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John C. Arroyo
University of California
Assistant Professor | Urban Studies and Planning and Chicanx and Latinx Studies
Founding Director | PNW Just Futures Institute
John C. Arroyo, Ph.D., AICP, is Assistant Professor of Urban Studies and Planning and Chicanx and Latinx Studies at the University of California San Diego. Prior to his appointment at UC San Diego he was Assistant Professor in Engaging Diverse Communities (with affiliations in the departments of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies and Historic Preservation) at the University of Oregon, where he was also Founding Director of the Pacific Northwest Just Futures Institute for Racial and Climate Justice – the largest social science and humanities grant awarded in UO’s history.
Previously, Dr. Arroyo was an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow in Latino Studies at the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Arroyo received his doctorate in Urban Planning, Policy, and Design from MIT. He is a national expert on the social, political, and cultural dimensions of Latino/a/x-centered built and natural environments (specifically housing, ethnic retail corridors, and transportation), urban design practices in emerging gateways, and arts and cultural planning. His scholarly and applied research has been published in the Journal of the American Planning Association, Journal of Planning Education and Research, Planning Theory and Practice, Cityscape and featured on national media outlets such as the Los Angeles Times, NPR, and U.S. News and World Report. He has raised nearly $5 million through competitive grants and prestigious fellowships supported by American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education, American Planning Association, the Mellon Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Research Council/Ford Foundation, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and the Whiting Foundation.
Dr. Arroyo currently serves on boards of the Public Humanities Network of the Consortium for Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI) and the School for Advanced Research (SAR). A certified planner, he has over 25 years of experience working with various arts and urbanism-related nonprofits, foundations, and government agencies in research, grantmaking, and technical assistance capacities across the US, Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean. The son of Mexican immigrants, his commitment to social justice and equity is rooted in being born and raised East L.A.
Eleonora Redaelli
University of Oregon
Professor | School of Planning, Public Policy, and Management
Eleonora Redaelli is a Professor at the University of Oregon’s School of Planning, Public Policy, and Management, specializing in American cultural policy. With a Ph.D. from The Ohio State University, she brings experience from both public and private cultural institutions in Italy.
She has taught and coordinated the Arts Management program at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point and has served as a visiting professor at prestigious institutions like American University (Rome), Shandong University (Jinan, China), University of International Business and Economics (Beijing), and as a visiting scholar at Tshwane University of Technology (Pretoria, South Africa), University of Ottawa (Canada), Politecnico di Milano (Italy), and Aarhus University (Denmark).
Her research has been published in renowned journals such as the International Journal of the Arts in Society, City, Culture and Society, Urban Affairs Review, Cultural Trends, Journal of Planning Education and Research, Urban Geography, Journal of General Education, Policy Studies, Journal of American Planning Association, and Cities. In collaboration with Jonathan Paquette, she co-authored the book Arts Management and Cultural Policy Research (2016) and authored the monograph Connecting Arts and Place: Cultural Policy and American Cities (2019). She also edited the volume Visiting the Arts Museum: A Journey Toward Participation (2023), published by Palgrave. In recognition of her research contributions, she was awarded the UO Faculty Excellence Award in 2019.