Assistant Professor

Additional Campus Affiliations

Assistant Professor, Urban and Regional Planning
Assistant Professor, Center for the Study of Global Gender Equity
Assistant Professor, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Recent Publications

Guske, E. L., Johnson, M. F., & Novoa, M. (2025). “Everything we do matters”: Contesting the Dakota Access Pipeline in rural Iowa through insurgent planning. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Article 02637758251349885. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/02637758251349885

Novoa, M., & Vasudevan, R. (2025). Relational Engagements and Embodiments: Exploring Pluriversalities of Community-Based Scholarship in Planning. Planning Theory and Practice, 26(1), 85-105. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649357.2025.2479502

Novoa, M., & Morales Fredes, D. (2024). “We were replaced by pines”: dispossession, displacement, and the colonial wound in Pilpilco’s coal plant closure. Labor History, 65(3), 316-336. https://doi.org/10.1080/0023656X.2024.2326029

Novoa, M. (2023). Gendered nostalgia: grassroots heritage tourism and (de)industrialization in Lota, Chile. Journal of Heritage Tourism, 18(3), 365-383. https://doi.org/10.1080/1743873X.2020.1867561

Sletto, B., Novoa, M., & Vasudevan, R. (2023). “History can’t be written without us in the center”: Colonial trauma, the cartographic body, and decolonizing methodologies in urban planning. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 41(1), 148-169. https://doi.org/10.1177/02637758231153642

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