Eliot Tretter, PhD

PhD in Geography Whiting School of Engineering Johns Hopkins University, USA

Eliot Tretter

Areas of Research

Critical Approaches to Contemporary Urbanization
My research has focused a broad range of topics in contemporary urbanization that include but are not limited to: sustainability, environmental justice, racial segregation, urban governance, the economics of culture, and the role of universities in urban development. I have regional specialties in both Northern Europe and the Southern United States. I am currently working on a research project that investigates the production of geospatial knowledge for the development of unconventional hydrocarbons.

Supervising degrees

Geography - Doctoral: Seeking Students
Geography - Masters: Seeking Students
Geography - Masters: Seeking Students

Working with this supervisor

I am seeking candidates that are interesting in critical approaches to contemporary urbanization. This includes, but is not limited, to approaches such as planetary urbanization, feminism, racism, urban political ecology, heterodoxical approaches to urban and regional development, and urban political economy.

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