PRESS RELEASE 3/15/21 THE HARVARD MELLON URBAN INITIATIVE ANNOUNCES 29 GRANTS TO ADVANCE STUDENT RESEARCH IN URBAN STUDIES
For further information, contact: Andrea Davies at andreadavies@fas.harvard.edu
The Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative is pleased to announce the award of 29 grants for undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and fellows through Harvard to pursue urban-focused research projects...
HMUI Co-director Eve Blau publishes new article “Pedagogy and Politics: Making Place and Learning from Las Vegas,” in Eyes that Saw, Stanislaus von Moos and Martino Stierli, editors. Zurich: Scheidegger & Spiess, 2020.
The Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative (HMUI) invites applications for grants to support research projects with an urban focus, ideally with an interdisciplinary approach. Projects might include but are not limited to such issues as inequality, diversity, and climate change. We seek proposals in three broad areas:
HMUI Co-director Bruno Carvalho publishes op-eds in The New York Times on the threats of climate change and the potentials of bioeconomies in the urbanizing Amazonian basin (10/2/2020); on the war on drugs, state violence, and racism in...
HMUI Co-Director Eve Blau publishes article on the Urban Intermedia project: “Urban Intermedia: City, Archive, Narrative,” in Ways of Knowing Cities, Laura Kurgan and Dare Brawley, editors, New York: Columbia Books on Architecture and the City (CBAC), 2019, pp. 207-235.
The Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative aims to foster scholarship and disseminate knowledge connected to the understanding of cities and urbanization processes across the globe. We bring together multiple perspectives to address fundamental questions about changes to urban conditions across diverse sites and scales, with focus on a set of interwoven concerns... Read more about Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative Phase 2 Has Started
Speaker: Ben Bradlow, Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead Scholars Program, Harvard University Moderator: Bruno Carvalho, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and African and African American Studies Discussant: Alisha Holland, Associate Professor of Government, Harvard University
The divergent trajectories of São Paulo and Johannesburg’s distribution of...
Speaker: Dan McDonald, Postdoctoral Fellow, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University; Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative Research Fellow Discussant: Victoria Langland, Associate Professor, University of Michigan Moderator: Sidney Chalhoub, Professor of History and of African and African American Studies, affiliated with Romance Languages and Literatures
Brazilian citizens submitted 122 emendas populares or “popular amendments” to...
The Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative’s traveling exhibition is at the Druker Design Gallery of Harvard Graduate School of Design in Cambridge, MA from August 27 to October 14.... Read more about Urban Intermedia: City, Archive, Narrative
