Research

I am interested in a variety of topics pertaining to economic geography, cultural geography, and political economy. My PhD thesis focuses on constructing a theory of rural wage determination and persistent rural-urban wage differentials in high capital accumulation countries, with particular attention given to the US and the UK. By critically engaging with relevant academic literature in economics, geography, sociology, political science, and cultural theory, I develop a theory for the persistence of rural-urban divides tied to the historical-geographical tendencies of capitalist development. 

After my PhD I intend to continue developing a rigorous theoretical framework that can be used to conceptualize the dynamic role of rural labour at different levels of capital accumulation. My goal is ultimately to develop a manuscript that challenges conventional thinking about rural labour and rurality more generally, and which offers a constructive understanding of the persistence of rural labour exploitation within different levels of capitalist development. I also intend to explore the persistence of rural-urban divides through a historical account of capitalist urbanization and the fragmentary tendencies of capital accumulation.

You can find my University of Leeds research profile page here