Mark Joseph

Mark Joseph, Ph.D. is the Leona Bevis and Marguerite Haynam Professor of Community Development at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case Western Reserve University. His research focuses on promoting urban equity and inclusion. He is the co-author of the award-winning book Integrating the Inner City: The Promise and Perils of Mixed-Income Public Housing Transformation and co-editor of the volume What Works to Promote Inclusive, Equitable Mixed-Income Communities. He is the Founding Director of the National Initiative on Mixed-Income Communities, which conducts research and consulting projects in cities such as Austin, Calgary, Chicago, Cleveland, Copenhagen, Nashville, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, Seattle, Toronto, Tulsa, Vancouver, and Washington, DC.

Joseph served on the Governance Board of the Urban Affairs Association and serves on the Community Advisory Committee of Cleveland Development Advisors. He also serves on the Editorial Advisory Boards of the journals Cityscape, Housing Policy Debate, Journal of Community Practice, and Journal of Race and Ethnicity in the City. He hosts the podcast Bending the Arc. He received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University, a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, was a Post-Doctoral Scholar at the University of Chicago and a Harlech Scholar at Oxford University.

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