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My research interests lie in urban and economic geography, although they spill over into many other areas, including development studies and Asian studies. I am particularly interested in globalization, multinational corporations, and the urban economy. I have examined global auto companies’ operations in India – Eleven of the world’s largest auto companies have set up production lines in India since the 1993 deregulation! I have also done research on Global Cities, city marketing, and the globalization of Seoul. I am currently working on two research projects. One is to examine the integration of the Indian automotive industry into global auto companies' regional/global production networks. The other is to write a book on cities and economies in a globalizing world (under contract for Routledge).

I teach a range of courses from the introductory level to the graduate seminar. The courses that I have taught in the past few years include GEOG 131 Globalization and the Developing World, GEOG 326/526 Urban Geography, GEOG 329/529 World Economic Geography, GEOG 338/538 Southeast Asia, and GEOG 680B Theories of Development.

Publications
2004 “Seoul: complementing economic success with Games,” in Josef Gugler, ed., World Cities Beyond the West: Globalization, Development and Inequality, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp.59-81.

2004 “The Indian passenger car industry and the South Asian market: global auto firms’ struggles in India,” in Jorge Carrillo, Yannick Lung, and Rob van Tulder, eds., Cars, Carriers of Regionalism?, New York: Palgrave-MacMillan, pp.247-261

2002 “Globalization and financial crisis in Seoul, South Korea,” in Richard Grant and John Short, eds., Globalization and the Margins, New York: Palgrave MacMillan, pp.170-190.

2001 “Seoul,” in Lothar Beckel, ed., Megacities, Salzburg: Geospace Verlag, pp.168-173.

2001 “Cultural globalization, global English and geography journals,” The Professional Geographer, 53 (1), pp.1-11. (with J. Short, A. Boniche and L. Li)

2000 “What is/isn’t Americanizing in Seoul?: ‘re-made in Seoul’ cultures,” Journal of the Korean Urban Geographical Society (Special Issue of the 29th International Geographical Congress), 2 (1), pp.81-92.

1999 “Unpacking globalization discourses: globalization in the developing world,” Journal of Geographical and Environmental Education, 7 (2), pp.677-697.

1999 Globalization and The City, London: Addison Wesley Longman (with John Rennie Short)

1998 “Urban crises/urban representations: selling the city in difficult times,” in Tim Hall and Phillip Hubbard, eds., The Entrepreneurial City: Geographies of Politics, Regime and Representation, Chichester: John Wiley and Sons. pp.55-75. (with John Rennie Short)

1997 “Interpreting the Olympic landscape in Seoul: the politics of sports, spectacle and landscape,” Journal of the Korean Geographical Society, 32 (3), pp.387-402.

1996 “The dirty little secret of world cities research: data problems in comparative analysis,” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 20 (4), pp.697-717. (with J.R. Short, M. Kuus and H. Wells)

1993 A Geographical Bibliography for Korean Studies: 1986-1990, Seoul: Bak San Publishing Company. (with Ki-Suk Lee) (in Korean)

1992 “Housing class and residential areas in Seoul,” Geography, 26 (3), pp.265-285. (in Korean)

Book Reviews
2002 “Public Places in Asia Pacific Cities: Current Issues and Strategies, edited by Pu Miao, 2001, Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers,” The Professional Geographer, 54 (4), pp.580-582.

1999 "Seoul: the Making of a Metropolis by J. Kim and S. Choe, 1997, Chichester: Wiley," Progress in Human Geography, 23 (4), pp.653-654.