Donald Kingsbury

Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream
donald.kingsbury@utoronto.ca

Campus

  • Downtown Toronto (St. George)

Fields of Study

  • Political Theory
  • Comparative Politics
  • Development Studies

Areas of Interest

  • Latin American and North Atlantic Comparative Political Theory
  • Latin American Politics
  • Developmentalism and Neoliberalism
  • Marxism
  • Cultural Studies

Biography

Donald Kingsbury studies and teaches Latin American Politics, Extractivism, and Political Ecology. He is author, most recently, of Populist Moments and Extractive States in Ecuador and Venezuela: The People’s Oil? with Teresa Kramarz (Palgrave, 2021) as well as articles on decarbonization in the Americas. Don’s current research examines the politics of lithium mining and energy transitions in the Americas. 

Education

BA, University of Minnesota
MA, University of California, Santa Cruz
PhD, University of California, Santa Cruz

Publications