The Center for Urban and Global Studies (CUGS) fosters collaborative research opportunities that have drawn and involved Trinity faculty and the visiting scholars at CUGS since its inception in 2007. CUGS brings together scholars working across Africa, Asia, North America, and beyond. Our faculty engage with the critical issues of sustainability, migration, inequality, governance, and design shaping cities today. Explore by theme, by faculty, or by recent scholarship.

Sustainability & Environment Myers, Hussain, Goldstein	Urban Design & Planning Delgado, Myers, Nelson, King	Social & Cultural Dimensions of Cities Myers, Delgado, King, Goldstein
Economic Development & Policy Chen, Fitzpatrick, Hussain	Global Urbanization Chen, Myers, Hussain, Goldstein	Technology & Data Chen, Goldstein, Hussain

2025

• Shoshana Goldstein: “Between Mega-projects and Micro-politics: Planning and the Post Liberalization Indian City.” In The Political Economy of Mega Projects in Asia: Globalization and Urban Transformation (Routledge).

• Shoshana Goldstein: “Paper truth, Digital Authentication: Migrant mobilities and the making of India’s informational peripheries.” In Informational Peripheries: Rethinking the Urban in the Digital Age (UCL Press).

• Mushahid Hussain: “Through the Prism of Community Development: Decolonization and the Cold War Politics of Agrarian Modernization in East Pakistan.” Social Science History, 49(20), special issue “What is the Cold War?”

• Mushahid Hussain (Apr, with Shoshana Goldstein): “Peripheral Dispossession, Land Brokering, and Planetary Urbanization in Greater Dhaka, Bangladesh.” International Conference on Urban Affairs, Vancouver, BC.

• Mushahid Hussain (Mar): “The Time of Decolonization: A Social Theoretic Reconsideration.” Decolonizing Sociology Mini-Conference, Eastern Sociological Society, Boston, MA.

• Xiangming Chen (with Jiayi Huang): “BYD’s Rapid Ascent to the Global EV Leader.” The European Business Review (May/June), 86–92.

2024

• Mushahid Hussain (Nov): “Decolonization and Cold War Politics of Agrarian Modernization in East Pakistan.” Invited Exit Seminar, Dept. of Global Development, Cornell University.

• Mushahid Hussain (Jun, with Zhe Yu Lee): “Globalizing American Social Science: Epistemic Networks and the Politics of Cold War Rural Development.” Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Toronto, ON.

• Arianna King (2024): “The Socio-Spatial Reality of ‘Skirt and Blouse’ Politics in Cape Coast, Ghana.” African Studies Association, Chicago, IL.

2023

• Garth A. Myers: “The Infrastructure of Submarine Urbanism: Zanzibar in a Black and Blue World.” In Handbook on Africa and Urban Anthropology (Routledge), 239–259.

• Garth A. Myers (with F. Owusu): “Colonised Peoples: The Struggle to Reframe (Neo)Colonial Planning in Anglophone Sub-Saharan Africa.” In Handbook of Alternative Planning History and Theory (Routledge), 202–219.

• Xiangming Chen: “Reconnecting Eurasia: A New Logistics State, the China-Europe Freight Train, and the Resurging Ancient City of Xi’an.” Eurasian Geography and Economics 64(1): 60–88.

• Laura Delgado: “Creating welcoming spaces: How immigrant-led cultural programs shape public libraries and the communities they serve.” Journal of Urban Affairs, Jan., 1–17.

• Laura Delgado (with D. Williams, N. Cameron, J. Steil): “The properties of whiteness: Land use regulation and anti-racist futures.” Journal of the American Planning Association.

• Laura Delgado (Oct): “Make Way for Families: How Gentrification Shapes Social Services for Older Adults.” ACSP Annual Conference, Chicago, IL.

2022

• Garth A. Myers: “Urban Governance Dynamics and Climate Change in East Africa: A Comparison of Dar es Salaam and Nairobi.” Journal of International Affairs 74(1): 83–104.

• Shoshana Goldstein: “Urban Exodus, Mobility Injustice.” Places (essay).

• Mushahid Hussain (Aug, with Kai Wen Yang): “The Production of Urban Semi-Peripheries: A World-Systemic Perspective.” RC21 Conference, Athens, Greece.

• Mushahid Hussain (Mar, with Kai Wen Yang): “Making Urban Semi-Peripheries: ‘Primitive’ Accumulation and Capital Enclaves in New York City and Dhaka.” Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Boston, MA.

• Xiangming Chen: “A (Long) Tale of Two Leaders: Charting the Spatial and Sectoral Roles of the West and China in Shaping Past, Present and Future Economic Globalization(s).” New Global Studies 17(3): 291–323.

