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