#  Diane E. Davis 

Faculty Associate. 

Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning and Urbanism, Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design; Codirector, Humanity’s Urban Future, CIFAR.

 

 

 



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 location\_on 48 Quincy Street, Gund Hall #319, Cambridge, MA 02138 

 smartphone [(617) 495-0728](<tel:(617) 495-0728>) 

 email <ddavis@gsd.harvard.edu> 

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**Research interests:** Conflict cities; the politics of insecurity; Latin America; cities of the Global South; and relationships between urban violence, informality, policing, and the rule of law.

**Pronouns:** she/her



 

 

 





 

 

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