Eric Sheppard


Eric Sheppard is a British and American geographer, and Professor of Economic geography at UCLA.

Background

Sheppard grew up in Cambridge, England and studied geography at the University of Bristol under Peter Haggett before moving to Canada and completing his Ph.D in Geography in 1976 at the University of Toronto. He taught for most of his career at the University of Minnesota before moving to UCLA. He served as President of the Association of American Geographers.

Contributions

Sheppard has made contributions to geographical political economy, uneven geographies of globalization, spatial capitalist economic dynamics, urban sustainability and environmental justice, and the use of critical geographic information technologies. He is identified with a group of radical economic geographers including Trevor J. Barnes and Jamie Peck, who are critical of the tendency of the modern capitalist economy to create great differences in wealth and poverty, and to create environmental problems and injustices.

Awards

Contesting Neoliberalism: Urban Frontiers. New York: Guilford Press, 2007, 340 pp.