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PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS

 
 
The Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York
   
: : :Professor, Vanderbilt University, Department of Human and Organizational Development, Peabody College
September 2008-2011 (on leave CUNY Graduate Center)
    : : :Professor, Environmental Psychology Program 1986-present
(Assistant Professor, 1973-77; Associate Professor 1877-86)
    : : :Director, Center for Human Environments, 1994-2008
    : : :Co-Director, CUNY Urban Health Collaborative 1996-2008
    : : :Director, Housing Environment Research Group, Center For Human Environments 1988-2008
    : : :Research Coordinator, NIMH Grant: "Household settings: Life styles and mental health" Environmental Psychology Program 1977
    : : :Research Supervisor, NIMH Grant: "Change in ward design," Environmental Psychology Program 1971-73
    : : :Director, Center for the Study of Women and Sex Roles 1977-80
      Columbia University
    : : : Adjunct Professor, School of Architecture, Urban Planning, and Historic Preservation 1990
       
 

EDUCATION

 
  Ph.D. in Social Psychology, Graduate School of Psychology, University of Michigan 1974
    B.A., Government, University of Texas 1968
       
 

HONORS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND AWARDS

 
 
Phi Beta Kappa
 
Alpha Lambda Delta
 

Urban Affairs Association Best Journal Article in Journal of Urban Affairs 2009

 

American Psychological Association Award for Distinguished Leadership In SES, 2009

 
American Psychological Association Fellow: Division for Community Psychology 1999
   
American Psychological Association Fellow: Division for the Psychological Study of Social Issues 1995
   
American Psychological Association Fellow: Division for Population and Environmental Psychology 1983
    G. Stanley Hall Lecturer in Environmental Psychology, American Psychologi¬cal Association 1985
    Fellow of the American Psychological Association, elected 1982
    National Science Foundation Fellow 1970-72
    National Institute of Mental Health Trainee 1969-70
    Woodrow Wilson Fellow 1969-70
       
 

GRANTS

 
 
Peabody College of Vanderbilt, Nashville Habitat for Humanity, Affordable Housing Resources, Woodbine Community Center, US Bank, Urban Housing Solutions: Support for conference “Affordable Housing: What’s next nationally and in Nashville (fund raising still in progress) 2007-08
   
The Parodneck Foundation: Foreclosure prevention in New York City 2007
   
FreddieMac, Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation, Heron Foundation, State Farm, St.Paul Travelers’, Bank of New York, Amalgamated Bank, M&T Charitable Foundation , BPD Bank, Federal Home Loan Bank of New York, Washington Mutual, Sterling Bank: Measuring the Impact of Nonprofit Homeowner Services 2005-7
   
2004-2005 Aspen Institute Roundtable on Community Development: Community Building and Capacity 2004-5
   
University of Washington subcontract to perform a review of programs and literature on youth and community development for a Ford Foundation grant: Constructing a Social Justice Framework for Youth Services 2004-6
   
Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation, Atlantic Bank, Francis Greenburger Charitable Trust: Assesment of Homeownership Counseling and Education Services 2004-5
    Taconic Foundation (with J.P. Morgan Private Bank), Limited Equity Housing Cooperatives: A Review and analysis of the literature 2002
    Clinton Seed Fund, Assessment of Stability and Needs of Clinton Area HDFC’s 2002
    Urban Homestead Assistance Board, Connecting Low-Income Communities to Develop “Digital-Age” Skills 2001-3
    Edna McConnell Clark Foundation, Neighborhood Partners Initiative Evaluation (with Metis Associates) 2000-3
    CUNY Collaborative Incentive Grant, Housing, Health and Social Inequality 2000-2
    CUNY Faculty Development Grant. CUNY Urban Health Initiative Curriculum Development and Speaker Series 2000
    Ford Foundation, Conference on Social Capital and Poor Communities: Building and Using Social Capital to Combat Poverty (with Mark Warren, Fordham University and Phillip Thompson, Columbia University) 1997-8
    Guttman Foundation, The East Harlem Community Health Organization for the Elderly Needs Assessment (with Mt. Sinai Medical Center and Union Houses Inc.) 1997-8
    National Institute of Justice. Tenant Organization as a Moderator of Neighborhood Crime 1997-8
    New York City Organizing Support Center. Planning Study for the formation of the New York City Organizing Support Center 1997-8
    New York Community Trust. Preparation and Reports for the Second Roundtable on City Owned and Distressed Property 1997
    National Council of Churches. Development of Harlem Community Self-Study of Health Care Financing and Availability 1996
    HUD Community Outreach Partnership Center, with City College and Columbia University 1995-7
    U.S. Agency for International Development. Evaluation of Mutual Housing as a Model of Privatization in Russia, with the Urban Homesteading Assistance Board (Helene Clark, co-principal investigator) 1995-7
    James Weldon Johnson Houses Resident Council Contract funded by HUD Resident Initiatives 1994-5
    Rockefeller Brothers Fund. With J.Phillip Thompson of Barnard College. Social Networks in Public Housing 1993-4
    New York City Housing Authority, Inequities in Funding of State and City- Owned Housing Developments 1992-3
    Mt. Sinai Medical School, Department of Geriatric medicine. Project Linkage: A Feasibility Study of Shared Housing for the Elderly. With Richard Silverblatt, Housing Consultant 1991-2
   
