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During the 2018-2019 academic year, students from the Designated Emphasis in Global Metropolitan Studies received several prestigious fellowships to support their research. We congratulate them on their accomplishments, and we are excited that their work is recognized by multiple institutions outside UC Berkeley! Here are the students and respective fellowships received: Giuseppina Forte (Architecture) received […]

The Political Science Department and Global Metropolitan Studies are pleased to host Professor Eduardo Marques from the University of Sao Paulo at Berkeley during 2019. Marques’ research focuses on Brazilian urban politics in comparative perspective. He is currently working on a book project comparing the politics of different urban policy areas.

We are excited to announce that GMS is offering summer research funding to 9 GMS pre-dissertation graduate students. The recipients of this year’s summer funding are:  Alli Appelbaum, City and Regional Planning, A comparative exploration of the security guarding industry and urban governance: Johannesburg, Delhi and Mumbai Celina Balderas Guzman, Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning, […]

On March 22, 2019, Global Metropolitan Studies and the Social Science Matrix hosted the first annual Bay Area Urban Politics workshop, co-organized by Jeffrey Paller (University of San Francisco) and GMS Co-Director Alison Post. The event drew over thirty faculty and doctoral students from Berkeley, Stanford, U.C.L.A., U.C. Merced, U.C. Santa Cruz, and the University […]

  Global Metropolitan Studies (GMS) is pleased to announce a competition for summer research grants of up to $5,000 to students currently enrolled in the Designated Emphasis. Applications are due February 28, 2019. Applications for pre-dissertation research are especially encouraged, but all projects will be considered, subject to available funding. Please see the Funding section of […]

  The Berkeley Planning Journal is now accepting academic papers, photo essays, and book reviews for its 31st volume: “Transcending the Urban-Rural Divide.” Full Call for Papers below. – – – The rural-urban divide has evolved significantly since its conception. What work does it do today? From American presidential election results that mapped onto urban and […]

  The first annual Bay Area Comparative Urban Politics Workshop will be held on March 22, 2019 from 10am–4pm at UC Berkeley. The workshop will allow professors and graduate students working on urban politics across the world to share their research, receive feedback, and meet other scholars from the broader Bay Area. It will combine a variety of […]

Kagure Wamunyu was selected as one of Kenia’s top 40 women under 40. Find the full interview by the Business Daily Africa in this link. She has a double degree major in mathematics and civil engineering, a Master’s degree in City and Regional Planning from the University of California Berkeley, USA. Kagure currently working as senior […]

Original article by Richard Florida; available at the CityLab. Pictures of a Gone City is the culmination of the life’s work of Richard A. Walker, a professor emeritus of geography at the University of California, Berkeley. A student of the great Marxist geographer David Harvey, Walker brings a profoundly historical approach to his scholarship. His lens spans economics, […]