Neil Brenner

Born1969 (age 56–57)

OccupationsSociologist, Urban theorist, Geographer, Critical theorist

KnownforState/space theory

TitleLucy Flower Professor of Urban Sociology at the University of Chicago

Neil Brenner
Brenner lecturing at Columbia GSAPP, 2015
Born	1969 (age 56–57)
Occupations	Sociologist, Urban theorist, Geographer, Critical theorist
Known for	State/space theory
Title	Lucy Flower Professor of Urban Sociology at the University of Chicago
Academic background
Education	Yale University (BA) UCLA (MA) University of Chicago (PhD)
Thesis	Global Cities, Glocal States: State Re-scaling and the Remaking of Urban Governance in the European Union (1999)
Doctoral advisor	William H. Sewell Jr.
Influences	Henri Lefebvre, David Harvey, Edward Soja
Academic work
School or tradition	Marxist geography; Critical geography
Institutions	New York University (1999–2011) Harvard Graduate School of Design (2011–2020) University of Chicago (2020–present)
Doctoral students	Dorit Geva

Neil Brenner (born 1969) is an American urban theorist currently serving as Lucy Flower Professor of Urban Sociology at the University of Chicago.^[1] He previously was professor of urban theory at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and professor of sociology at New York University. He has also held visiting appointments at the National University of Singapore, University of Amsterdam, Bard College, Maynooth University, University of Bristol, and University of Urbino.^[2] He is a member of the American Sociological Association^[3] and the Association of American Geographers.

He serves on the advisory and editorial board of 14 academic journals and has edited or authored more than 10 award-winning books. Brenner's works have been translated into Chinese, Croatian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, and Turkish.^[4]