Emma Herman

Emma Herman

Emma Herman

Emma Herman is a PhD student in the Department of History at Harvard University. Her areas of interest include urban and environmental history, racial capitalism, carceral studies, and critical geography. Her current project examines the relationships between US federal housing policy and housing activism in the 1970s and 1980s through the development and implementation of urban homesteading programs. 

Emma graduated with honors from the University of Chicago in 2017. Prior to graduate school, she worked at the Wylie Agency in New York and with the Invisible Institute, a Chicago-based journalism non-profit that documents the history and practice of police abuse in that city. She is currently affiliated with the Logische Phantasie Lab and fact-checks for Public Books. 

Project: A New Frontier of Settlement: Urban Homesteading Programs, Federal Housing Policy, and Urban Redevelopment, 1974-1986