Dashiell Anderson

Profile

My background is interdisciplinary, including previous coursework and training in economics, geography, English literature, sociology, and law. I double majored in economics and English literature in the U.S. at the University of Utah. I then moved to New York City where I completed a masters in economics at the New School for Social Research. I moved to Italy to do a second masters in Comparative Law, Economics, and Finance. After this I came to Leeds to start my PhD in economics at the Leeds University Business School. I am currently in the third year of my PhD.

Research interests

My research centers around the political economy of rural labour and rural labour markets in the U.S. and other high capital accumulation countries. I critically engage with the historical and geographical transformation of rural labour and its various contradictions associated with capital accumulation. My focus is on bringing nuance to the economic, political, and social roles that rural labour plays in the global political economy, and to transform this knowledge into an interdicsiplinary and geographically conscious reconceptualization of labour market theory that considers the unique economic, social, and political formation of rural labour markets. 

<h4>Research projects</h4> <p>Some research projects I'm currently working on, or have worked on, will be listed below. Our list of all <a href="https://environment.leeds.ac.uk/dir/research-projects">research projects</a> allows you to view and search the full list of projects in the faculty.</p>

Qualifications

• PhD, Economics, University of Leeds
• L.L.M., Comparative Law, Economics, and Finance, International University of Turin
• M.A., Economics, New School for Social Research
• B.S., Economics, University of Utah
• Honors B.A., English, University of Utah

Student education

I teach concepts related to theories of urbanization as it is involved with the global political economy of capitalist development. This includes the ways in which urban workers resist everyday urban life in different global contexts, as well as the global political forces at play that create and facilitate different forms of worker resistance and consciousness.