Cecille de Laurentis

PhD Student, City & Regional Planning

cdl@berkeley.edu

SPECIALIZATIONS

Population decline, migration, Japan, political economy, biopolitics, qualitative methods.

EDUCATION

MS, City and Regional Planning, Rutgers University Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy

MS, Public Policy, Rutgers University Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy

BA, Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures, Barnard College, Columbia University

COURSES TAUGHT

CYPLAN 115: Urbanization in the Global South

PE101: Contemporary Political Economy

GEOG 70AC: The Urban Experience: Race, Class, and Gender in the American City

AWARDS & RECOGNITION

JPSA-APSA Working Group on “Civically Engaged Research for Critical Issues in Society" Participant, 2025, Tokyo, Japan

Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, East Asia, 2025

UC Berkeley Center for Japanese Studies Graduate Fellowship, 2025

UC Berkeley Center for Japanese Studies Graduate Fellowship, 2024

UC Berkeley Global, International and Area Studies Simpson Pre-Dissertation Fellowship, 2024

UC Berkeley Chancellor's Fellowship, 2023–2028

Plan Canada Award, Plan Canada, 2022

Rutgers Bloustein Dean’s Excellence Tuition Award, 2017

Oscar Lee Senior Thesis Award, Columbia University, 2012

Publications

2022: Shih, Mi, and de Laurentis, Cecille. “Social Governance for Value Creation: State-led Land Assembly, the Property Mind, and Speculative Urbanism in Taiwan.” Urban Geography. April 25.