Sarah Jo Peterson, Ph.D.

RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS

Using historical methods to explore and illuminate processes affecting the development of the built environment, including histories of government policies, the implementation of government programs, the political processes that envelope these policies and programs, and how they all relate to participation in democratic governance. 

Strengthening the ties between planning and history, as both areas of knowledge and areas of practice. 

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

Planning the Home Front: Building Bombers and Communities at Willow Run, under contract with the University of Chicago Press.

“Priming the Historian in all Planners.” Journal of Planning History 5, no. 4 (2006): 289-300.

“Voting for Play: The Democratic Potential of Progressive Era Playgrounds.” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 3, no. 2 (2004): 145-175.

INVITED PUBLICATIONS

“The Ethics Of Urban Planning: Remembering The Old AICP Code (1978-2005).” Planetizen (www.planetizen.com/node/20046) June 26, 2006. Reprinted in Florida Planning August 2006: 1, 4.

RECENT PAPERS, REPORTS AND PRESENTATIONS

“The Federal Housing Administration – A Welfare Agency?” Society for American City and Regional Planning History Twelfth Biennial Conference, Portland, Maine. October 25-28, 2007.

Project Lead. Noble 2025: A Community Development Plan for Noble, Oklahoma. January 2007.

“What is Smart Growth?” Norman Community Forum. March 29, 2007.

“Protesting Emergency Housing during World War II and after Katrina.” Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning 47th Annual Conference, Fort Worth, Texas. November 9-12, 2006.

RECENT AWARDS AND GRANTS

Principal Investigator. Comprehensive Planning Study for the City of Perkins, OK. $10,000. Fall 2007.

Principal Investigator. Comprehensive Planning Study for the City of Noble, OK. $7,500. Fall 2006.

Junior Faculty Research Award.  University of Oklahoma. $6,000. Summer 2006.

Junior Faculty Research Award.  University of Oklahoma. $6,000. Summer 2003.