The Mansueto Institute is training the next generation of urban scholars, offering unique educational and research opportunities from the undergraduate to the postdoctoral levels.
Fellowships
Institute Postdoctoral Fellows
Mansueto Institute Postdoctoral Fellows are post-doctoral researchers from a variety of disciplines and perspectives who are interested in building a scholarly understanding of cities. The fellowships are full-time, year-long appointments that can be renewed for a second year, subject to a mutual agreement. Positions are structured between the Mansueto Institute and one of the University of Chicago’s Departments or Schools.
Applications for the 2024-2025 cohort are now open.
Kreisman Graduate Fellows Program
The Kreisman Graduate Fellows Program is a cohort of University of Chicago graduate students from across fields of study who are committed to pursuing careers in housing research or practice. The program runs for one academic year and is open to all Masters and PhD students at UChicago, such as those studying law, policy, social services, social sciences, data science, and business. Fellows receive a stipend ($4,000) to support their professional development in the form of an internship or research project of their own design in the Spring or Summer quarters.
Applications for the 2023-2024 Cohort are now closed. Applications for the 2024-2025 academic year will open Spring 2024.
Urban Doctoral Fellows
The Urban Doctoral Fellows Program provides a yearlong, supervised cohort experience training up to ten students whose research focuses on urban issues, with an emphasis on strengthening scientific writing, effective presentations, and multimedia communications. Fellowship provides funding of up to $1,000 per fellow to cover registration, hotel, meal and transportation costs for presentations at academic conferences. The program includes twice-monthly lunchtime meetings to review peer papers and presentations, as well as discussions of how distinct disciplines engage in urban research.
Applications for the 2023-2024 Cohort are closed. Applications for the 2024-2025 cohort will open in 2023.
Community Research on Climate and Urban Science (CROCUS) Postdoctoral Fellowship
The Community Research on Climate and Urban Science (CROCUS) postdoctoral fellowship provides the opportunity to conduct novel research as part of a flagship project from the U.S. Department of Energy to create a network of Urban Integrated Field Laboratories for the study of climate change in local urban communities across the U.S. The project is led by Argonne National Laboratory with the University of Chicago and other higher education institutions in the greater Chicago area, as well as four community partners.
Applications are currently closed for the postdoctoral fellowship.
Undergraduate Research Assistantships
Environmental Frontiers
Environmental Frontiers gives UChicago students a scientific and practical understanding of urban sustainable development, starting with projects on campus. Students work under the guidance of faculty to develop research and applied projects that explore and enhance campus sustainability, with an eye toward broader impact into whole urban areas and their neighborhoods. Applications are currently open for a fall 2023 EF Campus Undergraduate Research Assistant position. Applications for the 2024 cohort will open in early 2024.
Graduate Research Assistantships
Urban Research Corps
The Mansueto Institute invites UChicago graduate students with diverse academic backgrounds to participate in a new data science program called the Urban Research Corps. The URC is a research incubator that produces relevant insights about the fundamental processes driving urban change and develops tools to help build more sustainable, equitable, and connected cities. The URC combines the Mansueto Institute’s interdisciplinary approach with technology and data to build generalizable capabilities that accelerate the practice of sustainable urban development at the local and global scales.
URC participants will have the opportunity to design, develop, test and deploy computational methods to answer fundamental questions and design scalable tools.
Environmental Frontiers
Environmental Frontiers gives UChicago students a scientific and practical understanding of urban sustainable development, starting with projects on campus. A graduate research assistant leads undergraduate researchers, all working under the guidance of faculty to develop research and applied projects that explore and enhance campus sustainability, with an eye toward broader impact into whole urban areas and their neighborhoods. Applications are currently closed for the Summer 2023 EF Campus Cohort. Applications for the 2024 cohort will open in early 2024.
For University of Chicago Faculty
Urban Innovation Grants
The Mansueto Institute provides grant support for research at the University of Chicago focused on how cities work, grow, and develop, with the aim of advancing more sustainable and equitable urban futures. Be part of an ecosystem of urban innovation.