2019 Kaplan Family Distinguished Faculty Fellows

Scott Peters

Professor, Department of Development Sociology

Scott Peters is a professor in the Department of Development Sociology at Cornell University. From 2012-2017, he served as Faculty Co-Director of a national consortium devoted to supporting engaged learning and public scholarship in arts, humanitities, and design fields: Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life. His latest book, Jumping into Civic Life, was published by the Kettering Foundation Press in 2018. With Daniel O'Connell, he is currently writing a book chronicling a history of engaged scholarship in California's San Joaquin Valley, from the 1930s to the present. It will be published in 2020 by New Village Press.

George Frantz

Associate Professor of the Practice, Department of City and Regional Planning

George Frantz has been a practitioner and teacher in land use and community planning for over 30 years. Through his planning field workshop classes, he has placed students in communities ranging from the Ninth Ward of New Orleans to Catskill Mountarin resort towns, to communities in Pennsylvania impacted by Marcellus Shale natural gas drilling, to the Old City of Shanghai, PRC. His first experience in service learning was in the early 1990s, as a community partner, in the Cornell University/Town of Ithaca, Inlet Valley Archaeological Survey. Frantz received his B.S. in landscape architecture and his M.R.P. from Cornell in 1980 and 1991 respectively.