Urban Doctoral Fellowship

The Urban Doctoral Fellows Program organizes an academic year cohort of up to ten doctoral students whose research focuses on urban issues, with an emphasis on strengthening writing and developing effective evidence-based arguments. The program consists of twice-monthly lunch-time meetings to increase the clarity and substance of Urban Doctoral Fellows' research, ideas, and approaches and explore their implications from a diverse set of views. Students share and improve papers and presentations aimed at within- and cross-disciplinary audiences and learn how various disciplines engage in urban research through discussions with University of Chicago faculty and postdoctoral fellows. Meetings are facilitated by Stephen Baker, Senior Research & Evaluation Scientist at the Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation. The goal of each student's full-year experience is to generate a paper and talk to be presented at a leading conference in their field, with travel and accommodation funding provided by the Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation. The fellowship has been running for over 10 years and is open to students from any department or school at the University of Chicago, in any year of their PhD.