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UC Berkeley Professor Emerita Elizabeth “Betty” Deakin was honored with prestigious 2019 ACSP Distinguished Educator award! ACSP Distinguished Educator Award is presented in appreciation of significant contributions to the field of planning. Deakin is Professor Emerita of City and Regional Planning and Urban Design at UC Berkeley, where she also is an affiliated faculty member of the Energy […]

  “Black in Place: The Spatial Aesthetics of Race in a Post-Chocolate City,” a book by GMS core faculty member Brandi Summers, hit the shelves today!  While Washington, D.C., is still often referred to as “Chocolate City,” it has undergone significant demographic, political, and economic change in the last decade. In D.C., no place represents […]

The Global Metropolitan Studies is seeking a new core faculty member through a joint search with the Department of City & Regional Planning.  We seek applications for a tenure- track faculty position in Global Urban Inequalities at the rank of Assistant Professor with an expected start date of July 1, 2020. Candidates must have the vision […]

The Global Metropolitan Studies Lecture Series 2019-2020 is now announced. Please join us for public talks and other related events around our guests: Hillary Angelo, UC Santa Cruz Melissa Sands, UC Merced Patricie Uwase, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Infrastructure, Rwanda Clara Irázabel-Zurita, University of Missouri-Kansas City Brandi Summers, UC Berkeley Karen Smilowitz, Northwestern University Click to download the Lecture Series poster.

We are excited to congratulate GMS Faculty affiliate, Kenichi Soga, for being named to the 2019-20 cohort of Bakar Fellows. Soga is a Chancellor’s Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering who invented next-generation sensor systems based on distributed fiber optic sensing (DFOS) technology. He is adapting these sensors to aid engineers in understanding the performance […]

Call for proposals Power at the Margins II: Mobilizing Across Housing Injustice March 13-15, 2020 University of California, Berkeley Abstract due: October 1, 2019     GMS is pleased to co-sponsor the conference ‘Power at the Margins II: Mobilizing Across Housing Injustice’ (PATM II). The conference, organized by two GMS DE students, Christopher Herring (PhD Candidate, Department of […]

The Global Metropolitan Studies program is thrilled to announce the arrival of two new core faculty members, Desiree Fields and Brandi Summers.  They join Alison Post (Political Science) and Joan Walker (Civil Engineering), our long-standing core faculty.  Both Desiree and Brandi are new assistant professors in the Department of Geography, and as GMS core faculty […]

  GMS Co-Directors Matt Kondolf and Alison Post are pleased to release the annual report on activities conducted during the 2018–2019 academic year. In the document (attached to the right), you can find more information on interdisciplinary research initiatives, student group activities, lecture series, thematic workshops, and funding awards, as well as get to know the new students enrolled in the […]

During the 2018-2019 academic year, students from the Designated Emphasis in Global Metropolitan Studies published multiple articles in peer-reviewed journals. The list showcases the diversity of exciting research published by GMS DE students.       Faisal bin Ayyaf Almogren (City & Regional Planning): Almogren, Faisal bin Ayyaf. 2018. “Reprioritizing the Human Factor in Building Gulf Cities.” […]