GPIA Alumni by Sector: Academia
Sector: Academia, Urban
Name: Laura S Wainer
Degree: MA International Affairs 2015
Title: Assistant Professor of Architecture and Urbanism, The Bernard & Anne Spitzer School of Architecture and The City College of New York, CUNY
Laura Wainer is an urbanist focused on the intersection between housing and urban policy, design politics, and governance. Her work and projects aim at building bridges between academia, activism, and professional practice in design.​
Sector: Academia
Name: Brittany Meche
Degree: MA International Affairs 2014
Title: Ph.D. Candidate in Geography, University California, Berkeley, CA
Meche’s research interests were shaped by the courses she took at The New School such as politics of expertise, non-Western approaches to the world and South African history. She is now a Ph.D. Candidate in Geography at the University of California, Berkeley researching geographies of empire. Her study focuses on the Sahelian region of West Africa and is informed by critical security studies, postcolonial theory, literature of race and U.S. liberalism.
Sector: Academia
Name: Christina Kiel
Degree: MS International Affairs 2006
Title: Senior Professor of Practice, Political Science, Tulane University in New Orleans
Dr. Kiel teaches courses in international relations, with a focus on conflict studies. Her research interests include the role of nonstate actors in conflict resolution, transnational advocacy and cultural diplomacy. Kiel served in the German Diplomatic Corps, including in Israel, Belarus, and at the United Nations in New York and was Independent Diplomat’s (ID) first UN Representative.