Committee on Environment, Geography and Urbanization
Division of Social Sciences, The University of Chicago

Becoming Urban: Understanding the Urban Transformation of Migrants to Phnom Penh

Anni Beukes, Marco Garrido, Alan Kolata, Monin Nong, Julio Postigo, Sabina Shaikh, Try Thuon

Neubauer Collegium Faculty Research Project | 2024-2025

Geopoetics of Urban Rivers

Jennifer Scappetone

UChicago Global Workshop | 2024-25

Hidden Abodes of the “Great Acceleration”: Fossil Metabolism, Infrastructure, and the Climate/Nature Crisis

Neil Brenner, Aaron G. Jakes, Jason W. Moore

Neubauer Collegium Faculty Research Project | 2024-2025

Reimagining Cosmopolitanism

Dipesh Chakrabarty, Lisa Wedeen

The Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory (3CT) | 2024-2025

Phytological Critique

Thomas Lamarre, Stacey Moran, Michael Fisch, Zach Yost, Yangqiao Lu, Isabel Kranz, Vicki Kirby, Christina Jauernik, Adam Nocek, Jun Mizukawa

Neubauer Collegium Faculty Research Project | 2023-2026

The Case of the Human II: Co-Producing Plural Knowledge on the Body, the Social, and the Subject 

David Meltzer, Eugene Raikhel, Brian Callender, E. Summerson Carr, Julie Orlemanski, Michele Friedner, Seth Holmes, Mayssa Rekhis, Mirko Pasquini, Scott Stonington

Neubauer Collegium Faculty Research Project | 2025-2027

The Diversity of Color: Safeguarding Natural Dye Sources and Practices in Michoacán and Oaxaca

Claudia Brittenham, Sonia Hernandez, Oscar Pineda-Catalan, Michael Rossi

Neubauer Collegium Faculty Research Project | 2024-2027

Economic Planning and Democratic Politics: History, Theory, and Practice

Aaron Benanav, Chiara Cordelli, Gary Herrigel, Matthew Landauer

Neubauer Collegium Faculty Research Project | 2023-2026

Entanglements of the Indian Past

Dipesh Chakrabarty, John E. Cort, Whitney Cox, Lynna Dhanani, Charu Gupta, Doug Ober, Andrew Ollett, Sarah Pierce Taylor, Anand Venkatkrishnan

Neubauer Collegium Faculty Research Project | 2021-2026

How Things Fall Apart

Robin Bartram

Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation Grant Project | 2024–2025

Sonic Borderlands of South Asia

Philip V. Bohlman, Anna Schultz, Dipesh Chakrabarty

Neubauer Collegium Faculty Research Project | 2025-2027

Green Schoolyards for Community Health and Urban Climate Resilience

Sabina Shaikh & Laura McGuinn

Seed Fund Project, Institute for Climate and Sustainable Growth | 2024–2025

Community health assessment

Loren Saulsberry, Brisa Aschebrook-Kilfoy

Chicago Multiethnic Prevention and Surveillance Study

Anatolian Atlas

Mehrnoush Soroush

Center for Ancient Middle Eastern Landscapes | 2025

Air pollution and cardiometabolic health

Brisa Aschebrook-Kilfoy

Chicago Multiethnic Prevention and Surveillance Study

U-2 Historical Imagery acquisition project

Mehrnoush Soroush

Center for Ancient Middle Eastern Landscapes | 2025

Climate and Mental Health in Chicago: A Mixed-methods Evaluation of Temperature Impacts in a Vulnerable Population

Kate Burrows, Laura McGuinn

Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation Grant Project | 2024-2025

Forecasting the Onset of the Indian Monsoon

Adam Marchakitus, Amir Jina, Colin Aitken, Hamid Pahlavan, Katie Kowal, Mayank Gupta, Pedram Hassanzadeh, Qiang Sun, Rajat Masiwal, Tyler Yang

Institute for Climate and Sustainable Growth | 2025

Training program to strengthen forecasting in low- and middle-income countries

Amir Jina, Michael Kremer, Pedram Hassanzadeh

Institute for Climate and Sustainable Growth | 2025

Effects of Urban Chemical and Non-Chemical Stressors on Preadolescent Mental Health

Laura McGuinn

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) | 2021-2026

A3RD (AI-Assisted Archaeological Remains Detection)

Mehrnoush Soroush, Andrew Wilson, Bijan Rouhani, Rémi Cresson, Nick Ross, Parmanand Sinha, Emad Khazraee

Center for Ancient Middle Eastern Landscapes | 2024-2025