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DAVID WILSON, Ph. D. Professor of Geography Professor Urban Planning Professor of Criticism and Interpretive Theory School of Liberal Arts and Sciences University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 607 South Mathews Avenue Urbana, Illinois 61801 Phone: (217) 333-0877 Home Address: 201 East Willard Street Urbana, Illinois 61801 Phone: (217) 344-8304 RESEARCH INTERESTS Political Economy of U.S. Cities Urban Political Processes Cultural Studies of U.S. Cities Social Theory and the Built Environment Qualitative Methods EDUCATION Ph.D. 1985, Rutgers University, Department of Geography. Dissertation title: "Institutions and Urban Revitalization: the Case of Manhattan in New York City." M.A. 1983, Temple University, Department of Geography. Thesis title: "The Spatial Character of Housing Abandonment: A Case Study of Allegheny West in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania." B.A. 1978, State University of New York at Albany, Department of Geography. PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND Professor of Geography, University of Illinois 2006 Associate Professor, University of Illinois, 1993 Assistant Professor, University of Illinois, 1990. Member of the Graduate Faculty, University of Illinois, 1990. Assistant Professor of Geography, Indiana University, Indianapolis, 1984-1989. Member of the Graduate Faculty, Indiana University, 1989. Acting Director, Center for American Studies, Indiana University, Indianapolis, Fall 1989. Junior Director, Indiana Academy of the Social Sciences, 1989. Assistant Professor, Department of Urban Studies, Indiana University, Indianapolis, 1984-1989. Research Assistant, Department of Human Ecology, Rutgers University, Fall 1983. Project examined the magnitude and risk of exposure of urban fishermen to toxins in New York Harbor (funded by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection). Adjunct Instructor, Department of Geography, Rutgers University, Spring 1983. Taught Geography 200 "Maps and Map Reading." Research Assistant, Department of Environmental Resources, Rutgers University, Fall 1982. Teaching Assistant, Department of Environmental Resources, Rutgers University, 1981_1982. Environmental Resources 102 "Fundamentals of Environmental Planning." Research Assistant, Department of Environmental Resources, Rutgers University, 1980-1981. Adjunct Instructor, Department of Social Sciences, Rockland Community College, Suffern, New York. Fall 1980. Taught Geography 230 "Introduction to Urban Geography." AWARDS LAST THREE YEARS Appointed Distinguished Lecturer, Summer, University of Shanghai, China, Summer 2012 Appointed to the 2011 Chancellor Dunning Trust Lectureship, Queens University, Kingston Ontario 2011-2012. Appointed the Endowed Sage Professor of Urban Civility, University of Glasgow, Scotland, 2009. AUTHORED BOOKS AND EDITED JOURNAL VOLUMES Wilson, D., Miriftab, F., and K. Salo, 2014. Urban Inequalities Across the Globe (London: Routledge), forthcoming. Wilson, D., 2012. Invited Guest Editor, “Racialization and the U.S. City,” Urban 3 Geography, 33, Spring. Wilson, D., 2009. Invited Guest Editor, “Racialized Poverty in U.S. Cities,” Professional Geographer, 61, Spring. Wilson, D., 2007. Cities and Race: the New American Black Ghetto (London: Routledge). Wilson, D., 2005. Inventing Black-On-Black Violence: Discourse, Space Representation (Syracuse: Syracuse University). Wilson, D., and H. Bauder, 2001. Invited Guest Editor of special issue, Tidschrift Vor Economisch En Sociale Geografie, “Discourse and the Making of Marginalized People.” Jonas, A. and D. Wilson, 1999. Two Decades Later: Critical Perspectives On The Growth Machine Thesis (Albany: SUNY) Edited collection. Wilson, D., 1997. "Globalization and the Changing United States City." Invited Guest Editor for The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Volume 51, May, 257 pgs. Wilson, D. and Huff, J., 1994. Marginalized Places and Popula- tions: A Structurationist Agenda (Westport: Praeger) edited collection. Jakle, J. and D. Wilson, 1992. Derelict Landscapes: the Wasting of America's Built Environment (Lanham, Md: Rowman and Little- field). REFEREED ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS Wilson, David, 2013, forthcoming. “The Legacy of Logical Positivism in Critical Urban Studies: The Agenda,” Urban Geography. Wilson, David and Matthew Anderson, 2013, forthcoming. “America’s New Post Post-Industrial Economy.” In Lisa Benton-Short (ed.) Cities North America (Totowa: Rowman & Littlefield). 