# People ## Co-Directors [### Eve Blau ](/people/eve-blau)Adjunct Professor of the History and Theory of Urban Form and Design, Graduate School of Design Co-Director, Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative ![Eve Blau](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hmui/files/eve-blau-photo-scaled-1920x0-c-default.jpeg?itok=auRxE6i8) [### Bruno Carvalho ](/people/bruno-carvalho)Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and African and African American Studies Co-Director of the Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative Affiliated Professor in Urban Planning and Design at the Graduate School of Design ![Bruno Carvalho](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hmui/files/carvalho_img_4962_1.jpg?itok=6AI5kPRW) ## Executive Committee [### Daniel Agbiboa ](/people/daniel-agbiboa)Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies ![Portrait of Daniel Agbiboa](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hmui/files/img_1152.jpg?itok=cAtrL-ks) [### Diane Davis ](/people/diane-davis)Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning and Urbanism ![Diane Davis](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hmui/files/59-diane_davis_2.jpg?itok=ZShqUe1Q) [### Patricio del Real ](/people/patricio-del-real)Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture Modern Architecture ![del_real_patricio.png](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hmui/files/del_real_patricio.png?itok=TuIALsrr) [### Ian J. Miller ](/people/ian-miller)Professor of History Affiliate Professor, Department of History of Science and Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations Faculty Dean of Cabot House ![Portrait of Ian J Miller](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hmui/files/ian_j._miller.jpg?itok=gl6GX4sE) ## Associated Faculty Committee [### Margaret M. Andrews ](/people/margaret-m-andrews)Assistant Professor of Classics ![Margaret M. Andrews](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hmui/files/andrews_headshot_cropped.jpg?itok=G5g7MjDN) [### Sven Beckert ](/people/sven-beckert)Sven Beckert is Laird Bell Professor of History Visiting Professor of Management at Harvard Business School ![Sven Beckert](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hmui/files/beckert_sven.jpg?itok=h2WyBGJU) [### Suzanne P. Blier ](/people/suzanne-p-blier)Allen Whitehill Clowes Professor of Fine Arts and Professor of African and African American Studies ![Suzanne Blier](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hmui/files/suzanne_blier_1.png?itok=gsZziYo1) [### Nikolas Bowie ](/people/nikolas-bowie)Assistant Professor of Law ![Photo of Nikolas Bowie](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hmui/files/nikolas_bowie.jpg?itok=NUF-GFpv) [### Vincent Brown ](/people/vincent-brown)Vincent Brown is Charles Warren Professor of American History Professor of African and African-American Studies Founding Director of the History Design Studio ![Vincent Brown](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hmui/files/012820_brown_vincent_115.jpg?itok=QZGpi7hc) [### Marcia Castro ](/people/marcia-castro)Andelot Professor of Demography Chair of the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health ![Portrait of Marcia Castro](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hmui/files/face.jpg?itok=PBt7k4Bc) [### Martha Chen ](/people/martha-chen)Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School Co-Founder, Emeritus International Coordinator and Senior Advisor of the global network Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing ![Marty Chen](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hmui/files/faculty_chen_marty_ms68r_800x800.jpg?itok=8WFLw422) [### Suzannah Clark ](/people/suzannah-clark)Morton B. Knafel Professor of Music Director of the Mahindra Humanities Center ![Suzannah Clark](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hmui/files/suzannah_clark_photo_1.jpg?itok=9pIZRbmZ) [### Lizabeth Cohen ](/people/lizabeth-cohen)Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies ![Lizabeth Cohen](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hmui/files/rsz_1cohen1_1_0.jpg?itok=5HMQI-_z) [### Jean