Bio:
Richardson Dilworth is a professor of politics and head of the Department of Politics at Drexel University. Dilworth’s research and teaching focuses on American urban political development, urban environmental policy, and community economic development.
He is the author or coauthor of numerous essays and articles, author of the books Urban Origins of Suburban Autonomy (2005) and Reforming Philadelphia, 1682-2022 (2023), and the editor or co-editor of nine books, one of the more recent being, with Timothy Weaver, How Ideas Shape Urban Political Development (2020).
Dilworth is also the managing editor and a coeditor of the journal Urban Affairs Review and editor-in-chief of the Oxford Bibliographies in Urban Studies.
Besides Drexel, he has taught at Johns Hopkins University, Temple University, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Wagner College, the University of Tirana in Albania, and Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China. Dilworth has held visiting positions at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, and he served on the Philadelphia Historical Commission for eight years.
He received his Bachelor of Science in economics from New York University, and his doctoral degree in political science from Johns Hopkins University.