Dr. Jamaal Wright
Assistant Professor
he/him/his
Focus Areas
Research Statement
Dr. Wright’s research interests include the study of race and place in urban America.
Recent Funded Projects
Jackson People’s School (Antipode Foundation, 2020)
Recent Publications
Willie Jamaal Wright (2020) The Morphology of Marronage, Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 110:4, 1134-1149
Adam Bledsoe, Tyler McCreary, Willie Wright (2019) Theorizing diverse economies in the context of racial capitalism, Geoforum
Educational Background
- PhD in Geography, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2012