Elizabeth Currid-Halkett

Elizabeth Currid-Halkett is the James Irvine Chair in Urban and Regional Planning and professor of public policy at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy. She teaches courses in economic development and urban policy and planning. Her research focuses on the arts and culture, the American consumer economy and the role of culture in geographic and class divides.

She is the author of The Warhol Economy: How Fashion, Art and Music Drive New York City (Princeton University Press 2007); Starstruck: The Business of Celebrity (Faber & Faber/Farrar, Straus and Giroux,...

Ph.D., Urban Planning, Columbia University
M.S., Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University
B.A., Professional Writing and Creative Writing, minor in Business Administration and Environmental Policy, Carnegie Mellon University

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