Faculty Fellow, Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change
Senior Fellow
Roger Keil is Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus at the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University in Toronto and a Fellow of CIFAR’s Humanity’s Urban Future program. He researches global suburbanization, urban political ecology, cities and infectious disease, infrastructure, and regional governance. He is the author of Pandemic Urbanism (Polity, 2023, with S. Harris Ali & Creighton Connolly) and Suburban Planet (Polity, 2018). He has recently edited two volumes on Peripheral Centralities (with Nick Phelps and Paul Maginn, 2025) and previously The Globalizing Cities Reader (Routledge, 2017, with Xuefei Ren), After Suburbia (UTP, 2022 with Fulong Wu) and Turning Up the Heat: Urban political ecology for a climate emergency (MUP, 2023, with Maria Kaika, Tait Mandler & Yannis Tzaninis, 2023).
Research keywords:
Sub/urbanization; infectious disease; urban political ecology
Themes | Planetary Health |
Status | Active |
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