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Name: Dennis E. Gale, Ph.D. Dennis Gale is currently a Senior Research Fellow for Metropolitan Studies on the Newark campus of Rutgers-The State University of New Jersey. He is also Professor of Public Administration and Political Science at Rutgers. In the 1970s Gale was an urban planning consultant in Washington, D.C. and later served as Director of Planning and Management Research at The Urban Institute in Washington. He began his academic career in 1975 at George Washington University, where he attained the rank of Professor and served as Director of the Center for Washington Area Studies. While at George Washington University he shared the Dilthey Prize for faculty research in 1984. He was a visiting faculty member at the University of Nottingham, England, in the early 1980s. From 1995 to 2000 he was Chair of the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at Florida Atlantic University, where he was appointed the Henry D. Epstein Professor of Urban and Regional Planning. Gale is the author of three books: Understanding Urban Unrest : From Reverend King to Rodney King (Sage Books, 1996). Washington, D.C.: Inner City Revitalization and Minority Suburbanization (Temple University Press, 1987). Neighborhood Revitalization and the Postindustrial City (Lexington Books, 1984). Additionally, he has contributed articles to seven scholarly books and has published numerous articles in refereed journals including Journal of the American Planning Association, Journal of Planning Education and Research, Journal of Planning Literature, and Urban Affairs Review. Gale has lectured at several institutions, including American University, Bates College, Colby College, M.I.T., the Kennedy School at Harvard, the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton, University of Reading (England), and the University of Florida. He has also lectured at the U.S. Bureau of the Census, National Trust for Historic Preservation, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the American consulate in Berlin, Germany. He has been the recipient or co-recipient of grants from the Florida Institute of Government, Florida Office of Coastal Programs, University of Southern Maine, University of Maine System, Apple Computer Co., George Washington University, U.S. Agency for International Development, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and German Marshall Fund. In 1978 Gale was appointed to the White House Conference on Balanced National Growth and Economic Development by President Jimmy Carter. He has served on the boards of several civic organizations in Washington, D.C., Maine, and Florida. Currently, he is a member of the New Jersey Committee of the Regional Plan Association and co-chair of the Smart Growth Consortium at Rutgers. Gale holds graduate degrees from Boston University, Harvard University, and the University of Pennsylvania. He earned his Ph.D. in American Civilization at George Washington University. He is the father of two children and lives in Maplewood, N.J.
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