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GMS Faculty Search with City & Regional Planning
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…
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GMS Lecture Series 2019 – 2020 Announced
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.
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Kenichi Soga named Bakar Fellow
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…
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Power at the Margins II: Mobilizing Across Housing Injustice
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…
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Announcing new GMS core faculty members
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…
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GMS publishes its Annual Report for the 2018-2019 academic year
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…
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GMS DE Students publish new articles in peer-reviewed journals
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.”…
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GMS DE Students receive prestigious fellowships
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…
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Brazilian urbanist Eduardo Marques a Visiting Scholar at Berkeley
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.