GLOBAL METROPOLITAN STUDIES
April 2025 Newsletter
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GMS announces 2025 Summer Research Grants!
We are pleased to announce our Designated Emphasis summer funding awardees for 2025! Read about the recipients (who come from a wide range of academic departments) and their projects here!
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April's "Power Broker" competition!
We are continuing to pose questions about Robert Caro's The Power Broker to encourage re-engagement with this classic on urban politics and infrastructure! The 99% Invisible podcast provides a fun and easy way to re-engage with Caro's Pulitzer Prize-winning tome. Those who answer the following question correctly will win a GMS tote bag: "Where was Robert Moses' favorite place to entertain and court powerful individuals?" Submit your response here.
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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 biomedical, behavioral, social and clinical health research, and the Computational Research for Equity in Legal Systems Program focused on inequality and its connection to criminal justice institutions in the United States.
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GMS Keynote lecture by Jennifer Robinson (University College London) on comparative urbanism
Jennifer Robinson, University College London
April 3, 2025
3:30-5:00 pm
106 Bauer Wurster Hall, UC Berkeley
GMS is delighted to co-sponsor a talk by Professor Jennifer Robinson (University College London). Prof. Robinson will speak at a joint GMS-DCRP seminar on "Conceptualising the Urban: Experiments with Comparative urbanism, Starting from Africa?" The presentation is on Thursday, 3rd April, 2025 from 3:30—5 pm in 106, Bauer Wurster Hall.
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Professor Nicole Marwell (Chicago) speaks on Randomized Controlled Trials and the Nonprofit Sector at joint GMS-Sociology colloquium
Nicole Marwell, Chicago
April 21, 2025
2:00-3:30 pm
402 Social Sciences Building, UC Berkeley
On Monday, April 21st, Professor Nicole Marwell (Chicago) will speak at a joint Sociology-GMS colloquium. Her presentation is titled "Mismeasuring Impact: How Randomized Controlled Trials Threaten the Nonprofit Sector." 2:00-3:30pm, Room 402 Social Sciences Building.
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Professor Jackelyn Hwang (Stanford) to speak on Gentrification and Residential Stability at joint GMS - Sociology Colloquium
Jackelyn Hwang, Stanford
April 28, 2025
2:00-3:30 pm
402 Social Sciences Building, UC Berkeley
On Monday, April 28th, Professor Jackelyn Hwang from Stanford University will speak at a joint GMS-Sociology Colloquium. Her presentation is titled "Beyond Displacement: Gentrification and Residential Instability in the New Housing Crisis." 2:00-3:30pm, Room 402 Social Sciences Building.
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Taesoo Song, Designated Emphasis PhD Candidate, City & Regional Planning
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Taesoo Song is a Ph.D. Candidate in City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley. His research leverages quantitative and geospatial methods to investigate how housing policies and planning influence residential mobility and neighborhood change for low-income and minority households in American cities. Taesoo's dissertation examines the housing experiences of Asian Americans, challenging the prevailing narrative that Asian Americans face minimal barriers in the housing market. His work focuses on: 1) ethnic variations in Asian homeownership, 2) the impact of single-family and multi-family housing supply on suburban segregation among Asian Americans, and 3) foreign homebuyer restrictions in Anglosphere countries and their exclusionary narratives surrounding Asian immigration and homeownership.
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