Designated Emphasis Student Projects

Territorializing Toxicity: Global Waste Markets and Circulation
Joseph Greenbaum
PhD Student
Political Science

Beyond ‘barriers’: User perspectives on residential electrification
Cristina Crespo Montañés
PhD Student
Energy and Resources Group

Intersectionality of Unshielded Micro-mobility Rider, Uncontracted Gig Worker, and Subtropical City Citizen: Sensing Air Pollution Exposure of Food Delivery Motorcyclists in Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Cheng-Kai Hsu
PhD Student
City and Regional Planning

Bellwethers or Victims of Neighborhood Change? Commercial Gentrification and the Jongno-sam-ga Gayborhood in Seoul, South Korea
Taesoo Song
PhD Student
City and Regional Planning

Producing the Central Valley: Police, Race, and Carceral Space in California’s Central Valley
Sarah Lee
PhD Student
History

Infrastructural transformation and equity in California’s gas to electric heating transition
Salma Elmallah
PhD Candidate
Energy and Resources Group

Soybean Cities: Hinterland Urbanization in Mato Grosso, Brazil
Giselle Mendonça Abreu
PhD Candidate
City and Regional Planning

Urban governance and well-being of street vendors in Mexico City
Irene Farah Rivadeneyra
PhD Student
City and Regional Planning

Surveilling the Suburbs: Racial Inequality and the Rise of Big Data Policing in Suburbia
Ángel Ross
PhD Student
Sociology