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HMUI DOCTORAL FELLOWS 2021-2022
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...
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FUNDING FOR URBAN RESEARCH GRANTS AVAILABLE
FUNDING FOR URBAN RESEARCH GRANTS AVAILABLE DEADLINE: December 1st, 2021 The Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative (HMUI) invites applications for grants to support research projects with an urban focus, ideally with an interdisciplinary approach. Projects...
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SHARP Harvard College Program in collaboration with HMUI
Students Joel Sabando and Noah Secondo worked with HMUI Co-Director, Lizabeth Cohen on the project: Deindustrialization and Its Impact in the US, the UK, and France sponsored by the SHARP Harvard College Program, in collaboration with HMUI. Student Alice...
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Event Recording: IMAGINING URBAN FUTURES / DURING, DESPITE, AND BEYOND THE PANDEMIC
View the recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTylh8q2Zhg The event, moderated by Bruno Carvalho and Diane Davis, brought together perspectives from different regions of the globe. AbdouMaliq Simone, Eric Klinenberg, and Hiba Bou Akar presented...
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The Intergenerational Humanities (I-HUM) Project, Co-Director Bruno Carvalho to be part of the first faculty leadership cohort
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: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/05/harvards-fall-2021-human…...
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HMUI Co-director Eve Blau and HMUI Executive Committee Member Diane Davis moderated GSD Event, Small Town Urbanism in the 21st Century
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. You can view the recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...
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THE FUTURE IN TRANSIT: A StoryMap on imagining transportation in the U.S. since the 1800s by Amelia Roth-Dishy
The Future in Transit A StoryMap on imagining transportation in the U.S. since the 1800s by Amelia Roth-Dishy. What visions of tomorrow's cities might be found in forgotten ideas from history? This ongoing project looks at how urban actors and transit...
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PRESS RELEASE: THE HARVARD MELLON URBAN INITIATIVE ANNOUNCES 29 GRANTS TO ADVANCE STUDENT RESEARCH IN URBAN STUDIES
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 Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative is pleased to...
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29 GRANTS TO ADVANCE STUDENT RESEARCH IN URBAN STUDIES
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...
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HMUI Co-Director Lizabeth Cohen Speaks on new book, "Saving America’s Cities"
HMUI Co-director Lizabeth Cohen new book, Saving America's Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age (2020) is due out in paperback on November 17th 2020. UC Santa Barbara, Thursday, October 22, 2020, 4-5 pm (PT) Event...
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HMUI CO-DIRECTOR LIZABETH COHEN PUBLISHES OP-EDS IN THE NEW YORK TIMES & THE ATLANTIC
HMUI Co-director Lizabeth Cohen publishes op-eds in The New York Times: States Are in Crisis. Why Won't Trump Help? (April 29, 2020) & Only Washington Can Solve the Nation's Housing Crisis (July 10, 2019); as well as The Lessons of the Great Depression...
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