Dr. Michael Glass is a Teaching Professor and the Director of the Urban Studies Program at the University of Pittsburgh. His primary research is on city-region governance and infrastructure, including community-engaged projects in Fayette County with colleagues at Pitt. He is the co-editor of Urban Violence, Resilience and Security: Governance Responses in the Global South (Edward Elgar, 2022), Performativity, Politics, and the Production of Social Space (Routledge, 2014), Infrastructural Times (Bristol University Press, forthcoming), and is co-author of Priced Out: Stuyvesant Town and the Loss of Middle-Class Neighborhoods (NYU Press, 2016). His most recent research examines the ways that infrastructure shapes regions and influences regional equity: you can read more about his Network on Infrastructural Regionalism (NOIR) here. He serves on the editorial boards of Journal of Urban Affairs and Regional Studies, Regional Science, and is the Regional Studies Association's Territorial Ambassador to the United States.