Awards & Winners

David Harvey

Date of Birth 31-October-1935
Place of Birth Gillingham
(United Kingdom)
Nationality United Kingdom, United States of America
Also know as David W. Harvey
Profession Geographer, Professor
David W. Harvey FBA is the Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. A leading social theorist of international standing, he received his PhD in Geography from the University of Cambridge in 1961. Widely influential, he is among the top 20 most cited authors in the humanities. In addition, he is the world's most cited academic geographer, and the author of many books and essays that have been prominent in the development of modern geography as a discipline. His work has contributed greatly to broad social and political debate; most recently he has been credited with restoring social class and Marxist methods as serious methodological tools in the critique of global capitalism. He is a leading proponent of the idea of the right to the city, as well as a member of the Interim Committee for the emerging International Organization for a Participatory Society. In 2007, Harvey was listed as the 18th most-cited intellectual of all time in the humanities and social sciences by The Times Higher Education Guide.

Awards by David Harvey

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1976


Guggenheim Fellowship for Social Sciences, US & Canada
(Geography & Environmental Studies)