Mark Hamin

Mark Hamin earned a PhD in history and sociology of science from the University of Pennsylvania (1999) and a BA in history and philosophy from Brown University (1984). In addition to teaching at RISD, he is a principal strategic planning consultant with Sustainability Designer. He is also affiliated with the History department and Science, Technology, and Society Program at Brown University.

Hamin was previously a senior lecturer in the department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, serving as director of the Master of Regional Planning and the BS in Sustainable Community Development Programs, faculty supervisor in the Bachelor’s Degree with Individualized Concentration Program (STEAM and Sustainability majors), coordinator of the Sustainability Curriculum Fellows Program, affiliated faculty in the Public History Program, School of Public Policy, and School of Earth and Sustainability.

Hamin’s teaching experience also includes courses in community and regional planning at Iowa State University and in history and sociology of science at University of Pennsylvania. His specialty research interests are the history and theory of city planning and design; the influence of life sciences on the formation of planning and design fields; urban infrastructural and environmental history; social perspectives on risk, security, and quality of life in cities; long-term trends in technologically transformed metropolitan-regional food systems; sustainability in the STEAM disciplines; and mentoring relative to pedagogy and professionalism.