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
Activist Populations and Possibilities for Organizing in High-Poverty Urban Neighborhoods
Presenter: James Morone, PhD Candidate in Political Science
Discussant: Rand Quinn, Associate Professor of Education
Breafast treats, coffee, and tea in the URBS space, Room 130 McNeil!
Racial Stratification in the Mortgage Market: The Role of Co-Applicants
Presenter: Jose Loya, PhD Candidate in Sociology
Discussant: Lisa Servon, Professor and Chair of City & Regional Planning
Breafast treats, coffee, and tea in the URBS space, Room 130 McNeil!
Black Muslim Cosmopolitanism: The Global Character of New York City’s Black Muslim Movements, 1936-1990
Presenter: Rasul Miller, PhD Candidate in History & Africana Studies
Discussant: David Kofi Amponsah, Assistant Professor, Africana Studies
Megalopolis, USA
Presenter: Kristian Taketomo, Doctoral Candidate in History
Discussant: Mark Stern, Professor of Social Policy and History
Breafast treats, coffee, and tea in the URBS space, Room 130 McNeil!
Power, Privilege, and Peril: Governing in a Majority Black and Middle Class County
Presenter: Angela Simms, Doctoral Candidate in Sociology
Discussant: Nina Johnson, Assistant Professor of Sociology & Anthropology and Black Studies, Swarthmore College
Breafast treats, coffee, and tea in the URBS space, Room 130 McNeil
Design, Control, Predict: Cultural Politics in the Actually Existing Smart City
Presenter: Aaron Shapiro, PhD Communication, Annenberg School, and Urban Studies Graduate Certificate
Starts in McNeil Room 169
Happy Hour after in Room 130,the urban studies office
Are you a graduate student doing urban-focused research? Join us for the kick-off of
Mass School Closures and the Politics of Race, Value and Disposability in Philadelphia
Presenters: Julia McWilliams & Erika Kitzmiller
Discussant: Elaine Simon, Co-Director Urban Studies Program
BREAKFAST PROVIDED
‘We have many ways to make you leave’: The Struggle for Land Rights in Old Lahore
Presenter: Fatima Tassadiq, PhD candidate Anthropology
BREAKFAST PROVIDED
Discussant: David Gouverneur, Associate Professor, Penn Design
The Potential of Place-based Philanthropy in Legacy Cities
Presenter: Mary Rocco, Post-Doctoral Researcher in Penn's Department of City Planning, and graduate of Urban Studies Graduate Certificate Program
Breakfast included.
Discussant: Ira Goldstein, President of Policy Solutions at Reinvestment Fund
CA Conrad and the Queering of Urban Boundaries
Presenter: Davy Knittle, PhD Student in English, and current member of the Urban Studies Graduate Certificate Program
Breakfast included.
Discussant: Jennifer Ponce de Leon, Assistant Professor of English
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