Urban Humanities Graduate Certificate Program
From 2013 through 2026, the Urban Humanities Initiative at UCLA offered a year-long, interdisciplinary graduate certificate program. The certificate offered an innovative cross-disciplinary curriculum that bridged design, urban studies, and the humanities, leading to a Graduate Certificate in Urban Humanities to complement students' primary degree program. Through Summer Institute intensives, theory seminars, methods workshops, and research capstones, students explored research methods for critical urban analysis and representational techniques that foreground new forms and models of inquiry for imagining the city.
Alumni
Over 300 students have completed the Graduate Certificate in Urban Humanities, forming a global community of scholars, practitioners, researchers, artists, and organizers committed to understanding and intervening in the city to advance spatial justice. Our alumni have found compelling ways to integrate urban humanities methods within their own academic, artistic, and professional practices. Here are just a few examples of alumni-led projects and initiatives that demonstrate the ways urban humanities live on beyond UCLA:
UHI Alumni
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2013–14
Tokyo
Brady Collins
Jia Gu
Yang Yang
Aaron Cayer
KT Bender
Kelly McCormick
Gwyneth Shanks
Matthew Knauff
Devin McCutcheon
Sarah Walsh
John Lesiure
Deonte Harris
Darci Sprengel
Morgan Currie
Lyo Heng Liu
Mark Simpson
Kara Moore
Stephanie Odenheimer
Jeff Rauch
AK Muniam
Ruby Bolaria
Jadie Wasilco
Carla Salehin
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2014–15
Shanghai
Addie Schrodes
Leen Rhee
Emily Yen
Ellen Gerdes
Jonathan Banfill
Ji Eun Lee
Fang Ru Lin
Andre Comandon
Insky Chen
Claudia Huang
Sara Yoshida
Song Di
Kyra Bauman
Luis Ochoa
Noah Zaccalingi
Shen Gao
Melody Wu
Chi Dang
Cameron Robertson
Jenny Yu
Humberto Castro
Phoebe Brauer
Lucia Phan
Wanmeng Ren
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2015–16
Mexico City
Angelica Becerra
Kendy Rivera
Kenton Card
William Davis
Chantiri Resendiz
Maricela Becerra
Leigh-Anna Hidalgo
Teresa Monroe
Peter Chesney
Teo Wickland
Paul Kurek
Alejandro Ramirez
Andrew Ko
Devin Koba
Grace Ko
Jeannette Mundy
Ryan Hernandez
Heidi Alexander
Benjamin Kolder
Gus Wendel
Louis Monteils
Cat Callaghan
Lucy Lin
Paola Mendez
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2016–17
Tokyo
Nerve Macaspac
Chelsey Smith-Quinoz
Daniela Jimenez
Pradeep Kannan
Tatiana Sulovska
Marko Icev
Jacqueline Barrios
Ana Maria Duran
Ariel Hernandez
Cate Carlson
Caroline Watts
Josh Nelson
Clarissa Pluta-Brunt
Nick Bruni
Kenny Wong
Mark Kamish
Sai Rojanipirom
Andres Carasquillo
Sabrina Kim
Sarah Mercutio
Shine Ling
Ryland Lu
Sara Bond
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2017–18
Mexico City
Christian Duran
Esther Claudio
Max Greenberg
Hilary Malson
Kaelyn Rodriguez
Melanie Xu
Isabel Duron
Gaby Barrios
Izul de la Vega
Siqi Zhang
Xiangkun Hu
Daniel Greteman
Neta Nakash
Kevin MacDougall
Alex Abugov
Hiroshi Holloway
Cameron Phillips
Thomson Dryjanski
Alejandra Guerrero
Ryan Kurtzman
Aleli Balaguer
Aryeh Cohen
Claudia Bautista
