Faculty
KYLE WALKER
Director, Center for Urban Studies and Associate Professor of Geography
Office: Scharbauer Hall 2004D
Email: kyle.walker@tcu.edu
Phone: 817 257 5241
Kyle Walker is the director of the Center for Urban Studies and an associate professor of Geography at TCU. Dr. Walker specializes in the study of demographic trends in U.S. metropolitan areas. His recent research projects have addressed generational trends in U.S. internal migration, shifts in neighborhood racial diversity in cities and suburbs, and demographic data visualization. At TCU, Dr. Walker teaches courses in world regional geography, Geographic Information Systems, and computational data analysis.
Website: http://personal.tcu.edu/kylewalker
Twitter: @kyle_e_walker
ERIN ATWO
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Assistant Professor of Education
Email: e.d.atwood@tcu.edu
Phone: 817 257 7660
Erin Atwood joined the TCU College of Education in 2016 as an Assistant Professor and works primarily with the Educational Leadership program. Her teaching emphasizes transformative social justice and interdisciplinary approaches to preparing educational leaders. Her research is unified under the broad goal of understanding and promoting equity in education. The focus of this work includes critical policy analysis with specific attention to school finance policy and legal history, examining the social and cultural contexts of schooling, and the development of educational leaders for social justice. She earned a B.S. in Education from Texas Christian University, a M.A. in Curriculum and Instruction–Science Education and Ph.D. in Educational Policy and Planning from the University of Texas at Austin.
SEAN CROTTY
Assistant Professor of Geography
Office: Scharbauer Hall 2004C
Email: sean.crotty@tcu.edu
Phone: 817 257 7308
Sean Crotty is an expert in urban economic geography. His research identifies the locational characteristics of informal labor markets as well as spatial inefficiencies in government interventions into those markets. As affiliated faculty with the TCU Center for Urban Studies, he leads and supports projects examining a variety of issues in the greater Fort Worth community including community/economic development, infrastructure development, and neighborhood labor markets. He teaches World Regional Geography, Economic Geography, and Introduction to Geographic Information Systems. He earned a B.S. in International Economics from Texas Christian University in 2003, a M.A. in geography in 2007 from San Diego State University, and a Ph.D. in Geography in 2012 from San Diego State University and the University of California at Santa Barbara.
BRIE DIAMOND
Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice
Office: Scharbauer Hall 4207
Email: b.diamond@tcu.edu
Phone: 817 257 6152
Brie Diamond is an assistant professor in Criminal Justice at TCU. Dr. Diamond specializes in the prediction of violent and aggressive behavior, criminological theory, and criminal justice program evaluation. She teaches classes at TCU in criminology, research methods, community corrections, and drugs and crime. Her current research interests include community crime prevention efforts and the role of self-control in offending.
EMILY FARRIS
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Office: Scharbauer Hall 2007E
Emily Farris (M.A., Ph.D. Brown University; B.A. Furman University) is an assistant professor in Political Science at TCU. Dr. Farris specializes in American politics on issues of urban politics and racial and ethnic politics. She teaches courses at TCU in American politics, survey research, urban politics, civil rights, and racial and ethnic politics. Her current research includes projects relating to Latino political behavior, county sheriffs, and urban public policy.
ZACKARY HAWLEY
Associate Professor of Economics
Office: Scharbauer Hall 4108
Email: z.hawley@tcu.edu
Phone: 817 257 6722
Dr. Zackary Hawley is an assistant professor of Economics at Texas Christian University. Dr. Hawley’s scholarship focuses on urban and regional economic issues, public finance, and experimental economics. He is currently researching the presence of discrimination in the lending market, housing valuation, the value of community, and social interaction in urban settings. His past publications appeared in Journal of Urban Economics, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Housing Economics, and Journal of Labor Research. Dr. Hawley teaches courses in Urban and Regional Economics and Microeconomic Theory.
