• African Development; Land Use Policy; Planning Theory and Process; Urban Planning; Planning
• African Development; Community Planning; Growth Management; Rural Development; Planning education

• Dube, S. and Masilela, C.O.(forthcoming 2005). Rethinking the African State: A New Conceptualization on Sub-Saharan Africa. In Kwadwo Konadu-Agyemang and Kwamina Panford Africa’s Development in the 21st Century: Pertinent issues, Opportunities and Challenges
• Dube, S. and Masilela, C.O.(forthcoming 2005). Land Reform and Land Redistribution in Zimbabwe: A Tragedy of the Commons. In Kwadwo Konadu-Agyemang and Kwamina Panford Africa’s Development in the 21st Century: Pertinent issues, Opportunities and Challenges.
• Modie T. and Masilela, C.O. (in review, African Geographical Review). Community-Level Stressors and Health Outcomes in Low-Income Urban Communities in Francistown: Toward a Population Health Model in the era of HIV/AIDS.

• Dube, S. and Masilela, C.O., 2004. Olson's Stationary-Roving Bandit Model: An Application to Zimbabwe's Land Reform and Sustainable Development. The Pennsylvania Geographer, Spring/Summer, Volume 42. Number 1.
• Masilela, C.O., and Meyer, W. A., 1999. The Role of Citizen Participation in Comprehensive Planning: The Morgantown Experience. Small Town.
• Masilela, C.O., and Rankin, D., 1998. Land Reform in Zimbabwe: ZANU-PF’s Red Herring. The East African Geographical Review (EAGR), Volume 20 (1), pp.1-19.
• Masilela, C.O., 1998. Malawi. In Saul Cohen (Editor-in-chief). The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, Columbia University Press. Volume 2, pp. 1851.
• Masilela, C.O., 1998. Zambia. In Saul Cohen (Editor-in-chief). The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, Columbia University Press. Volume 3, pp. 3548-3549.
• Masilela, C.O., 1998. Zimbabwe. In Saul Cohen (Editor-in-chief). The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, Columbia University Press. Volume 3, pp. 3568-3569.
• Masilela, C.O., and Weiner, D., 1997. Lessons from Zimbabwe's Land Resettlement Experience. In de Villiers, A. and Critchley W., Rural Land Reform Issues in Southern Africa: Lessons For South Africa's Northern Province, University of the North, South Africa, pp 24-41.
• Masilela, C. O., and Weiner, D., 1996.Resettlement Planning. In Zimbabwe and South's Africa's Rural Land Reform Discourse. Third World Planning Review, Volume 18 (1), pp. 23-43.
• Masilela, C.O., 1994. Teaching American Students About Urbanization in Developing Countries: The Use of Role-Playing Exercises. Journal of Geography, 93, 3, pp.114-124.
• Knox, P. L., and Masilela, C. O., 1990. Role Orientations of Third World Urban Planners. Planning and Environment B: 17, pp. 9-22.
• Knox, P. L., and Masilela, C. O., 1989. Attitudes to Third World Urban Planning: Practitioners versus Outside Experts. Habitat International, 13, 3, pp. 67-79.
• Masilela, C. O., 1988. Changing Rural Development Policies and Planning in Zimbabwe: Comment. In Robert, A. Obudho (ed.). Regional Development Policies and Planning in Africa. Regional Development Dialogue Special Issue, pp. 216-218.

• Principal investigator, The Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program, U S Department of Education (October 2005 - September 2006).$220,000.
• Principal investigator, The Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program, U S Department of Education (October 2004 - September 2005). $220,000.
• Principal investigator, The Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program, U S Department of Education (October 2003 - September 20040. $209,258.
• IUP Senate Fellowship Grant 2002-03 (co-PI with Drs. Begg and Sechrist). $3,511.
• Information Technology for Higher Education Capacity Building in Southern Africa. USIA-FY 2000 College and University Affiliations Program: Partnership Between West Virginia University, The University of Pretoria, South Africa and Catholic University, Mozambique.  (Principal Investigator with Daniel Weiner: October 2000 – September 1, 2003). $142,436.
• Monitoring Beira (Mozambique) Using Geographic Urban Indicators. University Consortium for Geographic Information Science and US Department of Housing and Urban Development. (Principal Investigator with Greg Elmes and Daniel Weiner: January 2001 – August 2001). $40,000.
• Principal investigator, Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program. U.S. Department of Education (October 2000 - September 2001). $203,000

• Masilela, C.O. and McCusker, B. 2002. Presented a final draft report at the 2nd HUD/UCGIS Symposium on Global Urban Quality Indicators: Analysis of Urban Indicators Using Geographic Information Science, sponsored by the Department of Housing and Urban Development in collaboration with UCGIS, Millennium Hotel, New York City, January 8-11, 2002.
• Masilela, C.O. and McCusker, B. 2001. Presented progress report at the 1st HUD/UCGIS Symposium on Global Urban Quality Indicators: Analysis of Urban Indicators Using Geographic Information Science, sponsored by the Department of Housing and Urban Development in collaboration with UCGIS, Washington DC, September 26, 2001
• Workshop participant at The 15th Annual Conference for African Americans in Higher Education, sponsored by the Black Faculty & Staff Association, University of Maryland, College Park. May 29-30, 2002.