Urban Studies at Barnard College

11 faculty and 26 courses in Urban Studies at Barnard College.

Faculty

• Nick R. Smith, Assistant Professor of Architecture and Urban Studies h-index 8
  . His first book, entitled The End of the Village: Planning the Urbanization of Rural China (University of Minnesota, 2021), investigates an epochal shift in Chinese urban policy that aims for the near-total urbanization of Chin
• Maricarmen Hernández, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Urban Studies h-index 7
• Gergely Baics, Professor of History and Urban Studies h-index 7
• Leah Meisterlin, Lecturer in Urban Studies and Architecture h-index 3
• Aaron Passell, Senior Lecturer in Urban Studies
  Es on the built environment as a social process, meaning how people in various roles (planners, homebuyers, preservationists, neighborhood activists) affect the design, planning, and development of places and how those processes and places
• Adreina Torres Angarita, Term Assistant Professor of Urban Studies
• Amelia Simone Herbert, Assistant Professor of Education and Urban Studies
• Angela Simms, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Urban Studies
• Christian Siener, Lecturer in Urban Geography
• Mary Rocco, Lecturer of Urban Studies
  City planning, urban revitalization and community development with specializations in the roles of philanthropic foundations, community economic development and shrinking cities. As a faculty member, Dr. Rocco co-led the preparation
• Rae Root, Barnard Faculty Fellow in Urban Studies

Courses

• Introduction to Urban Studies URBS UN1515
• Data, Mapping, and Spatial Analysis URBS UN2100
• Introduction to GIS Methods URBS UN2200
• Introduction to Urban Geography URBS UN2300
• Introduction to Urban Planning URBS UN2520
• Urban Latin/X America: Ethnographic Approaches URBS UN3252
• Intro to Urban Ethnographies URBS UN3308
• Race, Space, Urban Schools URBS UN3310
• Metropolitics of Race & Place URBS UN3315
• Urban Elsewheres: Exploring a World of Cities URBS UN3351
• Introduction Urban Sociology URBS UN3420
• Neighborhood & Community Development URBS UN3450
• Urban Environmental Justice: Gender, Race, Class and the Environment URBS UN3451
• Housing Policy in the United States URBS UN3452
• From Homelessness to Foreclosure: NYC Geographies of Shelter and Home URBS UN3480
• Junior Seminar in Urban Studies URBS UN3545
• Advanced Geographic Information Systems URBS UN3800
• Urban Studies Senior Seminar URBS UN3992
• Urban Revolution: The City in Politics URBS GU4100
• Urbanizing China ARCH UN3502
• The Just City: Global Debates in Urban Planning and Policy ARCH GU4300
• History of the City in Latin America HIST UN1786
• Colonial Cities of the Americas HIST UN2689
• History of Urban Crime and Policing in Latin America HIST UN3277
• History of the City in Latin America (Seminar) HIST GU4012
• + 1 more courses

Roster/catalog compiled from the college’s public directory. Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Data as of 2026-07-01.