Department of Housing Preservation and Development, Evaluation of Department of Alternative Management Programs for Resale of Tax Arrears Buildings Vested by New York City: Resident Perceptions (with Jacqueline Leavitt) 1984
    National Science Foundation Travel Award to present paper at Japanese-United States Seminar: Psychology and the Environment in Tokyo, Japan 1980
    Carnegie Foundation (with Marilyn Gittell), Planning Grant for the Study of Women in Urban Communities 1981
    Contract with Denver Housing Authority, Survey of Housing Needs of Employees in Downtown Denver 1981
    Ford Foundation Grant to the Center for the Study of Women and Sex Roles 1979-80
    Faculty Research Award, City University of New York, Sex Differences, Spatial Abilities and Environmental Competence 1978-79
   
National Institute of Mental Health, Residential Density and Adjustment in Low Income Children 1977-80
       
 

PUBLICATIONS

 
BOOKS & MONOGRAPHS
     

DeFilippis, J. & Saegert, S. (Eds) (in press). The Community Development Reader, 2nd edition. New York: Routledge.

   

Freudenberg, N., Klitzman, S., & Saegert, S. (2009)  Urban Health and Society: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Research and Practice.  Jossey Bass.

   

DeFilippis, J. & Saegert, S. (Eds) (2008). The Community Development Reader. New York: Routledge.

    S. Saegert, J.P. Thompson, M. R. Warren (Eds) (2001). Social capital in poor communities. New York: Russell Sage.
    Chapin, D., & Saegert, S. (1993). New Principals for Environmental Design Research. Special Issue of Architecture and Behavior, Vol.9, #1.
    Leavitt, J., & Saegert, S. (1990). From abandonment to hope: Community households in Harlem. New York: Columbia University Press.
    Lamont, R., Kaplan, F., & Saegert, S. (Eds.) (1980, Spring). Women in public and private spaces. Special issue of Centerpoint.
    Saegert, S. (Ed.) (1975). Crowding in real environments. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications (Sage Social Science Monograph No.25; reprinted from Environment and Behavior special issue, 1975, 7, Whole No. 2).
    REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES
     

Saegert, S. (under revision) Restoring meaningful subjectivity and democratic hope to psychology. Theory and Psychology.

   

Saegert, S., Fields, D. & Libman, K. (2011). Foreclosure and Health:  Serial displacement as asset extraction in African American populations.  Journal of Urban Health, 88 (3)390-402.

   

Fields, D., Libman, K., & Saegert, S. (2010) Turning Everywhere, Getting Nowhere: Experiences of seeking help for mortgage delinquency and their implications for foreclosure prevention. Housing Policy Debate, 20 (4) 647-686.

