New Book Discussion: The Homeowner Ideology

Stefan Chavez-Norgaard

Teaching Assistant Professor of Public Policy

Josef Korbel School of International Studies

Stefan Chavez-Norgaard is a Teaching Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Korbel School's Douglas and Mary Scrivner Institute of Public Policy. He teaches courses related to urban planning, public policy analysis, ethics, and policy writing, as well as an applied lab-based course on housing policy. Chavez-Norgaard's research lies at the intersection of procedural justice and urban development, with an eye toward equity. Specific areas of focus include urban planning history and theory, local-government and planning law, and mixed-methods research focused on planning practice and urban governance in the related but distinct late-liberal contexts of South Africa and the United States. Stefan is passionate about participatory democracy and how cities' public/private arrangements affect equitable urban development. His dissertation examined areas of apartheid-era forced relocation in South Africa and how master plans have been implemented and repurposed in these geographies by residents and planners. His forthcoming research will explore possibilities for equitable, democratic urban development in Denver.

Chavez-Norgaard received his PhD in Urban Planning from the Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation in 2024. He also holds a Master in Public Policy degree from the Harvard Kennedy School, and a Bachelor of Arts in Public Policy and Urban Studies from Stanford University, with interdisciplinary honors in Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. He is an active member of several professional associations, including the American Association of Geographers (AAG); American Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP); Urban Affairs Association (UAA); and Society for American City and Regional Planning History (SACRPH).

Singumbe Muyeba

Assistant Professor of African Studies

Josef Korbel School of International Studies

Dr. Singumbe Muyeba is an Assistant Professor of African Studies. He is a core faculty member of the the Institute of Comparative Regional Studies focusing on Africa programming. He is an award-winning teacher having had the honor to be voted the Korbel School's Distinguished Teaching Award for 2023. His book, The Homeowner Ideology: Economic (F)Utility of Real Property Rights in Four African Cities was published by University of Michigan Press in March 2024. His previous book, Globalisation and Africa in the Twenty-First Century: A Zambian Perspective, was published by Authorhouse in 2008. He has published numerous articles in top tier journals on formalization of property rights among low income households in informal settlements, inequality and poverty in Africa. His current research focuses on measuring and modeling global populations living in slum conditions using innovative novel methods.

Dr Muyeba holds a PhD in Sociology and MPhil in Development Studies from the University of Cape Town in South Africa, and a BA from University of Zambia. In the United States, He attended Yale University as a Fox International Fellow and attended summer school on Development and Inequality in the Global South at Brown University. He has also attended summer school at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Previously, he worked for the United Nations Development Program, UNHCR and the Massachusetts Housing and Shelter Alliance.