Teaching Interest:

Professor Barrett teaches courses on research design, qualitative methods, public finance, and the history of urban planning in the City of Atlanta.

Research Interest:

Professor Barrett's community-based research focuses on economic geography, urban development, and affordable housing. Her recent research examines debates over public goods and municipal budgeting in U.S. cities, analyzing how they shape community-led efforts to create more affordable cities. Barrett is a Faculty Fellow, with the Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems (BBISS). 

List of Recent Scholarly Work:

1. Barrett, Emily and Sara Safransky. 2024. “Reimagining the municipal economy: The emancipatory politics of the people’s budget movement”. Urban Studies. https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980241231439
2. Barrett, Emily and Sara Safransky. 2023. “Towards people’s budgets: Public economic geography for movement building”. The Professional Geographer. https://doi.org/10.1080/00330124.2023.2275307
3. Barrett, Emily. 2023.“Unseeing racism: Naming whiteness at the intersections of regimes of data and participation”. Planning Theory & Practice. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649357.2023.2279654
4. Barrett, Emily and Amber J. Bosse. 2022. “Community geography for precarious researchers: Examining the intricacies of mutually beneficial and co-produced knowledge”. GeoJournal. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-020-10358-2

Degrees with Year of Award:

Ph.D., Community Research & Action, Vanderbilt University, 2025 
M.A. Geography, University of Kentucky, 2020 
B.A. Geography and Anthropology, Syracuse University, 2016