Eric Sheppard
267 19th Ave S
Minneapolis,
MN
55455
I was born in England, growing up in East Anglia, and have been interested in geography for as long as I remember. I took Geography classes 3-5 hours a week from the age of 7 to 16, subsequently specializing in geography, physics and chemistry before enrolling at Bristol University as an undergraduate major in geography. I intended to study geomorphology, but was converted to a human geographer by the brilliant lectures of Peter Haggett. I went to Toronto for just a year (I thought) to get a Masters degree, staying for a Ph.D. I have been in North America ever since, coming to Minnesota in 1976. As a geographer, I have traveled to most regions of the world, including visiting professorships in Britain, Austria, Indonesia and Australia.
Educational Background
- Ph.D.: Geography, University of Toronto, 1976 - none
- M.A.: Geography, University of Toronto, 1974 - none
Specialties
- Livelihood struggles in the third world
- Trade and uneven geographies of globalization
- geographic information, technologies and society
- environmental justice in the Twin Cities
- geography of economic development
- The spatial dynamics of capitalism
- Urbanization and the global South
- neoliberalism and its contestations