City, Culture, and Community Graduate Student Symposium

Dr. Brad Hunt speaking at Tulane University

The City, Culture, and Community PhD program held its second annual graduate student symposium titled ‘Social Justice and the City’ on March 5-6, 2015. Students welcomed keynote speaker Dr. Brad Hunt, Dean of the Evelyn T. Stone College of Professional Studies and Vice Provost for Adult and Experiential Learning at Roosevelt University in Chicago. Dr. Hunt opened the symposium with an address on social justice and social order in public housing from an historical perspective. On Friday, March 6, graduate students from Tulane, the University of Texas, Michigan State University, Southern Methodist University, Louisiana State University, and the University of New Orleans presented their research in a series of panels.

The keynote address and panels attracted students and faculty across multiple academic departments at Tulane, demonstrating the interdisciplinary spirit of the symposium. The City, Culture, and Community (CCC) PhD is an interdisciplinary program uniting the School of Social Work, the Department of Sociology, and the Urban Studies Program. As the program enters its fifth year at Tulane in Fall 2015, we are encouraged by the success of this year’s symposium and hope that CCC students will continue to have a large presence on campus.