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Christina Bollo is the director of the Housing Specialization, with an integrated teaching and research agenda that focuses on ecological housing design for social justice. She is a social scientist who uses qualitative and quantitative methods to investigate the influence of housing policy on housing design, and the relationships between housing design and human wellbeing. Her work has been published in the PLAN Journal, Housing and Society, Journal of Interior Design, Buildings, Research and Information, International Journal of Architectural Research, and Journal of Property Management. Her research has been funded by the AIA Housing and Community Development Knowledge Community and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan.

Christina teaches active-learning, flipped-classroom courses on ecological housing design and architectural design studios that focus on housing for social justice. Previous to her appointment at the University of Oregon, she was an assistant professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign School of Architecture and a post-doctoral fellow at the University of British Columbia. Christina has a Ph.D. in Sustainable Architecture from the University of Oregon; an M.Arch from the University of Oregon; and a B.A. in English Literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is a registered architect in Washington State and Illinois.

More about Christina's research and teaching can be found at HousingDesignResearch.com