Past Events
2021 Honors Presentations
Please join us to hear this year's Urban Studies Honors students describe their research! In the Honors Seminar, students revise and refine their senior thesis papers with an eye toward publishing them in an academic…
Individual, Social, and Environmental Factors Associated with Active Transportation Commuting during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Presenter: Meagan Cusack, PhD Candidate of Social Welfare, School of Social Policy and Practice
Discussant: Erick Guerra, Associate Professor and Chair, Weitzman School of Design
The Urbicidal Violence of Massive Infrastructural Construction in Lahore
Presenter: Fatima Tassadiq, PhD Candidate, Anthropology
Discussant: Francesca Ammon, Associate Professor, City and Regional Planning and Historic Preservation
The World Is Always Coming to an End: Pulling Together and Apart in a Chicago Neighborhood
Carlo Rotella, author and professor of American Studies at Boston College, analyzes the urban class divide through observation of his childhood neighborhood in Chicago.
Public Shaming and Social Policing in Republican Rome
Presenter: Jordan Rogers, PhD Candidate, Ancient History
Discussant: David Grazian, Professor of Sociology and Communication, Faculty Director of Urban Studies
Neighbors, Nightclubs, and Noise: Sound and Urban Relations in Mexico City
Presenter: Elizabeth Bynum, PhD Candidate, Music and Anthropology
Discussant: David Gouverneur, Associate Professor of Practice, Landscape Architecture
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
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