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Areas of Expertise:
Urban public policy, housing, economic development,
infrastructure planning
Education:
1974 - Ph.D. in Political
Science, Washington University
1968 - M.A. in Political Science, University of Michigan
1967 - B.A. in Political Science/French Literature, University of Michigan
Syllabi:
Research:
Professor Carolyn Adams has
been a member of the faculty at Temple University in Philadelphia
over 20 years, teaching courses in urban development, city
problems, and government policies to address them.
She earned bachelors
and masters degrees from the University of Michigan and
a doctorate in political science from Washington University.
Dr. Adams has authored
numerous articles and books including many publications
about Philadelphia. She wrote one book on the impact of
municipal investments on housing values in the neighborhoods
of Philadelphia. Her other studies of Philadelphia include
a book on the city's political and economic development
since World War II which she co-authored along with several
Temple colleagues.
In addition to teaching
and research, Dr. Adams consults with non-profit organizations
in the Philadelphia region on issues ranging from community
development and human services to land-use planning. She
has served on the board of directors of the William Penn
Foundation and currently serves as a trustee of Moore College
of Art & Design.
While at Temple University,
Dr. Adams has held a number of leadership positions including:
Department Chair, President of the Faculty Senate of the
University, and Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, a
position she held for seven years before returning in 1999
to the faculty.
Selected Publications:
(1997) "The Philadelphia Experience," in David Wilson,
ed., Globalization & the Transforming U.S. City, special ed. of The
Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, May 1997.
(1995) Carolyn Adams
and Felice Perlmutter, "Leadership in Hard Times: Are Nonprofits
Well Served?" Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly,
Vol. 24, No. 3, Fall 1995, pp. 253-262.
(1995) Donald Kramer,
Felice Perlmutter & Carolyn Adams, "Nonprofits, Government,
and the Economy," in
J.B. Toll & M.S. Gillam, eds., Invisible Philadelphia. Phila.: Atwater
Kent Museum, pp. 15-21.
(1994) Carolyn T.
Adams, "Race and Class in Philadelphia Mayoral Elections" in
George Peterson, ed., Big City Politics, Governance and
Fiscal Constraints. Washington, DC: Urban Institute Press,
pp.13-36.
(1991) Carolyn Adams
et al, Philadelphia:Neighborhoods, Division and Conflict
in a Postindustrial City. Philadelphia: Temple University
Press.
(1991) Carolyn T.
Adams, "Philadelphia: The Slide Toward Municipal Bankruptcy," in
John C. Thomas & Hank Savitch, eds., Big City Politics
in Transition. Beverly Hills: Sage Pub., pp. 29-46.
(1991) Carolyn T.
Adams, "Urban Regions as Educational
Laboratories," Metropolitan Universities, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 37-46.
(1991) Carolyn Adams
and Felice Perlmutter, "Commercial Venturing and the Transformation
of America's Voluntary Social Welfare Agencies," Nonprofit
and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Vol. 2O, No.1, pp. 25-38.
(199O) Carolyn T.
Adams, "Philadelphia: The Private City in the Post-Industrial
Era," in Richard Bernard, ed., Snowbelt Cities. Bloomington:
University of Indiana Press.
(199O) Arnold Heidenheimer,
Hugh Heclo, & Carolyn Adams, Comparative Public Policy:
The Politics of Social Choice in Europe and America, 3rd
ed. New York: St. Martin's Press. [1st American ed.: St.
Martin's Press, 1975;
1st British ed.: Macmillan, 1976; 2nd American ed.: St. Martin's Press,
1983; Winner of the 1976 Kammerer Award of the American Political Science
Association for best book on national policy published in 1975.
(1990) Carolyn T.
Adams, "The Decentralization of Housing: Introduction," in
Willem van Vliet & Jan van Weesep, eds., Government
and Housing: Developments in 7 Countries. Beverly Hills:
Sage Pub., pp. 25-3O.
(1989) Felice Perlmutter
and Carolyn Adams, "The Voluntary Sector and For-Profit
Ventures: The Transformation of American Social Welfare?" Administration
in Social Work, Vol.13, No. 4, pp. 1-13.
(1989) Carolyn T.
Adams, "Spending Cuts and Central/Local Relations under
Reagan and Thatcher," in Harold Wolman, ed., Constitutional
Regimes and the City: The US, Britain, and Canada, Wayne
State Univ. Center for Urban Studies.
(1988) Carolyn T.
Adams, The Politics of Capital Investment: The Case of
Philadelphia. Albany: State University of New York Press.
(1987) Carolyn T.
Adams, "The Politics of Privatization," in Bengt Turner,
Jim Kemeny, & Lennart Lundqvist, eds., Between State
and Market: Housing in the Post-Industrial Era. Stockholm:
Almqvist & Wiksell, pp. 127-155.
(1986) Carolyn T.
Adams, "Homelessness in the Post- industrial City: Views
from London and Philadelphia," Urban Affairs Quarterly,
Vol.21,No. 4, June.
(1982) Carolyn T.
Adams, "The Flight of Jobs and Capital:
Prospects for Grassroots Action," in John Raines et al, eds., Community
and Capital in Conflict. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
(1982) Carolyn T.
Adams, "The Constrained City," Paper #3, Integrative Paper
Series. Center for Philadelphia Studies, University of
Pennsylvania.
(198O) Carolyn T.
Adams & Rosemary Conroy-Hughes, "Planning for Depopulation:
A Philadelphia Case
Study," in Peter Homenuck & Harvey Newman, eds.,
Selected Papers from the 1979 Annual Meeting of the University Institutes
for Urban Affairs, Toronto.
(198O) Carolyn Adams & Kathryn
Winston, Mothers at Work: Public Policy in the United States,
Sweden, and China. New York: Longman, Inc.
(1973) Carolyn T.
Adams, "Political Accommodation in the Metropolitan Region:
Stockholm's Success Story," Growth and Change, Vol. 4,
July.
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