Comaroff ](/people/jean-comaroff)Alfred North Whitehead Professor of African and African American Studies and Anthropology ![Portrait of Jean Comaroff](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hmui/files/jean_comaroff_headshot_2.jpg?itok=cJ8_Lwnb) [### Verena Conley ](/people/verena-conley)Long Term Visiting Professor of Comparative Literature and Romance Languages and Literature Director of Graduate Studies ![Verna Conley](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hmui/files/verena_conley.jpg?itok=QGBUd0ph) [### Tom Conley ](/people/tom-conley)Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor in the Departments of Romance Languages and Art, Film & Visual Studies ![Tom Conley](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hmui/files/tom_conley.jpg?itok=oKjh0P4e) Show morerefresh ## Doctoral Fellows 2025-2026 [### Hasibe Akin ](https://mellonurbanism.harvard.edu/people/hasibe-akin) ![Headshot cropped](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/2025-09/AKIN%20DEMIR_Hasibe_Headshot_0.JPG?itok=RT5yy3bo) [### Romain David ](https://mellonurbanism.harvard.edu/people/romain-david) ![Uncropped](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-09/DAVID_Romain_Headshot.jpg?itok=MFbPIZni) [### Morgan Forde ](https://mellonurbanism.harvard.edu/people/morgan-forde) ![Uncropped](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-09/FORDE_Headshot.jpeg?itok=6eWTjp_M) [### Gabriel Kozlowski ](https://mellonurbanism.harvard.edu/people/gabriel-kozlowski) ![Uncropped](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-09/KOZLOWSKI_Gabriel_Headshot.jpg?itok=HPkWB_u9) [### Joseph Melkonian ](https://mellonurbanism.harvard.edu/people/joseph-melkonian) ![Uncropped](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-09/MELKONIAN%2C%20Joseph_headshot.PNG?itok=7ZWpu9RZ) [### Diekara Oloruntoba-Oju ](https://mellonurbanism.harvard.edu/people/diekara-oloruntoba-oju) ![Uncropped](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-09/OLORUNTOBA-OJU%2C%20Diekara_1.JPG?h=0bec43cc&itok=Ae4j_uHk) [### Will Sack ](https://mellonurbanism.harvard.edu/people/william-sack) ![Uncropped](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-09/SACK_Will_Headshot.JPG?itok=fX5efHSP) ## Doctoral Fellows 2024-2025 [### Timothy Byram ](/people/timothy-byram) ![photo of Timothy Byram](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hmui/files/byram_headshot.jpg?itok=5fzlWsmk) [### William Conroy ](/people/william-conroy) ![photo of Will Conroy](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hmui/files/conroy_william_pic.jpg?itok=_Bg0VDXV) [### Jose Carlos Fernandez ](/people/jose-carlos) ![photo of Jose Carlos Fernandez Salas](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hmui/files/fernandez_salas_photo.jpg?itok=Q5Y7FgJR) [### Nicole Letourneau ](/people/nicole-letourneau) ![photo of Nicole Letourneau](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hmui/files/letourneau_headshot.jpg?itok=ztndXQR4) [### René Livas ](/people/ren%C3%A9-livas) ![photo of René Livas](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hmui/files/livas_headshot.jpeg?itok=wlEJjhf6) [### Dawon Oh ](/people/dawon-oh) ![photo of Dawon Oh](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hmui/files/oh_crop.jpg?itok=2Eb451g2) [### Carolina Sepulveda ](/people/carolina-sepulveda) ![photo of Carolina Sepulveda](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hmui/files/sepulveda_carolina.jpg?itok=orOMA-Vp) [### Annie Simpson ](/people/annie-simpson) ![photo of Annie Simpson](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hmui/files/simpson_hmui_headshot.jpeg?itok=ESbSN1hU) [### Honora Spicer ](/people/honora-spicer) ![Photo of Honora Spicer](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hmui/files/spicer_honora.jpg?itok=uDvMn22D) [### Tony Yang ](/people/tony-yang) ![photo of Tony Yang](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hmui/files/yang_tony_0.jpg?itok=SEmcZxvn) ## Doctoral Fellows 2023-2024 [### Aaron Benavidez ](/people/aaron-benavidez-0) ![Photo Aaron Benavidez](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hmui/files/benavidez_600x400.png?itok=Evz8SAzy) [### Celia Eckert ](/people/celia-eckert) ![Photo Celia