Faculty Profiles

Housing Design

ANN C. ZIEBARTH, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Housing Studies Program

Faculty Research Fellow, Center for Rural Design
Department of Design, Housing, and Apparel
240 McNeal Hall

1985 Buford Ave.

St. Paul, MN 55108-6136
(612) 625-8795
aziebart@umn.edu

Specialties & Expertise:

  • Housing Issues in Small Towns & Rural Places
  • Housing Policy
  • Rural Sociology
  • Migrant Worker Housing
  • Employer Assisted Housing
  • Workforce Housing and Rural Health Care Providers
      Course Titles:
  • DHA 2401 Introduction to Housing
  • DHA 4465 Housing in a Global Perspective
  • DHA 5484 Rural Housing Issues
  • DHA 8467 Theoretical Perspectives in Housing Studies
  • HE 4150/HSem 3010 Women, Housing, & Public Policy      

Selected Scholarship:

  • Ziebarth, A. (forthcoming). Housing heroines: A social action research. Housing and Society.
  • Ziebarth, A. (2006). Housing seasonal workers for the Minnesota processed vegetable industry. Rural Sociology. 71(2), 335-357.
  • Hwang, E. & Ziebarth, A. (2006). The impacts of different aspects of residential environments on housing satisfaction among Korean American Elders. Housing and Society. 33(2), 53-72.
  • Ziebarth, A. & Tigges, L. (2003). Earning a Living/Building a Life: Income-Generating and Income-Saving Strategies of Rural Wisconsin Families. In W. Falk, M. Schulman, & A. Tickamyer (Eds.), Communities of Work. Athens, 316-338. OH: Ohio University Press.-Book Chapter
  • Ziebarth, A. C. (2003) Housing, Affordable. In K. Christensen & D. Levinseon (eds). The Encyclopedia of Community: From Village to Virtual World (vol 2), 618-621. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.
  • Skobba, K., & Ziebarth, A. (2002). Empowerment in leasehold cooperatives and its influence on the member/management relationship. Housing and Society. -Refereed Journal Article
  • Ziebarth, A. (2002). Viviendas de Trabajadores Migrantes: Resultandoes de Encuestas del Centro-Sur de Minnesota. Minneapolis, MN: Cnetro Campesino, Center for Urban and Regional Affairs University of Minnesota, and Hispanic Advocacy & Community Empowerment throught Research (HACER). [89 Pages]. Also in Spanish and English online at www.hacer-mn.org.
  • Ziebarth, A. (2001, July). Minnesota’s Employer Assisted Housing. Joint International Summit on Community and Rural Development. Duluth, MN.
  • Ziebarth, A. (2000) Local housing policy: The small town myth and economic development. Rural America, 15 (2), 18-22.
  • Ziebarth, A. & Hwang, J. (2000) Small Town Housing Policies in Minnesota. Just in Time Research: Resilient Communities, pp. 71-77. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota, Hubert H. Humphrey Institute for Public Affairs. 

Professional, Institutional, and Community Leadership and Service:

  • 2009-2010. Housing Education & Research Association, President
  • 2008-2009. Rural Sociology Society. Membership chair
  • 2001-2008. Housing Assistance Council Research Advisory Panel
  • 2007-2008. College of Design Scholarship Committee
  • 2006-2007. College of Design Diversity Committee, chair
  • 2005. Reviewer for Introduction to Housing textbook
  • 1999-current. Reviewer for Rual Sociology journal
  • 2001-2004 Rural Sociological Society Development Committee
  • 2001-2005. Housing Assistance Council (HAC) Research Advisory Panel
  • 2001-2004. Reviewer for USDA Small Business Innovation Research Grants
  • 2001-2004 College of Human Ecology Faculty Leave Committee