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Tom Kemeny is a professor at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto. His award-winning research focuses on cities, technology, and the deep determinants of economic performance. Current projects include tracing historical links between disruptive innovation and income inequality, studying the effects of immigrant diversity on productivity in contemporary Britain, and investigating the changing geography of wealth in the United States. Kemeny won the 2019 Understanding Society Paper Prize for a study linking migration to the Brexit vote and received the 2016 Urban Land Institute Prize for his paper published in the Journal of Economic Geography. In collaboration with Michael Storper, Taner Osman, and Naji Makarem, he published 'The Rise and Fall of Urban Economies: Lessons from San Francisco and Los Angeles' in 2015. Before joining the University of Toronto, Kemeny held academic appointments at Queen Mary University of London, the University of Southampton, the London School of Economics, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Department of Sociology