Eighteen Harvard Faculty Named as Affiliates of the Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University
Eighteen faculty members from six Harvard schools and departments have accepted two-year faculty affiliations at the Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University, joining 51 current faculty affiliates.
Serving a global community committed to solving urban problems and strengthening city leadership, the Center is developing datasets, advancing research, and producing educational resources.
Faculty affiliates join a community of researchers, fellows, staff, and students to generate dialogue and ideas, advance scholarship, build connections across schools and disciplines, and produce research-backed learning materials in collaboration with city leaders around the world.
New Faculty Affiliates
The 18 newly affiliated faculty include:
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences:
- Alisha C. Holland, Gates Professor of Developing Societies
- Gabriel Kreindler, Assistant Professor of Economics
- Mashail Malik, Assistant Professor of Government
- Stephanie Ternullo, Assistant Professor of Government
Harvard Business School:
- Ethan S. Bernstein, Edward W. Conard Associate Professor of Business Administration
- Natalia Garbiras-Diaz, Assistant Professor of Business Administration
- Deborah Winshel, Senior Lecturer of Business Administration
Harvard Graduate School of Design:
- Nestor M. Davidson (GSD/HLS), Emma Bloomberg Professor of Real Estate, Harvard Graduate School of Design; Affiliated Faculty, Harvard Law School
- Ann Forsyth, Ruth and Frank Stanton Professor of Urban Planning
- Magda Maaoui, Assistant Professor of Urban Planning
- Hannah Teicher, Assistant Professor of Urban Planning
- Rachel Weber, Emma Bloomberg Professor of Urban Planning
Harvard Graduate School of Education:
- Rob Watson, Jr., Lecturer on Education; Executive Director, The EdRedesign Lab
Harvard Kennedy School:
- Julie Battilana (HKS/HBS), Alan L. Gleitsman Professor of Social Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School; Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
- Rema Hanna, Jeffrey Cheah Professor of South-East Asia Studies
- David King, Senior Lecturer in Public Policy
- Julia Minson, Professor of Public Policy
Harvard Medical School:
- Louise Ivers, Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine; Professor of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital; Director, Harvard Global Health Institute, Harvard University
Along with the Center’s continuing affiliate faculty, they represent a wide range of disciplinary fields, including public and nonprofit management, law, government, sociology, behavioral science, global health, economics, political science, psychology, urban planning and design, organizational behavior, and more.
Ongoing faculty-focused Center activities include:
- Scholarly convenings, including regular faculty roundtables for sharing research and exchanging views on topics such as climate and cities or the impact of AI.
- Investments in research, including support for faculty and labs focused on urban problem-solving; field-building to advance knowledge of city leadership and municipal innovation; funding for surveys and open datasets that will enable research on cities; and open calls to develop and test approaches to common urban issues.
- Events highlighting cutting-edge Harvard scholarship and insights for city leadership, management, and governance, such as research on the shifting geography of work, an analytical framework for public problem-solving, a panel on strengthening climate resiliency, sessions on cross-sectoral social impact research, and the launch of new resources such as the TrueViews public opinion data explorer.
“The Bloomberg Center for Cities is an exemplar of how productive collaboration across fields and disciplines can be,” said Harvard University Provost John Manning. “By harnessing the creativity of faculty across the University, the Center is expanding knowledge and developing practical solutions that will improve the lives of city residents everywhere.”
“Faculty in every corner of our campus, from every discipline, are pursuing research that speaks directly to the challenges facing cities and those who lead them,” said Harvard Kennedy School Dean Jeremy Weinstein. “The Bloomberg Center for Cities gives them a space to connect, collaborate, and translate their rigorous scholarship into real-world impact.”
“Faculty affiliates conduct their work across a disparate range of disciplines, but three things unite them: sincere interest in uncovering ways to improve cities, a track record of rigorous research and excellent teaching, and an orientation toward engaging with the real world to apply knowledge and insight,” said Bloomberg Center for Cities Director Jorrit de Jong. ‘We welcome them to the Bloomberg Center community and look forward to many sparks of interconnection together.”
