# Eric Sheppard
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* [Bristol University](/source/Bristol_University) ([BS](/source/Bachelor_of_Science))
* [University of Toronto](/source/University_of_Toronto) {{Small|([MA](/source/Master_of_Arts), [PhD](/source/Doctor_of_Philosophy))}}
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'''Eric Sheppard''' (born 1 October 1950) is a British and American geographer, currently Distinguished Research Professor of [Economic geography](/source/Economic_geography) at [UCLA](/source/UCLA).[{{Cite web|title=Eric Sheppard|url=https://geog.ucla.edu/person/eric-sheppard/|access-date=2021-03-11|website=UCLA|date=10 September 2019 |language=en}}]
==Background==
Sheppard grew up in Cambridge, England, the son of Norman Sheppard and Kay McClean/Sheppard. He studied geography at the [University of Bristol](/source/University_of_Bristol) under Andy Cliff and [Peter Haggett](/source/Peter_Haggett), graduating in 1972. He moved to the [University of Toronto](/source/University_of_Toronto), where he completed his MA in 1974 and [Ph.D.](/source/Ph.D.) in [geography](/source/geography) in 1976, advised by Leslie Curry, Ross MacKinnon and Allen Scott. He taught at the [University of Minnesota](/source/University_of_Minnesota) from 1976 to 2012, where he was appointed Regents Professor, before being appointed to the Alexander von Humboldt Chair of Geography at [UCLA](/source/UCLA), 2012-2022. He served as president of the [Association of American Geographers](/source/Association_of_American_Geographers) (2012-2013).
==Contributions==
Sheppard has made contributions to geographical political economy, uneven geographies of globalization, spatial capitalist economic dynamics, urban sustainability and [environmental justice](/source/environmental_justice), and the use of critical geographic information technologies. He is identified with a group of radical economic geographers including [Trevor J. Barnes](/source/Trevor_J._Barnes) and [Jamie Peck](/source/Jamie_Peck), who are critical of the tendency of the modern capitalist economy to create great differences in wealth and poverty, and to create environmental problems and injustices.
==Awards==
*Distinguished Scholarship Honors, Association of American Geographers (1999)
*[Ellen Churchill Semple](/source/Ellen_Churchill_Semple) award, [Department of Geography, University of Kentucky](/source/Department_of_Geography%2C_University_of_Kentucky), 2000[[http://geography.as.uky.edu/semple-day Ellen Churchill Semple Day] (accessed 30 June 2015)]
*Fellow, Center for Advanced Studies in the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University (2005-6)
*Regents Professor, University of Minnesota (2008–12)
==Publications==
*''Urban Studies Inside-out'' (co-edited with H. Leitner and J. Peck). London: Sage, 2020.
*''Spatial Histories of Radical Geography: North America and Beyond'' (co-edited with T. Barnes). Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2019.
*''Limits to Globalization: Geographical disruptions of capitalist development''. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016, 212 pp. AAG Meridian Book Prize, 2017
*''The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Economic Geography'' (co-edited with T. Barnes and J. Peck). London: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
*''A World of Difference: Encountering and contesting development'' (second, fully revised and expanded edition with P. W. Porter, R. Nagar and D. Faust). New York: Guilford Press, 2009, 664 pp.
*''A Companion to Economic Geography'' (co-edited with T. Barnes). Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 2000, 2003. 590 pp. (translated into Chinese, published by the Commercial Press of China, 2008)
*''Reading Economic Geography'' (co--edited with T. Barnes, J. Peck and A. Tickell). Oxford: Blackwell, 2004, 432 pp. (translated into Chinese, published by the Commercial Press of China, 2007)
*''Contesting Neoliberalism: Urban Frontiers'' (co-edited with H. Leitner and J. Peck). New York: Guilford Press, 2007, 340 pp.
*''Politics and Practice in Economic Geography'' (co-edited with T. Barnes, J. Peck and A. Tickell). Beverly Hills: Sage Publishers, 2007, 320 pp.
*''Scale and Geographic Inquiry'' (co-edited with R. B. McMaster). Oxford: Blackwell, 2004, 272 pp.
*''A World of Difference: Society, Nature, Development'' (with P. W. Porter). New York: Guilford Press, 1998, 614 pp.
*''Rediscovering Geography: New relevance for the new century'' (with T. Wilbanks and 14 others). Washington DC: National Research Council, 1996. 233 pp.
*''The Capitalist Space Economy: Geographical Analysis after Ricardo Marx and Sraffa'' (with T. J. Barnes). London: Unwin and Hyman, 1990. 328 pp.
*''Geography or economics? Conceptions of space, time, interdependence, and agency.'''' In: [Gordon L. Clark](/source/Gordon_L._Clark), Maryann P. Feldman and [Meric S. Gertler](/source/Meric_S._Gertler) (editors). ''The Oxford handbook of economic geography.'' Oxford (England): [Oxford University Press](/source/Oxford_University_Press), 2000. {{ISBN|0-19-823410-4}}
==References==
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*[http://www.geog.umn.edu/people/sheppard/index.html Eric Sheppard at the Department of Geography, University of Minnesota.]
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