Suzanne Hall

She has been recognised for her work in both fields, receiving the Philip Leverhulme Prize in Sociology in 2017, and the Rome Scholarship in Architecture Prize in 1998. Hall was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1969.

Suzanne Hall studied at London School of Economics and Political Science. The recorded working language is English. The field of work recorded is urban sociology, architecture and migration policy. Employment is recorded with London School of Economics and Political Science.

• Awards — Philip Leverhulme Prize Rome Scholarship in Architecture • Education — London School of Economics and Political Science (PhD) • Thesis Title — A mile of mixed blessings: an ethnography of boundaries and belonging on a South London street • Thesis Url — http: etheses.lse.ac.uk/186/ • Thesis Year — 2010 • Doctoral Advisor — Janet Foster, Robert Tavernor • Discipline — sociology • Sub Discipline — ethnography • Workplaces — London School of Economics and Political Science • Main Interests — urban ethnography • Notable Works — City Street and Citizen The Migrant’s Paradox

Hall’s work focuses on everyday claims to space and how political economies of displacement shape racial borders, migrant livelihoods, and urban multiculture. Between 2011 and 2021 she undertook several studies of migrant street economies across the UK and in Cape Town, in research collaborations on Ordinary Streets, Super-diverse Streets, and Beyond Banglatown (led by Claire Alexander) and Migrant Margins. Hall describes ‘edge economies’ as ‘located in the expanding terrain of redundancies and casualised employment; they surface where the effects are most likely to be located, and they reveal who is most likely to be affected.’ Hall co-founded the Race, Space and Architecture open access curriculum in 2020 with Huda Tayob and Thandi Loewenson. In 2022, Hall was selected to give the inaugural ‘Cities Annual Lecture’ at Birkbeck University.