Tim is a Master in Urban Planning candidate at the GSD. He has been a video store clerk; a caterer; a camp counselor; a temp; a construction worker; an English teacher (in South Korea); a book editor; a lecturer (in geography); a Fulbright Scholar; a development analyst (in Jakarta); and is now a GIS research assistant. Before coming to Harvard, he took degrees in political science and urban geography at Tufts University. His main areas of interest fall at the intersections of urbanization and politics, including: international development planning & theory, urbanization in the Global South, geographies of urbanization, world systems analysis, spatial analysis, politics of technologization, and future-making in policy & the social sciences.