Deyanira Martinez

About Deyanira Martinez

Deyanira Nevárez Martínez is an assistant professor in the Urban & Regional Planning Program at Michigan State University. Dr. Nevárez Martínez earned a PhD in Urban and Environmental Planning and Policy at UC Irvine. Her research focuses on the role of the state in homelessness and housing precarity and informality.

Selected Publications

Nevarez Martinez, D. (2024). “Anywhere But Here”: Understanding the Influence of Antihomeless Coalitions on Street-Level Bureaucratic Discretion and Judicial Nullification. Urban Affairs Review, 60(2), 614-639., Nevarez Martinez, D. (2021). Homelessness in Southern California: Street-level encounters with the state and the structural violence of performative productivity. Radical Housing Journal, 3(2):9-26., Nevarez Martínez, D., Rendón, M. G., & Arroyo, D. (2021). Los Olvidados/the forgotten: Reconceptualizing colonias as viable communities. Progress in Planning, 147, 100450., Adkins, A., Barillas-Longoria, G., Nevarez Martínez, D., & Ingram, M. (2019). Differences in social and physical dimensions of perceived walkability in Mexican American and non-hispanic white walking environments in Tucson, Arizona. Journal of transport & health, 14, 100585.

Recent Courses Taught

UP 801 Planning History and Theory
UP 434 Race in the City
UP 353 Land Use Planning, CLS 492 Chicano Latino Studies: Research, Theory and Practice