My Graduate Students
Current UBC Supervisees
Chris Meulbroek – PhD student (co-supervised with Jamie Peck)
Research interests: Geopolitical economies of development and development theory
Woo-cheol Kim – PhD student
Research interests: development, industrialization, and urbanization in South Korea
Daniel Pérez Gámez – PhD student (co-supervised with Juanita Sundberg)
Research interests: State theory in geography; indigenous struggles; colonial Mexico
Prashant Rayaprolu – PhD student (co-supervised with Jamie Peck)
Research Interests: Platform economies; development theory
Past UBC Supervisees
Simon Chilvers – PhD student (co-supervised with Trevor Barnes), graduated 2024.
PhD Thesis: “Marxism Declassified: How a Suppressed Version of Marx’s Theory of History Explains Worldly Affairs”
Michael Fabris – PhD student (co-supervised with Sarah Hunt), graduated 2022. Currently Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, UBC: https://geog.ubc.ca/profile/michael-fabris-2/
PhD Thesis: “The Dispossession(s) of Law: Indigenous Peoples, Canada, and Articulated Jurisdictions” (https://open.library.ubc.ca/soa/cIRcle/collections/ubctheses/24/items/1.0422136)
Natasha Fox – PhD student (co-supervised with Merje Kuus), graduated 2020. Formerly sessional instructor, UBC.
PhD Thesis: “Becoming Experts: Japanese Grassroots NGOs and LGBT Communities in Post-Disaster Tohoku” (https://open.library.ubc.ca/soa/cIRcle/collections/ubctheses/24/items/1.0395496)
Chris Meulbroek – MA student (co-supervised with Jamie Peck), graduated 2020. Currently PhD student, Geography, UBC.
MA Thesis: “Reframing Reform: Positioning the Chinese Economy in the World Bank” (https://open.library.ubc.ca/soa/cIRcle/collections/ubctheses/24/items/1.0391931)
Daniel Pérez Gámez – MA student (co-supervised with Trevor Barnes), graduated 2019. Currently PhD student, Geography, UBC.
MA Thesis: “After the Altepetl: Indigenous Struggle and the Colonial Origins of the Modern State in Sixteenth Century Central Mexico” (https://open.library.ubc.ca/soa/cIRcle/collections/ubctheses/24/items/1.0385503)
Melanie Sommerville – PhD student (co-supervised with Philippe Le Billon), graduated 2019. Currently tenure-track post-doctoral fellow, Norwegian University of Life Sciences: https://www.nmbu.no/emp/melanie.sommerville
PhD Thesis: “Agrarian Repair: Agriculture, Race, and Accumulation in Contemporary Canada and South Africa” (https://open.library.ubc.ca/soa/cIRcle/collections/ubctheses/24/items/1.0379208)
Szu-Yun Hsu – PhD student, graduated 2019. Currently Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, McMaster University: https://socialsciences.mcmaster.ca/people/hsu-szu-yun
PhD Thesis: “Populism, Nationalism, and Hegemonic Struggles over Trade and Economic Liberalization in Taiwan” (https://open.library.ubc.ca/soa/cIRcle/collections/ubctheses/24/items/1.0377580)
Debolina Majumder – MA student (co-supervised with Gerry Pratt), graduated 2017. Currently PhD student, Geography, Cambridge University: https://www.geog.cam.ac.uk/people/majumder/
MA Thesis: “Footnotes to a Conflict? Rethinking Questions of Class and the State in Post-Accession Jammu and Kashmir” (https://open.library.ubc.ca/soa/cIRcle/collections/ubctheses/24/items/1.0354455)
Michael Fabris – MA student (co-supervised with Juanita Sundberg), graduated 2016. Currently PhD student, Geography, UBC.
MA Thesis: “Beyond the New Dawes Act: A Critique of the First Nations Property Ownership Act” (https://open.library.ubc.ca/soa/cIRcle/collections/ubctheses/24/items/1.0308596)
Bjoern Surborg – PhD student (co-supervised by Elvin Wyly), graduated 2012. Currently Principle Advisor & Cluster Coordinator for Climate Change, Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit, GIZ, Philippines: https://rocketreach.co/bjorn-surborg-email_19088581
PhD Thesis: “Production of the World City: extractive industries in a global urban economy” (https://open.library.ubc.ca/soa/cIRcle/collections/ubctheses/24/items/1.0072585)
Patrick Oabel – PhD student, graduated 2011. Formerly Instructor, Luther College, University of Regina.
PhD Thesis: “Workers of the mill: local labour market change and restructuring of the sugar industry in Negros Occidental, Philippines, 1946-2008” (https://open.library.ubc.ca/soa/cIRcle/collections/ubctheses/24/items/1.0072451)
Jia Ye – PhD student, graduated 2011. Currently Associate Professor of Sociology, School of Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore: https://dr.ntu.edu.sg/cris/rp/rp00146
PhD Thesis: “Reproducing Class in the Global Labour Force: The Case of Singapore’s Division of Labour” (https://open.library.ubc.ca/soa/cIRcle/collections/ubctheses/24/items/1.0072265)
Jamie Doucette – PhD student, graduated 2009. Currently Senior Lecturer, Department of Geography, University of Manchester: https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/jamie.doucette.html
PhD Thesis: “The Postdevelopmental State: The Reconfiguration of Political Space and the Politics of Economic Reform in South Korea” (https://open.library.ubc.ca/soa/cIRcle/collections/ubctheses/24/items/1.0070891)
Bjoern Surborg – MA student, graduated 2006
MA Thesis: “Being well-connected is classy: Internet Geography in Vietnam” (https://webcat.library.ubc.ca/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=3755030)