The HMUI Doctoral Fellows are advanced graduate students from across the university whose dissertation research is concerned with urban issues, questions, and conditions (historical, social, environmental, and ideally humanities-oriented, broadly construed). The fellows participate in an interdisciplinary Doctoral Workshop that meets six times during the academic year to discuss work-in-progress. Each fellow receives a stipend towards expenses related to dissertation research and professional development.
The Doctoral Workshop provides the interdisciplinary group of advanced PhD students with a venue to discuss their written work in a collegial and dynamic environment, where they learn how to negotiate depth and breadth in their research and become exposed to modes of inquiry that they might not otherwise encounter within their home disciplines. The workshop is chaired by the HMUI directors. In addition to participation in the workshop, doctoral fellows are active in public events connected to the Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative.
Nina Baratti, PhD candidate in Music at Harvard University
Jacob Brown, PhD candidate in Government and Social Policy at Harvard University
Amy Chang, PhD candidate in History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University
DeAnza Cook, PhD candidate in History and African and African American Studies at Harvard University
Taylor Davey, PhD candidate in Urban Planning at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Aisha Densmore-Bey, PhD candidate in Architecture/Urban Design & Urban Planning at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Ryan Fontanilla, PhD candidate in History at Harvard University
Rebecca Horwitz, PhD candidate in Education at Harvard University
Renugan Raidoo, PhD candidate in Social Anthropology at Harvard University
Jocelyn Sears, PhD candidate in English at Harvard University
Erica Sterling, Ph.D. candidate in History at Harvard University
Mo Torres, PhD candidate in Sociology at Harvard University