Elizabeth Currid-Halkett

Elizabeth Currid-Halkett is the James Irvine Chair in Urban and Regional Planning and professor of public policy at the Price School at the University of Southern California. A recipient of a 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship, she previously held the Kluge Chair in Modern Culture at the Library of Congress.
Currid-Halkett is the author of four books, including most recently The Overlooked Americans forthcoming with Basic Books in June 2023. Her books have been published in multiple languages.
Currid-Halkett’s work has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, the Economist, and the New Yorker. She lives in Los Angeles, California.