    Bendiner-Viani, G. & Saegert, S. (2007) Making housing home. Places, 19(2):72-79.
    Saegert, S. (2006) Building Civic Capacity in Urban Neighborhoods: An Empirically Grounded Anatomy. Journal of Urban Affairs, 28:275-294.
    Maton, K., Perkins, D. & Saegert, S. (2006) Community Psychology at the cross-roads: Prospects for interdisciplinary theory, research and action. American Journal of Community Psychology, special issue on Interdisciplinary research, 38:9-21.
    Saegert, S. & Benitez, L. (2005) Limited Equity Housing Cooperatives: Defining a Niche in the Low Income Housing Market . Journal of Planning Literature 19:, 427-239.
    Saegert, S. & Winkel, G.H. (2004). Crime, social capital and community participation. American Journal of Community Psychology, 34 (3-4): 219-233.
    Saegert, S., Klitzman, S., Freudenberg, N., Cooperman-Mrozek, & Nassar, S. (2003). Healthy Housing: A structured review of US interventions to improve health by modifying housing in the United States, 1990-2000. American Journal of Public Health, 93, 1471-1478.
    Saegert, S., & Evans, G. ( 2003). Poverty, Housing Niches, and Health in the U.S.. Journal of Social Issues, 59, 569-590.
    Saegert, S., Winkel, G. H., &. Swartz, C (2002 ). A Prospective Study of Social Capital and Crime in Low income Housing. Housing Policy Debate, 13(1):186-226.
    Evans, G., Saegert, S., & Harris, R. (2001). Residential Density and Psychological Health Among Children in Low-Income Families. Environment and Behavior. Vol. 33, no.2, 165-180.
    Krenichyn, K., Saegert, S., & Evans, G. (2001). Parents as moderators of psychological and physiological correlates of inner city children’s exposure to violence. Applied Developmental Psychology, Vol.22, 581-602.
    Saegert, S., & Winkel, G. (1998). Social Capital and the Revitalization of New York City’s Distressed Inner City Housing. Housing Policy Debate,9(1)17-60.
    Saegert, S., and Winkel, G. (1996). Paths to community empowerment: Organizing at home, American Journal of Community Psychology. (24) 4, 517-550.
    Saegert, S. (1993). Charged Contexts: Difference, Emotion, and Power in Environmental Design Research. Architecture and Behavior, Vol. 9, no. 1, 69-84.
    Saegert, S. (1989). Unlikely leaders, extreme circumstances: Older Black women building community households. American Journal of Community Psychology, 17 (3), 295-316.
    Leavitt, J., & Saegert, S. (1988). The Community household: Responding to housing abandonment in New York City. Journal of the American Planning Association, 54 (4), 489-500.
    Saegert, S. (1985). The androgenous city: From critique to practice. Sociological Focus, 18 (2), pp. 161 176.
    Leavitt, J., & Saegert, S. (1984, Summer). Women and abandoned buildings: A feminist approach to housing. Social Policy, pp. 32 39.
    Saegert, S. (1980, Summer). Masculine cities and feminine suburbs: Polarized ideas, contradictory realities. Signs: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Women and Culture, Special Supplement. Reissued as K. Stimpson, M. Nelson., & K. Yaktrakas, Women and the American city. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981, pp. 93-108.
    McCarthy, D., & Saegert, S. (1978). Residential density, social overload and social withdrawal. Human Ecology, 6 (3), 253 271. (Reprinted in J. Aiello & A. Haum, High density residential environments. Hillside, NJ: Erlbaum Associates, 1979.)
    Langer, E., & Saegert, S. (1977). Crowding and cognitive control. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 35, 175 182.
    Saegert, S., & Hart, R. (1977, Spring). The development of environmental competence in girls and boys. The Newsletter for the Society for the Society for the Ethnographic Study of Play. (Reprinted in M. Salter (Ed.), Play: An anthropological perspective, 1978, 157-175.)
    Saegert, S. (1975, May). House and home in the lives of women. Presented at Environmental Design Research Association Conference VI, Lawrence, Kansas. (Reprinted in Centerpoint: An Inter-Disciplinary Journal.), 40 41.
    Saegert, S., Mackintosh, E., & West, S. (1975). Two studies of crowding in urban public spaces. Environment and Behavior, 7, 159 184.
    Holahan, C. J., & Saegert, S. (1973). The psychological impact of planned environmental change: Remodeling a psychiatric ward in an urban hospital. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 82, 454 462.
    Saegert. S., Swap, W., & Zajonc, R. B. (1973). The effects of mere exposure on interpersonal attraction. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 25, 234 242. (Reprinted in T. Blass (Ed.), Contemporary social psychology: Representative readings. Itasca, IL: Peacock Publications, 1976.)
    Saegert, S., & Rajecki, D. W. (1973). Effects of prior exposure to animate objects on approach tendency in chicks. Behavioral Biology, 8, 749 754.
    Rajecki, D. W., & Saegert, S. (1971). Effects of methamphetamine hydrochloride on imprinting in White Leghorn chicks. Psychonomic Science, 23, 7 8.
    BOOK CHAPTERS (* DENOTES PEER REVIEW)
      Nelson, G. & Saegert, S. (in preparation) Housing, Health and Quality of Life. In Handbook of Disease Burdens and Quality of Life. London: Springer.
