Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION

PhD (Joint) 

Geography

(Sept. 2015-Dec. 2021)

Department of Geography, University of British Columbia and School of Geography, The University of Nottingham 

Concentrations: Geographies of money and finance, urban studies, and diverse/alternative economic geographies 

Thesis: Crowd Cash and the City: the making of the ‘crowd’ as a financial actor and the reimagining of urban development futures

Advisors: Trevor Barnes, Sarah Hall, Andrew Leyshon, and Elvin Wyly

M.A. 

Geography

Sept. 2013-Oct. 2015

Department of Geography, University of British Columbia (Vancouver) 

Thesis: Securitizing Spectacle: real estate investment trusts, property, and the financialization of urban retail space in Singapore

Advisors: Trevor Barnes and Elvin Wyly

B.A. 

Geography, Highest Honors and Highest  Distinction 

Aug. 2009-May 2013

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Major: UNC-NUS Joint Degree Program, economic geography; Minor: Social and Economic Justice

Thesis: Financializing Singapore: the (city-)state and the production of a variegated financial capitalism

Advisors: John Pickels and Elizabeth Havice

RESEARCH INTERESTS 

• Economic geography

• Geographies of money and finance/financialization

• Global cities, globalization and governance

• Knowledge production 

• Urban redevelopment/urban policy

• East and Southeast Asia

• Real-estate/financial complex

• Crowds/collectivities  

• Digital economies/technology and platform governance

• Diverse economies/economic thinking 

• International partnerships/philanthropy 

• Inequality 

• Social and economic justice 

AWARDS AND GRANTS

• Vice-Chancellor's Scholarship for Research Excellence, The University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.

• School of Geography Scholarship, The University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.

• Four Year Fellowship, Faculty of Graduate and Post-doctoral Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver ($103,600), Fall 2015-Summer 2019.

• Robert S. Wyly Scholarship in Urban Studies, Urban Studies Program, University of British Columbia, Vancouver ($2000), Fall 2014.

• Urban Studies Travel Grant, Urban Studies Program, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, ($2000), Summer 2014.

• Faculty of Arts Graduate Award, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, ($22,000), Fall 2013-August 2015.

• Lee Kuan Yew Gold Medal, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore, Spring 2013. (Only non-Singaporean to have been awarded this prize.)

• National University of Singapore Geographical Society Gold Medal, Department of Geography, National University of Singapore, Spring 2013.

• Dean’s Scholar Award, National University of Singapore ($500), Spring 2013.

• Andrew McNally Award for Excellence in Geography, Chancellor’s Office, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Spring 2013.

• Melinda Meade Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research, Department of Geography, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Spring 2013.

• Best Paper Award, World Youth Leadership Forum on Inequality, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shaw College, ($400), Summer 2012.

• Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shaw College, Travel Grant, ($1200), Summer 2012.

• Summer Research Grant, Department of Geography, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ($600), Summer 2012.

•  Asia Honors Thesis Research Grant, Carolina Asia Center, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, ($250), Summer 2012.

• Herring Fellow, Study Abroad Award, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ($2000), Spring 2011.

• Honorable Mention, Parker-Dooley Award, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ($250), Fall 2010.

• Dean’s List, National University of Singapore, All Semesters.

• Dean’s List, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, All semesters.

• Outstanding Project, Chart(er)ing A New Course in Public Education, Connected Learning Program, Johnston Center forUndergraduate Excellence, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Spring 2010.

• Honors Program, The University of North Carolina, Spring 2010-2013

PUBLICATIONS (Journal Articles, Book Chapters, and Reviews) 

1. Daniels, J., Hilt, M., and E. Wyly. (2021) The evolution of splintering urbanism in planetary informational ecosystems. In V. Fast., D. Mackinnon, and R. Burns (Eds.) Digital (In)Justice in the Smart City. University of Toronto Press. 

2. Daniels, J., Omstedt, M., and Anguelov, D. (2019) Rescaling the urban: on Neil Brenner’s New State Spaces. In H. Leitner, J. Peck, and E, Sheppard (Eds.) Urban Studies Inside/Out. Sage. New York.

3. Card, K., Daniels, J. , and Comandon, A.(2019) Grounding the housing question in land: on Anne Haila’s Urban Land Rent. In H. Leitner, J. Peck, and E, Sheppard (Eds.) Urban Studies Inside/Out. Sage. New York. 

4. Comandon, A., Card, K., and Daniels, J. (2019) Urban comparison, quantified: on Michael Storper, Thomas Kemeny, Naji Makarem and Taner Osman's The Rise and Fall of Urban Economies. In H. Leitner, J. Peck, and E, Sheppard (Eds.) Urban Studies Inside/Out. Sage. New York.  

5.  Daniels, J. (2019) Keyword: (Urban) Financialization. In H. Leitner, J. Peck, and E, Sheppard (Eds.) Urban Studies Inside/Out. Sage. New York.  

6.  Wyly, E., Daniels, J., Dhanani, T. and C. Yeung. (2018) Hayak in the cloud: conservative cognition and the evolution of the smart city. City 22 (506) 820-842. 

