Professor Hall’s research focuses on the privatization of public spaces and human rights concerns in a political climate of neoliberalism. Her scholarship also considers urban youth culture and education. Her publications include the book Canal Town Youth: Community Organization and the Development of Adolescent Identity (SUNY Press); over twenty articles in scholarly journals such as Gender and Society, Anthropology and Education Quarterly, Urban Education, Education Foundations, and the British Journal of Sociology; and over twenty book chapters.