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Penn Institute for Urban Research 2019–2020 Annual Report
Penn’s Humanities, Urbanism, and Design (H+U+D) Initiative The Penn Humanities, Urbanism, and Design (H+U+D) Initiative, funded by the Andrew Mellon Foundation, continued to bridge the divide between the humanities and design disciplines in the study of cities. For the seventh year, Penn IUR provided administrative and programmatic support for the initiative.
Colloquium members in 2019–20 included: DANIEL BARBER Associate Professor and Chair, Architecture, Weitzman School of Design RITA BARNARD Professor, English, School of Arts & Sciences DAVID BARNES Associate Professor, History and Sociology of Science, School of Arts & Sciences MIA BAY Roy F. and Jeanette P. Nichols Professor of American History, School of Arts & Sciences
Penn IUR Co-Director Eugénie Birch and Penn IUR Faculty Fellow David Brownlee, Frances Shapiro-Weitzenhoffer Professor, History of Art, Penn School of Arts & Sciences, have co-directed the initiative since its inception. Alisa Chiles, a PhD candidate in the History of Art, manages the project.
HERMAN BEAVERS Professor, English and Africana Studies, School of Arts and Sciences
A signature component of the initiative is the H+U+D colloquium, a group of 15 scholars from both design and humanities disciplines across the university who meet bi-weekly to share research, foster collaboration, and build relationships.
ZHONGJIE LIN Associate Professor, City and Regional Planning, Weitzman School of Design
DAVID HARTT Assistant Professor, Fine Arts, Weitzman School of Design SOPHIE HOCHHÄUSL Assistant Professor, Architecture, Weitzman School of Design
MICHELLE LOPEZ Assistant Professor, Fine Arts, Weitzman School of Design KEN LUM Professor and Chair, Fine Arts, Weitzman School of Design JENNIFER PONCE de LÉON Assistant Professor, English, School of Arts and Sciences VINCENT REINA Assistant Professor, City and Regional Planning, Weitzman School of Design SIMON RICHTER Professor, Germanic Languages and Literatures, School of Arts and Sciences FRANCA TRUBIANO Associate Professor, Architecture, Weitzman School of Design Research MANTHA ZARMAKOUPI Assistant Professor, History of Art, School of Arts and Sciences
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