Noah J. Durst

Noah J. Durst is an Assistant Professor in the Urban and Regional Planning program in the School of Planning, Design and Construction at MSU. He earned a Ph.D. in Public Policy in 2017 from the Lyndon Baines Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, where he also completed Masters degrees in Public Affairs and Latin American Studies. His research examines issues of social equity, residential segregation, and urban informality in the context of US housing markets. Most of his research to date has focused on informal, majority-Latino colonia settlements on the US-Mexico border.