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MPC is a resource for understanding social unrest. We have a cluster of scholars who have been engaged with scholarship examining and addressing the undercurrents of unrest. Please reach out to us for assistance on this critical topic.


Understanding urban policy and unrest course syllabus.

2023-2024 Academic Year Events

The Metropolitan Policy Center is happy to announce our Spring Urban Speaker Series and our Annual Spring Lecturer.

Spring Urban Speaker Series lineup:

  • Amanda Boston, Thursday, February 22, 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm in Kerwin Hall Room 301. Click here to learn more about the event and link to RSVP here. 
  • Jeffrey Parker, Thursday, February 29, 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm in Kerwin Hall Room 301. Click here to learn more about the event and link to RSVP here. 
  • Richard Ocejo, Thursday, April 4, 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm in Kerwin Hall Room 301.

Annual Spring Lecturer:

Thomas J. Sugrue will be giving the annual spring lecture on Wednesday, April 24, 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm in Kerwin Hall Room 301. Sugrue Silver Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and History and affiliated faculty member in the Wagner School at NYU. A specialist in twentieth-century American politics, urban history, civil rights, and race, Sugrue was educated at Columbia; King's College, Cambridge; and Harvard, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1992. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Academy of Political and Social Science, the New York Institute for the Humanities, and the Royal Historical Society. Sugrue is author of Not Even Past: Barack Obama and the Burden of Race, Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North, and The Origins of the Urban Crisis

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