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Jason Reece is an associate professor of city and regional planning at the Knowlton School and Vice Provost for Urban Research & Community Engagement in the Office of Academic Affairs. His research seeks to understand the role of planning in fostering a built and social environment which supports a just city and healthy communities. He is a community engaged scholar, collaborating directly with local community leaders in in co-creating knowledge that serves our community.

His role as Vice Provost focuses on building support systems and relationships to support community engaged scholarship in Central Ohio’s urban communities. Working on behalf of the office of academic affairs, he collaborates with internal and external stakeholders to create a strategic vision for academic partnership with Ohio State’s local communities. He contributes to the university’s strategic focus area in external engagement, which seeks to forge strong, mutually beneficial connections with external communities. In this capacity, he manage Ohio State’s Office of Outreach and Engagement, which includes our seed grant program, symposia, professional development programming and awards.

His work on planning history and civil rights has focused on the historical and contemporary role of exclusionary land use policy and its impact on contemporary urban inequality. His work in health equity seeks to understand the role of housing and community development in supporting both physical and mental health in marginalized communities. At the Knowlton School I teach courses in equity planning, community development, land use law, planning theory and planning history.