Tarry Hum
Urban Studies
Phone: 718-997-5124
Email: tarry.hum@qc.cuny.edu
Tarry Hum is Associate Professor in the Department of Urban Studies at Queens College, City University of New York. Her scholarship and research interests focus broadly on immigration, urbanization, and inequality. She has researched and published papers on the socioeconomic processes and outcomes of immigrant incorporation in urban labor markets, related issues of immigrant settlement and neighborhood change, and the consequences for urban inequality, race and ethnic relations, political representation, and community definition and development. She is currently working on a research project on the role of ethnic banks in immigrant financial incorporation and community economic development. Her publications include articles in the Economic Development Quarterly, AAPI Nexus: Policy, Practice and Community, and chapters in edited volumes published by the Russell Sage Foundation, Stanford University Press, and Temple University Press. She is completing a Ford Foundation funded study of multi-racial, multi-ethnic immigrant neighborhoods and a book monograph titled, The Making of an Immigrant Global Neighborhood: Brooklyn's Sunset Park.
Hum has served as a consultant to numerous non-profit
organizations including the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund,
Asian American Federation of New York, Museum of Chinese in the Americas,
and the Queens Museum of Art. She is also Chair of the Board of Directors
of UPROSE, United Puerto Rican Organization of Sunset Park. Hum received a
Bachelor of Arts from Hampshire College, a Masters in City Planning from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a PhD in Urban Planning from UCLA's
School of Public Policy and Social Research.
