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- Senior Research Fellow
- UCL Institute for Global Prosperity
- Faculty of the Built Environment
2012 - 2017 PhD Architecture, Centre for Urban Conflicts Research, King's College, Cambridge
2010 - 2011 MSc Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (distinction), St Antony's College, Oxford
2004 - 2008 BA History of the Middle East & Art History (summa cum laude), Barnard College, Columbia University
Hanna Baumann is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at UCL's Institute for Global Prosperity (The Bartlett). Hanna's research is concerned with questions of urban inclusion and participation expressed at the intersection of global and local scales. She completed her PhD on the politics of im/mobility in and around East Jerusalem at the Centre for Urban Conflicts Research, University of Cambridge, in 2017. Her ongoing Leverhulme-funded project examines the role of public services in the exclusion and integration of refugees in Beirut and Berlin.
Beyond academia, Hanna has worked on issues of human rights and urban development for non-governmental and UN agencies in the Middle East and South Asia.
Hanna gives lectures and seminars on the MSc in Global Prosperity, the MSc in Urban Studies, and the BA in Geography. In 2020/21, she will lead a graduate module on Urban Futures. She supervises PhD and Master's dissertations on topics related to urban contestation, displacement, infrastructure, and heritage at UCL as well as Cambridge.