Dr. Michael Glass is a leading global scholar who works at the intersection of sociology, geography and regional studies. His primary research is on city-region governance and infrastructure; he has research expertise in Southeast Asia, North America, Australasia, and Europe. He is the co-editor of Urban Violence, Resilience and Security: Governance Responses in the Global South (Edward Elgar, 2022), Performativity, Politics, and the Production of Social Space (Routledge, 2014), and Infrastructural Times (Bristol University Press, 2025). He is author of Priced Out: Stuyvesant Town and the Loss of Middle-Class Neighborhoods (NYU Press, 2016) and Improving Inclusive Innovation Outcomes (Routledge, forthcoming). His most recent research examines the ways that infrastructure shapes regions and influences regional equity: you can read more about his Network on Infrastructural Regionalism (NOIR) here. He has published over 25 articles in leading international journals and is on the editorial boards of Journal of Urban Affairs and Regional Studies, Regional Science. He is the Regional Studies Association's Territorial Ambassador to the United States. Winner of the 2015 Bellet Award for Teaching Excellence, Dr. Glass is the Director of the Urban Studies Program and Assistant Professor of Sociology.
Courses Taught:
URBNST 0010: Introduction to Urban Studies
URBNST 0300: Remaking Cities
URBNST 0310: Regional Growth Strategies in Appalachia
SOC 3597: Topics in Urban Sociology
- PhD, Pennsylvania State University
- MSc., Honors, University of Auckland
Education & Training
Books
Addie, J.-P.D., Glass, M.R. & Nelles, J., editors. (2025). Infrastructural Times: Temporality and the Making of Global Urban Worlds. Bristol, UK: Bristol University Press.
Glass, M.R., Seybolt, T. & Williams, P., editors. (2022). Urban Violence, Resilience, & Security: Governance Responses in the Global South. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishers.
Woldoff, R., Morrison, L. & Glass, M.R. (2016) Priced Out: Stuyvesant Town and the Loss of Middle-Class Communities. New York: NYU Press.
Glass, M.R. & Rose-Redwood, R., editors. (2014) Performativity, Politics, and the Production of Social Space. New York: Routledge.
Key Articles & Book Chapters
Glass, M.R. & Addie, J.-P.D. (2024) Bridging ‘Infrastructural Solutions’ and ‘Infrastructures as Solution’: Regional Promises and Urban Pragmatism. Urban Studies.
Glass, M.R., Addie, JP, & Nelles, J. (2019) Regional Infrastructures, Infrastructural Regionalism. Regional Studies. DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2019.1667968
Glass, M.R. (2018) Seeing like a City through the Singapore City Gallery. CITY 22(2). P.236-256. DOI:10.1080/13604813.2018.1451458.
Glass, M.R. (2018) Bridging the Regionalism-Public Choice Divide in Regional Studies. Regional Studies. 52(8), p. 1150-61. DOI 10.1080/00343404.2017.1415430.
Glass, M.R. (2018) North American Regionalism. Chapter 37 in Harrison, J., Paasi, A. & Jones, A. (editors). The Handbook of Regionalism. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Glass, M.R. (2017) Understanding the 24-Hour City: Engagement, and the Co-Production of Knowledge. Professional Geographer. 70(2), p. 327-332. DOI: 10.1080/00330124.2017.1366789.
The socio-spatial production of infrastructure
Positionality and reflexivity in geographic fieldwork
Comparative global urbanism
Urban regeneration policies
Regional change and the geographic imagination
