Willie Wright

Dr. Wright is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Florida. He studies the intersections of (anti)blackness and urban spatial change, particularly how black residents create and sustain a sense of place in working class communities. In 2019, Dr. Wright and colleagues won the Antipode Scholar-Activist Project Award from the Antipode Foundation. He has served as the Corresponding Editor for the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Publications Committee Member for the Annals of the American Association of Geographers, and an Advisory Board Member for the Nature-Society-Violence Book Series from the West Virginia University Press. He holds a PhD in Geography from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, a Master of Art in Pan-African Studies from the University of Louisville, and a Bachelor of Art in Communication Disorders from the University of Houston.