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2018–19
Shanghai
Claudia Diera
Salvador Herrera
Zizi Li
Ellie Tse
Paula Thomas
Kate Taylor-Hasty
Melissa Peter (Rovner)
Zhiyin Lin
Annie Kao
Heather Tipton
Yushan Men
Ni Zhang
Rayne Laborde
Martha Kriley
Amy Zhou
Yidan Chen
Bertha Calderon
Alma Esperanza Villa Loma
Cassie Halls
Spike Friedman
Lennox Chaiveera
Naveen Agrawal
Taylor Dinehart
Jacinta Williams
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2019–20
Tijuana/Mexico City
Nylsa Martinez
Wesley Lin
Dax Walcott
Clayton McKee
Roya Chagnon
Cristina Vasquez
Kun Xian Shen
Fengyun Zhang
Adam Boggs
Lauren Mitchell
Ethan Ma
Manos Proussaloglou
Beatriz T. Torres
Christina Monzer
Andres Gonzalez
Zachary Zeilman
Tiffany Orozco
Cassie Hoeprich
Yiye Lin
Akana Jayewardene
Jenn Peterson Ruiz
Artin Sahakian
Lili Flores Rayzoga
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2020–21
Los Angeles
Jeremy Abbott
Gibson Bastar
Maha Benhachmi
Ben Bressette
Elise Chessman
Eliza Franklin
Carrie Gammell
Chris Giamarino
Andrew Gonzalez
Miranda Hirujo-Rincon
Miranda Hoegberg
Morgan Jacobs
Claire Nelischer
Cynthia Mari Orozco
Joaquin Peres
Xiuwen Qi
Jordan Rae
Andrés F. Ramirez
Nataly Rios
Celia Sànchez Zelaya
Samantha Solis
Victoria Tran
Yufan Wang
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2021–22
Los Angeles
Tyler DeMassa
Brittany Montano
Megan Riley
Rebecca Smith
Krystle Yu
Shona Paterson
Corinne Odom
Olivia Arena
Rocio Rivera-Murillo
Danielle Hanzalik
Amanda Gormsen
Emma Tran
Garo Susmanyan
Doğa Tekin
Katie Angen
Adam Lubitz
Karl Pascasio
Shweta Sundar
Kevin Amaya
Houwei Fu
Shane Reiner-Roth
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2022–23
Los Angeles
Evan Bruetsch
Anna Robinson-Sweet
Kay Wright
Natalie Marshall
Lilith Winkler-Schor
Sydney Anderson
Adelaida E. Rama Luna
Jo Dine
Jane Wu
Tamika L. Butler
Shaellen Franco
Montserrat Acosta Gomez
Sunny Chen
Wesleigh Gates
Marco Aguilar Gomez
Michael Buse
Lindsey Morris
Jocelyn Urbina
Alexander Shassetz
Pritam Dey
Ariège Besson
Mariana Estrada
René Escobedo
Sara Moya
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2023-24
Tijuana/Mexico City
Derrick Behm Josa
Alexa Vaughn
Carolyn Park
Julie Wong
Alejandra Rios
Yessel Garcia
Chendi Zhang
Richard Kirk
Max Kilman
Tzu-Yuan (Peter) Cheng
Sarah Zureiqat
Emma Fuller-Monk
Nils Jepson
Gabriela Cruz
Steven Carmona Mora
Benjamin Maries
Xen Pei Hoi
Ariella Ventura
Sarp Tanridag
Jacqueline Vela
Nidia Bautista
Leila Ullmann
Senna Hanner-Zhang
Tomi Jinhuang Chung
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2024-25
Los Angeles
Ana K. Arreguin Gómez
Carl de Joya
Anna Whittell
Willow Coleman
Xujun Xu
Travis Raser
Jordan Wynne
Ames Cassell Loji
Ángela Godoy-Fernández
Brandt Rentel
Cora Johnson-Grau
Dustin Frye
Emma Spies
Hollis Potts
Jorge Alvarado
Remi Messier
Sydney Patterson
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2025-26
Los Angeles
Hardy Wang
Chunyi Li
Serafin Olguin
Ayanna Rose
Ícaro Carvalho
Isabel Filson
Lynn Hur
Skijler Hutson
Alexander Morris
Anna Shoemaker
Anthony L. Garcia
Kathy Zhang
Hugo Fortin
Heidi Yang
Sarahy Torres
Moodzi (Abhijeet Mudgerikar)
Shiyue Shen
Evan Eshel