We are delighted to welcome Dr Betsy Donald, who is joining the RSA Board as Chair of the Research Committee. Betsy is a Full Professor in the Department of Geography and Planning at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario. She holds a PhD in Geography and Planning from the University of Toronto, alongside earlier degrees in environmental […]
Dr. Betsy Donald is a Full Professor in the Department of Geography and Planning at Queen’s University. She earned her MSc.Pl and Ph.D. in Geography and Planning from the University of Toronto, with prior degrees in environmental studies and history from York University and McGill University. Dr. Donald’s work centers on urban development, regional economies, […]
Cornell Atkinson Postdoctoral Fellowship in Sustainability: 2027 Call for Applications Apply by: October 20, 2026 at 5 p.m. ET We are pleased to announce the 2027 call for applications for the Cornell Atkinson Postdoctoral Fellowship. Cornell Atkinson will select up to four ambitious, innovative proposals from early-career scholars whose research demonstrates promise for significant impact in […]
Amy Glasmeier is a professor of economic geography and Regional Planning at DUSP. She is a staff member of LRISA, the lab on regional innovation and spatial analysis. Amy’s research focuses on economic opportunities for communities and individuals by investigating the role of geographic access and the effect of locational accidents on human development.
Dr. Grete Gansauer Assistant Professor, Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Wyoming, USA RSA Board Trustee 2023-2025 RSA Board Early Career Representative (Observer) Co-organizer RSA Research Network on Peripheries and Peripherality (EdgeNet) (2023-2026)
Professor Harald Bathelt Department of Geography & Planning, University of Toronto, Canada Zijiang Visiting Professor, Department of Geographical Science, East China Normal University (since 2011) Canada Research Chair in Innovation and Governance, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto (2006-2020) Editor, Journal of Economic Geography (2012-2020) Personal Website: https://www.geography.utoronto.ca/people/directories/all-faculty/harald-bathelt and http://www.harald-bathelt.com Areas of Interest: relational economic […]
Dr. Zack Taylor Associate Professor, Dept. of Political Science and Dept. of Geography and Environment University of Western Ontario, Canada RSA Board member Journals committee member Editor-in-Chief, Territory, Politics, Governance
Dayne Walling Doctoral Candidate, Department of Geography, Environment and Society, University of Minnesota, USA Participant in the RSA Research Network on Infrastructural Regionalisms (NOIR) Further information: Former Mayor, City of Flint, Michigan, USA Recent paper: “Governing Infrastructure, Development and Inequality around Deindustrialized US Cities.” Territory, Politics, Governance Special Issue on Water, governance, and the dynamics of […]
Dr. Jennifer Clark Knowlton School Distinguished Professor The Ohio State University, USA Editor-in-Chief, Regional Studies RSA Board Member (Trustee) RSA Executive Committee RSA Journals Committee 2022 RSA Best Book Award: Clark, Jennifer (2020) Uneven Innovation: The Work of Smart Cities. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN: 978-0231184977 2009 RSA Best Book Award: Christopherson, Susan and […]
Professor John Agnew Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Geography and Italian, University of California, Los Angeles, USA President of the Regional Studies Association, 2021-2024. Founding Editor-in-Chief, Territory, Politics, Governance (2012-2019) Member of Editorial Boards of Territory, Politics, Governance and Regional Studies, Regional Science.
Dr. Joan Fitzgerald Northeastern University, Boston, USA Former Editor in Chief, RSA-Routledge Cities and Regions Book Series Former RSA Board member FeRSA
Dr Jean-Paul Addie Georgia State University Associate Editor, Regional Studies, Regional Science Co-Director (with Michael Glass and Jen Nelles) of the RSA Research Network on Infrastructural Regionalism (NOIR), 2019-2027. NOIR is a community of scholars working at the intersection of infrastructure and regional studies to foster innovative, interdisciplinary, and multi-scalar knowledge of how regional space […]
Amitrajeet A. Batabyal Distinguished Professor, Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics, and Head, Sustainability Department, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York, USA 2015 RSA Travel Grant Recipient Contributor to Regional Studies
Marcello Graziano SUNY at Binghamton, USA
Canada’s expansive Prairie region comprises the century-old provinces of Manitoba (est. 1870) and Saskatchewan and Alberta (est. 1905). However, this super-region, one-third the size of Canada (1.96 million sq. km.), faces three significant challenges: economic diversification, deteriorating infrastructure, and climate change. But do present-day decision-makers draw on insights from the region’s collective past? A past […]
Xuanyi Nie is an Assistant Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. He was previously a postdoctoral researcher at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and holds a Doctor of Design from Harvard University Graduate School of Design. His research examines how healthcare […]
Policymakers often rely on familiar indicators such as GDP, employment rates, and education levels to assess regional well-being. Yet these metrics tell only part of the story. Human flourishing, encompassing happiness, health, purpose, virtue, relationships, and financial stability, is increasingly recognized as a vital complement to traditional economic indicators (VanderWeele et. al, 2020). However, existing […]
We are pleased to announce that we will run a special track (i.e., set of research paper panels) at the 54th Annual Meeting of the Urban Affairs Association (UAA), taking place from April 29 – May 2, 2026, in Chicago, Illinois. The session, titled The City-Region Reimagined: Intersections of Theory, Policy, Practice, and Place, will […]
On November 25th 2024, the Ontario government officially passed Bill 212, which became the Reducing Gridlock, Saving You Time Act, 2024. This legislation greenlit the proposal to implement a framework for bike lanes that require the removal of a traffic lane. For the city of Toronto, this meant the removal of existing bike lanes on […]
Clusters are geographically concentrated areas of activity around a certain industry. The central question for modern cluster theory from the perspective of industry dynamics is why firms co-locate in the same space. The classic example is Silicon Valley, where multiple IT companies compete side by side, amidst some of the highest costs in the world. […]
Women’s Entrepreneurship and Rural Regional Revitalisation – Comparative Study Women’s Entrepreneurship and Rural Regional Revitalisation – Comparative Study addresses the persistent policy challenge of how to stimulate economic revitalisation in ‘left behind’ rural regions. This comparative, exploratory ethnographic study examines the extent to which locally led entrepreneurial ventures by less-visible social actors (rural women) are contributing […]
Michael R. Glass is an assistant professor in Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh. Working at the intersection of sociology, geography, and regional studies, his primary research is on city-region governance, infrastructure, and innovation. He has published in leading international journals including Regional Studies, Urban Studies, the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, and […]
As in previous years, the RSA will again have a strong presence at this year’s AAG, which will take place from March 24-28 2025 in Detroit,USA. Publishing Regional Studies Research will focus on publishing, where RSA members and editors will unravel the mysteries in an engaging session around this topic. Publishing Regional Studies Research: from […]
The agricultural sector is entering an “age of disruption” (Deloitte, 2015). Advances in technology, like robotics and artificial intelligence (AI), are reshaping farm work and rural development (RBC, 2019; The Economist, 2016). Agricultural technology (AgTech) adoption is viewed as critical in solving global challenges such as feeding a growing world population, responding to the impacts […]