastructure of Play (edited; M.E. Sharpe, February 2003), Globalization and the New Politics of Urban Development (edited; American Behavioral Scientist, Sage Publications, April 2003); �Convention Center Wars and the Decline of Local Democracy,� (Journal of Convention and Exhibition Management, July 2003), and Cities and Visitors: Regulating Cities, Markets, and City Space (edited with Lily M. Hoffman and Susan S. Fainstein; Blackwell, October 2003). He has also completed additional background research that he will apply to a field study on urban tourism in St. Louis and Chicago.

The Great Cities Institute Faculty Scholars Program brings UIC faculty to the Institute for a year in residence to begin, further, or complete an engaged research project. Scholars are free from their formal teaching responsibilities during their term. Prospective scholars apply by submitting a proposal that is peer reviewed along three key metrics of engaged research: interdisciplinarity, partnership, and impact.

GCI Faculty Scholars implement and further their own research agendas, as well as develop grant proposals, participate in the Great Cities Institute Lecture Series, and contribute to the Great Cities Institute Working Paper Series. Applications are released in the fall semester and due at the start of the spring semester.