Dr. Melissa Heil

Assistant Professor of Geography

Geography-Geology-Environment

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About
Education
Awards & Honors
Research

Biography

I study urban systems of human welfare provision. My recent research focuses on how the non-profit sector facilitates water access in cities in the face of water safety and affordability challenges.

Current Courses

142.005Human Geography

336.001Urban Geography

PhD Geography

University of Illinois

Urbana-Champaign

MA Geography

University of Illinois

Urbana-Champaign

BA Organizational Studies

University of Michigan

Ann Arbor

Winner, Graduate Student Paper Competition

Urban Geography Specialty Group American Association of Geographers

2020

Book Review

Heil, Melissa (2015). "Won’t you be my neighbor? Race, class, and residence in Los Angeles, by Camille Zubrinsky Charles." Book Review. Urban Geography.

Journal Article

Heil, Melissa (2021). Debtor Spaces: Austerity, Space, and Financialized Dispossession. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space

Wilson, David and Melissa Heil (2020). Decline Machines: Economic Development in the American Rustbelt and Flint, MI.

Heil, Melissa (2018). Community Development Corporations in the Right-Sizing City: Remaking the CDC Model of Urban Redevelopment. Journal of Urban Affairs.

Grants & Contracts

New Faculty Initiative Grant. College of Arts and Sciences, Illinois State University. Illinois State University. (2021)

Illinois Geographical Society Research Grant. Illinois Geographical Society. Private. (2020)

Graduate College Dissertation Completion Fellowship. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Other. (2019)

Charles S. Alexander Fellowship Graduate Fellowship for Women in Geography. Department of Geography and GIScience University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Other. (2018)