Shoshana Goldstein is an academic and urban planner with a master’s in international affairs from the New School, where she focused on the comparative urban development experiences of India and China, and a PhD in City and Regional Planning from Cornell University, with specializations in international planning, South Asian History, and Landscape Architecture. Her research investigates histories of urban planning in India and North America, exploring themes of mobility justice, housing precarity, and placemaking among marginal and migrant communities. Prior to earning her doctorate, Goldstein worked for the India China Institute and as a consultant for the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs and UNICEF. She has taught intro and advanced GIS for planners, courses on migration, infrastructure, and housing. As a teacher, she promotes student-led inquiry, interdisciplinary and applied perspectives, and methods in the classroom.

Selected Publications:

• Goldstein, S. (2022) Urban Exodus, Mobility Injustice. Places.
• Goldstein, S. (2020). Siddhartha Sen’s “Colonizing, Decolonizing and Globalizing Kolkata: From a Colonial to a Post-Marxist City,” Journal of Planning Education and Research. 
• Goldstein, S. (2016). Planning the Millennium City: The Politics of Place-making in Gurgaon India. International Area Studies Review. 19(1): 12-27.
  

• Oct 2021. Migrant Mobility and the Politics of Self-Reliance During India’s Covid-19 Lockdown, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Annual Conference (virtual).
• Nov 2020. The Antinomies of Urban Villages and Gated Communities in Peri-Urban India, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Toronto, Canada (virtual). 
• Oct 2019. The Common Ground: Class, Environmental Justice, and the Battle for Public Space in Gurugram, India, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Greenville, SC 
• Apr 2019. Urban Villages and Class Transformation. American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Washington DC
• Oct 2018. Planning the Invisible City: Migration and Urban Citizenship in Gurgaon, India. Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Annual Conference, Buffalo, NY