DUSP in the Media: March 2025
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Jacobin, The Economist Who Exposed the Hypocrisy of the Free Market
Benjamin Selwyn profiles Alice Amsden’s economics scholarly work highlighting how the state can use its coercive powers to shape behaviors of firms to help the causes of labor while increasing productivity so long as coalitions of diverse actors help to shape policy and action. More…
MIT Center for International Studies, Natasha Ansari Named Recipient of the 2024 Jeanne Guillemin Prize
The Jeanne Guillemin, a longtime colleague of CIS and a sociologist of science and national security, Prize is an endowed fund that provides financial support to women PhD candidates studying international affairs. DUSP’s Natasha Ansari and MIT Architecture’s Olivia Wynne Houck were named the 2024 recipients of the award. More…
San Francisco Examiner, Meet the SFMTA's new leader
Greg Wong details Mayor Daniel Lurie and the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) Board of Directors naming of MIT alumna Julie Kirschbaum (MCP ‘04, SM ‘04) as the director of the SFMTA. More…
MIT Leading Edge Technology Webinar, Smart Cities and Urban Development
MIT’s Industrial Liaison Program gathered Chris Zegras, Andres Sevtsuk, and Umberto Fugiglando to explore how urban science is reshaping cities at every scale along topics such as urban mobility, biodiversity, environmental quality, and community well-being. More...
CNN, Trump administration backs off mandate addressing housing segregation and discrimination
Nathaniel Meyersohn examines the state of the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing mandate in Massachusetts citing a 2019 MIT study and drawing on the expertise of Justin Steil. More…
The Washington Post, Removing D.C.’s BLM Plaza doesn’t erase history
Ezra Glenn’s comments are featured in a compilation of letters to the editor on the future of the Black Lives Matter street art in Washington DC. More…
Bund Deutscher Architektinnen Und Architekten, Name It Domicide
Balakrishnan Rajagopal joins Uta Winterhager and Juan Pablo Molestina to discuss the urgency and circumstances of recognizing “Domicide” - the destruction of cities, homes, and infrastructure - as a distinct crime of its own legal standing. More…
The Boston Globe, Dancer Ananth Udupa’s ‘Upanayana Project’ examines an ancient Hindu rite of passage
“The ‘Upanayana Project’ blends ‘that history and my lived experience as a queer child being asked to renounce his femininity, his queerness,’” says Ananth Udupa in Cate McQuaid’s Boston Globe piece. More…
WBUR, Book clubs across Mass. read Mel King’s 'Chain of Change'
Arielle Gray draws on Karilyn Crockett as she details book clubs and group readings of Mel King’s Chains of Change, noting King’s emphasis on that “caring for one another is sometimes the most radical act a community can take.” More…
Wagner Foundation, Wagner Foundation Announces Inaugural Wagner Arts Fellowship and Artist Awardees
L’Merchie Frazier, who co-taught 11.S940 Hacking the Archive with Karilyn Crockett, is among the first cohort of artist awardees to receive a Wagner Arts Fellowship, which is designed to support mid-career artists in the Greater Boston area who are embedded within their communities and at a pivotal moment in their artistic trajectory. More…
Tulane, School of Architecture and Built Environment, Center on Climate Change and Urbanism awards inaugural Tulane Prize for Climate Change Curriculum in the Built Environment
David Hsu’s Urban Energy Systems & Policy is named one of the winners of the inaugural Tulane Prize for Climate Change Curriculum in the Built Environment, an award which recognizes faculty for their significant achievements in teaching climate change and seeks to foster innovation in the development of climate change curriculum. More…