Jamie Peck

Professor of Geography

Professor of Sociology

Affiliate Faculty, Department of Urban and Regional Planning

Affiliate Faculty, Institute for Research on Poverty

Special Professor, School of Geography, University of Nottingham

Honorary Professorial Fellow, School of Environment and Development, University of Manchester

Senior Research Associate, Center for Urban and Economic Development, University of Illinois at Chicago

Steering Committee Member, Havens Center for the Study of Social Structure and Social Change, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Professional Background

PhD, University of Manchester, 1988

Editorial Boards

Joint Editor, Environment and Planning A

Editorial Advisory Board member, Annals of the Association of American Geographers
Editorial Advisory Board member, Economic Geography
Editorial Advisory Board member, Regional Studies
Editorial Advisory Board member, Applied Geography

Research Areas

Political Economy
Labor Geography
Politics of Economic Development
Urban and Regional Development
Employment/Welfare Policy
Theories of Economic Regulation and Governance

Current Activities

Co-convenor, Summer Institute in Economic Geography
AAG Economic Geography Specialty Group, Chair

Awards and Honors

Guggenheim Fellow, 2006-2007

Environment and Planning A Anniversary Award for “The Social Regulation of Uneven Development: ‘Regulatory deficit,’ England’s South East and the collapse of Thatcherism,” with A. Tickell, 1996

Choice outstanding academic book: "Work-Place: the social regulation of labor markets", 1996

Back Award, Royal Geographical Society, for contributions to new economic geography, 1998

Work in Progress

Forthcoming. "Labor-market Lockdown." with Nik Theodore.

Forthcoming. "Neoliberal Urbanism." with Neil Brenner and Nik Theodore.

Forthcoming. "Comparing capitalisms: theorizing the persistence of institutional variation."

Forthcoming. "The cult of urban creativity."

2007 AAG paper. "Remaking laissez-faire."

Selected Publications

Read complete publications list H. Leitner, J. Peck and E. Sheppard (eds). 2007. Contesting neoliberalism: urban frontiers. A. Tickell, E. Sheppard, J. Peck and T. J. Barnes (eds). 2007. Politics and practice in economic geography. J. Peck. 2005. "Struggling with the creative class." International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. J. Peck. 2005. "Economic sociologies in space." Economic Geography. J. Peck, N. Theodore, K. Ward. 2005. "Constructing markets for temporary labour: employment liberalisation and internationalisation of the staffing industry." Global Networks. J. Peck. 2004. "Geography and public policy: constructions of neoliberalism." Progress in Human Geography.
J. Peck. 2003. "Fuzzy old world: a response to Markusen." Regional Studies. J. Peck. 2003. "Geography and public policy: mapping the penal state." Progress in Human Geography. T. J. Barnes, J. Peck, E. Sheppard, A. Tickell (eds). 2003. Reading Economic Geography. J. Peck and H. W-c Yeung (eds). 2003. Remaking the Global Economy: Economic-geographical perspectives.
J. Peck. 2002. "Political Economies of Scale: Fast policy, interscalar relations, and neoliberal workfare." Economic Geography. J. Peck and A. Tickell. 2002. "Neoliberalizing Space." Antipode. J. Peck. 2002. "Labor, Zapped/Growth, Restored? Three moments of neoliberal restructuring in the American labor market." Journal of Economic Geography. J. Peck. 2001. Workfare States, with a foreword by F. F. Piven and R. A. Cloward.
J. Peck and N. Theodore. 2001. "Contingent Chicago: Restructuring the spaces of temporary labor." International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. J. Peck. 1996. Work-place: The Social Regulation of Labor Markets.

Courses Taught

Geog 312 Regional Development and Planning
Geog 503 Researching the City: Qualitative Research in Geography
Geog 901 Horizons in Human Geography (Worldwide Universities Network seminar)
Geog 910 Seminar in Economic Geography

Current Graduate Students

PhD students

Mark Adams (Geography, UW-Madison, 2002-2006)
Mike Fleenor (Geography, UW-Madison, 2001- )
Ryan Galt (Geography, UW-Madison, 2003-2006)
Max Grinnell (Geography, UW-Madison, 2003- )
Claudia Hanson Thiem (Geography, UW-Madison, 2002- )
Mark Harvey (Rural Sociology, UW-Madison, 2002-2005)
Erin Hatton (Sociology, UW-Madison, 2004- )
Ching-Hsien Huang (Sociology, UW-Madison, 2002)
Gordon Jackson (Journalism and Mass Communications, UW-Madison, 2003-2006)
Brent Kaup (Sociology, UW-Madison, 2006- )
Bridget Kenny (Anthropology, UW-Madison, 2002-2004)
Greta Krippner (Sociology, UW-Madison, 2003)
Anne Kuriakose (Development Studies, UW-Madison, 2002- )
Nina Martin (Urban Planning, University of Illinois at Chicago , 2004- )
Vicky Mayer (Sociology, UW-Madison, 2004- )
Jesse Norris (Sociology, UW-Madison, 2004- )
Devah Pager (Sociology, UW-Madison, 2003)
Brenda Parker (Geography, UW-Madison, 2002- )
Sandra Pinel (Urban and Regional Planning, UW-Madison, 2004- )
Morgan Robertson (Geography, UW-Madison, 2001-2004)
Chris Rosin (Geography, UW-Madison, 2001-2004)
Landy Sanchez (Sociology, UW-Madison, 2005- )
Josh Whitford (Sociology, UW-Madison, 2003)

Masters students

Chris Muellerleile (Geography, UW-Madison, 2005- )
Artie Goulden (Geography, UW-Madison), 2004-2005)
Maureen McLaughlin (Geography, UW-Madison, 2002-2003)
Amy Quark (Rural Sociology, UW-Madison, 2004-2005)
Matthew Steigman (Geography, UW-Madison, 2003- )
Lea Turpin (Geography, UW-Madison, 2003-2005)
Daniel Warshawsky, (Geography, UW-Madison, 2004-2006)

Contact Information:

University of Wisconsin
Department of Geography
243 Science Hall
550 North Park Street
Madison, WI 53706-1404
Phone (608) 262-1453
Fax (608) 265-3991
japeck@wisc.edu