About David Wilson
Bio
David Wilson is currently investigating projects pivoting around the political economy of the U.S. and global north city. Specific projects examine the politics of urban growth regimes in these cities, the politics of competing discourses that generate gentrified neighborhoods and poverty communities, and the racializing of the contemporary urban issues of crime and city growth. Professor Wilson has served on the editorial boards of Urban Geography, Professional Geographer, Social and Cultural Geography, Syracuse University Press (Society, Space, and Place Book Series), Inter-Cultural Studies, the International Encyclopedia of Human Geography project and ACME: International Journal for Critical Geography.
David has been a visiting scholar at universities in China, Germany, and Canada. He was recently listed in a global study of urban geographers (The Professional Geographer) as the eleventh most productive scholar in this field in the world.
Education
- PhD, Rutgers University
- BA, State University of New York at Albany
Research and publications
Ongoing and upcoming research
research
Political Economy of Global North Cities
Urban Political Processes
Cultural Studies of Global North Cities
Social Theory and the Built Environment
Qualitative Methods
Selected publications
Sebastian-Gonzalez, E., Morales-Reyes, Z., Botella, F., Naves-Alegre, L., Perez-Garcia, J. M., Mateo-Tomas, P., Olea, P. P., Moleon, M., Barbosa, J. M., Hiraldo, F., Arrondo, E., Donazar, J. A., Cortes-Avizanda, A., Selva, N., Lambertucci, S. A., Bhattacharjee, A., Brewer, A. L., Abernethy, E. F., Turner, K. L., ... Sanchez-Zapata, J. A. (2020). Network structure of vertebrate scavenger assemblages at the global scale: drivers and ecosystem functioning implications. Ecography, 43(8), 1143-1155. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.05083
Jonas, A. E. G., Miller, B., Ward, K., & Wilson, D. (2018). Spaces of urban politics: An introduction. In K. Ward, A. E. G. Jonas, B. Miller, & D. Wilson (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook on Spaces of Urban Politics (pp. 1-10). Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315712468-1
Jonas, A. E. G., & Wilson, D. (2018). Spaces of utopia and dystopia. In The Routledge Handbook on Spaces of Urban Politics (pp. 539-541). Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315712468
Jonas, A. E. G., & Wilson, D. (2018). The nation-state and the city: introduction to a debate. Urban Geography, 39(9), 1418-1420. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2018.1461991
Miller, B., & Wilson, D. (2018). Spaces of identity. In The Routledge Handbook on Spaces of Urban Politics (pp. 465-467). Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315712468
Teaching and advising
Classes taught
- GEOG 104: Urban Geography
- GEOG 350: Sustainability and the City
- GEOG 471: Recent Trends in Geographic Thought
- GEOG 483: Urban Geography
- GEOG 594: Seminar in Social Geography