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https://as.nyu.edu/faculty/sophie-gonick.html
Sophie L. Gonick is Assistant Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at NYU with an emphasis on Global
Urban Humanities. A scholar of urban planning and history, poverty, and race and gender, Gonick was
educated at Harvard and the University of California, Berkeley, where she earned both a Master’s in City
Planning (2010) and a Ph.D. (2015). Before joining SCA, she was an Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow at
NYU’s Center for European and Mediterranean Studies.
Her work emerges at the intersection of planning history, critical race and gender studies, and debates
on migration, integration, and inclusion, particularly within the context of Southern Europe. Most
recently, she has considered housing mobilizations in contemporary Madrid against two interlocking
histories: the Spanish experience with urbanization and Europeanization across the last century, and the
more immediate story of South American migration in the wake of the crises of the 1990s. Revealing the
links between rural indigenous protest and Europe’s urban social movements, she has sought to
destabilize hegemonic epistemologies of urban scholarship and pedagogy beyond dichotomies of GlobalSouth and North Atlantic. Additional work has focused on the endurance and evolution of needs-based
squatting, property regimes, and the institutionalization of protest and contestation. She is currently
developing a new project on municipalism and urban protest across the North Atlantic in the age of
right-wing populism.
NEW YORK NODE
https://as.nyu.edu/faculty/sophie-gonick.html
Sophie L. Gonick is Assistant Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at NYU with an emphasis on Global
Urban Humanities. A scholar of urban planning and history, poverty, and race and gender, Gonick was
educated at Harvard and the University of California, Berkeley, where she earned both a Master’s in City
Planning (2010) and a Ph.D. (2015). Before joining SCA, she was an Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow at
NYU’s Center for European and Mediterranean Studies.
Her work emerges at the intersection of planning history, critical race and gender studies, and debates
on migration, integration, and inclusion, particularly within the context of Southern Europe. Most
recently, she has considered housing mobilizations in contemporary Madrid against two interlocking
histories: the Spanish experience with urbanization and Europeanization across the last century, and the
more immediate story of South American migration in the wake of the crises of the 1990s. Revealing the
links between rural indigenous protest and Europe’s urban social movements, she has sought to
destabilize hegemonic epistemologies of urban scholarship and pedagogy beyond dichotomies of GlobalSouth and North Atlantic. Additional work has focused on the endurance and evolution of needs-based
squatting, property regimes, and the institutionalization of protest and contestation. She is currently
developing a new project on municipalism and urban protest across the North Atlantic in the age of
right-wing populism.
This project has received funding from the HORIZON-MSCA-2023-SE-01-01 under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 101183165.