Graduate Students

2022-2023 Energy and Resources Group Electricity markets and regulation, energy infrastructure, climate resilience and adaptation, grid decarbonization

2022-2023 Ethnic Studies Religion, Race, Neighborhoods, Social Services

2022-2023 City and Regional Planning Climate change adaptation, environmental planning, urban climate governance, political economy, China studies

2022-2023 Civil and Environmental Engineering Autonomous Systems, transportation network, and optimization

2023-2024 Social Welfare geriatric social work, community service delivery, smart community, digital inclusion; qualitative and mixed methods, community-based participatory research, co-design approach

2022-2023 Geography Borders, political economy, uneven development, urbanization

2022-2023 City & Regional Planning Cooperatives, community development, race, finance, US housing policy, urban history, politics of knowledge and participation.

2022-2023 City & Regional Planning Migration, Citizenship, Democracy, Political Economy, Caste, Race, Critical Geography, Science and Technology Studies

2022-2023 City & Regional Planning Land and housing policy, housing financialization, access to credit, Latin America

2022-2023 Landscape Architecture and Enviornmental Planning China Studies, National Territorial Landscape, Environmental History, Belt and Road Initiatives BRI, Urban History, Design History, Urban Morphology, Urban History, Urban Design, Landscape Infrastructure, waterways, and canals  

2022-2023 City and Regional Planning Housing, public space, urban governance, public/social housing, urban politics, violence and policing, urban history and theory, the city in literature and film.

2021-2022 Political Science Political economy, waste, toxicity, food, East & Central Africa

2021-2022 City and Regional Planning Housing Policy, Gentrification, Displacement, Eviction, Neighborhood Changes, Migration

2022-2023 History The Central Valley, urban history, the history of policing, racial capitalism, uneven development, agroburbs

2021-2022 Civil and Environmental Engineering environmental fluid mechanics, climate change adaptation, coastal resiliency, nature-based solutions, infrastructure

2021-2022 City and Regional Planning Micromobility, public health, environmental exposure, mobile sensing

2021-2022 Civil and Environmental Engineering Transportation networks, agent based modeling, disaster resilience, public transportation

2021-2022 Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning climate change, natural hazards, climate displacement, just climate adaptation and resilience

2020-2021 Geography Black Geographies, Urban Political Economy, Dispossession & Displacement, Housing Justice, Prison-Industrial Complex Abolition, New York City

2020-2021 Civil & Environmental Engineering transportation equity, shared mobility, spatial mismatch

2020-2021 Civil & Environmental Engineering Environmental engineering, development engineering, water infrastructure & machine learning, lead contamination, water treatment technologies

2020-2021 City and Regional Planning urban economics, geography of innovation, employment lands, gentrification and displacement, property markets

2020-2021 Energy and Resources Group Energy infrastructure, housing, urban analytics, city planning, governance

2020-2021 City and Regional Planning Sustainable transportation, Asian cities, travel behavior modeling, urban spatial analytics

2019-2020 City and Regional Planning Comparative urban studies, urban history, urban ethnography, peripheral urbanization, urban governance, China, India

2019-2020 Anthropology Noise, poetry and poetics, urban infrastructures, affect, discourses of health and hygiene, citizenship, Brazil

2019-2020 Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning Critical Urban Theory, Geographical Political Economy, Industrial Restructuring, Authoritarian Regimes, History of Landscape and Urban Form

2019-2020 Education Global education, cultural politics of education, migration, displacement, urbanization, urban ethnography, China, East Asia

2019-2020 Sociology Suburban and exurban poverty, housing, renters, local governance and policing

2018-2019 Civil & Environmental Engineering Behavioral modeling, data science, Latin American cities, and causal inference

2018-2019 Anthropology Nigeria, citizenship, transnational displacement, resistance, maroonage

2018-2019 City and Regional Planning Comparative urban studies, governance, security, urban theory, middle-class urbanism, densification, urban history, African urbanisms

2018-2019 City and Regional Planning Transportation equity, urban mobility, climate change adaptation, resilience planning, affordable housing

2018-2019 Anthropology China, urbanization, digitalization, anthropology of cities, contemporary art, infrastructures

2018-2019 Social Welfare Neighborhood effects, urban spaces, participatory action research, community building, youth

2018-2019 City and Regional Planning Disaster governance, development finance, knowledge politics, Mexico City

2017-2018 Anthropology Affordable Housing, Urban Theory, Anthropology of Mexico, Social Theory, Urban Ethnography

2017-2018 City and Regional Planning spatial politics, climate justice, community-based participatory research, urban ecology, water resources

2017-2018 Architecture Urbanization, ecological modernization, human–nature–technology relations, architecture as infrastructure, China urban-rural interface

2017-2018 City and Regional Planning Urban mobility, Bus Rapid Transit, public transport, land use, non-motorized modes, planning, design, policy

2017-2018 Architecture Uses of the street, politics of space, Latin America, urban democracy, commons

2017-2018 City and Regional Planning Middle East cities, urbanism, political theory, regional planning, urban form, Riyadh

2017-2018 City and Regional Planning Peripheral urbanization, governance, land tenure, public infrastructure, citizenship, right to the city, Global South