Education
Ph.D., Public Policy, George Mason University
MPP, University of Maryland
BS, Mathematical Economics, Wake Forest University


Biography
Dr. Lisa Fowler is Assistant Research Professor at George Mason University. She works with Dr. Stephen Fuller and John McClain at the GMU School of Public Policy Center for Regional Analysis (CRA). Her primary areas of research include housing, demographics, economic development, and residential mobility and migration. Dr. Fowler completed her PhD in Public Policy in May 2006. She received Virginia Association of Realtors scholarships in 2004 and 2006. Her dissertation was titled Immigrant Suburbs: An Analysis of the Residential Mobility and Location Decisions of Recent Immigrants. Dr. Fowler received her master’s degree in public policy from the University of Maryland and a BS in mathematical economics from Wake Forest University. Prior to working at the Center for Regional Analysis, Dr. Fowler spent four years as County Demographer in the Arlington County Department of Community Planning, Housing and Development.

Dr. Fowler’s recent publications include Need for Affordable/Workforce Housing in Fairfax County (with John McClain), National Economic Impact of Non-Profit Downpayment Assistance Providers (with Stephen Fuller), Policies and Programs to Preserve Affordable Housing: A Review of Incentives and Recommendations for Northern Virginia, and Telling the Story of US Army Women (with Stephen Fuller and Michelle Ranville).

In July 2007, with support from the Virginia General Assembly, Dr. Fowler will head a new Center for Housing Policy research based within CRA at the School of Public Policy. The CHPR's mission is to provide high quality research on the links between housing policy and the economy in the Commonwealth of Virginia and the Washington DC Metropolitan Area


Areas of Expertise
• Housing Policy
• Regional Analysis and Economic Development
• Residential Mobility and Migration