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 two broad areas:
1. Research in archives and online data sets that will lead to publication and/or course-related projects and programming...
The Intergenerational Humanities (I-HUM) and the Undergraduate Scholars Initiative (USI) were announced today in the Gazette and Crimson. The full articles can be accessed here:
HMUI Co-director Eve Blau and HMUI Executive Committee Member Diane Davis moderated GSD Event, Small Town Urbanism in the 21st Century: Andrew Freear, Faranak Miraftab, and Todd Okolichany.
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
In June 2022, the Public Health Disparities Geocoding Project, based at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health (Boston, MA), will host a new, thoroughly updated and revised FREE 4-day virtual trainingon why & how to analyze population health and health inequitiesin relation to census tract, county, and other georeferenced societal and environmental data.
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...
The offical event page with registration link can be found here.
Growing federal efforts to make housing and communities more resilient to disasters, especially climate-related hazards, often devalue people and undervalue and/or overlook the possessions of people of low wealth and communities of color. In...
