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Diane Davis
Project Director
617.452.2804
dedavis@mit.edu
Diane Davis is associate dean of the School of Architecture and Planning and political sociology professor of urban studies and planning at MIT. She served as acting director (2003-2004) of the Program on Human Rights and Justice at MIT.
Davis’s research and teaching interests include the politics of urban policy, cities in conflict, the relationship between cities and national development, and the political conflicts among competing territorial jurisdictions in metropolitan areas (mainly in the developing world).
Recent research, supported by both the MacArthur Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation, examines the relationship between police impunity, deteriorating rule of law, and changing patterns and priorities of urban governance in countries undergoing democratic transition. A current project, undertaken with Jo Beall (Institute for Development Studies at the London School of Economics) is a comparative study of the development and urban policy challenges in cities wracked by conflict.
Her book publications include: Discipline and Development: Middle Classes and Prosperity in East Asia and Latin America (Cambridge University Press, 2004); Irregular Armed Forces and Their Role in Policies and State Formation, co-edited with Anthony Pereira (Cambridge University Press, 2003); and Urban Leviathan: Mexico City in the Twentieth Century (Temple University Press, 1994). She has been editor of the research annual Political Power and Social Theory (Elsevier Ltd.) for the past 15 years.
Leila Farsakh
Project Director
Leila Farsakh is assistant professor in political science at the University of Massachusetts Boston and research affiliate at the Center for International Studies at MIT. She holds a PhD from the University of London (2003), and an MPhil from the University of Cambridge in the UK (1990). She has worked with a number of international organizations, including the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris (1993-1996) and the Palestine Economic Policy Research Institute in Ramallah (1998-1999). Between 2003 and 2004 she undertook post-doctoral research at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University. She has published various articles and studies on issues related to the Palestinian labour migration and the Oslo Process, international migration and regional integration. Her Book, Palestinian Labor Migration to Israel: Labour, Land and Occupation, has been published by Routledge Press in fall 2005. In 2001 she won the Peace and Justice Award from the Cambridge Peace Commission, in Cambridge Mass.
Tali Hatuka, is an architect, urban designer and research fellow in MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning. Hatuka works primarily on social and architectural issues, and on the relationships between urban form, violence, everyday life and modern society. Her awards for research include the European Community Marie Curie Fellowship (2005-2008) and a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship (2004-2005).
Hatuka is co-editor of Architectural Culture: Place, Representation, Body (2005 [Hebrew]) and the author of the Hebrew edition of her book Revisionist Moments: Violent Acts and Urban Space in Contemporary Tel Aviv (forthcoming). She has also been published in a wide range of journals including the Journal of Urban Design International, Journal of Architecture and Planning Research, and Planning Perspectives. Currently, she is writing a book entitled Architecture and Civil Participation as part of a large project and exhibition funded by the European Community.
She received her PhD from the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning at the Technion, Haifa, in 2005.
Yosef Jabareen holds a Ph.D. in Urban Planning from the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning at Technion, Israel. He has a Masters in Design Studies from the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University and was a Krietman Fellow at Ben Gurion University and a Rothschild Fellow. Jabareen received the Tami Steinmetz Award for Peace Research at Tel Aviv University. He is currently a lecturer at MIT. His research focus is on efforts to create space of trust among different ethnic communities.
Jennifer Klein was the Program Coordinator for the Jerusalem 2050 Project during 2005-2006. She is presently a law student at Boston University, and received her BA in international studies from the University of Chicago. She is also the National Vice President for Brit Tzedek V'Shalom (The Jewish Alliance for Justice and Peace).
Daniel E. Levenson received his BA in anthropology from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2001 and his Master of Liberal Arts degree in English and American Literature and Language from Harvard University in 2006. He has also studied at the Pardes Institute in Jerusalem. He has done work for a variety of media outlets including The Daily Hampshire Gazette, The Patriot Ledger, WBUR radio and the Associated Press. While at Harvard he was appointed a Literary Fellow at Dudley House, Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and has served as a non-resident tutor in creative writing at Eliot House, Harvard College, since September of 2005.
Nora Duren is a PhD student in the International Development and Regional Planning group at the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the MIT. She holds a Master of Architecture in Urban Design from Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and a Master of Advanced Architecture and Architecture degree from the University of Buenos Aires. Among other prizes, she has been awarded the Fulbright Fellowship, the Harvard Fortabat Fellowship, the MIT Homer Burnell Presidential Fellowship, and the University of Buenos Aires School of Architecture Gold Medal. She has taught at Harvard University School of Design and at the University of Buenos Aires, and has professional work experience in designing urban and architectural projects for Buenos Aires, Mexico, New York, London, Vienna, Beijing, and Doha.
