Dr. Roger Keil

Professor, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University and past Director of CITY

Roger Keil is Professor at the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University in Toronto. A former director of York University’s City Institute, he researches global suburbanization, cities and infectious disease, and regional governance. As Principal Investigator of a Major Collaborative Research Initiative on “Global Suburbanisms: Governance, Land and Infrastructure in the 21^st Century” (2010-2017) he works with 50 researchers and 18 partner organizations worldwide. A recipient of the President’s Research Excellence Award in 2013, he is the editor of Suburban Constellations (Jovis 2013), the forthcoming Suburban Governance: A Global View (with Pierre Hamel, UTP) and the author of Global Suburbs (Polity – in preparation); A co-editor (with Neil Brenner) of the first edition of the Global Cities Reader, he has recently published In-between  Infrastructure (ed. with Douglas Young and Patricia Burke Wood, Praxis(e) Press, 2011); Changing Toronto: Governing the Neoliberal City (with Julie-Anne Boudreau and Douglas Young; UTP 2009); Networked Disease: Emerging Infections and the Global City. (ed. with S.Harris Ali; Wiley-Blackwell, 2008); Leviathan Undone? The Political Economy of Scale. (ed. with Rianne Mahon, UBC Press 2009).

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