2021

• Garth A. Myers: “The Intersection of Race and Architecture in the Swahili City-States.” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 80(4): 398–399 (Roundtable).

• Garth A. Myers: “Urbanization in the Global South.” In Urban Ecology in the Global South (Springer), 27–49.

• Garth A. Myers: “Nairobi.” In Routledge Handbook for Regional Design (Routledge), 214–226.

• Garth A. Myers: “The Making of Global Cityscapes.” In Handbook of Historical Geography (Sage), 199–218.

• Shoshana Goldstein (Oct): “Migrant Mobility and the Politics of Self-Reliance During India’s Covid-19 Lockdown.” ACSP Annual Conference (virtual).

• Laura Delgado (Oct): “Organizational Displacement and Mission Drift: How Social Service Providers Adapt to Gentrification.” ACSP Annual Conference (virtual).

• Mushahid Hussain: “Is a Left-wing Nationalism Possible in Bangladesh?” Jamhoor (Special Issue on State and Border-making in South Asia).

• Arianna King (2021): “The Fabric of Urban Change.” Urban Matters, Institute for Urban Research, Malmö, Sweden (Vol. 1).

• Arianna King (2021): “Beauties or Beasts?: Comparing ‘White Elephants’ in Cape Coast & New Orleans.” African Studies Association (virtual).

2020

• Garth A. Myers: “Environmental Challenges.” In Understanding Contemporary Africa (6th ed., Lynne Rienner), 239–260.

• Garth A. Myers: “(Post?)-Colonial Parks: Urban Public Space in Trinidad and Zanzibar.” In A Companion to Public Space (Routledge), 152–164.

• Garth A. Myers (with J. Walz & A. Jumbe): “Trends in Urban Planning, Climate Adaptation and Resilience in Zanzibar, Tanzania.” Town and Regional Planning 77: 57–70.

• Shoshana Goldstein: Review of Siddhartha Sen’s Colonizing, Decolonizing and Globalizing Kolkata. Journal of Planning Education and Research.

• Laura Delgado (Feb): “Branching Out: Public Libraries, Immigrants, and Community Resources.” Global Vantage Point Lecture, Trinity College.

• Laura Delgado (Oct): “Community-driven Programming: How Neighborhoods Shape Immigrant Resources.” ACSP (virtual).

• Sean Fitzpatrick (Mar 22): “America’s Insurance Capital to the (Financial) Rescue?” CT Mirror (op-ed).

• Sean Fitzpatrick (Mar): “Diversity and Economic Development from the Municipal Perspective.” CUGS conference panel, Trinity College.

• Sean Fitzpatrick (Apr): “A Tale of Two Stadiums: Lessons in Urban Revitalization from Dunkin’ & Dillon.” CUGS Global Vantage Point Lecture (postponed due to COVID-19).

2019

• Garth A. Myers (with A. G. Subulwa): “The Cityscapes of Lusaka and Mongu: Narrating National Symbolism in Zambia.” In The City as Power (Rowman & Littlefield), 121–136.

• Garth A. Myers: “Multi-Vocal Urban Political Ecology: In Search of New Sensibilities through Africa’s Cities.” In Urban Political Ecology in the Anthropo-Obscene (Routledge), 148–164.

• Garth A. Myers (with K. Douglass, J. Walz, E. Quintana-Morales, R. Marcus, J. Pollini): “Historical perspectives on contemporary human–environment dynamics in southeast Africa.” Conservation Biology 33(2): 260–274.

• Garth A. Myers (with T. Hanlon, A.K. Richmond, J. Shelzi): “Cultural Identity in the Peri-Urban African Landscape: A Case Study from Pikine, Senegal.” African Geographical Review 38(2): 157–171.

• Laura Delgado (with J.P. Steil): “Limits of diversity: Jane Jacobs, the Just City, and anti-subordination.” Cities 91: 39–48.

• Laura Delgado (with J. Steil): “Contested values: How Jim Crow segregation ordinances redefined property rights.” In Global Perspectives on Urban Law (Routledge), 7–26.

• Shoshana Goldstein (Oct): “The Common Ground: Class, Environmental Justice, and the Battle for Public Space in Gurugram, India.” ACSP, Greenville, SC.

• Shoshana Goldstein (Apr): “Urban Villages and Class Transformation.” AAG Annual Meeting, Washington, DC.

• Arianna King (2019, with L. McKinney): “Climate Change and Gender Discrimination in Ghana.” In Women’s Journey to Empowerment in the 21st Century (OUP).

