Jamie Peck

TEACHING & ADVISING

Classes taught

Geography 364
Globalization, cities, and regions download syllabus

Geography 450
Researching the city (a.k.a. Urban analysis) download syllabus

Geography 520
On shaky foundations: seminar in human geography download syllabus

Current advising

Mark Cooper (PhD Geography, UW-Madison, 2007-present; co-chair with Matthew Turner) Making the new greenhouse economy in New Zealand
Connor Donnelly (Master’s Geography, UBC, 2011-present; co-chair with Trevor Barnes) Political economy of austerity
Tom Howard (Master’s Geography, UBC, 2011-present) Mobilizing development models in Calgary
Kean Fan Lim (PhD Geography, UBC, 2009-present; co-chair with Trevor Barnes) Chinese state spatialities
Noah Quastel (PhD Geography, UBC, 2008-present) Political economy of electricity
Andrew Shmuely (PhD Geography, UBC, 2010-present) Aesthetic political economies of gentrification
Elliot Siemiatycki (PhD Geography, UBC, 2008-present) New labor-market geographies in Vancouver
Sophie Webber (PhD Geography, UBC, 2011-present; co-chair with Simon Donner) Political economy of climate change adaptation

Previous advising

Mark Adams (PhD Geography, UW-Madison, 2006; co-chair with Tom Vale) Growth management in the American West [currently adjunct assistant professor, University of New Hampshire]
Peter Baker (PhD Geography, University of Manchester, 1998) Social exclusion and labour market restructuring in Burnley
Liisa Cormode (PhD Geography, University of Manchester, 1996; co-chair with Peter Dicken) Highly skilled migrant workers in Canada [currently consultant]
Erin Hatton (PhD Sociology, UW-Madison, 2007; co-chair with Erik Olin Wright) Representing temporary labor [currently assistant professor in sociology, SUNY Buffalo]
Dean Herd (PhD Geography, University of Manchester) Welfare reform, workfare, and policy transfer [currently researcher, City of Toronto]
Adam Holden (PhD Geography, University of Manchester, 1999; co-chair with Adam Tickell) Local hegemonic projects in the “new” Manchester [currently lecturer, University of Durham]
Martin Jones (PhD Geography, University of Manchester, 1996) Local economic governance and Training and Enterprise Councils [currently professor and pro-vice chancellor, University of Aberystwyth]
Daniel Mansfield (PhD Geography, University of Manchester, 1999; co-chair with Adam Tickell) Restructuring public finance and the Private Finance Initiative [currently consultant]
Chris Muellerleile (Master’s Geography, UW-Madison, 2007) Corporate and urban restructuring: the case of Boeing
Brenda Parker (PhD Geography, UW-Madison) Feminist urban political economies of Milwaukee [currently assistant professor of urban planning, University of Illinois at Chicago]
Stephen Quilley (PhD Sociology, University of Manchester, 1995; co-chair with Huw Beynon) Political economies of exclusion and inequality in Manchester [currently senior lecturer in politics, international relations & philosophy, University of Keele]
Simon Springer (Geography, UBC, 2008-2009; co-chair with Philippe Le Billon) Neoliberalizing violence in Cambodia [currently lecturer in geography, University of Otago]
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 pro-vice chancellor for research and knowledge transfer, University of Birmingham]
Lea Turpin (Master’s Geography, UW-Madison, 2005) Latinization of the Dane County labor market
Anthony Vigor (PhD Geography, University of Manchester, 2003; co-chair with Peter Dicken and Kevin Ward) Neoliberalizing the region [currently prime ministerial advisor, UK Government]
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
Sophie Webber (Master’s Geography, UBC, 2009-2011; co-chair with Simon Donner) Climate change adaptation projects in Kiribati