Lisa Berglund, PhD- visiting scholar

Lisa Berglund is an associate professor of urban planning at Dalhousie University and is a visiting scholar at STOP. Her research focuses on the intersection between police and private sector surveillance and gentrification. At STOP, she is researching the ways that actors involved in development and reinvestment—like business improvement districts, investors, and developers that privately own and manage publicly accessible spaces—have a stake in surveilling the public and have leveraged surveillance technologies to convey social control and police disorder in gentrifying neighborhoods. This research will help to better understand the landscape of surveillance that takes place at the hands of development professionals and how these strategies may promote an uneven patterns of risk and profiling for groups vulnerable to surveillance abuse. Lisa holds a bachelor of architecture from the University of Michigan and a master of urban design from the Royal Institute of Technology. She also holds a PhD in urban planning from UCLA.