Neil Brenner
Neil Brenner | |
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Brenner lecturing at Columbia GSAPP, 2015 | |
| Born | 1969 (age 56–57) |
| Occupations | Sociologist, Urban theorist, Geographer, Critical theorist |
| Known for | State/space theory |
| Title | Lucy Flower Professor of Urban Sociology at the University of Chicago |
| Academic background | |
| Education | |
| Thesis | Global Cities, Glocal States: State Re-scaling and the Remaking of Urban Governance in the European Union (1999) |
| Doctoral advisor | William H. Sewell Jr. |
| Influences | Henri Lefebvre, David Harvey, Edward Soja |
| Academic work | |
| School or tradition | Marxist geography; Critical geography |
| Institutions | New York University (1999–2011) Harvard Graduate School of Design (2011–2020) University of Chicago (2020–present) |
| Doctoral students | Dorit Geva |
Neil Brenner (born 1969) is an American urban theorist currently serving as Lucy Flower Professor of Urban Sociology at the University of Chicago. He previously was professor of urban theory at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and professor of sociology at New York University. He has also held visiting appointments at the National University of Singapore, University of Amsterdam, Bard College, Maynooth University, University of Bristol, and University of Urbino. He is a member of the American Sociological Association and the Association of American Geographers.
He serves on the advisory and editorial board of 14 academic journals and has edited or authored more than 10 award-winning books. Brenner's works have been translated into Chinese, Croatian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, and Turkish.