Professor Alan Kolata and Colleagues Awarded Neubauer Collegium Grant

Alan Kolata (Anthropology), Sabina Shaikh (SSCD and SSD), Marco Garrido (Sociology), Anni Beukes (Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation), and Julio Postigo (Geography, Indiana University) were awarded a three-year grant from the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society. The funded project is entitled Becoming Urban: Understanding the Urban Transformation of Migrants to Phnom Penh. The proposed research seeks to document the process of becoming urban at a critical time in Cambodian history. Through traditional and distributed ethnographic methods, the team will explore the lived experiences of migrants from rural villages to urban centers; the economic, environmental and social factors that drove the decision to migrate; and the changing connections to place, space, and people that result from becoming urban.