Bloch School of Management. Han received her Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning, specializing in Housing and Community Development, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her dissertation research topic related to the impacts of abandoned residential properties on property values in surrounding neighborhoods, and was supported by a dissertation grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. She also received a Master of City Planning from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a B.A. and a M.A. in Architecture from Seoul National University.