Everett Mendelsohn is professor of the history of science at Harvard University, where he has been on the faculty since 1960. He has worked extensively on the history of the life sciences as well as on aspects of the social and sociological history of science and the relations of science and modern societies. He is the founder and former editor of the Journal of the History of Biology and a founder of the yearbook Sociology of the Sciences. He has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, Social Science and Medicine, Social Epistemology, Social Studies of Science, and Fundamenta Scientiae, among others. He is past president of the International Council for Science Policy Studies and has been deeply involved in the relations between science and modern war as a founder of the American Association for the Advancement of Science's Committee on Science, Arms Control, and National Security, and the American Academy of Arts and Science's Committee on International Security Studies. He was a founder and first president of the Cambridge based Institute for Peace and International Security. He was awarded the Gregor Mendel Medal of the reorganized Czechoslovak Academy of Science in 1991. During 1994 he held the Olaf Palme Professorship in Sweden. He received recognition for his teaching when awarded the Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize in 1996.
John de Monchaux is professor of architecture and urban planning at MIT. He was dean of the School of Architecture and Planning from 1981 to 1992, and is interested in urban design, site planning, housing design and policy, and the institutional and organizational processes that result in good architecture and good cities. In private practice as an architect and planner from 1960 to 1981, he participated in architectural, urban design and planning projects in Australia, Canada, Colombia, Indonesia, the Philippines, United Kingdom, and the United States. An active member of the local design community, de Monchaux has served on the boards of the Boston Society of Architects, the Boston Architectural Center, and the Boston Civic Design Commission, of which he was the founding chair. He has been a trustee of the Boston Foundation for Architecture and a trustee and overseer of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. In 1988, he chaired the jury for the “Boston Visions” competition and in 1990, he was on the panel selecting an architect for the new World Bank building in Washington, DC. From 1992 to 1996 he served as general manager of The Aga Khan Trust for Culture in Geneva. With Mark Schuster he recently co-edited Preserving the Built Heritage: Tools for Implementation published in 1996 by the New England University Press. He currently serves as a member of the Advisory Committee to the architecture program at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. De Monchaux, who was named a Life Fellow of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects in 1988, received his BArch from Sydney University in 1960 and MArch in urban design from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University in 1963. He was a Loeb Fellow at Harvard University in 1971. He is a member of the Royal Australian Planning Institute and an honorary member of the Boston Society of Architects.
Zeina Saab graduated from the University of California, San Diego in June 2006. She received her B.A. in International Studies and minored in Middle Eastern Studies. She is currently pursuing her Masters degree in City Planning at MIT, with a focus on international development. She hopes to combine her interest in conflict resolution with development by working on reconciliation initiatives in the Middle East using urban planning strategies.
Richard J. Samuels is Ford International Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for International Studies. He is also the Founding Director of the MIT Japan Program. In 2001 he became Chairman of the Japan-US Friendship Commission, an independent Federal grant-making agency that supports Japanese studies and policy-oriented research in the United States. In 2005 he was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Samuels' latest book, Machiavellis Children: Leaders and Their Legacies in Italy and Japan (Cornell University Press, 2003), a comparative political and economic history of political leadership in Italy and Japan, won the 2003 Marraro prize from the Society for Italian Historical Studies and the 2004 Jervis-Schroeder Prize for the best book in International History and Politics, awarded by the International History and Politics section of the American Political Science Association. His articles have appeared in International Organization, Foreign Affairs, International Security, The Journal of Modern Italian Studies, The Journal of Japanese Studies, Daedalus, and other scholarly journals. In 2001 he became a columnist for Newsweek Japan. Dr. Samuels received his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1980.
Bishwapriya Sanyal is Ford International Professor of Urban Development and Planning and Director, Special Program in Urban and Regional Studies, Department of Urban Studies & Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Sanyal is former Vice-President of the American Planning Association, International Division. He trained as an Architect Planner with a doctorate from University of California at Los Angeles. Prof. Sanyal has also advised bilateral and multi-national donors including the Ford Foundation, World Bank, International Labour Organization, United Nations Center for Human Settlements, United Nations Development Program, and the United States Agency for International Development. He has conducted research in India, Bangladesh, Zambia, Kenya, Jordan, Lebanon, Brazil, and Curaçao. Most recent publications include: The Profession of City Planning: Changes, Successes, Failures and Challenges (1900-2000) (co-edited with L. Rodwin), Rutgers University Press; High Technology and Low-Income Communities: Prospects for the Positive Use of Advanced Information Technology (edited with W. Mitchell and D. Schön), MIT Press, 1998, and the forthcoming Comparative Planning Cultures, Routledge, May 2005.
