Ben Bradlow

Boston

Benjamin Bradlow is a PhD student in the Department of Sociology at Brown University. At Brown, he is also a NSF-IGERT Fellow of the interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Development at the Watson Institute for International Studies & Public Affairs. His research investigates the role of urban politics and institutions in processes of democratization and redistribution in Brazil and South Africa. Between 2009 and 2014, he worked for Shack/Slum Dwellers International, a transnational network of social movements of the urban poor in Africa, Asia and Latin America, most recently as the Deputy Manager of the Secretariat in Cape Town. He has also worked as a journalist for news media companies in Johannesburg, South Africa and Philadelphia, U.S., covering business, politics and the arts. He holds a master’s degree in City Planning (MCP) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and a Bachelor of Arts in history from Swarthmore College.