    Saegert, S. & Klitzman, S. (in preparation) Housing and Health. Freudeberg, N., Klitzman, S., & Saegert, S. (in preparation) Urban Health and Society: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Research and Practice. Jossey Bass.
    Freudenberg, N., Saegert, S. & Klitzman, S. (in preparation) Introduction: Urban Health and Society: Integrating knowledge for research and practice. Freudeberg, N., Klitzman, S., & Saegert, S. (in preparation) Urban Health and Society: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Research and Practice. Jossey Bass.
    DeFilippis, J. & Saegert, S. (2007) Chapter 1: Communities Develop: The question is how (pp.1-8); Chapter 5: Introduction to community development institutions and practice (pp.43-45); Chapter 18 :Introduction to understanding, building and organizing community (pp.159-162); Chapter 30 Introduction to theoretical conceptions and debates (pp.261-262); Chapter 39: conclusions (pp. 327-332). In DeFilippis, J. & Saegert, S. (Eds) (2007). The Community Development Reader. New York: Routledge.
    Saegert, S. & Clark, H. (2006). Women and housing. In A Right to Housing: Foundation of a New Social Agenda. Bratt, R., Hartman, C., & Stone, M. (Eds.), pp.340-359. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
    Saegert, S. (2003). Constituting a citizen: Transversal selves, social capital, and the state. In S. Body-Gendrot & M. Gittell (Eds) Social capital and social citizenship. New York: Kluwer
    Warren, M.R, Thompson,J. P., & Saegert, S. (2001). The role of social capital in combating poverty. In S. Saegert, J.P. Thompson, M. R. Warren (Eds) Social capital in poor communities. New York: Russell Sage. *
    Saegert, S., (2000). Urban Communities. In A. Kraut (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Psychology. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.
    Saegert, S., & Evans, G. (1999) Residential crowding in the context of inner city poverty. Wapner, S.,J. Demick, H. Minamik & T. Yamamoto (Eds) In Theoretical perspectives in environment-behavior research: Underlying assumptions, research problems, and relationships. New York: Plenum.
    Saegert, S., (1998). In Rem Housing. In W. Van Vliet (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Housing. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
    Saegert, S., & McCarthy, D. E. (1998). Gender and Housing for the Elderly: Sorting through the accumulations of a lifetime. In R. J. Scheidt & P.G. Windley (Eds.), Environment and Aging Theory: A focus on Housing. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. *
    Saegert, S. (1997). What is the situation: A comment on the Fourth Japan/USA seminar on Environment-Behavior Research. In S. Wapner, & J. Demick (Eds.), Handbook of Japan-US Environment-Behavior Research Towards a Transactional Approach. New York: Plenum.
    White, A., & Saegert, S. (1996). Return from Abandonment: The Tenant Interim Lease program and the development of low-income cooperatives in New York City's most neglected neighborhoods. In van Vliet, W. (Ed.), Affordable Housing and Urban Development in the U.S.: Learning from Failure and Success, Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications. *
    Glunt, E. K., Clark, H., & Saegert, S. (1996). Stabilizing the future of limited equity cooperative housing in New York City. In J. Leavitt, & A. Heskins (Eds.), The hidden history of cooperatives. Davis, CA: The Center for Cooperative Change
    Clark, H. & Saegert, S. (1996). Cooperative housing: Territories of survival, resistance or social change? In J. Leavitt, & A. Heskins (Eds.), The hidden history of cooperatives. Davis, CA: The Center for Cooperative Change.
    Saegert, S., & Winkel, G. (1990). Environmental Psychology. In M. R. Rosenzweig & L. W. Porter (Eds.), Annual Review of Psychology, 441-478. Stanford, CA: Annual Review Press.
    Saegert, S. (1987). Environmental psychology and social change. In I. Altman & D. Stokols (Eds.), Handbook of Environmental Psychology, New York: John Wiley.*
    Saegert, S. (1986). The role of housing in the experience of dwelling. In I. Altman & C. Werner (Eds.), Home Environments Vol. 8 in the series Human Behavior and Environments. New York: Plenum Publishing Corp. *
    Saegert, S., Liebman, T., & Melting, A. (1985). Planning the city for working women: The Denver experience. In E. Birch (Ed.), The Unsheltered Woman. New Brunswick, NJ: Center for Urban Policy Research, Rutgers University. pp. 83 100.
    Saegert, S. (1982). Towards an androgenous city. In G. Gappert & D. Knight (Eds.), Cities of the twenty first century. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications, pp. 196-212.
    Saegert, S. (1982). Environment and children's mental health: Residential density and low income children. In A. Baum & J. Singer (Eds.), Handbook of psychology and health, 2, Hillside, NJ: Erlbaum Associates, pp. 247 271.*
    Saegert, S. (1981). Crowding and cognitive limits. In J. Harvey (Ed.), Cognition, social behavior and the environment. Hillside, NJ: Erlbaum Associates.
    Saegert, S., & Winkel, G. (1980). The home: A critical problem for changing sex roles. In G. Wekerle, R. Peterson & D. Morley (Eds.), New spaces for women. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, pp. 41-64.
