We are a team of University of Michigan-based scholars of political science and sociology specializing in public opinion and attitudes toward reparations. Our research provides important context for understanding the challenges Detroit’s reparations committee faces.

U-M closed on a parcel of land for $9.5 million. The parcel, strategically located across the street from the U-M Center for Innovation, is expected to support the center’s future needs. Part of the nearly 2.3-acre parcel will be used for a parking structure.

Abraham Alzoubi, M.Arch ‘25 was awarded a summer research grant by the U-M National Center for Institutional Diversity (NCID) to investigate the various land uses in Detroit and Palestine. It was one of 19 grants given to graduate students and teams at the University of Michigan through the provost-funded Anti-Racism Collaborative. Alzoubi plans to use the grant to fund field expeditions to Detroit and Palestine and learn more about the ongoing efforts of activists to fight against land commodification. 

The share of 8th-12th grade students reporting depression and anxiety symptoms fell below pre-pandemic levels in 2022-23 in the Detroit Public School Community District—which is the opposite of national trends.

She’s the pioneering community-based participatory researcher whose work in developing collaborative partnerships has had a significant impact on the health and well-being of Detroit residents. Barbara Israel now commits to fostering future public health leaders as professor emerita of Health Behavior & Health Equity.

“My purpose shouldn’t be to be busy or to make people feel busier or to add to the clutter of the world, but to remind myself and others that we have the opportunity to turn the privilege of being alive into something that could be surprising, and it needn’t be radical, but it could just be an interruption.”

~ Nick Tobier, professor of art and design in the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design