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I received my PhD in Government from Cornell University in 2002. I have been a visiting research fellow at the University of Tokyo’s Institute of Social Science several times, most recently in 2008. In 2009-2010, I was an S.V. Ciriacy-Wantrup visiting research fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to joining Laurier, I was an assistant professor at Trent University from 2002 to 2006. I hold a cross-appointment to the Balsillie School of International Affairs. I grew up in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
My main research interests are in international political economy, Japanese politics, the political economy of East and Southeast Asia, the history and theory of capitalism, and the political economy of food, land, agriculture, the environment and climate change. My current research project is a critical analysis of proposals for radical climate action. I am the Chair of the WLUFA Climate Action Committee and the Balsillie School Global Climate Action Committee.
- Merit Award, Wilfrid Laurier University (2013, 2023).
- S.V. Ciriacy-Wantrup Visiting Research Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley (2009-10).
I am willing to supervise graduate students in the areas of international political economy: East/Southeast Asian politics; the theory/history of capitalism; and the political economy of food, land, agriculture and the environment.
- Hall, Derek. “Reporting of and Policy on Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Air Travel at Canadian Universities”, International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education. (EarlyCite, 4 June 2024).
- Hall, Derek. “Does Capitalism Drive Towards the Commodification of Everything?”, Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space. (Early View, 31 May 2024).
- Hall, Derek. 2023. “Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine and Critical Agrarian Studies.” Journal of Peasant Studies 50(1), 26-46.
- Hall, Derek. 2023. “‘Commodification of Everything’ Arguments in the Social Sciences: Variants, Specification, Evaluation, Critique.” Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 55(3), 544-561.
- Hall, Derek. 2023. “On ‘Blind Spots’ in (International) Political Economy.” Review of International Political Economy 30(1), 384-399.
- Hall, Derek. 2021. “Rural Dispossession and Capital Accumulation” in Haroon Akram-Lodhi, Kristina Dietz, Bettina Engels and Ben McKay, The Edward Elgar Handbook of Critical Agrarian Studies. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 515-524.
- Hall, Derek. 2020. “National Food Security through Corporate Globalization: Japan’s Changing Place in the Global Grain Trade.” Journal of Peasant Studies 47(5), 993-1029.
Contact Info:
Office location: DAWB 4-116
Office hours: Fall 2024: Thursday 12:45 PM to 2:45 PM
Languages spoken: English, Japanese