Suzanne Moomaw

Suzanne Morse Moomaw is Chair and Associate Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning, University of Virginia School of Architecture, where she has served as Director of Undergraduate Studies, Founding Director of the Community Design Research Center, and Interim Director of Real Estate and Design + Development. 

Moomaw served as Director of the University of Virginia Press from 2019 until 2022. She was instrumental in the financial and organizational stability of the Press as well as a range of new publishing initiatives. Before coming to UVA, she was President of the national research institute, the Pew Partnership for Civic Change. 

She is the author of Cities Without Work: The Long Road from Boom to Bust (forthcoming Harvard University Press, 2024); Smart Communities: How Citizens and Local Leaders Can Use Strategic Thinking to Build a Brighter Future (Second Edition (Jossey Bass/John Wiley, 2014); and Renewing Civic Capacity: Preparing College Students for Service and Citizenship (ASHE-ERIC, 1989). 

Moomaw has been recognized for her teaching and research including the All-University Teaching Award in 2015 and the Excellence in Education Abroad Award in 2021. In 2015-2016 she served on the Urban Sustainability Expert Committee for the National Academies. She is a trustee of the Kettering Foundation since 2000.