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Shenzhen is a city known for being an overnight metropolis. The city has experienced rapid urbanization since the 1990s which has affected communities in numerous ways. The effect of urbanization on fisherfolk communities in Shenzhen is what John Li ’24 spent his summer researching using a grant from the 中国 城市研究 Summer Fund.

by Xiangming陈, Director, 城市研究 2024年夏天, CUGS和城市研究, in collaboration with the Office of Study Away, are planning to re-launch the 中国 Summer program, 等待旅行 ...

Julius Benthin is a senior urban studies and economics double major who recently presented his research on the HafenCity development in Hamburg with a grant received as a Marcuss Fellow. ...

南希·洛佩兹·弗洛雷斯 南希·洛佩兹·弗洛雷斯 is an 城市研究 and Political Science double major. She began her time at 全球十大网赌正规平台 as a student in the Cities Gateway and has ...

Albert Ananyan '24 has been awarded a 和平项目 grant to undertake a project in Armenia in summer 2023. Ananyan, a political science and international studies major from Armenia, 被选为10美元,000 grant to undertake a project titled, "DiliKar: a light industry training and capacity-building center for Artsakh Refugees.”

Over the summer, Trinity Students completed three 和平项目. Daniel Santos Ramírez ’23 and Gabriel Sorondo Guirola ’23 completed their project “Proyecto Turpial: Diasporic Youth Encounters,” which focused on building connections between young Venezuelans abroad and helping them to network with the eventual goal of empowering young leaders to give back to Venezuela. Suzanne Carpe Elias ’22 and Federico Cedolini ’22 completed the project “Mental Health Training for Peace: Building an Online Platform to Educate Families of Mental Health Patients in El Salvador,” where the goal was to help educate families with members who are suffering from mental health issues how to better help support their loved ones. Nayantara Ghosh ’22 also completed a Project for Peace over the summer called, “Wonder on Wheels: Bringing Mobile Education to the Children of Daily Wage Laborers and Slum-dwellers,” which focused on providing mobile education to those with inconsistent access to educational services in Bengaluru, 印度.

As we are going through the inaugural self-study and external review of 城市研究 this spring to mark its first decade of development since 2013, we feature two earlier graduates who reflect on their self-designed Urban & Global Studies major in 2011 and its curricular connections to their post-graduation careers. Their experience with that major had helped launch the current 城市研究 Major into existence a decade ago. 

“B-Girls run the world” says Adyanna Odom ‘23, who studied the culture of breakdancing women (B-Girls) in Houston over the summer with a grant from the Center for Urban and Global Studies. Through her coursework as an International Studies major with a concentration in Global Hip Hop, Odom discovered a gap in the literature about B-Girls. She wants to add to the academic literature on B-Girls by sharing their voices in circles that have not been open to them before.

援助en Chisholm ’23 knew he wanted to apply for a Center for Urban and Global Studies (CUGS) research grant during his junior year – it was a matter of finding the right research project. After spending time considering a question to explore, a topic that combined his academic interests in Spanish and Arabic became apparent during his semester abroad in Granada, 西班牙.

我们很高兴地欢迎. 基维·麦克法登博士. Shoshana Goldstein to CUGS和城市研究 this fall. Dr. McFadden is the Kelter Postdoctoral Fellow in CUGS and recently completed her PhD in Geography at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Goldstein is 访问ing Assistant Professor in 城市研究 and was most recently Mellon Fellow at Princeton's School of Architecture.