Adriana Abdenur (PhD, Princeton) is Assistant Professor of International Affairs at the New School and a faculty fellow at the India China Institute. She is interested, broadly put, in the production of inequality and how this is manifested in urban areas. Her research and teaching areas include international development, urban inequality, international education, and environmental sociology. She is finishing the manuscript for her book Favelas on the Asphalt, which compares the politics of eviction in four major Brazilian cities. Recent articles include a study of the ongoing forcible removals for "urban revitalization" in inner-city Johannesburg, South Africa; an analysis of the social dislocation caused by the construction of central business districts in China; and a study of cross-class interaction between doormen and affluent residents of a Rio de Janeiro neighborhood.
Jonathan Bach (Ph.D., Syracuse University) is Associate Director of the International Affairs Program. He works on contemporary reformulations of sovereignty, identity and memory. Before coming to the New School he held post-doctoral research positions at Columbia University's Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy and at Harvard University's Center for European Studies, and visiting positions at Columbia's Harriman Institute and the Institute for Peace Research and Security Studies at the University of Hamburg. He is author of Between Sovereignty and Integration: German Foreign Policy and National Identity after 1989, and his articles have appeared in Geopolitics, Public Culture, Studies in Comparative International Development, Foreign Policy in Focus, Peace Review, and Philosophy and Social Science.
Michael Cohen (Ph.D., University of Chicago) is Director of the International Affairs Program. He also works as Advisor to the Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, Design, and Urban Planning of the University of Buenos Aires. Before coming to the New School in 2001, he was a Visiting Fellow of the International Center for Advanced Studies at New York University. From 1972 to 1999, he had a distinguished career at the World Bank. He was responsible for much of the urban policy development of the Bank over that period and, from 1994-1998, he served as the Senior Advisor to the Bank's Vice-President for Environmentally Sustainable Development. He has worked in over fifty countries and was heavily involved in the Bank's work on infrastructure, environment, and sustainable development. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences Panel on Urban Dynamics. He is the author or editor of several books, including most recently Preparing the Urban Future: Global Pressures and Local Forces (ed. with A. Garland, B. Ruble, and J. Tulchin), The Human Face of the Urban Environment (ed. with I. Serageldin), and Urban Policy and Economic Development: An Agenda for the 1990s. Other recent publications include articles in 25 Years of Urban Development (Amersfoort, The Netherlands, 1998), Cities Fit for People (Kirdar, ed., 1996), The Brookings Review, Journal of the Society for the Study of Traditional Environments, International Social Science Review, Habitat International, and Finance and Development. He is currently completing a study of urban inequality in Buenos Aires. He has taught at the University of California at Berkeley, The Johns Hopkins University, and the School of Architecture, Design, and Urban Planning of the University of Buenos Aires.
Architect and urban historian, Margarita Gutman is Full Professor and holder of a Chair in Architecture and Urban History at the University of Buenos Aires. She was a Scholar at The Getty Research Institute and at the Woodrow Wilson International Center, Fellow at the International Center for Advanced Studies, New York University, and Senior Fellow at the Vera List Center for Art and Politics, New School University. She is author and editor of five books; director of the exhibition, "Buenos Aires 1910: Memories of the World to Come" (1999/2000); and director/member/advisor of 2050 programs in Buenos Aires, New York, and Barcelona.
Vyayanthi Rao (Ph.D., University of Chicago) holds a joint appointment
with the Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science, where she is
Assistant Professor of Anthropology. Her research focuses on
globalization, development, and cities, in particular issues of
technology, infrastructure, memory and modernity in South Asia. She
currently has two book projects in development, to be titled ‚ Ruins and Recollections: the Heritage of Modernization in a South Asian Context and Infra-City: Catastrophic Urbanisms in Post-Industrial Mumbai.
Jonathan Bach (Ph.D., Syracuse University) is Associate Director of the International Affairs Program. He works on contemporary reformulations of sovereignty, identity and memory. Before coming to the New School he held post-doctoral research positions at Columbia University's Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy and at Harvard University's Center for European Studies, and visiting positions at Columbia's Harriman Institute and the Institute for Peace Research and Security Studies at the University of Hamburg. He is author of Between Sovereignty and Integration: German Foreign Policy and National Identity after 1989, and his articles have appeared in Geopolitics, Public Culture, Studies in Comparative International Development, Foreign Policy in Focus, Peace Review, and Philosophy and Social Science.
Michael Cohen (Ph.D., University of Chicago) is Director of the International Affairs Program. He also works as Advisor to the Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, Design, and Urban Planning of the University of Buenos Aires. Before coming to the New School in 2001, he was a Visiting Fellow of the International Center for Advanced Studies at New York University. From 1972 to 1999, he had a distinguished career at the World Bank. He was responsible for much of the urban policy development of the Bank over that period and, from 1994-1998, he served as the Senior Advisor to the Bank's Vice-President for Environmentally Sustainable Development. He has worked in over fifty countries and was heavily involved in the Bank's work on infrastructure, environment, and sustainable development. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences Panel on Urban Dynamics. He is the author or editor of several books, including most recently Preparing the Urban Future: Global Pressures and Local Forces (ed. with A. Garland, B. Ruble, and J. Tulchin), The Human Face of the Urban Environment (ed. with I. Serageldin), and Urban Policy and Economic Development: An Agenda for the 1990s. Other recent publications include articles in 25 Years of Urban Development (Amersfoort, The Netherlands, 1998), Cities Fit for People (Kirdar, ed., 1996), The Brookings Review, Journal of the Society for the Study of Traditional Environments, International Social Science Review, Habitat International, and Finance and Development. He is currently completing a study of urban inequality in Buenos Aires. He has taught at the University of California at Berkeley, The Johns Hopkins University, and the School of Architecture, Design, and Urban Planning of the University of Buenos Aires.
Architect and urban historian, Margarita Gutman is Full Professor and holder of a Chair in Architecture and Urban History at the University of Buenos Aires. She was a Scholar at The Getty Research Institute and at the Woodrow Wilson International Center, Fellow at the International Center for Advanced Studies, New York University, and Senior Fellow at the Vera List Center for Art and Politics, New School University. She is author and editor of five books; director of the exhibition, "Buenos Aires 1910: Memories of the World to Come" (1999/2000); and director/member/advisor of 2050 programs in Buenos Aires, New York, and Barcelona.
Vyayanthi Rao (Ph.D., University of Chicago) holds a joint appointment
with the Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science, where she is
Assistant Professor of Anthropology. Her research focuses on
globalization, development, and cities, in particular issues of
technology, infrastructure, memory and modernity in South Asia. She
currently has two book projects in development, to be titled ‚ Ruins and Recollections: the Heritage of Modernization in a South Asian Context and Infra-City: Catastrophic Urbanisms in Post-Industrial Mumbai.