Jamie Peck, FRSC, FBA, FAcSS, FeRSA, is University Killam Professor, Distinguished University Scholar and Professor of Geography at University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, Canada. Previously, he was Professor of Geography & Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Professor of Geography at University of Manchester. Peck has held visiting positions at Amsterdam, the National University of Singapore, Nottingham, Oxford, Queen’s University Belfast, UCLA, and Witwatersrand.

With long-term research interests in economic geography, urban and regional studies, and institutional political economy, Jamie Peck’s monographs include Variegated Economies (Oxford, 2023), Offshore (Oxford, 2017), and Fast Policy (Minnesota, 2015, with Nik Theodore), Constructions of Neoliberal Reason (Oxford, 2010), Workfare States (Guilford, 2001), and Work-place (Guilford, 1996), together with more than a dozen edited collections. Previously the recipient of Guggenheim and Harkness fellowships, Peck has been recognized with the Prix Vautrin-Lud, the American Association of Geographers’ Distinguished Scholarship Award, the Regional Studies Association’s Sir Peter Hall Award, and the Royal Geographical Society’s Back Award. A longtime editor of EPA: Economy & Space, he is the founder of the Summer Institute in Economic Geography.

At SCAS, Jamie Peck will be working on a distinctive approach to methodological practice and explanatory intervention known as conjunctural analysis, focusing on two issues: first, the development of a critical geography of economic ideas; and second, conjunctural approaches to comparison, space, and geographical scale.

This information is accurate as of the academic year 2026-27.