    Saegert, S. (1980). A systematic approach to high density settings: Psychological, social and physical environment factors. In M. Gurkaynak & W. LeCompte (Eds.), Human consequences of crowding. New York: Plenum Press, pp. 67-82.*
    Saegert, S. (1978). The personal and social consequences of high density environments. In A. Baum & Y. Epstein (Eds.), Human Responses to Crowding. Hillside, NJ: Erlbaum Associates.
    Saegert, S. (1973). Crowding: Behavioral constraints and cognitive overload. In W. Preiser (Ed.), Environmental Design Research, Proceedings of the EDRA IV Conference. Stroudsburg, PA: Dowden, Hutchinson & Ross.*
    Saegert, S. (1975). Stress inducing and reducing qualities of environments. In H. Proshansky, W. Ittelson & L. Rivlin (Eds.), Environmental Psychology, 2nd edition. New York: Holt, Rinehardt & Winston.
    Juhasz, J., & Saegert, S. (1977, April). The significance of symbols in the environment. Co chaired workshop at Environmental Design Research Association Conference VIII. Summary in the Proceedings of the Environmental Design Research Association Conference VIII, Dowden, Hutchinson & Ross, 1977.*
    Saegert, S. (Chairperson) (1976, May). Toward better person environment relations: Changing sex roles and changing environmental needs. Workshop at Environmental Design Research Association Conference VII, Vancouver, B. C. Summary in Proceedings of the Environmental Design Research Association Conference VII, 1976.*
    OTHER PUBLICATIONS
      Muscara, F. S. & Saegert, S. (2007) The psychological value of biodiversity.The Scientific American Blog: Mind Matters http://science-community.sciam.com/thread.jspa?threadID=300004540
    Fields,D, Libman, K. & Susan Saegert (2007 ) Loosing the American Dream: Homeowner’s experiences of the threat of foreclosure. Shelterforce, Summer Issue on Foreclosure.
    Libman, K., Tenney, L. & Saegert, S. (2005) Good design alone can’t change society. Progressive Planning, V 164, Summer, 12-14.
    Saegert, S. (2005) Coops hold out against hot real estate market in Hell’s Kitchen: Will it last? Shelterforce,#142, pp.16-18.
    Saegert, S. (2004) Community Building and Civic Capacity. Aspen Institute Roundtable for Community Change. https://www.aspeninstitute.org/AspenInstitute/files/ccLibraryFiles/FILENAME/000000001400/CommunityBuildingCivicCapacity.pdf
    Saegert, S. (2004) The experience of home. Shelterforce XXVI (2) 10-11.
    Saegert, S. (2004) Review of the Handbook of Environmental Psychology. Journal of Environmental Psychology.
    Saegert, S., Benitez, L., Eizenberg, E., Hsieh, T.S., & Lamb, M. (2004) Participatory Evaluation: How it can enhance effectiveness and credibility of nonprofit work. The Nonprofit Quarterly, 11 (1) 54-60.
    Saegert, S. & Extein, M. (2003) Limited-Equity Cooperatives Reinforce Anti-Gentrification Measures: The Experience of the Hell’s Kitchen Neighborhood in Manhattan. Cooperative Housing Journal, 13-23.
    Saegert, S. & Gary Winkel. (2000) Housing Cooperatives and the Quality of Life. Cooperative Housing Journal , Fall.
    Saegert, S. (2000). Book Review: Self- Help Housing, the Poor, and the State in the Caribbean. Robert B. Potter & Dennis Conway (eds.). In New West Indian Guide 74 (no. 3 & 4).
    Saegert, S., & Winkel, G. (1999) CDCs, Social Capital and Housing Quality.(1999) Shelterforce, March/April 22-24
    Saegert, S., Thompson, P., Engle, R., Sargent, J. (1999) "Stretched Thin: Employment, parenting, and social capital among mothers in public housing. New York: Foundation for Child Development Working Paper Series
    Saegert, S., and Winkel, G. (1997). Social capital formation in low income housing. New York, Housing Environments Research Group of the Center for Human Environments, City University of New York, New York.
    Saegert, S. (1996). What we have to work with: The lessons of the Task Force surveys. In M. Cotton (Ed.) No More Housing of Last Resort: The Importance of Affordability and Resident Participation in In Rem Housing New York: Task Force on City Owned Property.
    Saegert, S. (1993). Survey of Residents of Currently and Previously City-Owned Buildings in the Bronx. In M. Cotton (Ed.), Housing in the Balance: Seeking a Comprehensive Policy for City-Owned Housing. New York City: Task Force on City Owned Housing.
    Saegert, S., & Clark, H., Glunt, E., Roane, W., & Tyler, A. (1989). Life Cycle Development of Low Income Cooperative Housing in New York City. Fifth Annual Conference Proceedings on the Sociology of Housing. Saint Paul, Minnesota.
    Saegert, S., & Glunt, Eric, K. (May, 1990). Community Development Corporations and Community Behavior: Implications from Environmental Psychology. Community Development Research Center, Working Paper, New School for Social Research, New York.
    Saegert, S., & Clark, H. (1989). The Meaning of Home in Low-Income Cooperative Housing in New York City. The Meaning and Use of Home and Neighborhood. National Swedish Institute for Building Research in Cooperation with IAPS, The International Association for the Study of People and their Physical Surroundings, and the Swedish Association for Architectural Research. Sweden.
