Sam Wetherell

​Dr. Sam Wetherell is a senior lecturer in the history of Britian and the World at the University of York. He writes about the history of cities, political economy, and culture. His first book Foundations (Princeton, 2020) is about the transformation of the British built environment in the twentieth century, focusing on housing, consumption and patterns of work. Before teaching at York, Wetherell completed his PhD at UC Berkely and worked as a visiting professor at Columbia University. Alongside his academic publications, he writes for Time Magazine, The Outline, Tribune, Renewal, Jacobin, Gawker and The Blizzard and about urban planning, politics, the economy and football.