{"id":3311,"date":"2019-01-14T15:33:51","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T20:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/?post_type=cu_people&p=3311"},"modified":"2025-04-29T11:13:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T15:13:49","slug":"assistant-professor-geography-and-environmental-studies","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/people\/assistant-professor-geography-and-environmental-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"David Hugill"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Biography<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m a broadly trained human geographer with research interests in urban geography, colonial urbanisms, and urban political ecology. If there is a single theoretical commitment that unites my research, it is an interest in understanding how and why certain inequitable social relations persist in North American cities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In broad terms, my work on colonial urbanisms seeks to understand and theorize the enduring persistence of a politics of colonial inequity in North American cities. My Ph.D. research, for example, drew on extensive field and archival research in Minnesota to demonstrate how the emergence of a zone of concentrated racialized poverty in post-war Minneapolis was explicitly connected to a longstanding politics of social, economic, and territorial inequity that has disproportionately advantaged the interests of \u201csettler\u201d Minnesotans, over and above those of their Indigenous counterparts. In recent years, my research on these questions has appeared in a number of scholarly journals, including Settler Colonial Studies<\/em>, Human Geograph<\/em>y, the Middle West Review, and Geography Compass<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a different realm, I\u2019m also interested in a series of ecological, political, and economic questions associated with the rise of the corporate \u201csharing economy.\u201d My postdoctoral work drew on ethnographic methods to demonstrate how what is often described as \u201cprogressive\u201d digital innovation for consumers and communities, often has deleterious effects on the lives of urban workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before joining Carleton in 2018, I spent time in a number of great research environments, including York University (as a PhD student from 2009-2015), the University of Minnesota (as a visiting scholar in 2011-2012), the University of Winnipeg (as a Research Associate in 2015) and Simon Fraser University (as a post-doc from 2015 to 2017).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Courses Taught<\/h4>\n\n\n\n