• Arianna King (2019, with Ritzer & Gotham): “Urbanization.” In The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Sociology(Wiley).

2018

• Garth A. Myers: “The Africa Problem of Global Urban Theory: Reconceptualizing Planetary Urbanization.” International Development Policy 10: 231–253.

• Garth A. Myers: “Africa’s Urban Futures.” In The Routledge Handbook of African Development (Routledge), 465–473.

• Muhajir (M.) Hussain: “Contesting, (Re)producing or Surviving Precarity? Debates on Precarious Work and Informal Labor Re-examined.” International Critical Thought 8(1): 105–126.

• Muhajir (M.) Hussain: “Perils and Prospects of the Modern University. African and Asian Contexts in a World-Historical Perspective.” In The Idea of the University: Histories and Contexts (Routledge).

• Muhajir (M.) Hussain (translation): “Bajo los escombros…” Laberinto 48(1): 21–34 (Spanish translation of 2017 piece).

• Shoshana Goldstein (Oct): “Planning the Invisible City: Migration and Urban Citizenship in Gurgaon, India.” ACSP, Buffalo, NY.

• Xiangming Chen: “Globalisation Redux: Can China’s Inside-Out Strategy…?” Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society 11(1): 35–58.

2017

• Garth A. Myers: “African Ideas of the Urban.” In The Handbook of New Urban Studies (SAGE), 449–461.

• Garth A. Myers: “‘The Trees are Yours’: Nature, Toponymy and Politics…” In Place Names in Africa (Springer), 45–57.

• Muhajir (M.) Hussain: “Knowledge Enclosure and University Education: Notes from Post-restructured Bangladesh.” In What is Education? (Edinburgh University Press).

• Shoshana Goldstein: “Planning the Millennium City: The Politics of Place-making in Gurgaon India.” International Area Studies Review 19(1): 12–27.

• Xiangming Chen (with Xiaohua Zhong): “Demolition, Rehabilitation, and Conservation: Heritage in Shanghai’s Urban Regeneration, 1990–2015.” Journal of Architecture and Urbanism 41(2): 82–91.

2016

• Garth A. Myers: Urban Environments in Africa: a Critical Analysis of Environmental Politics. Policy Press, University of Bristol.

• Garth A. Myers: “Representing Zanzibar in Contested Literary, Cultural and Political Geographies.” In The Postcolonial World (Routledge), 227–242.

• Garth A. Myers: “Remaking the Edges: Surveillance and Flows in Sub-Saharan Africa’s New Suburbs.” In The Design of Frontier Spaces (Ashgate), 45–63.

• Shoshana Goldstein: “Planning the Millennium City: The Politics of Place-making in Gurgaon India.” International Area Studies Review 19(1): 12–27.

• Arianna King: “Access to Opportunity: Street Food Vendors in Ghana’s Urban Informal Economy.” In Gender and Food (Emerald).

• Xiangming Chen (with Yuan Ren): “Modernity and Globalization: The Local and Global Sources of Individualistic and Materialistic Values in Shanghai.” Globalizations 13(1): 16–31.

• Xiangming Chen (co-ed., with Sharon Zukin & Philip Kasinitz): Global Cities, Local Streets (Routledge; Chinese & Korean eds. 2016–2017).

2015

• Garth A. Myers: “A World-Class City Region? Envisioning the Nairobi of 2030.” American Behavioral Scientist59(3): 328–346.

• Xiangming Chen (paperback ed. with Nick Bacon ’10): Confronting Urban Legacy (Lexington Books, paperback 2015).

2014

• Garth A. Myers: “From Expected to Unexpected Comparison: Changing the Flows of Ideas about Cities in a Post-Colonial Urban World.” Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 35(1): 104–118.

• Abbās Varij Kāzemi and Xiangming Chen, “China and the Middle East: More Than Oil.” The European Financial Review (February): 40-44.

2013

• Xiangming Chen (co-ed., with Nick Bacon ’10): Confronting Urban Legacy: Rediscovering Hartford and New England’s Forgotten Cities. Lexington Books.

• Xiangming Chen (with Pallavi Banerjee): “Living in In-Between Spaces: A Structure-Agency Analysis of the India-China and India-Bangladesh Borderlands.” Cities 34: 18–29.

• Xiangming Chen (with Tomas de ’Medici ’11): “The ‘Instant City’ Coming of Age: The Production of Spaces in China’s Shenzhen Special Economic Zone.” Urban Geography 31(8): 1141–1147.

