Jillian (Lee) Crandall

Jillian (Lee) Crandall

Jillian Crandall

Research Areas

Political Economies

Critical Environments

Geospatial Representation

Interests

(crypto)colonialism; political ecologies; feminist economic geographies; digital geographies; land/housing financialization; critical cartographies

Contact Information

j.crandall@berkeley.edu

Biography

I am currently researching new tech cities, technoeconomic development, and the reconfiguration of nature, land, and (multispecies) lives under crypto/tech imaginaries and politics.

Immediately prior to starting the doctoral program at Berkeley, I was a lecturer at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute School of Architecture in Troy, NY. I am also a licensed architect in New York, where I managed several large-scale projects in public transportation and infrastructure in New York City and Puerto Rico.

Outside of academic work, I enjoy overanalyzing video games, reading and writing speculative fiction, and making things with my hands.

Education

Theories of Urban Practice M.A., Parsons School of Design, The New School

Architecture B.Arch., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

selected publications

Crandall, J. (2024). Plotting cryptoeconomic imaginaries and counterplotting the network state. Progress in Economic Geography. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.peg.2024.100028

Howson, P., Rosales, A., Jutel, O., Gloerich, I., Llorens, M. G., de Vries, A., Crandall, J., & Dolan, P. (2024). Crypto/Space: computational parasitism, virtual land grabs, and the production of Web3 ‘Exit zones’. Political Geography, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103210

Crandall, J. (2023). Living on the block: How equitable is tokenized equity? Big Data & Society, 10(2). https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517231208455

Crandall, J., Mercado-Vasquez, A. (2022). “Cooperativism as Contestation to Cryptocolonization,” South Atlantic Quarterly: Against the Day, 121:3, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-9826046

Crandall, J. (2019). “Blockchains and the “Chains of Empire”: Contextualizing Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, and Neoliberalism in Puerto Rico,” Design and Culture, 11:3, 279-300, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17547075.2019.1673989

teaching experience

Graduate Student Instructor, Questioning New Media, UC Berkeley, Fall 2024

Lecturer, Critical Cartographies & Digital Tools, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Spring 2023

Lecturer, Cities and their Territories, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Fall 2020 - Fall 2022

Lecturer, Course Coordinator, Contemporary Design Approaches, Spring 2021 - Spring 2023

Lecturer/Critic, Architectural Design Studios, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Fall 2019 - Spring 2023