Joyce Percel
Positions
PhD Candidate
Background
Educational Background
MA Sustainable Urban Development, DePaul University, 2018
GIS Certificate DePaul University, 2018
BS Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2008
Biography
I am a doctoral candidate (advisor: Dr. Ryan Burns) in the Department of Geography at the University of Calgary. Before graduate school, I worked at a Chicago nonprofit, where I planned numerous educational volunteer projects for school groups and helped develop the organization's first neighborhood-directed volunteer program. While working on my Master's degree, I completed projects ranging from a property sales analysis in partnership with a local housing justice organization to a geospatial model used by the City of Chicago’s Department of Housing.
My work is interdisciplinary and links critical data studies, black geographies, black feminism, critical property and housing studies, and urban geography. I am interested in the myriad ways that racialized people, communities, histories, and knowledge become – or do not become – encoded as data and how these data and related digital practices impact how different places in cities are conceptualized, narrated, and planned. I am also interested in how Black and other racialized people make place in urban neighborhoods where disinvestment and/or redevelopment can transform these places and histories. My doctoral research project focuses on data assemblages and data-driven knowledge-making practices of housing and property in Chicago.
Research
Areas of Research
Critical data studies, data ethics, data and algorithmic governance, critical GIS
Black geographies, racial capitalism, black feminism, settler colonialism
Affordable housing, decolonial theories of land, racial regimes of property, alternative forms of housing and property ownership
Disinvestment, gentrification and redevelopment, urban placemaking, data-driven governance
Awards
- Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship —Doctoral, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). 2021
- Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship, Govertment of Alberta. 2020
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