Peter Ward
Ph.D., University of Liverpool
Professor, C. B. Smith Sr. Centennial Chair # 1 in US-Mexico Relations

Contact
- E-mail: peter.ward@austin.utexas.edu
- Phone: 512-232-6319
- Office: SOC RLP 3.730; LBJ = SRH 3.229
- Office Hours: Spring 2018. On Researcg Leave -- by appointment therefore.
- Campus Mail Code: A1700
Interests
Academic: Housing and Governance in Mexico and Latin America. Non academic: Opera & Longhorn Football.
Biography
Peter M. Ward received his Ph.D. from the University of Liverpool in 1976 and subsequently has held senior teaching and research positions at University College London (1976-85), The University of Cambridge (1985-91), and at The University of Texas at Austin (1991-present) where he holds the C.B. Smith Sr. Centennial # 1 Chair in US-Mexico Relations, and is professor in the Department of Sociology (College of Liberal Arts), and in the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs. Between 1993-7 and 2001-05, he was Director of the Mexican Center at the Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies. Between 2002-7 he was Editor-in-Chief of the Latin American Research Review. In 2006 he led the initiative to create the Latin American Housing Network which he coordinates at the University of Texas at Austin www.lahn.utexas.org
In addition to over 120 scholarly articles and book chapters on public policy in Mexico and Latin America, he has written fifteen books including: Housing, the State and the Poor: Policy and Practice in Latin American Cities (with Alan Gilbert), Welfare Politics in Mexico: Papering Over the Cracks, and Mexico City: The Production and Reproduction of an Urban Environment (all translated into Spanish); Self-Help Housing: A Critique, Corruption, Development and Inequality (editor), Methodology for Land and Housing Market Analysis (coeditor), Political Change in Baja California: Democracy in the Making? (with Victoria Rodriguez), and Opposition Governments in Mexico: Past Experiences and Future Opportunities(with Victoria Rodriguez). Mexico City (second edition), New Federalism and State Government in Mexico: Bringing the States Back In (with Victoria Rodriguez), Colonias and Public Policy in Texas: Urbanization by Stealth. His most recent books are Governance in the Americas: Decentralization Democracy and Subnational Government in the USA, Mexico, and Brazil (2008), Metropolitan Governance in the Federalist Americas (2012), and (2014) Housing Policies in Latin American Cities: A New Generation of Strategies and Approaches for 2016 UN-HABITAT III.
His principal research interests are Latin American urbanization, contemporary Mexican politics, housing policy and planning, Mexico City, and colonia-type housing in the United States. At various times he has served as adviser to the Mexican government and to a number of international development agencies.
Courses
SOC 321K • Qualtve Mthds In Socl Rsrch-Wb
44685 • Spring 2021
Meets TTH 3:30PM-5:00PM
Internet; Synchronous
SOC 335 • Society Of Modern Mexico-Wb
43305 • Fall 2020
Meets TTH 3:30PM-5:00PM
Internet; Synchronous
CDGC
(also listed as LAS 325, URB 338S)
SOC 321K • Qualtve Mthds In Socl Rsrch
43785 • Spring 2020
Meets TTH 3:30PM-5:00PM WCP 5.102
