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Six new recruits to GMS DE this year!
We are please to announce new recruits to the GMS DE from across a range of departments, including City & Regional Planning, Film & Media Studies, Political Science, Sociology, and Spanish and Portuguese!
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GMS faculty affiliate Professor Amy Lerman wins Carnegie Award
Professor Amy Lerman (Goldman School of Public Policy, Political Science) was awarded a 2025 Carnegie Fellowship. The prestigious fellowship grants $200,000 in support of a book or major project to each member of the cohort of scholars, authors, journalists, and public intellectuals who focus on political polarization in the United States.
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Disaster preparedness and recovery workshop
On April 18th, GMS held a joint workshop on Disaster Preparedness and Recovery for CA utilities in partnership with the the East Bay Municipal Utility District, the College of Engineering, and the College of Environmental Design. The workshop, which drew participants from 11 public agencies in California. The event was organized to spearhead collaborative research…
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GMS Affiliate Professor David Harding wins Chancellor’s Award for Institutional Excellence and Equity
GMS Affiliate Professor David Harding (Sociology) has received the Chancellor’s Award for Institutional Excellence and Equity. He will use the grant to expand support for graduate training at the intersection of social science, data science, and social justice through continued development of two impactful initiatives he co-leads: the Computational Social Science Training Program focused on…
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GMS alumna Malini Ranganathan wins book award
Corruption Plots: Stories, Ethics, and Publics of the Late Capitalist City, co-authored by GMS alumna, Professor Malini Ranganathan, has been awarded the 2024 Anthony Leeds Book Award by the Critical Urban Anthropology Association. Book available here.
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GMS alum Gautam Bahn publishes new book
Gautam Bhan (GMS alumnus) has co-authored a book with Michael Keith, Susan Parnell, Edgar Pieterse, titled Cities Rethought: A new urban disposition, published by Wiley. The book suggests that “we need to remake the way we see and know cities in order to rethink how we act and intervene within them. To this end, it…
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Marta González awarded 2024 Lagrange-CRT Foundation Prize
The 2024 Lagrange-CRT Foundation Prize was awarded to GMS Affiliate faculty member Marta González (Associate Professor, City and Regional Planning). The award recognizes outstanding contributions relevant to the progress of complexity science.
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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.
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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 +…