Noah Allison

Noah Allison is a scholar of urban life in socially diverse settlements. His work explores these dynamics by focusing on territorial governance, migration and diaspora, spatial struggle, labor, and social reproduction to better understand metropolitan inequities and opportunities and the processes that cause them. 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 have examined ethnoburbs in Los Angeles, multicultural urbanism in Queens, municipal care practices in Toronto, and street vendors in cities around the world. His current project explores how multiple ultra-religious groups are shaping the social rhythms, spatial logic, and security infrastructures in southwestern Brooklyn neighborhoods. 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, Introduction to Urban Planning, Neighborhood & Community Development, Nation, City & Inequality, and Food & Society in Global Cities.