Eckert](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hmui/files/eckert_photo.jpg?itok=s1zVlQ89) [### Jacob Meister ](/people/jacob-meister) ![Photo Jacob Meister](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hmui/files/meister_photo.jpg?itok=Bz44SfaN) [### Junnan Mu ](/people/junnan-mu-0) ![Photo Junnan Mu](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hmui/files/mu_junnan_photo.jpg?itok=nseIOF83) [### Tyler Simko ](/people/tyler-simko) ![Photo Tyler Simko](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hmui/files/simko_photo.jpeg?itok=hSHTdNTf) [### Samuel Tabory ](/people/sam-tabory) ![Photo Sam Tabory](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hmui/files/tabory_photo.jpg?itok=3QZN6K_e) [### Susan Taylor ](/people/susan-taylor) ![Photo Susan Taylor](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hmui/files/taylor_photo.jpeg?itok=9kIaIZgs) ## Doctoral Fellows 2022-2023 [### Kenneth Alyass ](/people/kenneth-alyass) ![Kenneth Alyass](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hmui/files/kenneth.jpg?itok=XaYXP0xc) [### Nusrat Jahan Mim ](/people/nusrat-jahan-mim) ![Nusrat Jahan Mim](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hmui/files/mim_n_002.jpg?itok=93ATjQUg) [### Valerie Scott ](/people/valerie-scott) ![Valerie Scott](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hmui/files/hmui_headshot_vks.jpg?itok=_BG31umj) [### Pauline Shongov ](/people/pauline-shongov) ![Portrait of Pauline Shongov](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hmui/files/pauline_shongov_1.jpg?itok=Itx5Y5Zb) [### Caroline Filice Smith ](/people/caroline-filice-smith-0) ![Caroline Filice Smith](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hmui/files/caroline_filice_smith.jpg?itok=1bwiyLtr) [### Jacob Sunshine ](/people/jacob-sunshine) ![Jacob Sunshine](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hmui/files/jacob_sunshine_headshot.jpeg?itok=BlNVQR3c) ## Doctoral Fellows 2021-2022 [### Nina Baratti ](/people/nina-baratti)Doctoral Fellow ![nina_baratti_1.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hmui/files/nina_baratti_1.jpg?itok=1whE19S4) [### Jacob Brown ](/people/jacob-brown) ![Jacob Brown](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hmui/files/jacob_brown_002.jpg?itok=DQC4niDU) [### Amy Chang ](/people/amy-chang) ![Portrait of Amy Chang](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hmui/files/amy_chang.png?itok=uFwFgRBn) [### DeAnza Avonna Cook ](/people/deanza-avonna-cook)Doctoral Fellow (U.S.) History Ph.D. Candidate, GSAS ![DeAnza Cook](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hmui/files/dac_fb_headshot.jpg?itok=5Jsy7AnO) [### Taylor Davey ](/people/taylor-davey) ![Taylor Davey](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hmui/files/taylor_davey.jpg?itok=tguD3L6c) [### Aisha Densmore-Bey ](/people/aisha-densmore-bey-0) ![Aisha Densmore-Bey](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hmui/files/aishadb-harvard_mellon-2.jpg?itok=ZA0TsOoh) [### Ryan Fontanilla ](/people/ryan-fontanilla) ![Ryan Fontanilla](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hmui/files/ryan_headshot.jpg?itok=RSgjS6_s) [### Rebecca Horwitz-Willis ](/people/rebecca-horwitz-willis) ![Rebecca Horwitz-Willis](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hmui/files/dsc_7525-2_2.jpg.png?itok=pmXewaIJ) [### Renugan Raidoo ](/people/renugan-raidoo) ![Renugan Raidoo](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hmui/files/renugan_raidoo.jpg?itok=jebs7Yss) [### Jocelyn Sears ](/people/jocelyn-sears) ![Jocelyn Sears](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hmui/files/jocelynsearsphoto.jpg?itok=4Sjt2h0q) [### Erica Sterling ](/people/erica-sterling) ![Erica Sterling](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hmui/files/ericasterling_headshot2021_002.jpg?itok=1wOv7GWo) [### Mo Torres ](/people/mo-torres) ![Mo Torres](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hmui/files/torres.mo-currier.png?itok=Db9nJav-) ## Research Supported By HMUI [### Tugrul Acar ](/people/tugrul-acar) person [### Kenneth Alyass ](/people/kenneth-alyass) ![Kenneth Alyass](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hmui/files/kenneth.jpg?itok=XaYXP0xc) [### Supriya