This year has been busy for our PhD students, many have submitted their thesis' and have undergone or are awaiting their examination and some have successfully been awarded their PhDs.
The department would like to extend its congratulations to Dr Laurence Crot and Dr Vasilieos Tselios for successfully being awarded their PhD's within the 07/08 academic year, as well as Dr Pushpa Arabindoo who was awarded her PhD earlier this year.
We also pass on best wishes and good luck to Francisco Mata Andrades, Paulo Jiron and Debora Cavalcanti who are all in the final stages of their PhD's.
Current PhD Students:
Simón Uribe (2008) graduated from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in 2002 with a BA in Political Science, and completed a MSc in Human Geography at the LSE in 2007. Simón is currently starting the PhD in Regional Planning and his work is focused on infrastructure projects in the Colombian Amazon region, specifically the case of roads. He is looking primarily at how the nation state is both psychically and imaginarily built, contested, and subverted through these kinds of projects in areas traditionally considered as agrarian frontiers.
Antoine Paccoud (2007)
Urban Change: Lessons from Alain Badiou
Antoine's research is focused on developing a new approach to understand urban change through the use of the philosophy of Alain Badiou, and more specifically his theory of the Event. By developing a notion of the Urban Event, he seeks to theorize the commonalities that can exist between spatial and social changes occurring in different cities and spatiotemporal contexts. This is to be based on a comparative study of Haussmann's comprehensive redevelopment of Paris in the late 19th century and the development of Manhattan, NYC in the second half of the 20th century.
Yonn Dierwechter 1997-00
Is an Associate Professor of Urban Studies at the University of Washington.