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 in philosophy from Brown University (1984). He is currently a principal strategic planning consultant with Sustainability Designer as well as a lecturer in RISD’s History, Philosophy and Social Sciences and Landscape Architecture departments. Hamin is also affiliated with the History department and STS program at Brown University.

Previously Hamin was a senior lecturer II 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 of the BS in Sustainable Community Development Program, faculty supervisor in the BDIC Program (STEAM and Sustainability majors), coordinator of the Sustainability Curriculum Fellows Program, and 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 of city planning, design and development; the influence of life sciences on the formation of the planning and fields; 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.