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Lizzie Yarina

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Assistant Professor, School of Architecture; Affiliate faculty in the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Global Asian Studies

Lizzie Yarina is Assistant Professor in the School of Architecture with affiliate appointments in the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Global Asian Studies. She works in the area of sustainability and resilience. Lizzie Yarina is a designer and planner whose work explores the relationship between environmental risk and spatial politics. Her research reveals how large-scale resilience projects are underpinned by the technocratic norms of the climate change planning industry. These norms, in turn, shape the ways our world is being reshaped in light of environmental crises. Lizzie’s current book project investigates the design politics of climate change adaptation in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta through the lens of representation. She is co-editor of the forthcoming interdisciplinary volume “Climate Changed: Models and the Built World” (Columbia University Press).

Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Award, 2022

Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, 2021

Fulbright New Zealand Fellow, 2017

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Professor of Political Science; Director, Master and PhD Programs in Political Science

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Director, MS in Urban Planning and Policy & MA in International Affairs; Professor of Public Policy & Architecture
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Emily Mann

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Director of the John D. O'Bryant African American Institute; Research Associate of the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy; Advisory Board Member, Humanities Center

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Associate Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Economics; Research Director, Dukakis Center
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Daniel T. O'Brien

Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Criminology and Criminal Justice; Director, Boston Area Research Initiative; Director, PhD in Public Policy Program

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Matthew C. Nisbet

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