Ambwani ](/people/supriya-ambwani) ![Supriya Ambwani](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hmui/files/supriya_ambwani_headshot.jpg?itok=rmsMQ2Fd) [### Jacob Anbinder ](/people/jacob-anbinder) ![Portrait of Jacob Anbinder](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hmui/files/jacob_anbinder.jpg?itok=eZSsaCxD) [### Boris Angelov ](/people/boris-angelov) ![Portrait of Boris Angelov](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hmui/files/borislav_angelov.jpg?itok=Sw-gqytk) [### Bench Ansfield ](/people/bench-ansfield) ![Bench Ansfield](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hmui/files/ansfield_headshot_2021.jpeg?itok=qcBumtRP) [### Che Applewhaite ](/people/che-applewhaite) ![Portrait of Che Applewhaite](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hmui/files/applewhaite_che.jpeg?itok=9eeM5wfK) [### Eduarda Araujo ](/people/eduarda-araujo) ![Eduarda Araujo](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hmui/files/preview-full-bio_eduarda.jpeg?itok=R9EWwwyO) [### George Aumoithe ](/people/george-aumoithe)Assistant Professor of History and of African and African American Studies ![photo of George Aumoithe](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hmui/files/aumoithe_george.jpg?itok=o8T8f8XL) [### Lucy Ballard ](/people/lucy-ballard) ![Lucy Ballard](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hmui/files/lucy_ballard.jpg?itok=2NYEiX6V) [### Soubhik Barari ](/people/soubhik-barari) ![photo of Soubhik Barari](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hmui/files/barari_soubhik.png?itok=iLFlgUn4) [### Natalie Behrends ](/people/natalie-behrends) ![natalie_behrends_photo.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hmui/files/natalie_behrends_photo.jpg?itok=derS1NCA) Show morerefresh ## Doctoral Fellows 2020-2021 [### Michael Patrick Allen ](/people/michael-patrick-allen)Doctoral Fellow ![Portrait of Michael Allen](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hmui/files/michael_allen_-_photo.jpeg?itok=VWZgN0Ax) [### Nina Baratti ](/people/nina-baratti)Doctoral Fellow ![nina_baratti_1.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hmui/files/nina_baratti_1.jpg?itok=1whE19S4) [### Aleksandr Bierig ](/people/aleksandr-bierig)Doctoral Fellow ![Aleksandr Bierig](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hmui/files/preview-full-bierig_-_photo_1.jpg?itok=0CmK4HQa) [### Brianna Castro ](/people/brianna-castro)Doctoral Fellow ![Brianna Castro](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hmui/files/preview-full-bcastro_headshot1.jpg?itok=b5cbj5QS) [### DeAnza Avonna Cook ](/people/deanza-avonna-cook)Doctoral Fellow (U.S.) History Ph.D. Candidate, GSAS ![DeAnza Cook](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hmui/files/dac_fb_headshot.jpg?itok=5Jsy7AnO) [### Tommy Shay Hill ](/people/tommy-shay-hill)Doctoral Fellow PhD Candidate, Harvard Graduate School of Design ![Tommy Shay Hill](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hmui/files/preview-full-middlesex_fells.jpg?itok=U5p1Tcte) [### Alyssa Huberts ](/people/alyssa-huberts)Doctoral Fellow ![Alyssa Huberts](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hmui/files/preview-full-jh2_1494-12466620-20180506155731.jpg?itok=EWKrwovs) [### Ronak Jain ](/people/ronak-jain)Doctoral Fellow ![Ronak Jain](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hmui/files/preview-full-bio.jpg?itok=QBqW1evl) [### Jovonna Jones ](/people/jovonna-jones)Doctoral Fellow ![Jovonna Jones](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hmui/files/preview-full-jovonna_jones_1.jpg?itok=UeFyBS_C) [### Jonathan Karp ](/people/jonathan-karp)Doctoral Fellow ![jonathan_karp_headshot.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hmui/files/jonathan_karp_headshot.jpg?itok=RCMTLqfH) [### Xavier Nueno ](/people/xavier-nueno)Doctoral Fellow ![javier-nueno-copy.png](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hmui/files/javier-nueno-copy.png?itok=agYOJjnU) [### Chrystel Oloukoi ](/people/chrystel-oloukoi)Doctoral Fellow ![Chrystel Oloukoï](/sites/g/files/omnuum10471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hmui/files/preview-full-img_2874.jpg?itok=92sSqav7)