Peer-Reviewed Research Articles

"Heritage Throughlines in Geopolitical Conflict: Urban Identity and Immigrant Placemaking in Little Ukraine, NYC" Forthcoming
Ishaan Barrett
The Birch Journal, Department of Slavic Languages, Columbia University, Spring 2026
"Histories of Privatization: Examining Culture, Legal Conflict, and Economic Transformation at Adams Morgan Plaza in Washington, DC"
Ishaan Barrett
"Visualizing Housing Borderlands: Histories of Migration, Multiculturalism, Capital Flight, and Urban Conflict in Washington, DC"
Ishaan Barrett
Roots, The Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, Columbia University, Spring 2025, 12–14
"Spatializing Grief: Examining the Rhetoric, Architecture, and Personification of Loss at the 9/11 Memorial and Museum"
Ishaan Barrett

Working Papers in Political Science

"Building a RAG-Intelligent Retrieval Policy Analysis Engine for Congressional Legislation"
Ishaan Barrett
"PCA Clustering and Topic Modeling of New York City PPRs Demonstrate Typological Differences in Content and Success Rate of DOI Interventions in City Governance"
Ishaan Barrett and Rohit Barrett
"Communication is Key: Instituting Reform in New York's IDNYC-Mayoral Partnership for Immigrant New York"
Ishaan Barrett
"Contracting Trust in NYC: MOIA, City Council, and Overseeing Pro-Immigrant Services"
Ishaan Barrett

Edited Magazine Articles

"The Closed Campus: A Study of Academic, Social, and Cultural Dissonance at Columbia University Through (Spatial) Ethnography" Forthcoming
Ishaan Barrett
Harvard Urban Review, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Spring 2026
"The Limits of Public Duty" Forthcoming
Ishaan Barrett
Pidgin, Princeton University School of Architecture, 34, Spring 2026
"Between Broadway and College Walk: The Architecture of a Closed University" Forthcoming
Ishaan Barrett
PLATFORM, Spring 2026
"Hyderabad and Hitech-city: Reflections on a Changing Urban Culture"
Ishaan Barrett
"The City as a State"
Ishaan Barrett
"Eat, Pray, Love and Cinemas of Ruin: Valuing Heritage and Memory in Changing Urban Landscapes"
Ishaan Barrett
"Deconstructing New York: On Jennifer Williams Photographing the Peripheral City"
Ishaan Barrett
"Human Relationships, Built Environments, and the City Block in India and the US: An Interview"
Ishaan Barrett

Policy Memoranda and Analyses

"DACA as a Model: Expanding Critical Region-Specific Support Programs to Lower Asylum Backlogs"
Ishaan Barrett
"Immigration Executive Order Analysis Database"
Ishaan Barrett
"Eminent Domain Reform: Addressing Systemic Failures and Historical Exclusion in Urban Land Disputes"
Ishaan Barrett

Political Commentary

"Fast Justice and The Court Enabling Trump" Columbia Political Review Online
February 2, 2026
"Unscripted: Even LLMs Think Trump's Speeches are Strange" Columbia Political Review Online
November 24, 2025
"Along the Hudson, Democracy Holds Fast" Columbia Political Review Online
November 18, 2025
"From Wharton to War: American Higher-Ed in the Trump Administration" Columbia Political Review Online
May 9, 2025
"Trump, The Very Hungry Caterpillar" Columbia Political Review Magazine , 23, 1 (2025): 19–21
January 30, 2025
"Adams, Trump, and the Fall of Gotham" Columbia Political Review Online
February 24, 2025
"How to Tank Your International Image in Four Weeks" Columbia Political Review Online
February 12, 2025

Columns and Editorials

"Proactive Capital Planning and Support for Libraries is Overdue" Columbia Daily Spectator
December 8, 2025
"What's Going on With College Walk?" Columbia Daily Spectator
November 7, 2025
"Yes, There is Space for Shared Governance at Columbia" Columbia Daily Spectator
October 7, 2025
"A New Era of Gate Closures" Columbia Daily Spectator
April 8, 2025
"What are Columbia's gate closures costing?" Columbia Daily Spectator
March 5, 2025
"It's Time To Act, Columbia" Columbia Daily Spectator
December 8, 2024
"Columbia Prepares for Tree Lighting, but for Whom?" Columbia Daily Spectator
December 3, 2024
"It's Time To Speak, Columbia" Columbia Daily Spectator
November 13, 2024
"Missing poles flag the University's mission" Columbia Daily Spectator
March 29, 2024