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Derek Hyra is a professor in the Department of Public Administration and Policy within the School of Public Affairs at American University. His research focuses on processes of neighborhood change, with an emphasis on housing, urban politics, and race. Dr. Hyra is the co-editor of Capital Dilemma: Growth and Inequality in Washington, DC (Routledge 2016), and author of The New Urban Renewal: The Economic Transformation of Harlem and Bronzeville (University of Chicago Press 2008) and Race, Class, and Politics in the Cappuccino City (University of Chicago Press 2017). He is working on his fourth manuscript, Understanding Unrest: Race, Policy, and Neighborhood Inequality (University of California Press). Dr. Hyra’s research has been showcased in both academic journals, such as Housing Policy Debate, Journal of Urban Affairs, Urban Affairs Review, and Urban Studies, and popular media outlets, including the British Broadcasting Corporation, Chicago Public Radio, C-SPAN, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times. He has also received several important grants and fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Dr. Hyra strongly believes in public service. He has served as board chair of the Alexandria Redevelopment and Housing Authority, as an Alexandria Planning Commissioner, and as an Obama appointee on the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Council on Underserved Communities. He was also a U.S. Congressional candidate in Northern Virginia in 2014. He currently serves as the chair of the American Sociological Association’s Community and Urban Sociology Section, as an editorial advisory board member of Housing Policy Debate, as a City of Falls Church (Virginia) Planning Commissioner, and as an Advocacy Advisory Council member of the United Planning Organization in Washington, DC. He received his B.A. from Colgate University and his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.

I am a PhD fellow at the Conflict Research Group at Ghent University in Belgium. I am working broadly on populism, violent democracy, democratization, peace and extremism.

I am Professor of European and International Governance at Ghent University, Belgium. My research focuses on climate, energy, environmental governance, and I analyse policy integration in response to complex, societal challenges, especially in the European Union.