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Public Safety Innovation: After George Floyd
41st Annual Norman Glickman Lecture in Urban Studies: Robert Vargas
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The Suburban Crisis: White America and the War on Drugs
40th Annual Norman Glickman Lecture in Urban Studies: Matthew Lassiter
Matt Lassiter is Professor of History, Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor at the University of Michigan.
Managing Blackness in "White Space"
39th Annual Norman Glickman Lecture in Urban Studies: Elijah Anderson
MEYERSON HALL, B1 AUDITORIUM
210 South 34th Street (The School of Design Building)
The Ecology of Homicide: Race, Place, and Space in Post-War Philadelphia
The 38th Annual Norman Glickman Lecture in Urban Studies
37th Annual Public Lecture: Forrest Stuart
"Ballad of the Bullet: Gangs, Drill Music, and the Power of Online Infamy"
Forrest Stuart is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Stanford University, the director of the Stanford Ethnography
36th Annual Public Lecture: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
"Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership"
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Assistant Professor of African American Studies, Princeton University, was our 36th Annual Public Lecturer.
35th Annual Public Lecture: Patrick Sharkey
"Uneasy Peace: The Great Crime Decline, the Renewal of City Life, and the Next War on Violence"
Patrick Sharkey, Professor and Chair of Sociology at New York University, delivered the 35th Annual Urban Studies Public Lecture in
34th Annual Public Lecture: Max Page
“Why Historic Preservation Matters: Building a More Just City”
Max Page, Professor of Architecture and History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, will deliver the 34th Annual Urban Studies Public Lecture. The title of the lecture is “Why Historic Preservation
33rd Annual Public Lecture: Matthew Desmond
"Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City"
Free and open to the public.
From Harvard sociologist and 2015 MacArthur “Genius” award winner Matthew Desmond, a landmark work of scholarship and reportage that will forever change the way we look at
32nd Annual Public Lecture: Abigail Perkiss
"Ideals Unfulfilled: Integration, Liberalism, and Urban Education in Postwar Philadelphia"
Abigail Perkiss, Assistant Professor of History at Kean University in Union, NJ, is our 32nd Annual Urban Studies Public Lecturer.