Visiting Fellows, 2009–2010

Each year the Lincoln Institute sponsors visiting fellows who have worked closely with the Institute in the past or have a special expertise in land and tax policy issues. These visiting fellows undertake research and are actively involved in the Institute's education programs.

  • Shlomo Angel
  • Adjunct Professor of Urban Planning, Wagner School of Public Service, New York University
  • Shlomo Angel is working on a global study of the spatial development of 120 cities. This involves developing a set of metrics based on satellite data from 1990 and 2000 that characterizes the spatial structure of cities. His work also includes studies of several U.S. cities from 1920 to the present using census data, and studies of several global cities over a longer period using historic maps. He is preparing several working papers, a policy focus report and a book manuscript on the patterns of growth in global cities.
  • Ciro Biderman
  • Associate Professor, Getulio Vargas Foundation; Associated Researcher, Center for the Study of the Politics and Economics of the Public Sector (CEPESP/FGV); and Affiliated Researcher, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Ciro Biderman is currently studying the pattern of urban form in 10 metropolitan areas in Brazil. The study is in a descriptive phase and intends to link sprawl and urban density with urban norms, income, and informal housing. Based on his findings, he is evaluating some public policy alternatives to address the problem of sprawl in Latin America. He is also attempting to establish a protocol of research that could be replicated in other metropolitan areas in Latin America.
  • Richard F. Dye
  • Professor, Institute of Government and Public Affairs, University of Illinois at Chicago, and Professor of Economics Emeritus, Lake Forest College
  • Richard Dye's research focuses on state and local government finance as it relates to economic development. He is co-editor, with Richard England, of Land Value Taxation: Theory, Evidence, and Practice. Dye is also extending his work with Daniel McMillen on residential housing teardowns.
  • Richard W. England
  • Professor of Economics and Natural Resources, Whittemore School of Business and Economics, University of New Hampshire, Durham
  • Richard England is conducting empirical research on whether the local property tax affects the density of residential, commercial, and industrial development projects. He is also studying how the economic development of California during the nineteenth century helped to form the political economy of Henry George. England was a David C. Lincoln fellow at the Lincoln Institute in 2001–2003.
  • Gil Kelley
  • Independent urban and strategic planning consultant, Portland, Oregon
  • Gil Kelley is the former Director of Planning for the City of Portland, Oregon (2000-2009) and Director of Planning and Development for the City of Berkeley, California (1988-1998). In Portland, Mr. Kelley was tasked by the Mayor and Council to develop cross-agency initiatives for the sustainability of the community as it accommodates substantial growth. He developed plans to advance a new framework for neighborhood planning and effective citizen engagement. In Berkeley, he worked to revitalize the city's waterfront, commercial, and industrial areas and to open city-university dialogue and coordination. He also prepared an economic development strategy for the City.

    Mr. Kelley lectures on climate change and urban form, municipal and metropolitan scale strategic planning and downtown/waterfront revitalization. He is both an Independent Consultant and a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Portland Metropolitan Studies at Portland State University. He has been awarded the Loeb Fellowship at the Harvard School of Design for 2009-2010.
  • Daphne A. Kenyon
  • Principal, D. A. Kenyon & Associates, Windham, New Hampshire
  • Daphne Kenyon has worked on a wide range of public finance issues as professor of economics at Simmons College in Boston, as a policy analyst for nonprofits and government, and as a consultant. She currently sits on the New Hampshire Board of Education and the Education Commission of the States. As a visiting fellow, her focus is on property tax relief and the intersection of school finance and property tax issues.
  • Gerald Korngold
  • Professor of Law, New York Law School, New York City
  • Gerald Korngold's research and publications explore legal and policy issues of land ownership, regulation, and disposition. At the Lincoln Institute he analyzes property rights, conservation easements, and global land issues.
  • Daniel P. McMillen
  • Professor, Department of Economics and Institute of Government and Public Affairs, University of Illinois
  • Daniel McMillen focuses on spatial models of economic activity in urban areas, with an emphasis on zoning, land values, and house prices. As a visiting fellow, his goal is to help develop new methods to assist in land valuation and in assessment ratio studies. He will also be extending his work with Richard Dye on residential housing teardowns to create estimates of land value and to identify the characteristics of areas with high levels of redevelopment.
  • Dan Perlman
  • Chair, Environmental Studies Program, and Associate Professor of Biology, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
  • Dan Perlman teaches Conservation Biology and Evolutionary Ecology, and has developed and cotaught a four-course integrated Environmental Field Semester. He has coauthored three textbooks in his field, and recently launched a Web site from which he freely distributes teaching materials that he has developed for ecology and environmental studies. As a visiting fellow he will be writing about a new method for setting conservation priorities that he has been developing jointly with the Lincoln Institute and the Sonoran Institute.
  • Sally Powers
  • Property Tax Specialist, Deloitte Consulting LLP
  • Sally Powers has served as the resident manager for property tax projects in Kosovo, South Africa, U.S. Virgin Islands, Bosnia, and Macedonia. Prior to joining Deloitte, she served as an assessor in Boston, Newton, Brookline, and Cambridge. In 2008 she was named to the Board of Trustees of The Appraisal Foundation. She's managing the Institute's online database, Significant Features of the Property Tax; studying property tax systems in transitional economies; and serving as a liaison with the U.S. assessment community.
  • Andrew Reschovsky
  • Professor of Public Affairs and Applied Economics, Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs, University of Wisconsin–Madison
  • Andrew Reschovsky researches a range of issues related to state and local public finance, federal tax policy, and intergovernmental fiscal relations in developing countries. As a visiting fellow, he is studying changing property tax levies and the fiscal condition of local governments in urban areas.