Rate My Professor Mallika Bose

Bose’s research explores community-engaged design and planning, built environment influences on active living and healthy eating, public scholarship and community-based design, gender and development, design and planning pedagogy, urban and non-traditional housing, and socio-cultural impacts on the built environment. Her publications feature in leading journals including Landscape Research, Urban Studies, Habitat International, Journal of Urban Design, Landscape Journal, and Journal of Environmental Psychology. Key works include the co-edited book Community Matters: Service-learning in Engaged Design and Planning; “Who owns the city? Neoliberal urbanism and land purchases in Gurgaon, India” (Urban Studies, 2024); “Landscape architecture as democratic practice: learning from participatory methods and motivations in community-engaged design” (Landscape Research, 2025); “Power through social networks: A case study of urban farmers facing land development in Delhi, India” (Habitat International, 2022); and “Women’s home-centred work in India: The gendered politics of space” (International Development Planning Review, 2007). Bose has earned the 2019-20 Big Ten Academic Alliance Academic Leadership Program Fellowship, 2017-18 Faculty Administrative Fellowship at Penn State, 2012-13 Social Science Research Institute Faculty Fellowship, 2008-09 Public Scholarship Associate award, and 2007 Rock Ethics Institute Faculty Fellowship, among others. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Environmental Design Research Association, which she chaired from 2012 to 2013.