    Saegert, S. (1986). Environmental psychology and the world beyond the mind. G. Stanley Hall Lectures for 1985. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
    Leavitt, J., & Saegert, S. (1985). The tenants report: A study of DAMP buildings after sale. Prepared for the Department of Housing Preservation and Development. Division of Alternative Management Program. New York: Center for Human Environments.
    Saegert, S., & Maltz, N. J. (1982). Girls' and boys' representation of home and neighborhood. New York: Center for Human Environments
    Saegert, S. (1982, October). High density society and individual experiences: Problems and resolutions. In Man and Space, Report of the International Association of Traffic and Safety Sciences Symposium.
    Saegert, S. (1981). Residential density and psychological development. Proceedings of the Japan United States Seminar on Psychology and the Environment. Tokyo, Japan: Nipon University, National Science Foundation sponsored publication.
    Saegert, S. (1976, December). Book review of Crowding and Behavior by J. Freedman. Journal of Architectural Research, 3, 40 41.
    TECHNICAL REPORTS
      Libman, K., Fields, D., Saegert, S., Clark, H. & Justa, F. (2007) Understanding responses to the threat of foreclosure among low-income homeowners”. New York: Center for Human Environments, Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
    Saegert, S., Winkel, G. & Justa, F. (December, 2005) Successes of Homeownership Education and Emerging Challenges. New York City: Center for Human Environments, City University of New York.
    Saegert, S. and Benitez, L. (2003) Limited Equity Cooperatives: A Review of the Literature. Prepared for the Taconic Foundation.
    Saegert, S. and Winkel, G.H. with A. Tyner-Mullings, K. Smith, L. Benitez, T.S. Hsieh, and Metis Assoc. (in preparation). Neighborhood Partners Initiative Community Survey 2002:Community Vision – ADC. Prepared for the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation
    Saegert, S. and Winkel, G.H. with K. Krenichyn, W. Mekuria, L. Benitez, T.S. Hsieh, and Metis Assoc. (2002). Neighborhood Partners Initiative Community Survey 2001:Mid Bronx Neighborhood Partners Initiative. Prepared for the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation
    Saegert, S. and Winkel, G.H. with K. Rafter, L.Benitez, M.Lamb, T.S. Hsieh, and Metis Assoc. (2002). Neighborhood Partners Initiative Community Survey 2001: Bronx ACORN. Prepared for the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation
    Saegert, S. and Winkel, G.H. with K. Krenichyn, K. Rafter, W. Mekuria, L. Benitez and Metis Assoc. (2002). Neighborhood Partners Initiative Community Survey 2001: Neighbors in Highbridge. Prepared for the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation.
    Saegert, S. and Winkel, G.H. with K. Krenichyn, and Metis Assoc. (2000). Neighborhood Partners Initiative Neighborhood Inventory Report 2000:Mid Bronx Neighborhood Partners Initiative. Prepared for the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation.
    Saegert, S. and Winkel, G.H. with K. Krenichyn, K. Rafter, H. Hamilton, and Metis Assoc. (2000). Neighborhood Partners Initiative Neighborhood Inventory Report 2000:Community Vision – ADC. Prepared for the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation
    Saegert, S. and Winkel G.H. with K. Rafter, and Metis Assoc. (2000). Neighborhood Partners Initiative Neighborhood Inventory Report 2000: Bronx ACORN. Prepared for the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation
    Saegert, S. and Winkel, G.H. with C. Montagnet, K. Krenichyn, K. Rafter, and Metis Assoc. (2000). Neighborhood Partners Initiative Neighborhood Inventory Report 2000: Neighbors in Highbridge. Prepared for the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation.
    Rechavi, T., Saegert, S., & Clark, H. (1996). Neighborhood Networks of Housing Development Fund Corporations (HDFC’s) in New York City: A Report. Prepared for the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation.
    Clark, H., & Saegert, S. (1995). Community Capacity Building through Organizing and Technical Assistance: Critical Analysis of Findings. Prepared for the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation.
    Valmont, M. E., Scott, S. D., & Saegert, S. (1993). Unequal Funding, Equal Need... Inequities in Modernization Funding for the City-, State-, and Federally-Funded developments of the New York City Housing Authority. Prepared for the New York City Housing Authority.
    Clark, H., Saegert, S., Iltus, S., Chapin, D., Silverblatt, R. & Hoffman, J. (1992). A shared housing model for the elderly. New York: Center for Human Environments.
    Conn, M., & Saegert, S. (1985). Teenager's experiences in Phipps Plaza South. Prepared for Phipps Houses, New York: Center for Human Environments.
    Leavitt, J., & Saegert, S. (1985). The tenants report: A study of DAMP buildings after sale. Prepared for the Department of Housing Preservation and Development, Division of Alternative Management Program. New York: Center for Human Environments.
    Saegert, S., & Paxson, L. (1982). Downtown Denver employees and the market for downtown housing. Prepared for Denver Housing Authority.
 