• Fakhmiddin Fazilov and Xiangming Chen, “China and Central Asia: A Significant New Energy Nexus.” The European Financial Review (April): 38-43.

2012

• Laura Delgado (Jun): “Using Data-Driven Tools to Address Foreclosures and Distressed Properties in Boston, Massachusetts.” Reclaiming Vacant Properties Conference, New Orleans, LA.

• Xiangming Chen and Ahmed Kanna, “Secondary Cities and the Global Economy,” The European Financial Review (August/September): 48-52.

• Xiangming Chen and Ahmed Kanna, editors. Rethinking Global Urbanism: Comparative Insights from Secondary Cities. New York: Routledge.

2011

• Garth A. Myers: African Cities: Alternative Visions of Urban Theory and Practice. Zed Books.

• Byron Caminero-Santangelo & Garth A. Myers (eds.): Environment at the Margins: Literary and Environmental Studies in Africa. Ohio University Press.

• Martin Murray & Garth A. Myers (eds.): Cities in Contemporary Africa (paperback ed.). Palgrave Macmillan.

•   M. Reza Ghanbarpour, Shima Sajjadi, S.Tahereh Hajiseyedjavadi, and Xiangming Chen, “Investigation of Visitors’ Participation and Willingness to Pay for the Baba Aman Recreational Park, Iran.” Research Journal of Environmental and Earth Sciences 3 (6): 722-728.

2010

• Laura Delgado (Mar 2010, co-organizer): “A Debate on Incremental Housing: Can an Old Answer Be the New Solution for How to Best Rebuild Haiti?” UN-Habitat World Urban Forum V, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

2009

• Xiangming Chen (ed.): Shanghai Rising: State Power and Local Transformations in a Global Megacity. University of Minnesota Press.

• Xiangming Chen (with Lan Wang & Ratoola Kundu): “Localizing the Production of Global Cities: New Town Developments Around Shanghai and Kolkata.” City & Community 8(4): 433–465.

2007

• Xiangming Chen (with A. Tale of Two Regions…): “Rapid Economic Development and Slow Industrial Upgrading in the Pearl River and the Yangtze River Deltas.” International Journal of Comparative Sociology 48(2–3): 167–201.

• Sean Fitzpatrick: “Putting a Premium on Good Corporate Governance.” Tortsource 9(4).

• Sean Fitzpatrick (Dec 2007): Moderator, “The State of the Insurance Market,” PLUS/Insurance Law Center, UConn School of Law.

• Sean Fitzpatrick (May 2007): Panel Moderator, “The Sub-Prime Crisis and Its Effect on the Professional Liability Market,” PLUS/UConn.

• Sean Fitzpatrick (May 2007): “Developments in the Regulation of Insurance Intermediaries,” AALS Annual Meeting panel.

• Sean Fitzpatrick (Nov 2007): Panel Moderator, “Putting a Premium on Good Corporate Governance,” ABA TIPS Corporate Governance Institute.

2006

• Sean Fitzpatrick: “The Small Laws: Eliot Spitzer and the Way to Insurance Market Reform.” Fordham Law Review 74: 3041.

• Garth A. Myers (with Martin Murray, eds.): Cities in Contemporary Africa. Palgrave Macmillan.

• Sean Fitzpatrick (Sep 2006): “Directors’ & Officers’ Liability Insurance—A Primer.” AEI-Brookings Judicial Education Program.

2005

• Garth A. Myers: Disposable Cities: Garbage, Governance, and Sustainable Development in Urban Africa. Ashgate.

• Xiangming Chen: As Borders Bend: Transnational Spaces on the Pacific Rim. Rowman & Littlefield.

• Sean Fitzpatrick: “Fear is the Key: Explaining Insurance Underwriting Cycles.” The Brief 34: 26.

2004

• Sean Fitzpatrick: “Fear is the Key: A Behavioral Guide to Underwriting Cycles.” Connecticut Insurance Law Journal 10: 255.

• Sean Fitzpatrick (Nov 2004, with John Cleese): Keynote, “The Importance of Mistakes,” PLUS 17th International Conference.

2003

• Garth A. Myers: Verandahs of Power: Colonialism and Space in Urban Africa. Syracuse University Press.

• Sean Fitzpatrick (Aug 2003): “A Behavioral View of Insurance Underwriting Cycles.” ABA Annual Meeting.

• Sean Fitzpatrick (Mar 2003): “Observations on Underwriting Cycles.” Vision 20/20 Institute, UConn School of Law.

1995

• Xiangming Chen: “The Evolution of Free Economic Zones and the Recent Development of Cross-National Growth Zones.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 19(4): 593–621.