I am an Associate Research Professor in the Department of Urban + Environmental Policy + Planning, a faculty member of the Tisch College of Civic Life, and Executive Director of the Talloires Network at Tufts University.

A researcher, teacher, and practitioner, I seek to understand why, and influence how, "rooted" institutions work together to improve the economic and social dimensions of the neighborhoods in which they are located. More recently I have made contributions to the burgeoning field of international civic engagement. My approach is best characterized as the scholarship of engagement, a type of inquiry in which research, teaching and practice overlap and are mutually reinforcing.

Curriculum Vitae

Education

University of Pennsylvania, Ph.D. in City Planning

University of Pennsylvania, Master of City Planning

State University of New York, Master of Landscape Architecture

Pennsylvania State University, Bachelor of Science in Landscape Architecture

Pennsylvania State University, French Minor

Professional Experience

Executive Director, Talloires Network, Tufts University

Associate Research Professor, Department of Urban + Environmental Policy + Planning, Tufts University

Faculty of Tisch College of Civic Life, Tufts University

Visiting Scholar, College of Education and Human Developent, University of Massachusetts, Boston

Director of Programs and Research, Talloires Network, Tufts University

Associate Professor, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.)

Assistant Professor, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.)

Director and Founder, M.I.T.@Lawrence Partnership

Lecturer, Saint Joseph's University

Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania

Awards

Presidents’ Community Partnership Award, Massachusetts Campus Compact

Excellence in Advising Award, M.I.T.

Martin Luther King Jr. Leadership Award, M.I.T.

President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor
Roll, Corporation for National and Community Service

Ernest A. Lynton Award for the Scholarship of Engagement, New England Resource Center for Higher Education

Edward H. and Joyce Linde Career Development Chair, M.I.T.

Employee of the Year, Philadelphia Housing Authority

National Merit Awards, American Society of Landscape Architects

Teaching Excellence Award, University of Illinois

News

L.Hoyt, (editor). Forthcoming. Regional Perspectives on Learning by Doing: Stories from Engaged Universities Around the World, Lansing: Michigan State University Press.

L. Hoyt, A. Bryson, P. Belloy, M. Ching and J. Diaz, 2016. Emprendizaje: Higher Education for Entrepreneurship, Learning and Collective Intelligence in Southern Chile. Also available in Spanish.

An instructive story: Rebuilding Community after Katrina: Transformative Education in the New Orleans Planning Initiative, by Reardon and Forester.

L. Hoyt, A. Newcomb Rowe, and B. Hernandez. 2015. Stories of Leadership from Engaged Universities Around the World, Department of Urban + Environmental Policy + Planning's Colloquium Series, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts.

Rewarding Academics for Civic Engagement Gains Ground, by Rebecca Warden of University World News.

L. Hoyt. 2014. "University Civic Engagement: A Global Perspective," Higher Education Exchange. Dayton: Kettering Foundation.

Watch "Stories of University Civic Engagement from Around the World," several short stories of university civic engagement programs created by Tufts graduate students who took Anchor Institutions and Community Revitalization with Hoyt and Hollister. 

L. Hoyt, A. Newcomb Rowe, and B. Hernandez. 2015. "Leaders in the Civic Engagement Movement." Interviews with 61 leaders from 26 universities in 17 countries written by 15 authors.

L. Hoyt and M. Keegan, "Building a Global Movement of Engaged Universities" Building Community, Reaching for Justice Speaker Series, January 29 in Andover, Massachusetts, Merrimack College.

L. Hoyt, “The Expanding Global Movement of Engaged Universities: Developing an Action Research Agenda for South and North Exchange” presented at the Publishers for Development Conference in London, England, 15 October 2013.

L.Hoyt, (editor). 2013. Transforming Cities and Minds through the Scholarship of Engagement: Economy, Equity, and Environment, Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press.

Hoyt, L., Mackres, E. and G. Christiansen, "Transforming Cities and Minds through the Scholarship of Engagement." NERCHE Think Tank webinar co-sponsored by the M.I.T. Community Innovators' Lab and the Talloires Network.