Current graduate students
- Cemali Arici (PhD Geography, 2024-present) Unpacking Turkish capitalism
- Max Cohen (PhD Geography, 2020-present; co-chair with Trevor Barnes) Comparing
energy transitions - Albina Gibadullina (PhD Geography, 2020-present; co-chair with Elvin Wyly)
Exploring financial ecosystems - Brandon Hillier (PhD Geography, 2021-present) Tech work as a transnational occupational field
- Christopher Meulbroek (PhD Geography, 2020-present; co-chair with Jim Glassman)
Geohistories of “development” - Mikael Omstedt (PhD Geography, 2016-present) Historical geographies of the US Federal Reserve
- Lewis Page (MA, Science & Technology Studies, 2022-2024, co-chair with Jessica Wang) Other Chicago schools
- Rachel Phillips (PhD Geography, 2020-present) Mapping law and economics
- Prashant Rayaprolu (PhD Geography, 2020 present; co-chair with Jim Glassman) Revisiting Indian capitalism
- Jaxon Slaney (MA Geography, 2024-present) Late Vancouverism and the affordability crisis
- Charles Zhang (PhD Geography, 2024-present) Tracking global China
Former graduate students
- Mark Adams (PhD Geography, UW-Madison, 2006; co-chair with Tom Vale) Growth
management in the American West - Peter Baker (PhD Geography, University of Manchester, 1998) Social exclusion and labour market restructuring in Burnley
- Rachel Bok (PhD Geography, 2016-2024) The urban “solutions” industry [currently
postdoctoral researcher, York University] - Dan Cohen (PhD Geography, UBC, 2012-2017) Making education markets [currently
Assistant Professor of Geography and Planning, Queen’s University] - Mark Cooper (PhD Geography, UW-Madison, 2007-2016; co-chair with Matthew Turner) Greenhouse economies [currently Assistant Professor of Geography, Human Ecology & Animal Science, University of California, Davis]
- Liisa Cormode (PhD Geography, University of Manchester, 1996; co-chair with Peter
Dicken) Highly skilled migrant workers in Canada [currently consultant] - Connor Donegan (Master’s Geography, UBC, 2013; co-chair with Trevor Barnes) Political economy of slavery [currently consultant, Quest Analytics]
- Nina Ebner (PhD Geography, 2015-2021) Making difference at the US/Mexico border
[winner of best dissertation prize, AAG Economic Geography Specialty Group; currently postdoctoral researcher, Centro de Estudios Demográficos Urbanos y Ambientales, Colegio de México] - Erin Hatton (PhD Sociology, UW-Madison, 2007; co-chair with Erik Olin Wright)
Representing temporary labor [currently Professor of Sociology, SUNY Buffalo] - Simen Hennum (MA Geography, 2022-present) Placing the Nordic model
- Dean Herd (PhD Geography, University of Manchester, 2001) Welfare reform, workfare, and policy transfer [currently Policy Development Officer, City of Toronto]
- Adam Holden (PhD Geography, University of Manchester, 1999; co-chair with Adam
Tickell) Local hegemonic projects in the “new” Manchester [currently Senior Impact and Engagement Manager, University of Durham] - Tom Howard (Master’s Geography, UBC, 2015) Mobilizing sustainable development
models in Calgary [currently Inter-Governmental Coordinator, High Bar First Nation] - Martin Jones (PhD Geography, University of Manchester, 1996) Local economic governance and Training and Enterprise Councils [currently Vice-Chancellor, Staffordshire University]
- Kean Fan Lim (PhD Geography, UBC, 2009-2014; co-chair with Trevor Barnes) Chinese state spatialities [currently Senior Lecturer in Economic Geography and Urban and Regional Development, Newcastle University]
- Dan Mansfield (PhD Geography, University of Manchester, 1999; co-chair with Adam Tickell) Restructuring public finance [currently Director, UK Infrastructure Bank]
- Chris Muellerleile (Master’s Geography, UW-Madison, 2007) Corporate and urban
restructuring: the case of Boeing [currently Senior Lecturer in Economic Geography, Swansea University] - Brenda Parker (PhD Geography, UW-Madison, 2008) Feminist urban political economies [currently Associate Professor in Urban Planning, University of Illinois at Chicago]
- Carolyn Prouse (PhD Geography, UBC, 2012-2017) Decolonial urbanisms in Brazil
[currently Associate Professor in Geography and Queen’s National Scholar, Queen’s University] - Noah Quastel (PhD Geography, UBC, 2008-2014) Sustainable commodities [currently
Director, Law and Policy, British Columbia Lung Foundation] - Stephen Quilley (PhD Sociology, University of Manchester, 1995; co-chair with Huw Beynon) Political economies of exclusion and inequality in Manchester [currently Associate Professor in Environmental & Social Innovation, University of Waterloo]
- Elliot Siemiatycki (PhD Geography, UBC, 2013) Vancouver as consumption city [currently Director of Business Development, Lorica Cybersecurity]
- Matthew Steigman (Master’s Geography, UW-Madison, 2008) Transnationalization and Mexican identities
- Adam Tickell (PhD Geography, University of Manchester, 1992; co-chair with Peter Dicken) Regulation of banking and finance [currently Vice Chancellor, University of Birmingham]
- Lea Turpin (Master’s Geography, UW-Madison, 2005) Latinization of the Dane County
labor market [currently Project Manager, Applied Research Protocol] - Anthony Vigor (PhD Geography, University of Manchester, 2003; co-chair with Peter
Dicken and Kevin Ward) Neoliberalizing the region [currently Group Director of Policy and External Affairs, Persimmon] - Kevin Ward (PhD Geography, University of Manchester, 1998; co-chair with Adam Tickell) Urban regimes and city governance in Leeds, Manchester and Birmingham [currently
Professor of Geography, University of Manchester] - Daniel Warshawsky (Master’s Geography, UW-Madison, 2006) Urban welfare retrenchment in Chicago [currently Associate Professor, School of Public and International Affairs, Wright State University]
- Sophie Webber (PhD Geography, UBC, 2015; Master’s Geography, UBC, 2011; co-chair with Simon Donner) Political economy of climate change adaptation [winner of best
dissertation prize, AAG Economic Geography Specialty Group; currently Senior Lecturer, School of Geosciences, University of Sydney]
Postdoctoral researchers
- Dimitar Anguelov (SSHRC Insight, 2021-2024) Political economy of China’s Greater Bay Area [currently Lecturer in Human Geography, School of Social Sciences, Monash University]
- Martin Danyluk (SSHRC Fellowship, 2017-2018) Supply-chain finance [currently Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Planning & Environment, Concordia University]
- Danya Fast (Michael Smith Foundation Fellowship, UBC, 2013-2017) “Street-involved” youth in Vancouver [currently Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, UBC]
- Martin Jones (Simon Fellowship, Manchester University, 1996-1998) Politics of workfare, UK-style [currently Vice-Chancellor, Staffordshire University]
- Karen Peak Yue Lai (Killam Fellowship, UBC, 2008-2010) Making Asian markets [currently Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Durham University]
- Sébastien Rioux (SSHRC Fellowship, 2012-2014) Political economy of food [currently Canada Research Chair in the Political Economy of Food & Well-being and Associate Professor, Département de géographie, Université de Montréal]
- David Wachsmuth (Killam and SSHRC Fellowships, 2014-2015) Sustaining smart cities [currently Canada Research Chair in Urban Governance and Associate Professor, School of Urban Planning, McGill University]
- Heather Whiteside (SSHRC Fellowship, 2013-2015) Political economy of public-private partnerships [currently Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Waterloo]