SOC 335 • Society Of Modern Mexico
43560 • Fall 2019
Meets TTH 3:30PM-5:00PM RLP 1.104
CDGC
(also listed as GRG 356T, LAS 325, URB 354)
SOC 387L • Qualitative Meths For Socl Sci
43670 • Fall 2019
Meets T 9:00AM-12:00PM SRH 3.124
(also listed as GRG 396T, LAS 381, P A 397C)
CRP 388 • Housing Pract/Pub Pol Lat Am
01513 • Spring 2019
Meets M 6:00PM-9:00PM SRH 3.360
(also listed as LAS 381, P A 388K)
SOC 335 • Society Of Modern Mexico
44830 • Fall 2018
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM RLP 1.104
CDGC
(also listed as GRG 356T, LAS 325, URB 354)
SOC 387L • Qualitative Meths For Socl Sci
44930 • Fall 2018
Meets T 9:00AM-12:00PM SRH 3.124
(also listed as GRG 396T, LAS 381, P A 397C)
SOC 335 • Society Of Modern Mexico
45445 • Fall 2017
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM CLA 1.104
CDGC
(also listed as GRG 356T, LAS 325, MAS 374, URB 354)
SOC 387L • Qualitative Meths For Socl Sci
45545 • Fall 2017
Meets T 9:00AM-12:00PM SRH 3.124
(also listed as LAS 381, P A 397C)
CRP 388 • Housing Prac/Publ Pol Lat Amer
01672 • Spring 2017
Meets M 6:00PM-9:00PM CLA 3.106
(also listed as LAS 381, P A 388K)
SOC 335 • Society Of Modern Mexico
45445 • Fall 2016
Meets TTH 3:30PM-5:00PM CLA 0.102
GC
(also listed as GRG 356T, LAS 325, MAS 374, URB 354)
SOC 387L • Qualitative Meths For Socl Sci
45545 • Fall 2016
Meets T 9:00AM-12:00PM SRH 3.124
(also listed as GRG 396T, LAS 381, P A 397C)
CRP 388 • Housing Prac/Publ Pol Lat Amer
01585 • Spring 2016
Meets M 9:00AM-12:00PM SRH 3.214
(also listed as LAS 381, P A 388K)
SOC 335 • Society Of Modern Mexico
44665 • Fall 2015
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM CLA 1.104
CDGC
(also listed as GRG 356T, LAS 325, MAS 374, URB 354)
SOC 387L • Qualitative Meths For Socl Sci
44734 • Fall 2015
Meets T 9:00AM-12:00PM SRH 3.124
(also listed as GRG 396T, LAS 381, P A 397C)
CRP 388 • Housing Prac/Publ Pol Lat Am
01458 • Spring 2015
Meets W 9:00AM-12:00PM SRH 3.221
(also listed as LAS 381, P A 388K)
SOC 335 • Society Of Modern Mexico
46250 • Fall 2014
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM BUR 130
GC
(also listed as GRG 356T, LAS 325, MAS 374, URB 354)
SOC 387L • Qualitative Meths For Socl Sci
46365 • Fall 2014
Meets T 9:00AM-12:00PM SRH 3.124
(also listed as GRG 396T, LAS 381, P A 397C)
GRG 396T • Qualitative Meths For Socl Sci
37995 • Fall 2013
Meets T 9:00AM-12:00PM SRH 3.122
(also listed as LAS 381, P A 397C)
UGS 303 • Mexico There And Mexico Here
66080-66090 • Fall 2013
Meets M 4:00PM-6:00PM CLA 0.128
SOC 387L • Qualitative Meths For Socl Sci
45720 • Fall 2012
Meets T 9:00AM-12:00PM SRH 3.124
(also listed as GRG 396T, LAS 381, P A 397C)
UGS 303 • Mexico There And Mexico Here
64495-64505 • Fall 2012
Meets M 4:00PM-6:00PM BUR 212
SOC 395D • Whither The Mexican Pol System
45769 • Spring 2012
Meets M 9:00AM-12:00PM SRH 3.316
(also listed as LAS 381, P A 388K)
SOC 387L • Qualitative Methods
45535 • Fall 2011
Meets T 9:00AM-12:00PM SRH 3.124
(also listed as GRG 396T, J 381, LAS 381, P A 397C)
UGS 303 • Mexico There And Mexico Here
64660-64670 • Fall 2011
Meets M 4:00PM-6:00PM BUR 220
SOC 395D • Hous Prac/Publ Pol In Lat Am
46325 • Spring 2011
Meets M 9:00AM-12:00PM SRH 3.316
