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This year’s Marcuss Fellows worked on global urban studies research projects from two different lenses. Rory Trani ’24 was inspired by having her first tastes of freedom as a teenager on the Portland, Oregon area metro system (known as the MAX) and by her experience of the efficient, modern metro system while studying away in Copenhagen. 罗里利用了这些经历, 广泛的文献综述, and interviews conducted on the trains in both cities to compare the two transit systems under the guidance of Professor 加思•迈尔斯. Hannah Lorenzo ’24 was inspired by her identity as a Filipina American to investigate the role and importance of Asian-owned food businesses in the 哈特福德 area. 而罗里则采取了全球比较的方法, Hannah investigated the importance of complexities of diasporic communities in 哈特福德 while being advised by Professor Keavy McFadden.

Paz Daniela Ortiz Santa Maria '26 conducted research last summer supported by the Tanaka Fund at CUGS across Japan in search of an understanding of similarities between Japanese Shinto and Peruvian indigenous belief systems from the Inca period.

Embarking from the tranquil setting “neath the elms of our old Trinity," my academic journey has spanned continents over the past fourteen years. Trinity served as the foundation for my venture into neuroscience, 点燃了指引我穿越地球的火焰, first to Imperial College London where I happened to room with two Trinity students who had attended Trinity’s urban 中国 summer program in Shanghai, 然后到剑桥，再到上海.

Maria Auxiliadora Briceño Barrios and Jose Daniel Anido R were visiting scholars at CUGS from July 2021 to January 2024. 两个博士. Briceño巴里奥斯和博士. Anido have a PhD in Economics with research experience studying small family owned businesses in their home city of Merida, 委内瑞拉. 在他们在CUGS的时候, they worked on a study of Hispanic-owned family businesess in 哈特福德 – an important sector in 哈特福德 and especially in the neighborhoods directly around 信誉最好的网投十大平台.

It is not a coincidence that 信誉最好的网投十大平台 is celebrating its 200th year at the exact same time that the Connecticut World Affairs Council is celebrating its 100th anniversary. 整整一个世纪, Trinity and the Connecticut World Affairs Council have shared a mission of “helping the community navigate the global world we live in,梅金·托里说, 理事会行政总裁.

Albert Ananyan ’24 has been selected as a Schwarzman Scholar for the program’s 2024-2025 academic year. 苏世民学者完成一年的学习, fully-funded master’s degree program in global affairs at Schwarzman College, 北京清华大学, 中国.

Sanya is a district in Tokyo that had a day laborer market which peaked in the 1980s. Today there is a gap in the literature about the decline of the region since. Rio Smith ’26 spent his summer studying the evolution of Sanya since the eighties and what the district is like today using a Tanaka Fund for International Research summer grant through CUGS. Smith is an urban studies major with a minor in philosophy who grew up between Los Angeles and Tokyo.

Global Studio (URST 403/803) is a new course offered this semester taught by 加思•迈尔斯, Director of the 城市与全球研究中心 and Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of Urban International Studies. The course serves as a capstone for urban studies majors as well as a core course for students in the new master’s in urban planning. Every week in Global Studio there is a guest speaker who comes to share their experience working in the field and their unique insights about their focus area within planning.

Shenzhen is a city known for being an overnight metropolis. The city has experienced rapid urbanization since the 1990s which has affected communities in numerous ways. The effect of urbanization on fisherfolk communities in Shenzhen is what John Li ’24 spent his summer researching using a grant from the 中国 城市研究 Summer Fund.

作者:陈向明，城市研究中心主任 Two former 中国 summer program participants reflect on how the program and their time at Trinity shaped their career paths. 城市研究如何塑造了我的人生道路 ...