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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 expe
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:
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 sensin
Power at the Margins II: Mobilizing Across Housing Injustice
Call for proposals
Power at the Margins II: Mobilizing Across Housing Injustice
March 12-14, 2020
University of California, Berkeley
Abstract due: October 1, 2019
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.
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.