As I write about Susan Fainstein, the 2004 ACSP Distinguished Educator Award recipient, many Americans have taken to the streets in a show of power to decry the racial injustices embodied in the lynching of George Floyd in Minneapolis. This is sadly fitting, for today’s rebellion bears striking parallels to the Black ghetto rebellions of the late 1960s that shaped the core issues of Fainstein’s research and teaching: citizen participation and social justice. Although she subsequently problematized her view of the former, the latter has remained her central concern. Fainstein did not plan to become a planner. She was first a political scientist. Despite obtaining her undergraduate degree in political science magna cum laude at Harvard University, when she applied to Harvard’s government department to pursue a PhD, a faculty member openly told her that a doctorate was not for a woman, let alone a mother of two. Fortunately for planning, MIT’s political science program was more open-minded. She pursued her degree there under the direction of Alan Altshuler, who had recently published his critique of urban planning practice in The City Planning Process: A Political Analysis (Altshuler 1965). Initially interested in whether citizen participation in New York City’s community school boards improved educational outcomes, Fainstein discovered that the boards’ significance was political rather than technical; consequently, she pivoted to researching the emergence of social movements and their impact on the boards’ aims and strategies. 948606 JPEXXX10.1177/0739456X20948606Journal of Planning Education and ResearchPotter research-article2020

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ACSP 杰出教育家，2004 年：Susan Fainstein

在我撰写 2004 年 ACSP 杰出教育家奖获得者苏珊·费恩斯坦 (Susan Fainstein) 时，许多美国人走上街头，以展示权力，谴责明尼阿波利斯对乔治·弗洛伊德 (George Floyd) 处以私刑所体现的种族不公正。这很合适，因为今天的叛乱与 1960 年代后期的黑人隔都叛乱有着惊人的相似之处，后者塑造了费恩斯坦研究和教学的核心问题：公民参与和社会正义。尽管她随后质疑了她对前者的看法，但后者仍然是她的核心关注点。费恩斯坦并不打算成为一名规划师。她最初是一名政治学家。尽管她以优异成绩获得了哈佛大学政治学本科学位，但当她申请哈佛大学政府部门攻读博士学位时，一位教职员工公开告诉她，博士学位不适合女性，更不用说是两个孩子的母亲了。幸运的是，麻省理工学院的政治学项目在规划方面更为开放。她在 Alan Altshuler 的指导下在那里攻读学位，他最近在《城市规划过程：政治分析》（Altshuler 1965）中发表了他对城市规划实践的批评。Fainstein 最初对公民参与纽约市社区学校董事会是否能改善教育成果感兴趣，发现这些董事会的意义在于政治而非技术；因此，她转向研究社会运动的出现及其对董事会目标和战略的影响。948606 JPEXXX10.1177/0739456X20948606Journal of Planning Education and ResearchPotter research-article2020