Peter M. Ward

LBJ School faculty member Peter M. Ward

Sr. Centennial Chair Emeritus in United States-Mexico Relations #1, College of Liberal Arts, Department of Sociology

Education:
Ph.D. in Geography, University of Liverpool, 1976
M.A., University of Cambridge, 1988
B.A. in Geography, University of Hull, 1973
Teaching Areas:
Research and Empirical Methods
Social Policy

Peter M. Ward held senior teaching and research positions in geography at University College London and at the University of Cambridge before joining the faculty of The University of Texas at Austin in 1991. He is a professor in the LBJ School of Public Affairs and in the College of Liberal Arts' Department of Sociology, where he holds the C.B. Smith Sr. Centennial Chair #1 in U.S.-Mexico Relations. From 2009 to 2012, he served as director of the LBJ School's Ph.D. program, and in 2011 he received the university's Outstanding Graduate Adviser Award. He formerly served as the associate dean for research at the LBJ School. Between 2002 and 2007 he served as editor-in-chief of the Latin American Research Review. He is best known for his work on low-income housing and self-help in Mexico and in Latin America, and for his work on similar informal settlements (colonias) in Texas and the southern United States. He has also published extensively on social policy, democratization and governance, Mexican politics and megacities (most notably Mexico City). His most recent work is an 11-city (nine-country) Latin American Housing Network study prepared for the U.N.-Habitat III summit in Quito, Ecuador, in October 2016. He has served as an adviser to various Mexican government leaders, the World Health Organization and the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements in Nairobi, Kenya.

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