7.  Daniels, J. (2017) Urban Land Rent: Singapore as a property state, by Anne Haila. Reviewed In: Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 38(1) 148-150. 

8.  Lai, K. and J. Daniels. (2017) Financialization of Singaporean banks and the production of variegated financial capitalism. In B. Christophers, A. Leyshon and G. Mann (Eds.) Money and Finance After the Crisis: Critical Thinking for Uncertain Times, Antipode Book Series, Wiley-Blackwell. 

CONFERENCE AND WORKING PAPERS 

1. Daniels, J. (2018) Crowds, markets, and collectivity: managing monstrous masses as an emergent political economy: Invited Lecture for the Economy and Space Research Group, University of Nottingham. 14 Nov.  

2. Daniels, J. (2018) Crowd cash and the city: the marketization of ‘the crowd’ and the emergence of ‘crowdfunded urbanism’. University of Nottingham Research Symposium Nov. 2018

3. Daniels, J. and M. Olmstedt (2018) Rethinking Value in Financial Times Conference. Conference organization at the New Orleans AAG including one paper session and one panel discussion. 

4. Daniels, J. (2018) Crowd(fund)ed cities: urbanism without experts and its contradictions: Paper presented at the 2018 AAG Annual Meeting, New Orleans, 10 April. 

5. Lai, K. and J. Daniels (2015) Banking on Finance in Singapore: The state-led financialization of banking firms. GPN@NUS Working Paper Series. GPN2015-002. http://gpn.nus.edu.sg/file/Karen%20Lai_GPN2015_002.pdf

6. Daniels, J. (2015). What’s the Capital of North Dakota? The Ramblings of an Economic Geographer. Public Lecture for the Green College Resident Members’ Series. 11 May.

7. Daniels, J. (2015) Securitizing Spectacle: real estate investment trusts, property, and the financialization of urban retail space in Singapore. Paper presented at the 2015 AAG Annual Meeting. Chicago, IL. 23 April. 

8. Lai, K., J. Daniels, and C.H. Tan. (2014) Financialization, Financial Citizenship and the State: The case of banking reforms in Singapore. Public Lecture given by first author at Beijing Normal University. 17 November.

9. Daniels, J. (2012) When globalization is not good for less developed/developing countries: the global financeindustry and uneven development. Paper presented at the World Youth Leaders Forum on Inequality atChinese University of Hong Kong., July. (Awarded Best Paper)

10. Daniels, J. (2012) The Apple of (and beyond) My Eye: The virtues of an economic- geographic perspective.Editorial in Geosphere, Geographical Society, National University of Singapore., Feb.

11. Daniels, J. (2012) Academic freedom is alive in Singapore. Editorial published in the Yale Daily News., January30th.

12. Daniels, J. (2011) Tying university goals to university geography: decision making in space. Poster presented at the North Carolina Association of Historians Annual Meeting, Elizabeth City, NC. March. (Parker-Dooley Award, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

RESEARCH POSITIONS/EXPERIENCES 

Research Assistant

Jun. 2020- Dec.2020

Workshop Participant

July 2018

Workshop Participant

Sept. 2017

Cambridge Center for Alternative Finance, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge

Consulting on various research projects for the Financial Conduct Authority, UK and the World Bank.  

National University of Singapore, Department of Geography 

Worked on a collaborative research project concerning the Singaporean banking system with Dr. Karen Lai. 

Research Assistant

Summer 2012

Policy Researcher

Aug. 2009-Jan 2011

TEACHING EXPERIENCE 

GEOG 122, Term 2, 2021

GEOG 313, Term 2, 2021

GEOG 310, Term 2, 2020;2021

GEOG 310, Term 1, 2020

GEOG 122, Term 2, 2020

GEOG 323, Term 2, 2019

GEOG 323, Term 2, 2015

GEOG 250/URST 200, Term 1, 2013; 2014

GEOG 122, Term 2, 2014

DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE

Sept. 2019-May 2020

President’s Advisory Committee, Graduate Student Representative, Department of Geography, UBC

Ross MacKay Lounge Committee Member, Department of Geography, UBC 

Colloquium Committee Member, Department of Geography, UBC

OTHER WORK/VOLUNTEER SERVICE

Green College Dinning Society ( Budget exceeded $600,000 per year) 

Deputy Editor, Geosphere, Aug. 2012-May 2013

Lexington Downtown Development Authority, Downtown Retail Survey

Honor Court Member, April 2010-May 2013

Stewardship Assistant, Aug. 2009-May 2013

SKILLS

• Language: German- very basic speaking, reading, and writing skills

• Wordpress and basic HTML

• Basic GIS (Geographic Information Systems)

• IBM SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences)

•  Stata (Statistical Package) 

• Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom

• Intercultural Education Training (UNC) 

REIVEWER FOR

• Environment and Planning A

• Geoforum

AFFILIATIONS

• American Association of Geographers

• Canadian Association of Geographers

• Royal Geographical Society

• Society Member, Green College, University of British Columbia