Professor Suzanne Hall

Suzanne Hall is Professor of Sociology at LSE and Head of Department. Her work explores the intersections of global migration and urban marginalisation. Suzi focuses on everyday claims to space and how political economies of displacement shape racial borders, migrant livelihoods, and urban multicultures. She is the author of The Migrant’s Paradox (University of Minnesota Press, 2021) and City Street and Citizen (Routledge, 2012). In 2025 she received the LSE Student Union award for "Outstanding Teacher of the Year".

Key Expertise: Urbanisation, Migration, Racialisation, Livelihoods, Ethnography

Suzi Hall is an urban ethnographer and has practised as an architect in South Africa. Her work connects the asymmetries of global migration and urban marginalisation, exploring the racialised frameworks of citizenship and economic inequality and their everyday contestations. She is a recipient of an ESRC Future Research Leaders award (2015-2017) and the Philip Leverhulme Prize in Sociology in 2017, and she gave the inaugural "Cities Annual Lecture" at Birkbeck in 2022.

Suzi is part of the  research cluster.

Suzi teaches on the MSc City Design & Social Science programme on social and political formations of urban space, planning and design, and she convenes an undergraduate module on Racial Borderscapes.

Suzi welcomes enquiries from prospective PhD students in her area of research interests. Please note that she is not taking on new PhD students for the 2026-27 session.