CONTRIBUTOR:

Sonia Hirt

AFFILIATION:

TITLE:

Professor

DEPARTMENT:

College of Environment and Design

INSTITUTION:

University of Georgia

BIOGRAPHY:

Sonia Hirt holds a doctoral degree in urban planning from the University of Michigan. She is currently Dean and Hughes Professor at the College of Environment and Design at the University of Georgia. Previously, she served as Dean of the School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at the University of Maryland in College Park; Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the College of Architecture and Urban Studies, Virginia Tech; and Visiting Associate Professor at Harvard's Graduate School of Design. Sonia is the author/co-author of 90 publications with nearly 5,000 citations. In 2023, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to complete her next book.