• Bourdieu in the City:  Challenging Urban Theory

    GMS affiliated faculty and Sociology professor Loïc Wacquant has published a book.  Building on three decades of comparative research on marginality, ethnicity, and penality in the postindustrial metropolis, Loïc Wacquant offers a novel interpretation of Pierre Bourdieu as urban theorist.

  • GMS 200, 201 will be offered in Spring 2025 semester

    GMS is pleased to offer the two core courses for the Designated Emphasis this spring! GMS 200 / CEE254G, the gateway course for the DE, will be co-taught by Sai Balakrishnan (DCRP + GMS) and Alison Post (Political Science + GMS). GMS 201, the dissertation writing course, will be offered by Desiree Fields (Geography + […]

  • Post speaks at UN-Habitat – Carnegie Foundation Smart Cities Consultation

    On October 1st, GMS core faculty member Alison Post spoke at a UN-Habitat + Carnegie Foundation consultation to inform the development of the UN-Habitat’s guidelines for People-Centered Smart Cities.

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    GMS Annual Report 2023-2024

    Please read the GMS Annual Report for Academic Year 2023-2024.

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    Joseph Godlewski’s new book “The Architecture of the Bight of Biafra: Spatial Entanglements”

    The Architecture of the Bight of Biafra: Spatial Entanglements (Routledge, 2024) examines the intersection of race and the built environment in what is now known as southeastern Nigeria.

  • Sur Urbano in top 5% most-shared podcasts on Spotify!

    Sur Urbano, the podcast created by the GMS Latin American Cities student group and hosted by GMS and DCRP student Isabel Peñaranda Currie, had incredible reach on streaming platform Spotify this year. The podcast was in the top 5% most shared podcasts on Spotify, in the top 10% most followed podcasts, heard in 39 countries, and […]

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    GMS Alumnus Zachary Levenson’s Book is Available Now! – Cloned

    Check out Zachary Levenson’s new book Delivery as Dispossession: Land Occupation and Eviction in the Postapartheid City  available now from Oxford University Press. Levenson’s comparative ethnography is based upon a decade of participant observation fieldwork at two land occupations in Cape Town. The book proposes a relational theory of the state that will appeal to scholars who work […]

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    GMS Faculty Affiliates Stephen Collier and Kenishi Soga (with Louise Comfort) Awarded NSF S&CC Grant

      Congratulations to GMS Faculty Affiliates Stephen Collier and Kenichi Soga who have been awarded a National Science Foundation Grant for Smart & Connected Communities with Professor Emerita Louise Comfort.     Project Abstract The exponential increase in extreme events over the last decade compels new methods of managing risk in communities exposed to recurring natural hazards. […]

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    Alison Post Awarded an Edward Teller National Fellowship by the Hoover Institution

    Former GMS Co-Director Alison Post has been awarded an Edward Teller National Fellowship by the Hoover Institution’s Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellows Program. The program allows outstanding scholars from colleges, universities, and institutions around the world to be freed from academic and professional responsibilities to devote one year to unrestricted, creative research and publication. National Fellows Program […]

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