INVITED LECTURES
 
2008
  Vanderbilt University
Habitat for Humanity National Conference
Urban Affairs Annual Meeting
American Institute of Architects New York
  2007 University of Washington, Center for Ecology and Demography
 
2006
Vanderbilt University
 
2005
Urban Affairs Association
 
2004
3rd International Urban Health Association
The Aspen Institute
Vienna University of Technology
Uppsala University
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
National Research Council/ Institute of Medicine, Environmental Health Research on Housing and the Built Environment
 
2003
Transportation Research Board and the Institute of Medicine Committee on Physical Activity, Transportation and Land Use
CUNY Urban Health Initiative
Annual Community Development Society Conference
Edna McConnell Clark Foundation conference on the Neighborhood Partners Initiative
Denison University
Urban Affairs Association
Prilleltensky, Program in Community Research and Action, Peabody College, Vanderbilt University
 
2002
Peabody College Program in Community Research and Action, Vanderbilt University
Nashville Community Design Center
Environmental Design Research Association
Urban Affairs Association
 
2001
Environmental Design Research Association
Society for Community Research and Action
 
2000
Housing Coop Summit, Washington D.C.
Housing and Health working group of the European Housing Network
CUNY Urban Health Colloquium
Fannie Mae Foundation
Housing and Planning Council of New York Annual Meeting
 
