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Jennifer J. Clark is an American academic and author. Clark is Knowlton School Distinguished Professor and Head of the City and Regional Planning Section, in the College of Engineering at Ohio State University. She is a Fellow of the American Association of Geographers, and a Fellow of the Regional Studies Association. Clark twice won the Best Book Award from the Regional Studies Association in 2009, and in 2022. She is also the recipient of the 2021 Urban Affairs Association's Best Book Award.

Early life and education

Clark was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and grew up in San Antonio, Texas. She graduated from Wesleyan University with a double major in history and religion.

Clark earned a Master of Planning (MPlan) from the University of Minnesota's Humbert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, and a Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from Cornell University.

Career

In 2019, Clark was named Head of the City and Regional Planning Section at Ohio State University's Knowlton School of Architecture in the College of Engineering.

In 2023, she was appointed as Knowlton School Distinguished Professor.

Clark is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Regional Studies since 2023. Previously she served as Deputy Editor in Chief (2018-2023) and as an Editor. She is a Fellow of both the American Association of Geographers (2017), and the Regional Studies Association (2018).

In 2005, Clark joined the School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology as an Assistant Professor. She was tenured and promoted to Associate Professor in 2011. While at Georgia Tech, she served as the founding Director of the Center for Urban Innovation, an interdisciplinary research center, from 2012 to 2019.

From 2015 to 2018, Clark served as vice-chair, and later chair, of the Economic Geography Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers (AAG).

Clark teaches urban and regional economic development theory, analysis, practice, and research design and methods. She has provided expert testimony before the US Congress and policy advice and consulting to the OECD, the Canadian, UK, and US governments and serving on nongovernmental policy commissions and committees.

Clark teaches urban and regional economic development, research design, and policy analysis. She has worked as a policy advisor to the Congress and the OECD.

In September 2021, Clark was named Visiting Professor at the University of Stavanger's Business School and its Center for Innovation Research.

Selected publications

Books

• Clark, Jennifer. Uneven innovation: The work of smart cities. Columbia University Press, 2020.
• Clark, Jennifer. Working regions: Reconnecting innovation and production in the knowledge economy. Routledge, 2013.
• Patton, Carl, David Sawicki, and Jennifer Clark. Basic methods of policy analysis and planning. Reprinted Routledge, 2015,
• Christopherson, Susan, and Jennifer Clark. Remaking Regional Economies: Power, Labor and Firm Strategies. Routledge, 2007, reprinted 2020.

Edited books

• Turok, Ivan, David Bailey, Jennifer Clark, Jun Du, Ugo Fratesi, Michael Fritsch, John Harrison, Tom Kemeny, Dieter Kogler, Arnoud Lagendijk, Tomasz Mickiewicz, Ernest Miguelez, Stefano Usai, and Fiona Wishlade, eds. Transitions in Regional Economic Development. London: Routledge, 2018.
• Bryson, John R., Jennifer Clark, and Vida Vanchan, eds. Handbook of manufacturing industries in the world economy. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2015.

