Doctoral Fellows 2024-2025

Juncheng “Tony” Yang is an urbanist and designer. His research focuses on the intersection of institutional arrangements and emerging technologies in “smart city” governance. Tony is currently pursuing a doctoral degree at the Harvard Graduate School of...

Annie Simpson is an artist and DDes candidate at the Harvard GSD. She works via sight-/site-based investigation to make videos, photographs, and essays. Her dissertation assesses ‘the planetary’ in spatial research through the unique, if curiously...

Carolina Sepulveda is a Doctor of Design candidate at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She is an architect, curator, and researcher from Santiago de Chile based in Cambridge, USA. Carolina’s doctoral research examines how queer practices influence...

Dawon Oh is a third-year doctoral student at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Her research focuses on transportation, specifically the travel behavior and accessibility of people with different needs when they travel, such as women...

René Livas is a Doctoral Candidate in the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. An applied urban economist, his work keys in on three questions that local policymakers in care about:    1. What are the costs and benefits of taxing income...

Nicole Letourneau is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Sociology at Harvard University. Nicole employs a multi-method approach to explore questions related to the influence of climate change on community priorities and investments among various...

William Conroy is a PhD candidate in urban studies and planning at Harvard University, and an Edmond J. Safra Graduate Fellow in Ethics at the Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics. He is broadly interested in the theoretical dimensions of political...

Timothy Byram is a PhD candidate in the History of Christianity, with a secondary concentration in Romance Languages and Literatures. Combining historical and ethnographic methods, his work is broadly interested in the contemporary interfaces of ritual...

Honora Spicer is a place-based educator, poet, literary translator, and Ph.D. candidate in the History Department at Harvard University. She researches US/Mexico borderlands history, with an interest in migration, the carceral state, infrastructure and...

Jose Carlos is a Ph.D. candidate in Urban History at the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Science. He studies the legal practices of different ethnic groups (Andean, Asian and Afro-Peruvian) occupying land and developing neighborhoods in the...