1999
New York City Agency for Youth and Community Development
Columbia University Teachers' College
Bellagio Conference, Villa Serbelloni
Conference on Social Capital and Poor Communities, City University of New York Graduate Center, and Fordham University New York City
New York Technical College
 
1998
American Psychological Association Conference
International Association of Applied Psychology Conference
Women in Housing and Finance, Inc.
Manhattan HDFC Support Conference
  1997 National Taiwan University
 
1996
J.P. Morgan Round Table
Technology - Architecture - Urban Design International Seminar: University of Sao Paulo
Yale School of Architecture
the American Psychological Association's mini-conference New Cities
American Psychological Association Presidential mini-convention. A Tale of New Cities: Psychology's Response to Urban America
City University of New York
 
1995
CUNY Graduate School and University Center
Clark University
 
1990
Hunter College
Centre de Scientifique et Technique du Batiment, Paris, France
School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, University of California at Berkeley
Columbia University and Rutgers University, News Brunswick, NJ
 
1988
American Psychological Association Annual Conference
The Lehman College Program in Women's Studies
Master Lecture Series of the Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC
 
1987
American Psychological Association Annual Conference
 
1985
American Psychological Association Annual Conference
Environmental Design Research Association
 
1984
American Planning Council Society
Environmental Design Research Association
  1983 Environmental Design Research Association
 
1982
American Psychological Association Annual Conference
Environmental Design Research Association
Alverno College
Hunter College and the Ford Foundation
 
1981
Program in Environment and Behavior, School of Architecture and Planning, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
American Psychological Association
       
 

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

 
EDITORIAL
 
  Associate Editor, Environment and Behavior 1980-present
 
  Editorial Board, Environment and Behavior 1974-80
 
  Editorial Board, Human Ecology 1976-80
 
  Editorial Board, Journal of Environmental Psychology 1988-98
 
ELECTED OFFICE
 
 

Board of Directors, Urban Affairs Association, elected Spring 2005
President elect, Division 34, Population and Environment, American Psychological Association 1985-86; President 1986-87. Past President 1987-88
Co-Chairperson, Environmental Design Research Association 1986-87
Board of Directors, Environmental Design Research Association 1983-86
Member at Large, Executive Committee, Division 34, Population and Environment, American Psychological Association 1980-82

    UNIVERSITY
      Executive committee, CUNY Urban Health Initiative 2003-08
    Co-chair and founder, CUNY Urban Health Initiative 2002-06
    External Advisory Board, Hunter College Program in Urban Public Health 2002-present
    Search Committee, CUNY Chancellor’s Office, University Dean for Health 2001
    Search Committee, CUNY Graduate Center Vice President for Research 1998-99
    Search Committee ,CUNY Graduate Center Vice President for Finances 1998
    Space Planning Advisory Committee for the relocation of The Graduate School and University Center to the B. Altman Building 1995-6
    Co-Chairperson, Environmental Psychology Program, The Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York 1988-93
    Executive Committee, Center for the Study of Women and Sex Roles, The Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York 1980-2000
    Deputy Executive Officer, Department of Psychology, The Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York 1974-77
    Executive Committee Member, The Center for Human Environments, The Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York 1976-present
    Executive Committee Member, Institute for Research in Human Affairs, The Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York 1977-9
    RECENT PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
      American Psychological Association Committee on SES, Chairperson 2005-7
    Advisory Board to National Housing Institute SURDNA Foundation Grant to study non-speculative forms of home ownership 2005-present
    Steering Committee, Policy and Design of Housing: Lessons of the Urban Development Corporation (1968-1975) 2004-5
    Advisory Board to the United Neighborhood Houses for Booth Ferris Foundation funded Settlement Houses Initiative 2004-5
    American Psychological Association Task Force on Urban Psychology 2003-5
    Committee on Interdisciplinary Research and Study, Society for Community Research and Action 2001-present
    Contributor to the PolicyLink Anti-Gentrification Web site 2000-present
    Advisory Board: Edna McConnell Clark Foundation 1995-8
    Selection Panel for the Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence 1995
    Advisory Committee to the National Housing Institute for Study of Saving Subsidized Housing 1994
       
 

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

 
 

American Psychological Association
American Psychological Society
Society for the Study of Social Issues
Environmental Design Research Association
European Network of Housing Researchers
Urban Affairs Association
Society for Community Research and Action

       
       
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