Graduate Students

Michael Pryce-Jones

M.A. Geography, Florida State University
B.Sc. Geography, Lancaster University  

contact:

1418 Patterson Office Tower
Tel.:(859) 257-6992
Fax: (859) 323-1969
email: prycejon@yahoo.com

Profile

My affair with geography began at the age of 11, when after having been accused of causing a ‘ruckus’ before my very first geography class, I deemed it necessary to rescue my reputation and try extra hard in that class for the rest of the year. Since then I have been lucky enough to have had some wonderful geography teachers along the way, including not least Mr. Chapman and Mrs. Major (Wallingford School) and Peter Vincent (Lancaster University) to channel my enthusiasm. I gained my BSc from Lancaster University specializing in fluvial geomorphology, before heading to Florida State University where I wrote! my MA thesis ‘Dreaming Spires and Heretical Minarets: postcolonial geographies of the City of Oxford'.

At Kentucky my research  interests revolve around questions of finance, socialist economics and class. I am interested in the intersection of Marxian political economy and the liberal critique, particularly as they coalesce around questions of markets, information, planning and forms of economic decentralization. Flowing from this and focusing specifically upon the centrality of investment to coordinating and reproducing capitalist social relations, I draw upon Convention Theory, Institutionalism, and to a lesser degree Actor-Network-Theory, to explore the prospects for reforming economic institutions and actors in the spheres of high finance. With this in mind, my research, examines the prospects heralded by rise of the pooled savings of labor, delegated to large institutional investors such as State Pension Funds, Labor Union Funds, a! nd Mutual Funds, for fostering a dynamic, egalitarian, and democratic economy. 

Outside of college I have two cats, Comrade Smokey and Beckham. My sporting affliations include Manchester United, Florida State Football and the Cincinnatti Bengals (and any team that playing the Dallas Cowboys!).