Articles

• Bailey, David, Jennifer Clark, Alessandra Colombelli, Carlo Corradini, Lisa De Propris, Ben Derudder, Ugo Fratesi et al. "Regions in a time of pandemic." Regional Studies 54, no. 9 (2020): 1163-1174. doi:10.1080/00343404.2020.1798611
• Clark, Jennifer, and Supraja Sudharsan. "Firm Strategies and Path Dependencies: An Emerging Economic Geography of the Industrial Data Industry." Regional Studies (2019). doi:10.1080/00343404.2019.1619926
• Clark, Jennifer, and Marc Doussard. "Devolution, Disinvestment and Uneven Development: US Industrial Policy and Evolution of the National Network for Manufacturing Innovation." Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society (2019). doi:10.1093/cjres/rsz009
• Clark, Jennifer, and David Bailey. "Labour, work and regional resilience." Regional Studies 52, no. 6 (2018): 741-744. doi:10.1080/00343404.2018.1448621
• Clark, Jennifer. "Manufacturing by design: the rise of regional intermediaries and the re-emergence of collective action." Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society 7, no. 3 (2014): 433-448. doi:10.1093/cjres/rsu017
• Clark, Jennifer, Hsin-I. Huang, and John P. Walsh. "A typology of ‘innovation districts’: what it means for regional resilience." Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society 3, no. 1 (2010): 121-137. doi:10.1093/cjres/rsp034
• Christopherson, Susan, and Jennifer Clark. "Limits to ‘the learning region’: what university-centered economic development can (and cannot) do to create knowledge-based regional economies." Local Economy 25, no. 2 (2010): 120-130. doi:10.1080/02690941003741127
• Clark, Jennifer. "Coordinating a conscious geography: the role of research centers in multi-scalar innovation policy and economic development in the US and Canada." The Journal of Technology Transfer 35 (2010): 460-474. doi:10.1007/s10961-009-9137-z
• Clark, Jennifer, and Susan Christopherson. "Integrating investment and equity: A critical regionalist agenda for a progressive regionalism." Journal of Planning Education and Research 28, no. 3 (2009): 341-354. doi:10.1177/0739456X08327371
• Christopherson, Susan, and Jennifer Clark. "Power in firm networks: What it means for regional innovation systems." Regional Studies 41, no. 9 (2007): 1223-1236. doi:10.1080/00343400701543330

References

1. ^ "Clark, Jennifer". Knowlton School. 2020-07-10.
2. "2022 RSA Best Book Award". RSA Main.
3. Bruzan, Megan (2021-05-04). "2021 Best Book in the Field of Urban Affairs". Urban Affairs Association.
4. "Jennifer Clark New City and Regional Planning Section Head". Knowlton School. 2019-07-22.
5. "Jennifer Clark Appointed Distinguished Professor". Knowlton School. 2023-05-18.
6. "AAG Announces Inaugural Class of AAG Fellows". December 14, 2017. Archived from the original on January 6, 2018.
7. "Clark Named Inaugural Fellow of American Association of Geographers | Office of the Provost". provost.gatech.edu.
8. "Learn about Regional Studies". Taylor & Francis.
9. "Clark Elected Vice-Chair/Chair of Economic Geography Specialty Group | Georgia Tech Liberal Arts Ambassador Program". enrollment.iac.gatech.edu.
10. "Clark is Among Inaugural Recipients of Smart Cities Research Grant | College Communications". comm.iac.gatech.edu.
11. "Jennifer Clark | Georgia Tech Supply Chain and Logistics Institute". www.scl.gatech.edu.
12. "Jennifer Clark". GVU Center. 2014-04-01.
13. "Interdisciplinary Approaches to Urban Challenges are Creating Smart Cities _ GTRI". Archived from the original on January 9, 2018.
14. "Clark Addresses Regional Studies Association's Central and Eastern Europe Conference | College Communications". comm.iac.gatech.edu.
15. "Clark Elected Vice-Chair/Chair of Economic Geography Specialty Group | Georgia Tech Liberal Arts Ambassador Program". enrollment.iac.gatech.edu.
16. "Hearing on "Disrupter Series: Smart Communities," Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection (March 16, 2017) | Democrats, Energy and Commerce Committee". democrats-energycommerce.house.gov. 2017-03-16.
17. "Jennifer Clark | Department of Geography". geography.osu.edu.
18. "World-renowned researcher joins the UiS Business School and the Smart City Research Network | University of Stavanger". www.uis.no. 2021-09-14.
19. "Uneven Innovation: The Work of Smart Cities". Knowlton School. 2020-06-04.
20. Clark, Jennifer (February 2020). Uneven Innovation: The Work of Smart Cities. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-54578-5.

Footnotes

1. ^ Mentioned in the "Biographical Sketch" section of her doctoral dissertation
2. with Susan Christopherson, for their 2007 book, Remaking Regional Economies: Power, Labor, and Firm Strategies in the Knowledge Economy.

• American urban planners