Bruno Martins Carvalho is professor of romance languages and literatures, and African and African American Studies; and co-director of the Mellon Urban Initiative at Harvard University. Carvalho’s research and teaching interests include the history of urbanization, the interplay between urban diversity, inequality and segregation, and the environmental advantages of compact cities. He explores how socio-cultural processes of the past converge with those of the present. Author of the award-winning “Porous City: A Cultural History of Rio de Janeiro,” Carvalho has published numerous articles, essays, and co-edited volumes. Currently, he is writing a book called “The Invention of the Future: A Transatlantic History of Urbanization,” focused on the experiences and aspirations of city dwellers and planners, recasting modern urbanization within a history of competing visions for the future, from the 1750s onward.
