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Ph.D., Cornell University, City and Regional Planning
MPlan, Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota
B.A., Wesleyan University
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 ennifer Clark's research
focuses on regional economic development policy, agglomeration economies, territorial innovation systems,
and labor market restructuring and regulation. She teaches courses in urban and regional economic
development theory, analysis, and practice as well as research design. She also directs the masters
of public policy and masters in city planning dual degree program.
Dr. Clark’s book, Rem
aking Regional Economies: Power, Labor, and Firm Strategies in the Knowledge Economy was recently
released in paperback. The book, a collaboration with
Susan
Christopherson at Cornell University, has been reviewed in several academic journals including the Journal of Economic Geography (by Neil Coe), Regional Studies (by Michael Taylor), Growth and Change (by Alan MacPherson), Economic Geography (by James Harrington), and the British Journal of Industrial Relations (by Jamie Peck). A copy of the first chapter is available here.
In addition to book chapters in Whither Regional Studies
and The Handbook of Local and Regional Development, Dr. Clark’s work appears in Regional Studies, the Journal of Planning Education and Research (JPER), the Journal of Technology Transfer, Geoforum, Economic Geography, The Review of Regional Studies, and the Korea Labor Institute’s International Labor Review. Her most recent work is available through the Georgia Tech School of Public Policy Working Paper series and the Industry Studies Association Working Papers series.
At Georgia Tech, Dr. Clark is affiliated with a number of research centers and programs including: the Ivan Allen College’s NSF Advance Program, the Technology Policy and Assessment Center (TPAC), the Science, Technology, and Innovation Program (STIP), and the Faculty in the Study of Human Resources (HRST).
Dr. Clark received a Faculty Research Award from the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade and was named Georgia Tech’s School of Public Policy’s Faculty Member of the Year for 2006-2007. Her research has also received support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s Industry Studies Program (now the Industry Studies Association and she is an alumna of the Summer Institute in Economic Geography (SIEG). Dr. Clark is an active member of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP), serving as the co-chair of the Regional Planning Track for the 50th anniversary conference in 2009. She is also a member of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) and the Economic Geography and Urban Geography Specialty Groups of the AAG.
Dr. Clark earned a doctorate from the Department of City and Regional Planning at Cornell University and a master's degree in economic development and planning from the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota. She holds a BA in history from Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT. Dr. Clark attended Seoul Foreign School in Seoul, South Korea, Alamo Heights High School in San Antonio, Texas, and is alumna of AmeriCorps VISTA.
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