The Global Urban History Project is proud to announce the 2024-25 cohort of GUHP Emerging Scholars. These eighteen scholars will work with senior members of GUHP's Board and GUHP Emerging alumni to polish papers they plan to deliver at GUHP2 Berlin in July 10-11, 2025. Look out for announcements of other public events involving these scholars in advance of the conference.
“Ground-ing Buenos Aires. An urban history of land, soil, and ground”
Anastasia Betsa, PhD student, Research assist. Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space
"Between the Vernacular and the Global: Architecture, Retail, and the Postmodernization of Urban Space in Late Socialism, 1970-1990"
Ivana Mihaela Žimbrek, PhD student, Central European University, Vienna
"The Sugar Gamble: Finance, Ecology, and Empire in Egypt’s Sugar Belt, 1890-1914"
Salma Abouelhossein, PhD student, Harvard University
"A Landscape of Speculation: Traders, Landlords and Urban Land in the Making of a Frontier Town of the British Empire, Guwahati, 1860s-1900s"
Himalaya Bora, PhD student, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
"Long nineteenth century Tunis and its first railway: A spatial analysis of the TGM (Tunis-Goulette-Marsa)"
Oumaïma Jaïdane, MA in history of architecture from Middle East Technical University (Ankara)
"Forever prime real estate? A global, long-durée history of Lebanon’s Political Economy of Urban Space, 1920-1975"
Jan Altaner, PhD student, History, St. John’s College, University of Cambridge
"Going beyond the urban edge: how sweet potatoes supported an indigenous village amid urban sprawl, 1935-2016"
Tania Knapp da Silva, PhD student, University of São Paulo
"Singapore’s Laboured ‘Green’ Landscapes and Contested Visions of ‘Sustainability’ in the Plantationocene"
Yannis-Adam Allouache, Ph.D., the National University of Singapore
"Old Wine in New Bottle? The Emergence of Neoliberal Colombo (Sri Lanka) and Refashioning of Traditional Labour"
Aruna Jayasena, PhD student, South Asian University
"Memories of disaster induced urban dispossesion: Gendered Experiences of Disaster Relocation and Urban Vulnerability in Chennai"
Suchismita Goswami, PhD fellow, University of Copenhagen
"Viewing Urban History through Informality: Metropolitan Manila’s Informal Settlements during the Marcos Sr. Period, 1965-1986"
Gabriel Gagno, M.A. and instructor, the University of the Philippines
"Urbanizing Peace: Coen Beeker in Sudan and Ethiopia in the 1970s"
Chen Chu, PhD student, MIT
"Colonizing the Future: Urban Imaginations and the Transnational Flow of Techno-Utopia"
Maxim Tvorun-Dunn, PhD student, University of Tokyo
"Crane-Built Socialist Cities: Industrialization, Mechanization, and Lifting Construction in the Early PRC’s Urbanization"
Jie Shen, PhD student, University of Tokyo
"Transformation of Istanbul’s Seashores: Relationship of State and Entrepreneurs in Urban Change of 1940s-1950s Turkey"
Deniz Can Keskin, MA student, Freie Universität and Humboldt-Universität
"Urban everyday conflict in the streets of Madrid during the interwar period: defining the boundaries of public space"
Pablo de Mora, PhD student, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
"“But the ‘Door’ Won’t Open”: Emotions as Method in Writing Urban Histories"
Hatem Hegab, PhD student, Freie Universität
"German villages in a German city: Marking the presence of German migrants from former Habsburg crownlands in interwar Vienna"
Pauli Aro, postdoctoral fellow, University of Vienna