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Dr. Asha Best received her Ph.D. (2017) in American Studies from Rutgers University-Newark. She is an urbanist whose research and teaching is interdisciplinary. Her work links mobilities studies, post-colonial and black studies, critical race theory and studies of urban informality. She is particularly interested in popular, improvised and often unofficial urban practices deployed by black and migrant groups, and her research looks at how those practices impact how cities are understood, planned and mapped. She is developing a comparative research project around black and migrant place-making, informality and mobilities in the context of Johannesburg.
Degrees
- Ph.D. in American Studies, Rutgers University, 2017
- M.A. in Pan African Studies, Syracuse University, 2008
- B.A., University of Southern California, 2005
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Scholarly and Creative Works
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Series on COVID, Prisons and Abolition
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2023
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On habitability and the use of the urban today
Maneuvers, Propositions, Struggles, Deceptions: making territories of operation in urbanities changed around; Public Culture, Urban Institute Workshop
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2021
Sponsored by Public Culture Journal, The Urban Institute at the University of Sheffield
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Discussant- Panel on Global Black Geographies
Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers
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2021
Sponsored by Association of American Geographers
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Urban Specters
Environment and Planning D-Society & Space
March
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2021
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Prison fixes and flows: Carceral mobilities and their critical logistics
Environment and Planning D: Society and Space
Jan
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2021
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Awards & Grants
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Mapping for Just Cities: Towards a Geospatial Analysis of Race, Place and Policing
Clark University- Academic Innovation Fund
Jan. 17, 2022
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Methodologies for just urban futures: Using geospatial tools to address police violence
Urban Studies Foundation
Aug. 9, 2021
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North Star Collective Faculty Fellowship
New England Board of Higher Education
2021
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