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Peter Dreier

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Peter Dreier is an American urban policy analyst, author, liberal commentator, and college political science professor. He is the Dr. E.P. Clapp Distinguished Professor of Politics and director of the Urban and Environmental Policy Department at Occidental College in Los Angeles, California.

In November 2016 he was one of 200 professors added to the Professor Watchlist which works to “expose and document college professors who discriminate against conservative students.”[1]

Life

He graduated from Syracuse University with a B.A. in 1970, and from the University of Chicago with a Ph.D. in 1977. He was the Director of Housing at the Boston Redevelopment Authority and senior policy advisor to Boston Mayor Ray Flynn for 9 years.[2]

Works

  • The 100 Greatest Americans of the 20th Century: A Social Justice Hall of Fame. Nation Books. 2012. ISBN 9781568586946.
  • Up Against the Sprawl: Public Policy and the Making of Southern California. University of Minnesota Press. 2004. ISBN 9780816642984. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |editors= ignored (|editor= suggested) (help)
  • Peter Dreier, John H. Mollenkopf, Todd Swanstrom, Place matters: metropolitics for the twenty-first century, University Press of Kansas, 2004, ISBN 9780700613649

References

  1. ^ Professor Watchlist. "Peter Dreier". Retrieved 3 March 2017.
  2. ^ Occidental College. "Peter Dreier". Retrieved 8 November 2012.