The Bloustein School is pleased to announce that the Rutgers Board of Governors approved Mark Paul and Eric Seymour as Associate Professors with tenure at their recent meeting.
Mark’s research interests include understanding the causes and consequences of inequality and assessing and designing remedies to address inequality. He also writes extensively on the climate crisis, focusing on economic pathways toward deep decarbonization that center economic and environmental justice. He works extensively with policymakers across scales of government and has worked with numerous Congressional offices to draft and inform legislation based on his scholarly work. His writing and research have appeared in The New York Times, The Economist, Washington Post, The Guardian, The Financial Times, The Atlantic, Jacobin, Dissent, MIT Technology Review, CNN, The American Prospect, and more.
Eric’s primary research interests include housing and neighborhood dynamics under conditions of chronic job and population losses, including the role of urban policy in influencing the location and pace of disinvestment. He also examines transformations in “post-crisis” housing markets and their implications for the health and housing insecurity of low-income and minority groups. This work looks at investors in formerly foreclosed single-family housing and their business practices, including the use of problematic home sale arrangements like land contracts and the expansion of rental property holdings by exploitative landlords. Eric is also engaged in ongoing research on evictions, focusing on the intersection of opportunistic property investment and the constrained housing options of low-income renters.
Their promotions underscores the scholarly excellence and the Bloustein School’s standing as a home for researchers of global distinction.