(also listed as CRP 388, LAS 381, P A 388K)
SOC 387L • Qualitative Meths For Socl Sci
45700 • Fall 2010
Meets T 9:00AM-12:00PM SRH 3.124
(also listed as GRG 396T, LAS 381, P A 397C)
UGS 303 • Mexico There And Mexico Here
64090-64100 • Fall 2010
Meets MW 11:00AM-12:00PM PHR 2.114
UGS 302 • Mexico There And Mexico Here-W
64665 • Fall 2009
Meets T 2:00PM-5:00PM MAI 220F
C1
GOV 337M • Polit & Cul Of Contemp Mex-W
38805 • Spring 2007
Meets W 2:00PM-5:00PM SZB 323
C2
(also listed as LAS 325, MAS 374)
GOV 390L • Mexican Polit Sys In Trans
39098 • Spring 2007
Meets W 9:00AM-12:00PM SRH 3.330A
LAS 325 • Polit & Cul Of Contemp Mex
39270 • Fall 2005
Meets W 4:00PM-7:00PM SZB 323
(also listed as MAS 374)
GRG 356T • Society Of Modern Mexico
35825 • Fall 2004
Meets TTH 5:00PM-6:30PM GRG 102
(also listed as LAS 325)
GOV 337M • Polit & Cul Of Contemp Mexico
35065 • Spring 2004
Meets T 2:00PM-5:00PM SZB 323
(also listed as LAS 325, MAS 374)
GRG 356T • Society Of Modern Mexico
34390 • Fall 2003
Meets TTH 5:00PM-6:30PM GRG 102
(also listed as LAS 325)
GRG 356T • Society Of Modern Mexico
33865 • Fall 2002
Meets TTH 3:30PM-5:00PM GRG 102
(also listed as LAS 325)
GRG 356T • Society Of Modern Mexico
34320 • Fall 2001
Meets TTH 3:30PM-5:00PM GRG 102
(also listed as LAS 325)
GOV 390L • Mexican Polit Sys In Transitn
35010 • Spring 2001
Meets W 2:00PM-5:00PM SRH 3.102
GRG 356T • Society Of Modern Mexico
33995 • Fall 2000
Meets MWF 3:00PM-4:00PM GRG 102
(also listed as LAS 325)
GOV 390L • Mexican Polit Sys In Transitn
34697 • Spring 2000
Meets W 2:00PM-5:00PM SRH 1.320
Publications
Recent Publications 2011 -- present. (See c.v. for full list since 1976.)
2011
(98) “Repensando el espacio geopolítico metropolitano en México: ¿Como lograr un verdadero gobierno y gobernabilidad para todos?” pp. 211-44 La Geografía Contemporánea y Elisée Reclus. Guénola Capron, Carmen Icazuriaga Montes, Silvana Levi, Eulalia Ribera Carbó and Virginie Thiébaut, Eds. Publicacions de la Casa Chata: DF.
(99) “Con el título en la mano: The Meaning of Full Property Titles, and the Impact of Titling Programs upon Low Income Housing Improvements in Texas Colonias.” (Lead author in collaboration with Jane Larson, Flavio de Souza and Cecilia Giusti).* Law and Social Inquiry. 36, 1, 1-82. *
(100) Self-help Housing Policies for Second Generation Inheritance and Succession of the House that Mum and Dad Built. Peter Ward [lead author] and Edith Jiménez, in collaboration with Erika Grajeda and Claudia Ubaldo Velázquez. Habitat International Vol. 35, 467-485.*
(101) Governança metropolitan nas Américas. Cadernos Metrópole, Vol 13, 25, 15-44 (with Robert Wilson [lead author] and Peter Spink).
2012
(102) “A Patrimony for the Children”: Low Income Homeownership and Housing (im)Mobility in Latin American Cities. Annals of the Association of American Geographers (AAAG). Volume 102, Issue 6, 1489-1510.
(103) Housing and Urban Regeneration in the First Suburbs and “Innerburbs” of the Americas. In International Encyclopedia of Housing and the Home. Susan Smith, Editor in Chief. Elsevier, pp 559-572
(104) Housing Policies in Developing Countries. In International Encyclopedia of Housing and the Home. Susan Smith, Editor in Chief. Elsevier. pp 219-227.
