Margaret Cowell

Margaret Cowell, PhD, is an associate professor of urban affairs and planning at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), where she teaches courses on economic development, urban economics, and public policy. She is the author of Dealing with Deindustrialization: Adaptive Resilience in American Midwestern Regions (Routledge, 2014) and has published numerous peer-reviewed articles focused on economic resilience, economic restructuring, and economic development. Her most recent work examines entrepreneurs and small businesses in the neighborhoods most likely to be impacted by Amazon HQ2 and Virginia Tech’s $1bn Innovation Campus developments in Northern Virginia.