Susanna Schaller

Faculty Fellow

Susanna Schaller’s work examines the construction of ideologies of place. Her work historically situates the use of business improvement districts as governance strategies to revitalize neighborhoods within the policies and planning discourses implicated in producing segregated urban spaces in US cities. In New York, she served as Senior Planner to the Municipal Art Society and worked extensively with a community development credit union in Upper Manhattan. With the support of the Colin Powell School at City College, Susanna introduced community-based research into her courses and hopes to further integrate practice, research and student- learning.

Participating Years

2014–2015

After Debt: New Forms of Dependency, Obligation, Risk, and Credit

‘After Debt’ imagines a world beyond debt and pursues it as a research agenda across a broad range of intellectual inquiry. How have economic failures been transformed into personal identities, often dividing those deemed “at risk” from those capable of assuming risk? How might we understand histories of debt within genealogies of the fiscal military nation-state? What alternate meanings of dependency, obligation, risk, and credit have people produced within and against debt regimes, such as those enforced by structural adjustment?