Global Urban Studies - Rutgers

We're proud of the strong Global Urban Studies presence at the New School's Urban Worlds Colloquium! Pictured left to right: Fatma Zişan Tokaç, Ghada Rifai, Ang Liu, and Gilbert Nuwagira.

Program | Urban Worlds 2025 | Urban Space Lab We are delighted to welcome you to the first URBAN WORLDS colloquium for Ph.D. students. We have selected 16 students from five universities to present their work in progress. The event takes place ...

Fatma Zişan Tokaç, Ang Liu, and Ghada Rifai are presenting their work at The New School's Urban Worlds Colloquium, taking place this Friday and Saturday. The program is available here: www.urbanspacelab.org/program.

Our thanks go out to Dr. Erica Salinas Thomas and Dr. Juhwan Seo for headlining our inaugural "How to" event on applying for postdoctoral and faculty positions.

Why Are Protesters in Mexico City Angry at Remote Workers?

“Gentrification has been a constant, [...] And what we’re seeing right now is the climax.” GUS PhD Candidate Tamara Velasquez Leiferman was recently quoted in this NYTimes article on protests in Mexico City: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/w....

Fatma Zişan Tokaç presented her research at the 3-minute thesis competition with a presentation titled "The City That Can’t Sleep: Changing Experiences of Summer and Extreme Heat in Istanbul". Zişan was awarded second place in the competition. Congratulations!

Canadian Urban Governance in Comparative Perspective - University of Toronto Press Ultimately, the book invites readers to reflect upon and assess the extent to which Canada’s current municipal systems are up to the task of contributing to effective and equitable responses to contemporary urban challenges and to enriching democratic life in Canada.

GUS PhD Candidate Adam Straub and Professor Mara Sidney have published their chapter “Addressing Poverty and Social Polarization” in Kristen R. Good and Jen Nelles’ edited volume Canadian Urban Governance in Comparative Perspective, published by U of Toronto Press: utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....

We send our thanks to everyone who was able to join us for Kristina Micu's defense, both online and in person. She successfully defended her dissertation, "What's Faith Got To Do With It? The Evangelical Church Planting Movement in the Philippines and the United States." Congratulations!

Please consider joining us for a bilingual reading and moderated conversation next Monday.

Writing the Unseen:
Between Translation and Transparency

4-6pm on March 31
Shine Portrait Studio (EN 319)
54 Halsey Street, Newark, NJ

NJIT students in the joint program also presented their work, including Muxin Jia, Mingzhe Li, and Mansi Shah. Congratulations to everyone!

Roula Seghaier gave a presentation titled "Breaking the Perimeter: Space and Refugee Political Agency in Lebanon."

GUS students participated in the 17th Annual Kruekeberg Conference held by @bloustein.rutgers.edu. Tamara Velasquez Leiferman presented a paper titled "Short-term Rentals and Transnational Gentrification in Mexico City: A Mixed Methods Approximation."

Today at 1:15, she will moderate a session titled “Advancing the rights’ protections of migrant women and girls over the next 30 years.” Learn more about these sessions at www.unwomen.org/.../csw69-20....

2nd-year GUS student Roula Seghaier is participating in the 69th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women. On Friday, she participated in "Taking stock of migrant women’s rights in 30 years of the Beijing."

GUS PhD Candidate Nooreen Fatima and Professor of Political Science Jyl Josephson's new article "Digital Organizing: Pivoting, Learning, and Adapting" has been published in the Community Organizing Journal. It's available here: doi.org/10.71057/gjx....

Check out this piece by PhD candidates Ang Liu and Muxia Jin: Homeless homeownership—when people own homes but can’t live in them due to abandonment, speculation, or unfinished developments. They aim to spark an international dialogue on this overlooked issue in. doi.org/10.1080/0272...

Local Black Female Leaders Unpack Politics, Leadership, and Forging Their Own Paths Rep. LaMonica McIver, Assemblywoman Shavonda Sumpter and Essex County Commissioner A’Dorian Murray-Thomas upheld the theme “learning from Black women.

Moderated by Hyacinth Miller, the Center for Politics and Race in America hosted "An Intimate Conversation About Politics, Leadership, and Forging Your Own Path." Read TAPinto Newark's feature on the event at:
www.tapinto.net/towns/newark....

The Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Program in Peace and Conflict Studies, and CGHR/UNESCO present a talk by Professor Cheryl Lawther (School of Law, Queen's University, Belfast, Ireland). Join us in the Dana Room tomorrow, Tuesday, Feb 25 @ 2:30.

I’ll be presenting my research on the impact and policy regulation history of Airbnb in CDMX at @blousteinru.bsky.social in March!

Join the Sheila Y. Oliver Center for Politics and Race in America for a fireside chat featuring Congresswoman LaMonica McIver, Assemblywoman Shavonda Sumter and Essex County Commissioner A'Dorian Murray Thomas.

Register for this Thursday's event here: www.eventbrite.com/e/an-intimat...

Today at 4:30 pm in Express Newark 213: "Global Engagement Begins Here: Integrating Refugee Voices into Higher Education," a talk by educator and activist Mary Maker. Join us, The Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice, and The Center for Migration and the Global City.

Join us today and tomorrow for "Racial Justice, Reparations, and the University," the latest events in the Sawyer Seminar Series. Kudos to all of the GUS graduate students and affiliates involved in organizing!

Join us tomorrow in the Dana Room at 2:30 pm for "Echoes of the Pandemic: Adapting and Resisting in the Post-COVID World of Brazilian Music" with Bruno Coutinho de Souza Oliveira.