(105) Section Editors’ Introduction: Housing and Wellbeing. . In International Encyclopedia of Housing and the Home. Susan Smith, Editor in Chief. Elsevier. (With Chris Hamnett.) pp xxx-xxxiii
(106) Sustainable Housing Design and Technology Applications and Policies for Low-income Self-help Settlements, Habitat International (With Esther Sullivan). Sustainable housing applications and policies for low-income self-build and housing rehab”, Habitat International, Volume 36, Issue 2, April 2012, Pages 312–323
(107) “Self-Help Housing: Ideas and Practice in the Americas”, Bish Sanyal, Lawrence Vale and Christina Rosan, eds. Planning Ideas That Matter: Livability, Territoriality, Governance and Reflective Practice . MIT Press. pp.283-310
(108) “Metropolitan government and governance in Mexico: A contradiction in terms?” (With Hector Robles*). Pp.141-170 In Metropolitan Governance in the Americas, edited by Peter Spink, Peter Ward and Robert Wilson, University of Notre Dame Press.
(109) Inheritance and Succession among Second and Third Generation Squatter Households in Mexico City (With Erika Grajeda) Latin American Research Review. Special Issue, pp139-162.
(110) Introductory Overview. Contextualizing Disability: Issues of Immigration, Economics and Family. In Angel. J., Markides K., and Torres-Gil, F. eds.Latino Health and Aging. Springer Publishing Co., New York.
(111) “Hacia una nueva generación de política habitacional en colonias populares consolidadas en México. Regeneración urbana y rehabilitación del hábitat. pp147-258. In Jiménez Huerta, Edith, and Heriberto Cruz Solís, Editors. 2012. Superado la informalidad, nuevos desafíos: políticas para las colonias populares consolidadas. Editorial Universitaria: Universidad de Guadalajara. Mexico
Metropolitan Governance in the Federalist Americas: Case Studies and Strategies for Equitable and Integrated Development. (With Peter Spink and Robert Wilson). 2012. The University of Notre Dame Press.
2013
(112) “Intergovernmental Collaboration in Metropolitan Areas: The Case of the Federalist Americas.” (with Peter K. Spink and Robert Wilson [lead author]), in Next City: Planning for a New Energy and Climate Future, (Proceedings from the 10th International Urban Planning and Environment Association Symposium), Nicole Gurran, Peter Phipps, and Susan Thompson, eds. (University of Sydney, 2013) pp. 218-243.
2014
(113) The Reproduction of Informality in Low Income Self-Help Housing Communities in the USA In Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris and Vinit Mukhija, editors The Informal City in the USA , MIT Press.
(114) Measuring Self-Help Home Improvements in Texas Colonias: A Ten Year Natural Experiment”. With Noah Durst. Urban Studies.*
(115) Intensive Case Study Methodology for the Analysis Of Self-Help Housing Consolidation, Household Organization and Mobility. Current Urban Studies, Vol 2. (Lead Author with E. Jiménez and M. Di Virgilio).
Housing Policy in Latin American Cities: A New Generation of Strategies and Approaches for UN-Habitat III in 2016., Routledge: Research in Urban Politics and PolicySeries (Lead Author with E. Jiménez and M. Di Virgilio, & author or coauthor of six chapters).
Ch. 1 Peter M. Ward. Latin America’s “Innerburbs”: Towards a New Generation of Housing Policies for Low-Income Consolidated Self-Help Settlements. Pp.1-19.
Ch.2. Peter M. Ward. A Spectrum of Policies for Housing Rehab and Community Regeneration in the “Innerburbs”. Pp.20-39.
Ch. 4. Peter M. Ward. The Challenge for Housing Rehab in Mexico City and Monterrey. Pp.65-94.
Ch. 8. Danielle Rojas and Peter M Ward. Rehab, “Los Aires” and Densification of Consolidated Settlements in Lima, Peru, pp. 160-191.
Ch. 9. Peter M Ward. Unique, or Just Different? Self-Help, Social Housing and Rehab in Santiago, Chile. Pp.192-213
Ch. 13. Peter M Ward, Edith Jiménez and Mercedes di Virgilio. Urban Regeneration and Housing Rehabilitation in Latin America’s Innerburbs. Pp.286-302.
