William Conroy is a geographer and political and social theorist. He specializes in three interrelated areas of scholarship: (1) critical theories of capitalist society and capitalist reproduction, (2) histories of heterodox political economic thought, and (3) the historical geography of US capitalism (1870-present). He is currently completing his dissertation at Harvard, which is titled “The Capitalist Spatial Matrix: A Political Theory of the Built Environment.”

Since beginning his PhD, William has been named a Presidential Scholar and received an Edmond J. Safra Graduate Fellowship in Ethics among other research and teaching awards. He has also published widely in journals like Antipode, EPA: Economy and Space, Urban Studies, Theory, Culture & Society, and Review of International Political Economy (see, for details, https://harvard.academia.edu/WilliamConroy).