Graduate Colloquium Series

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.

Past



Seeing Like a Bureaucrat: property and the construction of urban space

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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

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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
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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
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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

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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

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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

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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



When “Place” Meets Community Philanthropy: Exploring The Place Dilemma and Value Creation Beyond Generosity

Presenter: Viviana Chiu-Sik Wu, PhD Candidate in Social Welfare
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Discussant: Michael X.



Which School Districts Are Credit Constrained in Their Efforts to Invest in School Infrastructure? Evidence from a Natural Experiment.

Presenter: J. Cameron Anglum, PhD Candidate in Education Policy
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Discussant: Robert Inman, Professor of Finance, Business Economics, and Public Policy

Breafast treats, coffee, and tea in the URBS space, Room 130 McNeil!



Activist Populations and Possibilities for Organizing in High-Poverty Urban Neighborhoods

Presenter: James Morone, PhD Candidate in Political Science
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Discussant: Rand Quinn, Associate Professor of Education

Breafast treats, coffee, and tea in the URBS space, Room 130 McNeil!