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GMS Faculty Affiliate Nick Tsivanidis launches the Cities Spatial Model through the International Growth Centre.
GMS faculty affiliate and Assistant Professor at Haas Nick Tsivanidis has launched the IGC Cities Spatial Model. The model helps policymakers understand how various infrastructure investments and policy decisions affect the spatial distribution of people, firms, and economic activity in a city. By capturing key equilibrium effects, it supports better planning and policy design to…
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GMS Alum Jennifer Tucker publishes book!
GMS Alum Jennifer Tucker (Associate Professor, Community and Regional Planning, University of New Mexico) has recently published Outlaw Capital, an ethnography of the contraband economy in Ciudade del Este, Paraguay.
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GMS 2024-2025 Annual Report published
The GMS Annual Report for the 2024-2025 Academic Year is now available here.
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Announcing the GMS Fall lecture series!
GMS is hosting an exciting set of research presentations on urban themes from a variety of disciplinary perspectives this fall, in collaboration with partner departments. Link to GMS Fall 2025 Events Poster.
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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.