Jenna Dublin-Boc

Jenna Dublin-Boc is a full-time visiting faculty member at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. She studies the relationships between neighborhood land use activism, inequality, and race in US cities. Her current research examines how community-based organizations of underrepresented groups in New York City and Los Angeles are using the regulations and participatory venues of city zoning and historic preservation to influence local land use decision-making in the context of gentrification and diminishing housing affordability.

Jenna was a 2021-2022 Pratt Institute School of Architecture Fellow. Through the fellowship, she currently assists the East New York Community Land Trust in developing a stormwater infrastructure plan responsive to the ecological context, local knowledge, and the ongoing environmental injustices experienced by the community. She has also worked in various professional capacities, including as a Research Consultant with the National Trust for Historic Preservation Research and Policy Lab on the topics of gentrification and displacement in historically African American neighborhoods and as an International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) IEP participant where she contributed to the planning of heritage-sensitive infrastructure and building rehabilitation in Amritsar, India.

Jenna recently received her Ph.D. in Urban Planning from Columbia University. She also holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Cooper Union and dual Master’s degrees in Urban Planning and Historic Preservation from the University of Maryland. At UP, Jenna will teach the Joint HP/UP Advanced Studio, Thesis/Capstone, Urban Planning Studio, and a new elective on Neighborhood Land Use Activism.