Noah Schouela
Noah Schouela is a PhD candidate in political science at the University of Chicago studying comparative politics and quantitative methodology. His research interests include political violence, urban governance, inequality and redistribution, and political economy. Noah’s dissertation explores the origins and consequences of class-based spatial segregation in Latin American cities and, in particular, the effects of administrative and electoral divisions within metropolitan areas in facilitating or impeding the representation and upward mobility of the urban poor. Methodologically, he is interested in the role of spatial analysis and statistics in exploring the geographic dimensions of development and representation.
From 2020 to 2021, Noah was an urban PhD fellow at the Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation. Prior to beginning his PhD, Noah earned a master’s degree from the University of Chicago’s Committee on International Relations, where he was a second-year fellow, and a bachelor’s degree from the Trudeau Centre for Peace, Conflict and Justice at the University of Toronto, where he also studied economics.
