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Affiliated PhD Student Stephanie Rivera-Kumar

City and Regional Planning Ph.D. Candidate and Fontaine Fellow, University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design

Urban Development

Fellow in Urban Leadership Antoilyn Nguyen

May 16 2023 Past Event The Impossibility of Democracy at the U.S.-Mexico Border Urban Development

Sep 24 2021 Past Event The Employment Paradox: High Job Openings and the Undocumented Latinx State & Local Finance

Faculty Fellow Simon Richter

Class of 1965 Endowed Term Professor of German, Francophone, Italian, and Germanic Studies, School of Arts and Sciences Chair, Department of Francophone, Italian, and Germanic Studies

Climate Change & Resilience

Scholar Arthur Acolin

Associate Professor and Bob Filley Endowed Chair, Runstad Department of Real Estate, College of Built Environments, University of Washington

Urban Development Rapid Urbanization + 1

Julia McWilliams

Emerging Scholar Julia McWilliams

Co-Director of the Urban Studies Program, Urban Studies Program, School of Arts and Sciences

Julie McWilliams is a 4th year PhD candidate at UPenn’s Graduate School of Education pursuing a joint-degree in education and cultural anthropology. Her research lies at the intersection of urban education reform, race, and immigration. She is currently writing a dissertation about the impact of the school closure policy on the social and organizational dynamics of a neighborhood high school slated for closure in Philadelphia. Alongside her dissertation, she is also studying the effects of education reform in Philadelphia on the academic transitions of recently resettled refugee populations. Prior to graduate school she received a BA in political economy from Princeton University and then spent several years teaching Lao youth in a small Australian college in Vientiane, Laos.

Affiliated PhD Student Jane Abell

Doctoral Candidate in Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania

Fellow Janice Perlman

President, The Mega-Cities Project, Inc.

Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development + 2

Fellow Sheela Patel

Founder and Director, Society for Promotion of Area Resource Centres (SPARC)

Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development + 3

Scholar Dowell Myers

Professor, Sol Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California Director, Population Dynamics Research Group

Urban Development Housing

Scholar Christian Krohn-Hansen

Professor of Social Anthropology, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo

Urban Development

Faculty Fellow Domenic Vitiello

Professor of City Planning and Urban Studies, City & Regional Planning, Weitzman School of Design

Faculty Fellow Heather Sharkey

Professor of Modern Middle Eastern and North African History, Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, School of Arts and Sciences

Urban Development

Faculty Fellow Ken Lum

Marilyn Jordan Taylor Presidential Professor Chair of Fine Arts

Faculty Fellow Camille Zubrinsky Charles

Professor of Sociology, Africana Studies, and Education, School of Arts and Sciences

Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development + 1

Article November 1, 2013 Immigration as Urban Revitalization Most of the abundant new literature on recent immigration concentrates on the traditional immigrant ports-of-entry and on new and emerging immigrant gateways. Rapid Urbanization

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