Carolyn Prouse

Carolyn Prouse is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Planning at Queen's University's Faculty of Arts and Science. She also holds a cross-appointment as Assistant Professor in the Department of Gender Studies. As a white settler living on Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe territory, she identifies as an anticolonial urbanist and feminist economic geographer.

Dr. Prouse's educational background includes a PhD (2017) in Geography from the University of British Columbia, an MA (2011) in Kinesiology and Health Studies from Queen's University, and a BA/BPHE (2008) from Queen's University. Prior to her current position, she was an SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto.

Her scholarly work focuses on urban economic development, building relationships between global and anti/decolonial urbanism, critical development studies, health sociology, and critical race feminist geographies. Dr. Prouse investigates how diverse urban communities are marginalized by economic and bioeconomic markets, and how people transform themselves and their communities through grass-roots and social reproductive practices. Her current research spans three main areas:

• Precarious Intimacies of Biosurveillance - examining how new data reservoirs of wastewater and blood are being consolidated by biotech and pharmaceutical companies
• Slum Upgrading in the Global South - focusing on how low-income communities in the Global South are being "integrated" through infrastructural projects
• Social Reproductive Geographies of Human Milk Markets - investigating emerging economies and infrastructures of human milk exchange

Dr. Prouse has received notable recognition for her work, including:

• Department of Geography and Planning's Julian Szeicz Award for Excellence in Teaching (2018/19 and 2021/22)
• SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship (2018)

She actively supervises MA and PhD students working on topics related to global/decolonial urbanism, social reproduction, and critical race feminist geographies. Her current students' projects include Black diaspora in Canadian cities, digital food communities, the history of animals in cities, and reproductive rights in Argentina. Dr. Prouse has secured funding from the Urban Studies Foundation and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for her research projects.

Dr. Prouse is a co-founder and co-principal investigator of the Global Economies and Everyday Lives (GEELs) Lab at Queen's University, which brings together scholars interested in social reproduction, racial capitalism, cities, diaspora, and social transformation in spaces of the Global South. The GEELs Lab provides a collaborative environment for sharing ideas, discussing texts, reviewing work, and organizing events.