CEWS Profile: David Harvey

David Harvey received his Ph.D. in Geography from Cambridge University and has held positions at Oxford University and the Johns Hopkins University. He is now a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the City University of New York. Professor Harvey’s work is almost impossible to characterize as it is so intellectually wide-ranging and eclectic. His research interests encompass geography, Marxism and social theory, urban planning and architecture, social justice, and utopianism. His many published works include The Limits to Capital, The Condition of Postmodernity, Paris: Capital of Modernity and Cosmopolitanism and the Geographies of Freedom (the Wellek Lectures) scheduled for publication by Columbia University Press in 2006. In addition to several honorary degrees, he received the Patron’s Medal of the Royal Geographical Society (London) for contributions to critical human geography and the Vautrin Lud International Prize in Geography, 1995.