Nathan Stewart, Human Geography PhD Student

Home Campus:
U of T St. George
PhD:
Economic Geography
Other Degrees:
B.A International Development - University of Guelph
MScPl Urban Planning - University of Toronto
Cross Appointments:
The Global Production Networks Research Lab (Hosted in the Richard Charles Lee Asian Pathways Research Lab)
Honours & Awards:
Edward Sorbara-Building Industry and Land Development Association (BILD) Ontario Graduate Scholarship in Planning
Royal Bank Fellowship in Public and Economic Policy
Joseph Armand Bombardier Canadian Graduate Scholarship
Supervisor(s):
Richard DiFrancesco
John Miron
Contact Information:
Email: Nathan.stewart@mail.utoronto.ca
Research Interests:
- Technological change and industrial organization
- Adapting process tracing methods for human geography
- Globalization and regional development in the knowledge economy
- Global production networks, governance, and dependency theory
- New economic geography and evolutionary economic geography
- State theory
Teaching This Academic Year:
Course Instructor (2020)
- The Economy of Cities
Teaching Assistant (2017-2020):
- Urban Dynamics
- Advanced Geographic Information Systems
- Canadian Cities and Planning
- Real Estate and the City
- The Economy of Cities
- Regional Dynamics
- Planning Decision Methods II: Quantitative Methods
- Math Help Centre (Dept. of Geography and Planning)
- Planning and Governing the Metropolis
- Urban Landscapes and Planning
- Environment, Society, and Resources
Selected Publications:
Stewart, N. & Kearns, M. (2016). Security and planning. The Ontario Planning Journal.
Stewart, N. (2014). Geographies of displacement: Zones of exclusion and the neo-liberal degradation of urban competitiveness”. The Undercurrent 10(3):6-10.