Tarry Hum

Tarry Hum is Professor and Chair of the Department of Urban Studies at Queens College, City University of New York (CUNY).  She is an urban planner with a Masters in City Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in Urban Planning from UCLA’s Luskin School of Public Affairs.  Her research areas include immigrant urbanism and growth coalitions, transnational capital, and urban and community planning.  Hum’s book, Making a Global Immigrant Neighborhood: Brooklyn’s Sunset Park, received an Honorable Mention for the 2015 Paul Davidoff Book Award from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning.  She is lead editor of a 2021 volume, Immigrant Crossroads: Globalization, Incorporation, and Placemaking in Queens, NY.  She regularly contributes essays on urban planning and policy, immigrant neighborhoods and housing affordability, real estate development and gentrification in Gotham Gazette: The Place for New York City Policy and Politics and Progressive City.  Hum is completing a book on Chinese transnational capital, growth coalitions, and city building in immigrant New York.