4 Wilson, D., 2013, forthcoming. “The Global Trope Gets Troped,” Geographica Helvetica. Wilson, David, 2012, ”Updating the Global-Local Concept: A Review of Peck and Tickell, Area, 34, 71-83. Wilson, David, Cope, William, and Michael A. Peters, 2012. “The Parable of the Physicist and the Postmodernists,” Policy Futures in Education, 10, 2, 229-233. Wilson, David, 2012, “Gentrification Across the Globe: Seven Speculations,” China Ancient City, 8, 32-45. Wilson, David, 2012, “Changing Realities: the New Racialized Redevelopment Rhetoric in Chicago,” Urban Geography, 33, 7, 979-999. Wilson, David, 2012. “Introduction: Racialization and the U.S. City,” Urban Geography, 33, 7, 940-941. Wilson, David, 2012. “Racialized Spaces, Blues Clubs, and Human Mediation.” In Francis Winddance Twine and Bradley Gardner (eds.) Geographies of Privilege (London: Routledge) 71-95. Wilson, David and Matthew Anderson, 2011. “Obama’s Discourse on Poverty.” In Marcus Corsse and Tia Dafnos (eds.) Discourses of Marginality: Marginalizing Discourses (Boston: Red Quall). Wilson, David, 2010. “Performative Neoliberal-Parasitic Economies and the Making of Political Realities: the Chicago Case,” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, in press. Bauder, Harald, Wilson, David, et. al., 2010. “Contemporary Grant Dynamics: An Intervention, Acme: International Journal for Critical Geography, 9. 1, 102-112. Wilson, D., 2009. “The Contemporary Ghetto.” In Barney Warf (ed.) Encyclopedia of Geography (Newbury Park: Sage), forthcoming. Keil, R. and D. Wilson, 2009. “Mr. O. Goes To Town: the First Urban 5 American President? Canada Watch, October, 9-23. Wilson, D., 2009. Racialized Poverty in United States Cities: Toward A Refined Racial Economy Perspective, Professional Geographer, 61, 2, 139- 150. Special Issue: Racialized Poverty in U.S. Cities. Wilson, D., Beck, D., and A. Bailey, 2009. “Neoliberal-Parasitic Economies and Space Building: Chicago’s Southwest Side,” Annals of The Association of American Geographers, 99, 2, 301-324. Wilson, D., 2009. “Globalization, the Global Trope, and Poor Black Communities: The American Experience,” Global E-Journal, 2, May, 22-26. Wilson, D., 2009. “The Urban Underclass.” In Barney Warf (ed.) Encyclopedia of Geography (Newbury Park: Sage), 99-102. Wilson, D., 2008. “America’s New Black Ghetto.” In The Social Issues Collection (London: Routledge) David S. Smith (ed.). Wilson, D. and R. Keil, 2008. “The Real Creative Class: True Realities, Real Times,” Social and Cultural Geography, 8, 841- 849. Wilson, D., 2008. “City Transformation and the Global Trope: Indianapolis and Cleveland.” In Cultures of Globalization: Coherence, Hybridity, Contestation (London: Routledge) 29-44. Wilson, D., 2008. “Neoliberal Redevelopment in Western Cities: Neglected Underpinnings,” Urban Geography, 29, 193-196. Wilson, D., 2008. “Text: Textual Analysis.” International Encyclopedia of Human Geography (Oxford: Elsevier) Rob Kitchen And Nigel Thrift (eds.), forthcoming. Wilson, D., 2007. “A Flawed Reading: Notes On Inventing Black-On- Black Violence,” Social and Cultural Geography, 7, 802-808. Wilson, D., 2007. “The New Segregation in U.S. and U.K. Cities.” In 6 J.R. Short, P. Hubbard, and T. Hall (eds.) The Compendium of Urban Studies (Newbury Park: Sage). Wilson, D., 2007. “The Life of David Harvey.” In R. Beauregard (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Urban Studies (Newbury Park: Sage). Wilson, D., 2007. “The Global Trope: Rust Belt Cities in America,” Globalizations, 5, 28-49. Wilson, D., 2006. “Fractures and Cleavages: The Growing Polarization in Chicago.” In R. Greene, M. Baumann, and D. Grammenos (eds.) Geography’s Chicago Understanding the Chicago Region (Washington D.C: Association of American Geographers). Rhoads, B. and D. Wilson, 2006. “Observation of Our World.” In J.P. Jones and Basel Gomez (eds.) Interrogating Contemporary Research Methods (Oxford: Blackwell) 26-41. Wilson, D., 2005. “The Counter-Narrative Begins: Confronting Capital And the Ideas of James DeFilippis,” Urban Geography, 27, 3, 111-114. Wilson, D. and D. Grammenos, 2005. “Gentrification, Political Struggle, And the Body: Chicago’s Humboldt Park,” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 23, 1, 295-312. Wilson, D., 2004. “Making Historic Preservation in Chicago: Space, Discourse, and Neoliberalism,” Space and Polity, 8, 1, 43-59. Wilson, D., 2004. “Toward A Contingent Urban Neoliberalism,” Urban Geography, 25, 8, 771-783. Special Issue: New Developments in Anglo Urban Geography. Wilson, D., Grammenos, D. and J. Wouters, 2004. “Neighborhood Restructuring and Political Conflict: Chicago’s Pilsen Neighbor- Hood,” Environment and Planning A, 36, 2, 114-131. Special Issue: New Trends in Gentrification Research. Wilson, D. and T. Mueller, 2004. “Growth Coalitions, Language, and Metaphorical Deployment in St. Louis,” Professional Geographer, 56, 2, 282-294. 7 Wilson, D. Gregory, K. And M. Creekmore, 2003. “Identity Constituting and Everyday Practices in Rural, Illinois,” Great Lakes Geographer, 24, 71-89. Wilson, D. and J. Wouters, 2003. ”Spatiality and Growth Discourse: The Restructuring Of America’s Rust Belt