The Urban Studies Graduate Colloquium series provides an opportunity for interdisciplinary conversations about excellent graduate student research in Urban Studies.
This year our series, hosted by our 2023-24 Graduate Fellow Tessa Huttenlocher (PhD candidate, Sociology), will represent a wide spectrum of departments and topics.
Upcoming
Past
The Effect of a Death-in-Police-Custody Incident on Community Reliance on the Police
Presenter: Ruth Moyer, PhD in Criminology
Seeing Like a Bureaucrat: property and the construction of urban space
Presenter: Indivar Jonnalagadda, PhD Candidate, South Asia Studies and Anthropology
Discussant: Debjani Bhattacharyya, Associate Professor of History, Drexel University
Urban Gay Culture and the Active Accomplishment of Community
Presenter: Tyler Baldor, PhD Candidate, Sociology
Discussant: Jason Orne, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Drexel University
Land. Body. Prison. Dream. Freedom. - Scape
A Discussion on Visualizing Urban Violence
Presenter: Leniqueca Welcome, PhD Candidate, Anthropology
Discussant: John L. Jackson Jr., Dean, Annenberg School for Communication
The Politics of Informal Urban Growth
Measuring the Global Relationship between Clientelism and Informal Urbanization
Presenter: Chandan Deuskar, Doctoral Candidate, City and Regional Planning
Discussant: Mariaflavia Harari, Assistant Professor, Real Estate Department
A Trans Ecology for Harlem: Speculative Planning and the Poetics of Environmental Design
Presenter:
Davy Knittle, Ph.D. Candidate Department of English
Discussant:
Akira Drake Rodriguez, Lecturer Department of City and Regional Planning
Georgia O’Keeffe, Sky-shapes, and the Limits of the City
Presenter:
Lee Ann Custer, PhD Candidate History of Art
Discussant:
Eugenie L. Birch, Lawrence C. Nussdorf Professor of Urban Research & Education
Bullets, Books, and Brotherhood: Grief and Recovery in an Urban All-Boys High School after Three Fatal Shootings of Friends
Presenter: Nora Gross, Ph.D. joint-degree candidate in Sociology and the Education, Culture, and Society program at Penn GSE
Discussant: Sara Jacoby, Assistant Professor, Nursing, University