Richard Sennett is School Professor of Sociology at the LSE and Bemis Visiting Professor of Social Sciences at MIT. In the LSE, he teaches in the Cities Programme and trains doctoral students in the sociology of culture. At MIT, he teaches urban studies and runs a workshop on craftsmanship. His three most recent books are studies of modern capitalism: The Culture of the New Capitalism [Yale, 2006], Respect in an Age of Inequality, [Penguin, 2003] and The Corrosion of Character, [Norton, 1998]. He is currently writing a book on craftsmanship. Professor Sennett has been awarded the Amalfi and the Ebert prizes for sociology. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Royal Society of Literature, the Royal Society of the Arts, and the Academia Europea. He is past president of the American Council on Work and the former Director of the New York Institute for the Humanities.
Amy Spelz, Jerusalem 2050 program coordinator, holds a M.A. in peace and conflict studies from the European University Center for Peace Studies and a B.A. in international relations from St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia. In 2003 and 2005, she spent time volunteering at the Camas, an outdoor adventure-learning center on the Isle of Mull, Scotland, where she worked primarily with at-risk youth. Prior to joining Jerusalem 2050, Ms. Spelz taught at a college preparatory school in Maryland.
John Tirman is Executive Director of MIT's Center for International Studies. A political scientist, Tirman is author, or coauthor and editor, of six books on international security issues, including the Fallacy of Star Wars (1984), the first important critique of strategic defense, and Spoils of War: The Human Cost of America's Arms Trade (1997). In addition, he has published more than 100 articles in periodicals such as the New York Times, Washington Post, World Policy Journal, Esquire, Wall Street Journal, Boston Review, and International Herald Tribune. Before coming to MIT in 2004, he was program director of the Social Science Research Council. From 1986 to 1999, Tirman was executive director of the Winston Foundation for World Peace, a leading funder of work to prevent nuclear war and promote non-violent resolution of conflict. He is recipient of the U.N. Association's Human Rights Award, and serves as a trustee of several NGOs, including International Alert (London). In 1999-2000, Tirman was Fulbright Senior Scholar in Cyprus and produced an educational Web site on the conflict (http://www.cyprus-conflict.net).
Lawrence Vale is a Professor of Urban Design and Planning, and Head of the Urban Studies and Planning department at MIT. He has taught in the school since 1988. He holds degrees from Amherst College, M.I.T., and the University of Oxford. His research and teaching center on urban design and housing. His books include four volumes examining government-sponsored environments, including Architecture, Power, and National Identity (1992), which received the 1994 Spiro Kostof Book Award for Architecture and Urbanism from the Society of Architectural Historians. His most recent work has examined the history, politics, and design of American public housing. He served as a consultant to the National Commission on Severely Distressed Public Housing in 1992, and his articles about the past, present, and future of low-income housing have appeared in numerous journals and edited books. In 1995, he served as Guest Editor of the Journal of Architectural and Planning Research for a special issue on “Public Housing Transformations.” His book, From the Puritans to the Projects: Public Housing and Public Neighbors (Harvard University Press, 2000) received the 2001 “Best Book in Urban Affairs” Award from the Urban Affairs Association. The book traces American cultural attitudes toward the spatial isolation of the poor all the way back to the time of the 17th-century Puritans. A second volume, Reclaiming Public Housing: A Half Century of Struggle in Three Public Neighborhoods, was published by Harvard University Press in December 2002. This community-focused research has been supported by a Guggenheim Fellowship, and has received both the 1997 Chester Rapkin Award from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, a 1999 Place Research Award from the Environmental Design Research Association and the journal Places, and the 2004 John M. Corcoran Award for Community Investment. He is also Co-Editor, with Sam Bass Warner, Jr., of Imaging the City: Continuing Struggles and New Directions (Center for Urban Policy Research Press, 2001) and Co-Editor, with Thomas J. Campanella, of The Resilient city: How Modern Cities Recover From Disaster (Oxford University Press, 2005), which explores the ability of cities to cope with major disasters of all kinds.
