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29 GRANTS TO ADVANCE STUDENT RESEARCH IN URBAN STUDIES

March 10, 2021
Jacob Anbinder, PhD candidate in American history at Harvard, Cities of Amber: Antigrowth Politics and the Making of Modern Liberalism, 1950–2008.
Boris Angelov, an architect and designer based in Boston, Off-Site: Diasporic Imaginaries of the Balkan Edge
Che Applewhaite, college senior in Anthropology, and History & Literature at Harvard University, Pre-Texts North Nashville After School Music Education Program
Natalie Behrends, PhD student in History at Harvard, Mapping Socialist Nodes in a Global Network, 1900-1917
Arielle Bernhardt, Ph.D. candidate in the Harvard Economics Department, The Welfare Consequences of Climate Displacement
Melissa May Borja, Faculty Fellow at the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard University, From Refugee Camp to “Hyperghetto”: Mapping the Spatial Distribution of Hmong Refugees in the Twin Cities, 1976-1996
Benjamin Bradlow, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Weatherhead Scholars Program at Harvard University’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Urban Power: Democracy and Inequality in São Paulo and Johannesburg, 1985-2016
Isaac Canton, PhD Candidate in Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University, Acoustic Maps of Colonial Mexico City
Adriana David Ortiz Monasterio, second year MDes Candidate at the Harvard Graduate School of Design in the Art Design and the Public Domain Program, The Architecture of Food Sovereignty
Kate Annie De Groote, first year college student at Harvard University studying Government and Film, The Effects of Prison Gerrymandering in Massachusetts
Rodrigo del Río, PhD(c) in the Romance Languages and Literatures Department at Harvard University, Transpacific Development: Chinese Cities in the Latin American Literary Imagination
Aaron Gilbreath, the statistical consultant at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, From Refugee Camp to “Hyperghetto”: Mapping the Spatial Distribution of Hmong Refugees in the Twin Cities, 1976-1997
Balraj Gill, PhD candidate in American Studies at Harvard University, Louise Erdrich’s Twin Cities: A Literary Mapping
Steven Gu, Master in Urban Planning student at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, The Right to Consume: Human Rights, Protest, and Commodities in the Built Environment
Rema Hanna, Jeffrey Cheah Professor of South-East Asia Studies and Chair of the International Development Area at the Harvard Kennedy School, Leveraging Data Science to Inform Urban Public Transportation in the Wake of COVID-19: The Case of TransJakarta
Emma Herman, PhD student in the Department of History at Harvard University, A New Frontier of Settlement: Urban Homesteading Programs, Federal Housing Policy, and Urban Redevelopment, 1974-1986
Thomas Shay Hill, PhD Candidate in Urban Planning at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, Data and the Built Environment
Xinqi "Shelly" Liu, first-year student at Harvard University looking to concentrate in Computer Science, The Effects of Prison Gerrymandering in Massachusetts
John Lively, first-year at Harvard College studying History of Art and Architecture with a secondary in Economics, The Effects of Prison Gerrymandering in Massachusetts
Charlotte Malterre-Barthes, Assistant Professor of Urban Design at Harvard Graduate School of Design, Material World
Daniel McDonald, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University, Mapping the Megacity
Laura Nelson, graduate student in American Studies at Harvard University, Library of Study
Xavier Nueno, PhD student in the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University, A Real-Time Property Structure of Investment Funds in Barcelona
Julia Nueno, engineer and activist, A Real-Time Property Structure of Investment Funds in Barcelona
Jasmine Olivier, Sociology PhD candidate at Harvard University, Reimagining Public Safety: policing and community control in a Boston public housing development
Felix Owusu, PhD candidate in public policy at Harvard University, Diversion, Non-prosecution, and Public Safety in Suffolk County, MA
Dev Patel, PhD candidate in the Harvard Economics Department, The Welfare Consequences of Climate Displacement
Nefara Riesch, PhD student in Sociology and Social Policy, Redlining and the Built Environment: The Case of Streetlights
Noah Secondo, college junior studying History and Romance Languages & Literatures, with a secondary in Ethnicity, Migration, and Rights at Harvard University, Abolition & Industrialization: The Churches and Paper Mills of Springfield, Massachusetts, Abolition & Industrialization: The Churches and Paper Mills of Springfield, Massachusetts
Pauline Shongov, PhD student at Harvard University in the Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies, Off-Site: Diasporic Imaginaries of the Balkan Edge,
Maya Shopova, an architect and co-founder of Collective Home Office, Off-Site: Diasporic Imaginaries of the Balkan Edge
Jacob Waggoner, PhD student in Government and Social Policy at Harvard’s Department of Government and Kennedy School, Land of the Free or Land of the Few? Local Concentration in US Landownership
Joseph Wallerstein, PhD student in the Department of Sociology at Harvard University, Nonprofits in Crisis: The Case of Homeless Shelters
Courtney Wittekind, PhD Candidate in Social Anthropology at Harvard University, Urban Development, Social Media, and Speculation in Peri-Urban Yangon
Abdul-Razak Zachariah, graduate student in Education (Ed.M.) in Prevention Science and Practice at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Gather: Archiving and Visioning Black Community Learning Initiatives
Michael Zanger-Tishler,PhD student in Sociology & Social Policy at Harvard University, Redlining and the Built Environment: The Case of Streetlights