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Marvel Lang

PhD, Michigan State University, 1979

Urban growth and urban development theory, rural growth and decline, governance, and municipal management

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Marvel Lang

Dr. Lang is an ordained minister who has been preaching the gospel since 1969. He is also a Gospel Singer and recording artist. He grew up in rural southeast Mississippi on a farm outside the town of Bay Springs in Jasper County. His formative years were during the late 1950s and 1960s during the height of the Civil Rights Movement in the South. Dr. Lang was a Professor of Social Science at Michigan State University from 1986 until his retirement in 2011. He is currently the Director of Staffing and Training for NCG, LLC – a minority woman owned professional staffing and training company. Previously he was a professor at Jackson State University and worked as a professional researcher at the U.S. Census Bureau in Washington, D.C. He is a member and minister at the Tabernacle of David COGIC in Lansing, Michigan. Dr. Lang is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Incorporated.

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