Meredith Hall

Biography

Meredith Hall joined New York University Stern School of Business as a Clinical Assistant Professor of Management Communication in September 2025. She teaches courses in the undergraduate Social Impact Core at Stern, including Business and Society and Communication and Culture.

Hall’s research explores the political economy of intellectual property rights and its intersections with innovation, inequality, and the public good. Her current book project, Properties of Color: How Corporations Came to Own the Visible Spectrum, traces the assimilation of color into intellectual property law and policy across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Beyond academia, Hall brings experience in research, policy analysis, and consultancy for leading international organizations, including the World Intellectual Property Organization in Geneva, the former United Nations Development Fund for Women in New York, and the Business and Intellectual Property Centre in Brighton, England—an innovative start-up incubator launched by the UK Government.

Her work appears in publications such as the Annual Review of Sociology, The American Sociologist, Social Science Computer Review, and New Geographies, and has been supported by the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics and the North American Mobility Project, as well as the Graduate Institute for Design, Ethnography, and Social Thought and the Robert L. Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies at The New School.

Before joining NYU Stern, Hall was a Teaching Associate in the Sociology of Media and Culture at the University of Cambridge, where she led the teaching team for the undergraduate course, Media, Culture, and Society, lecturing on topics such as capitalism and culture, the political economy of the media, and visual culture. She also served as the deputy pathway Coordinator for the MPhil Pathway in Media and Culture, advising postgraduate research and lecturing on topics such as material culture, media ecology, and social theory. Prior to Cambridge, she was a postdoctoral scholar and teaching fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at the University of Southern California.

Hall holds a BA in English Literature and Philosophy from Pacific Lutheran University, an MA in Women’s and Gender Studies from Rutgers University, and a PhD in Sociology from The New School for Social Research.

Research Interests

• Intellectual Property Law and Policy
• Propertization and Ownership Frontiers
• Science, Knowledge, and Technology
• Media and Culture
• Values and Valuation

Courses Taught

• Business and Society
• Communication and Culture

Academic Background

PhD, Sociology
The New School for Social Research

MA, Sociology
The New School for Social Research

MA, Women's and Gender Studies
Rutgers University

BA, English Literature and Philosophy
Pacific Lutheran University