Noah Allison

Noah Allison is a scholar of urban diasporas who studies how territorial governance, built environments, migration, labor, and social reproduction shape daily life. His research draws on ethnographic, community-engaged, and counter-cartographic methods and sits at the intersection of social sciences, city planning and policy, intersectionality, and food studies. His previous projects examined ethnoburbs in Los Angeles, multicultural geographies in Queens, municipal care practices in Toronto, and street vendors in cities around the world. His current work explores (1) ultra-religious groups' influence on the social rhythms, spatial logics, and security infrastructures in southwestern Brooklyn, and (2) the development and maintenance of a New Jersey ethnoburb. Before joining Barnard, Noah was a visiting faculty member in Urban Studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto's Culinaria Research Centre and taught at the City University of New York and The New School. Prior to his academic career, he worked for nearly a decade as an urban planner and architectural historian. Noah teaches Senior Seminar, Neighborhood & Community Development, Introduction to Urban Planning, Food & Society in Global Cities, and Nation, City & Inequality.