In January and June, Harvard’s Center for Geographic Analysis (CGA) offers a two-week program of intensive training in geographic information systems (GIS). The GIS Institute is designed for Harvard graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and faculty who want to learn spatial analysis and apply GIS methods in their research. Participants come from a wide variety of disciplines and backgrounds. No previous GIS training is required. Applicants provide a faculty contact and a concise research proposal on work that will be done during the GIS Institute. Include your project idea and goals, spatial data needed for the project, whether you will collect or create these data or use pre-existing data. If you plan to use pre-existing data, indicate what type of data you will be using, and whether or not you have confirmed access to the data already. You will have several days to work on this project with help from the instructors, and present your results on the last day of the program.
Harvard Sociology pays the $100 student registration fee for doctoral students in the Sociology, Sociology & Social Policy, and Organizational Behavior (Macro/Sociology Track) degree programs. Students who have been accepted should contact Jessica Matteson so that she can make payment arrangements directly.
2009 – Weihua An
2009 – Min Zhou
Winter 2011 – Mazen Elfakhani
Winter 2011 – Jackelyn Hwang
Winter 2011 – Jeremy Levine
Winter 2013 – Margot Moinester
Winter 2014 – Katherine Morris
Summer 2014 – Kelley Fong
Summer 2014 – Siobhan Greatorex-Voith
Summer 2014 – Yanhua Bird
Winter 2015 – Roland Neil
Winter 2015 – Adam Travis
Winter 2015 – Xiaolin Zhou
Summer 2015 – Alvaro Santana Acuña
Summer 2015 – Meghan Zacher
Winter 2017 – Andrew Keefe
Summer 2017 – Jared Schachner
Winter 2019 – Cresa Pugh
Winter 2019 – Ethan Raker
Winter 2020 – Aaron Benavidez
Winter 2020 – Aaron Fernandez
Winter 2020 – Jasmine Olivier