Affiliated Faculty of the Bloomberg Center for Cities
Harvard Business School
- Rawi Abdelal, Herbert F. Johnson Professor of International Management; Emma Bloomberg Co-Chair, Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative
- Ethan S. Bernstein, Edward W. Conard Associate Professor of Business Administration
- Ryan Buell, C. D. Spangler Professor of Business Administration
- Amy C. Edmondson, Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management
- Natalia Garbiras-Diaz, Assistant Professor of Business Administration
- John D. Macomber, Senior Lecturer of Business Administration
- Jan Rivkin, C. Roland Christensen Professor of Business Administration; Emma Bloomberg Professor
- Brian Trelstad, Senior Lecturer of Business Administration; Faculty Chair of Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative
- Mitchell B. Weiss, Richard L. Menschel Professor of Management Practice; Emma Bloomberg Professor; Chair, MBA Required Curriculum
- Deborah Winshel, Senior Lecturer of Business Administration
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
- Daniel Agbiboa, John and Ruth Hazel Associate Professor of the Social Sciences; Associate Professor of African and African American Studies
- Danielle Allen (HKS/FAS), James Bryant Conant University Professor; Director, Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation at Harvard Kennedy School’s Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation; Director, Democratic Knowledge Project-Learn at the Harvard Graduate School of Education
- Bruno Carvalho (FAS/GSD), Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and African and African American Studies, Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Co-Director of the Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative; Affiliated Professor in Urban Planning and Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design
- Raj Chetty, William A. Ackman Professor of Public Economics; Director of Opportunity Insights
- Ryan Enos, Professor of Government
- Edward Glaeser (FAS/HKS), Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics; Chairman of the Department of Economics
- Alisha C. Holland, Gates Professor of Developing Societies
- Gabriel Kreindler, Assistant Professor of Economics
- Mashail Malik, Assistant Professor of Government
- Doris Sommer, Ira Jewell Williams, Jr., Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and in African and African American Studies; Director of Graduate Studies in Spanish
- Stephanie Ternullo, Assistant Professor of Government
Harvard Graduate School of Design
- Maurice Cox, Emma Bloomberg Professor in Residence of Urban Planning and Design
- Nestor M. Davidson, Emma Bloomberg Professor of Real Estate, Harvard Graduate School of Design; Affiliated Faculty, Harvard Law School
- Diane Davis, Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning and Urbanism
- Ann Forsyth, Ruth and Frank Stanton Professor of Urban Planning
- Toni Griffin, Professor in Practice of Urban Planning
- Magda Maaoui, Assistant Professor of Urban Planning
- Rachel Meltzer, Plimpton Associate Professor of Planning and Urban Economics
- Hannah Teicher, Assistant Professor of Urban Planning
- Rachel Weber, Emma Bloomberg Professor of Urban Planning; Chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design
- Sarah Whiting, Dean and Josep Lluís Sert Professor of Architecture
Harvard Graduate School of Education
- Monica C. Higgins, Kathleen McCartney Professor of Education Leadership
- Paul Reville, Francis Keppel Professor of Practice of Educational Policy and Administration; Faculty Director, Doctor of Education Leadership Program
- Rob Watson, Jr., Lecturer on Education; Executive Director, The EdRedesign Lab
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
- David Ricketts, TECH Associate of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Harvard Kennedy School
- Matthew Andrews, Director, Building State Capability; Edward S. Mason Senior Lecturer in International Development
- Julie Battilana (HKS/HBS), Alan L. Gleitsman Professor of Social Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School; Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
- Linda Bilmes, Daniel Patrick Moynihan Senior Lecturer in Public Policy
- Hannah Riley Bowles, Co-Director, Women and Public Policy Program; Roy E. Larsen Senior Lecturer in Public Policy and Management
- Arthur Brooks (HKS/HBS), Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Public Leadership, Harvard Kennedy School; Professor of Management Practice, Harvard Business School
- Cornell William Brooks (HKS/HDS), Hauser Professor of the Practice of Nonprofit Organizations, Harvard Kennedy School; Visiting Professor of the Practice of Prophetic Religion and Public Leadership, Harvard Divinity School
- James Carras, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy
- Justin de Benedictis-Kessner, Emma Bloomberg Associate Professor of Public Policy; Faculty Director, Local Politics Lab
- Jorrit de Jong, Director, Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University; Faculty Co-Chair, Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative; Emma Bloomberg Senior Lecturer in Public Policy and Management
- Anthony Foxx, Director, Center for Public Leadership; Emma Bloomberg Professor of the Practice of Public Leadership
- Archon Fung, Director, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation; Winthrop Laflin McCormack Professor of Citizenship and Self-Government
- Marshall Ganz, Rita E. Hauser Senior Lecturer in Leadership, Organizing, and Civil Society
- Stephen Goldsmith, Derek Bok Professor of the Practice of Urban Policy; Director, Data-Smart City Solutions
- Yanilda María González, Ford Foundation Assistant Professor of Public Policy
- Rema Hanna, Jeffrey Cheah Professor of South-East Asia Studies
- Ricardo Hausmann, Director, Growth Lab; Rafik Hariri Professor of the Practice of International Political Economy
- Chris Herbert (HKS/GSD), Managing Director, Joint Center for Housing Studies
- Juliette Kayyem, Robert and Renee Belfer Senior Lecturer in International Security
- David King, Senior Lecturer in Public Policy
- Kimberlyn Leary (HKS/HMS/HSPH), Emma Bloomberg Lecturer in Public Policy and Management, Harvard Kennedy School; Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School/McLean Hospital, part-time; Associate Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
- Matthew Lee, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Management
- Jeffrey Liebman, Co-Director, Harvard Impact Lab; Director of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government; Robert W. Scrivner Professor of Social Policy
- Elizabeth Linos, Emma Bloomberg Professor of Public Policy and Management; Faculty Director, The People Lab
- Liz McKenna, Assistant Professor of Public Policy; Faculty Director, Civic Power Lab
- Julia Minson, Professor of Public Policy
- Mark Moore, Research Professor of Public Management
- Latanya Sweeney (HKS/FAS), Daniel Paul Professor of the Practice of Government and Technology
- Robert Wilkinson, Senior Lecturer in Public Policy and Leadership
Harvard Law School
- Susan Crawford, John A. Reilly Clinical Professor of Law, Emeritus
- Ruth Greenwood, Assistant Clinical Professor of Law; Director, Election Law Clinic at Harvard Law School
- Nicholas Stephanopoulos, Kirkland & Ellis Professor of Law
Harvard Medical School
- Louise Ivers, Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine; Professor of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital; Director, Harvard Global Health Institute, Harvard University
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
- Gary Adamkiewicz, Associate Professor of Environmental Health and Exposure Disparities
- Howard Koh, Harvey V. Fineberg Professor of the Practice of Public Health Leadership
