Eric S. Sheppard
1170 Bunche Hall
t: 310.825.1912
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email: esheppard@geog.ucla.edu
office: UCLA DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY
CURRICULUM VITAE

EDUCATION

MA and PhD, University of Toronto, Canada, (1974; 1977)
BSc (hons) Bristol University, UK (1972)

SUBFIELDS

economic, urban and political geography, development, geographic thought, geographic information technologies

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Geographical political economy
Trade and uneven geographies of globalization
Out-of-equilibrium spatial capitalist economic dynamics
Great transformations of Asian cities: Contesting global urbanism
Urban sustainability and environmental justice
Critical geographic information technologies

GRANTS

Mellon Foundation 'Collaborative Graduate Education and Research Partnership: Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change (University of Minnesota) and Centre for Humanities Research (University of the Western Cape)' (2010-12)
National Science Foundation 'Advanced Information Science' (1997-2000)
National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis 'GIS Representations of Nature and Society' (1996-7)
National Science Foundation 'Spatial price competition and market share amongst multilocational corporations' (1988-91)

AWARDS

Distinguished Scholarship Honors, Association of American Geographers (1999)
Scholar of the College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota (2001-4)
Fesler Lampert Humanities Professor, University of Minnesota (2002-4)
Fellow, Center for Advanced Studies in the Social and Behavioral Sciences (2005-6)
Regents Professor, University of Minnesota (2008-12)
Supporting Women in Geography graduate advising award, University of Minnesota (2009)
President, Association of American Geographers (2012-3)

GRAD STUDENTS

Former PhD Advisees
Trevor J. Barnes (University of British Columbia)
Deborah Karasov (Great River Greening, St. Paul MN)
Tae-kyung Koh (Korean Housing Institute)
Yeong-ki Beck (Chonbuk University, Korea)
Claire E. Pavlik (University of Iowa)
Paul Plummer (University of Western Australia)
Theano Terkenli Koop (University of the Aegean)
Byron Miller (University of Calgary)
Yu Zhou (Vassar College)
Dmitri Sidorov (CSU, Long Beach).
Stephen Smela (The Improve Group, Minneapolis MN)
Padraig R. Carmody (Trinity College Dublin)
William Lynn (Clark University)
James Glassman (University of British Columbia)
Leila Harris (University of British Columbia)
Christopher Sneddon (Dartmouth College)
Andrea Nightingale (University of Edinburgh)
Mary Thomas (Ohio State University)
Bongman Seo (Incheon Development Institute, S. Korea)
Gabriela Valdivia (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Daisaku Yamamoto (Colgate University)
Sookjin Kim (Konkuk University, Seoul)
Yvette Pye (Saint Mary's University of Minnesota)
Ryan Holifield (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)
Joshua Barkan (University of Georgia).
Jun Zhang (National University of Singapore).
Ananthakrishna Maringanti (Hyderabad Urban Laboratory).
Moira Mcdonald (Walton Foundation, Washington DC)
Marion Traub-Werner (SUNY Buffalo)
Raj Narayanareddy (University of Toronto)
Sam Schueth (USAID)
Luke Bergmann (University of Washington).

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

RECENT ARTICLES

Trade, globalization and uneven development, Progress in Human Geography, 36 (2012): 44-71

Space and spatiality in theory (with Peter Merriman, Martin Jones, Gunnar Olsson, Nigel Thrift, Yi-fu Tuan), Dialogues in Human Geography, 2 (2012): 3-22

Geographical political economy, Journal of Economic Geography, 11 (2011): 319-331

Geography, nature and the question of development, Dialogues in Human Geography, 1(2011): 46-7

Quo Vadis Neoliberalism? The Remaking of Global Capitalist Governance after the Washington Consensus (with Helga Leitner), Geoforum, 41 (2010): 185-94

'Nothing includes everything': Towards engaged pluralism in Anglophone economic geography (with Trevor Barnes), Progress in Human Geography 34 (2010): 193-214

Capitalism beyond harmonious equilibrium: Mathematics as if human agency mattered (with L. Bergmann and P. Plummer), Environment and Planning A, 41 (2009): 265-283

The spatiality of contentious politics (with H. Leitner, K. Sziarto), Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, NS33 (2008): 157-172

Geographic dialectics? Environment and Planning A, 40 (2008): 2603-2612

Geography matters: Agency, structures and dynamics (with Paul Plummer), Journal of Economic Geography, 6 (2006): 619-37

Constructing free trade: From Manchester boosterism to global management, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, NS30 (2005): 151-172

Knowledge production through critical GIS: Review and Assessment, Cartographica, 40 (2005): 5-22

The spaces and times of globalization: Economic Geography, 78 (2002): 307-330

The city is dead, long live the network: Harnessing networks for a neoliberal urban agenda (with H.Leitner), Antipode 31 (2002): 495-518

GIS-based measures of environmental equity: Exploring their sensitivity and significance (with R. McMaster, H. Leitner and H. Tian), Journal of Exposure Analysis and Environmental Epidemiology 9 (2009): 18-28

BOOKS

The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Economic Geography (with Trevor Barnes and Jamie Peck, 2012), Wiley-Blackwell

A World of Difference: Encountering and contesting development (with Phil Porter, David Faust and Richa Nagar, 2009), Guilford

Contesting Neoliberalism: Urban Frontiers (with Helga Leitner and Jamie Peck, 2007), Guilford

Politics and Practice in Economic Geography (with Trevor Barnes, Jamie Peck, Adam Tickell, 2007), Sage

Scale and Geographic Inquiry (with Robert McMaster, 2004), Blackwell

Reading Economic Geography (with Trevor J Barnes, Jamie Peck, Adam Tickell, 2003), Blackwell

A Companion to Economic Geography (with Trevor Barnes, 2000), Basil Blackwell

Rediscovering Geography: New relevance for the new century (with Tom Wilbanks and 14 others, 1996), National Research Council

The Capitalist Space Economy: Geographical analysis after Marx, Ricardo and Sraffa (with Trevor Barnes, 1990), Allen & Unwin.