Peer Advisors
Contact any of the peer advisors if you have a question about the major and would like a student perspective!
Interested in becoming a peer advisor? It’s a great way to be involved in the major, meet new people, and spread the word about Urban Studies! Applications are due in May and are available here.
Mariel Camargo
Hometown: Dallas, TX
Pronouns: She/Her
Why I'm majoring in Urban Studies: I’m majoring in urban studies because of its interdisciplinary nature and engagement with the community. It is interconnected with geography, environmentalism, health, politics, economy, design, and social aspects of society. Urban studies centers around people and their communities which is very different from other majors across this institution — I truly think this major can make a positive impact in many aspects.
Favorite class/professor: Urban Agroecology with Patrick Archie
This has been one of my favorite ...
Hometown: Newark, Delaware
Pronouns: She/Hers
Why I'm majoring in Urban Studies: Urban Studies combines my interests in sustainable and participatory design, environmental justice, housing justice and equity, geography, and community organizing in a tangible way. The range of classes, professors, and coursework that you can engage in through the major allows me to really pave my own path of how I would like to engage in different subject matter and take my knowledge and apply it directly in the work that I do.
What I like best about Urban Studies: The interdisciplinary nature and the ability to ...
Dina (D) Fukunaga-Brates
Hometown: Oakland, CA
Why I'm majoring in Urban Studies: Through the Urban Studies major, I am able to incorporate my passion for the arts, and arts education and policy into my studies. I appreciate being able to learn from both my professors as well as from my peers’ diverse interdisciplinary interests and goals.
What I like best about Urban Studies: Urban Studies courses integrate application of skills to real-world problems, with collective imagining of more just and equitable urban futures!
Honors Thesis or other Research Project: I am exploring alternative non profit funding models, arts ...
Pronouns: she/they
Hometown: St. Petersburg, FL
Why I'm majoring in Urban Studies: Growing up, I always heavily romanticized New York City, especially because it was the setting of so many influential books, movies, and musicals: Catcher in the Rye, The Great Gatsby, 13 Going on 30, The Last Five Years, Rent, etc. I also loved reading Humans of New York interviews, and really seeing how urban spaces -- with their huge concentration of people and places -- uniquely shaped the stories and lives of individuals. In the spring of my gap year before college, I lived in New York, and while reading ...