Suzanne Hall | |
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Awards | Philip Leverhulme Prize Rome Scholarship in Architecture |
Academic background | |
Education | London School of Economics and Political Science (PhD) |
Thesis | A mile of mixed blessings: an ethnography of boundaries and belonging on a South London street (2010) |
Doctoral advisor | Janet Foster, Robert Tavernor |
Academic work | |
Discipline | sociology |
Sub-discipline | ethnography |
Institutions | London School of Economics and Political Science |
Main interests | urban ethnography |
Notable works | City Street and Citizen The Migrant’s Paradox |
Suzanne Hall is Professor in the Department of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where she directed the Cities Programme.[1] Her work explores intersections of global migration and urban marginalisation. Hall formerly practised as an architect in South Africa focusing on public projects for the first democratically elected state.[2] She has been recognised for her work in both fields, receiving the Philip Leverhulme Prize in Sociology in 2017,[3] and the Rome Scholarship in Architecture Prize in 1998.[4] Hall was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1969.