Professor, Social Work/Art and Design
About
Larry M. Gant’s current work focuses on neighborhood-level change efforts in Detroit and surrounding metropolitan areas. The co-operative work incorporates strategies and tactics inspired by collaborations with research colleagues sharing historical, social and political lessons learned from medieval postwar and post-industrial cities including Berlin, Glasgow, Amsterdam, Krakow, and Warsaw. Particular practice interests include the continued reinvention and recreation of legacy spaces within these cities, lessons learned from the EU's experience of mass migrations between 2015 to date, community resident survival and growth in resisting and transforming structured gentrification initiatives, and implications of continuing debate regarding current and future representations of conflict memorials, and their legacies and histories for Detroit’s historical landscape.
Gant’s neighborhood-based prevention and promotion-related work and research has been supported by the National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and numerous private foundations.
Major Projects:
- Research on OB/GYN and HIV education at University of Ghana Medical School (see Tim Johnson, Medicine).
- HIV community education project with State of Michigan Department of Community Health and University of Ghana Medical School.
- Collaborative research on use of vaginal microbicides in South Africa with University of Zululand.
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