2015
Published in Spanish Edition as:
Peter M. Ward, Edith Jiménez Huerta, Mercedes Di Virgilio, and Angélica Camargo Sierra, 2015. Políticas de Vivienda en Ciudades Latinoamericanos: Una nueva generación de estrategias y enfoques para 2016 ONU-Hábitat III. Editorial Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia.
(117) Peter M. Ward. 2015. Texas Self-Help Informal Settlement & Colonia Housing Conditions, Aging, and Health Status. pp 267-285. Challenges for Hispanic Aging: Mexico and the United States. Eds. William A. Vega, Kyriakos S. Markides, Jacqueline L. Angel, and Fernando M. Torres-Gil. Springer Science, New York.
(118) Peter M. Ward, Heather Way and Lucille Wood. 2015. Protecting Homebuyers in Low-Income Communities: Evaluating the Success of Texas Legislative Reforms in the Informal Homeownership Market. Law and Social Inquiry, Vol. 41. 1. 152-183. DOI: 10.1111/lsi.12125
(119) Noah Durst and Peter M. Ward Lot vacancy and property abandonment: colonias and informal subdivisions in Texas. International Journal of Housing Policy. Vol. 15, 4, pp.377-399. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14616718.2015.109009
(120). Peter M. Ward. 2015. Renovación Habitacional en Colonias Populares Consolidados de los Primeros Suburbios (Innerburbs) en México. Pp. 233-239 in Alicia Ziccardi and Arsenio González, (Eds). Habitabilidad y política de vivienda en México, UNAM, Mexico City.
(121) Noah Durst and Peter M. Ward. 2015. Colonia Housing Conditions in Model Subdivisions: A Déjà Vu for Policy Makers”. Housing Policy Debate. DOI: 10.1080/10511482.2015.1068826
(122) Peter M. Ward. 2015. Housing Rehab for Consolidated Informal Settlements: A New Policy Agenda for 2016 UN-Habitat III. Habitat International Vol 50 (December), pp. 373-384. DOI information: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2015.08.021
(123) Peter M. Ward. 2015. Colaboración intergubermental en áreas metropolitanas de los Estados federalistas americanos. Repensar La Metrópoli II: Reflexiones sobre planeación y procesos metropolitanos, Tomo II. Blanca Rebeca RAMÍREZ and Roberto EIBENSHUTZ H. pp. 74-101, Universidad Autonóma Metropolitana, Mexico DF. (In collaboration with Robert H. Wilson and Peter K Spink.)
2016.
(124) Carlos Olmedo and Peter M Ward. 2016. Model Subdivisions: The New Face of Developer Lot Sales for Low-income Colonia-type Housing in Texas. Land Use Policy, 52. DOI: http://dx.org/10.1016.2015/i.landusepol.2015.12.003
(125 repeat of 118 above which was published on line in 2015, and hard copy in 2016) Peter M. Ward, Heather Way and Lucille Wood. 2016. Protecting Homebuyers in Low-Income Communities: Evaluating the Success of Texas Legislative Reforms in the Informal Homeownership Market. Law and Social Inquiry, Vol. 41. 1. 152-183. DOI: 10.1111/lsi.12125
2018.
(126) Lewis Stetson Rowles III, Reinaldo Alcalde, Francisca Bogolasky, Soyoon Kum, Farith A Diaz-Arriaga, Craig Ayres, Anne M. Mikelonis, Luis Javier Toledo-Flores, Manuel Gerardo Alonso-Gutiérrez, Maria Eufemia Pérez-Flores, Desmond F. Lawler, Peter M. Ward, Juana Yolanda Lopez-Cruz, Navid B. Saleh. 2018. “Perceived versus actual water quality: Community studies in rural Oaxaca, Mexico". Science of the Total Environment, 622-623, pp. 626-634.
(127) Bogolasky, Francisca, and Peter M. Ward. 2018. Housing, Health, and Ageing in Texas Colonias and Informal Subdivisions. Current Urban Studies, 6, 70-101.
https://doi.org/10.4236/cus.2018.61004