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Katie J. Wells
Principal Investigator
Postdoctoral Fellow, Georgetown University
Dr Katie J. Wells is a geographer who studies urban change. She writes about how tech affects the way we live in cities, and especially how we govern them. She has a long record of designing and conducting qualitative research projects about the gig economy with students and peers. She has discussed the real-time impacts of her research in 100+ media stories in The Washington Post, NPR, ABC National News, CBC News, Bloomberg’s CityLab, CNN, and The San Francisco Chronicle, among others. Currently, she is a postdoctoral fellow at Georgetown University, where she is leading the second year of the Fairwork U.S. study.
Publications
- 2023. Disrupting D.C.: The Rise of Uber and the Fall of the City. With Kafui Attoh and Declan Cullen. Princeton University Press.
- 2020. With Kafui Attoh and Declan Cullen. “Just-in-Place Labor: Driver Struggles in the Uber Workplace.” Environment and Planning A: Space and Economy, 53(2): 315-331. doi: 10.1177/0308518X20949266. ***This article was awarded the Ashby Prize.
- 2019. With Kafui Attoh and Declan Cullen. “‘We’re building their data:’ Labor, Alienation and Isolation in the Smart City.” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 37(6): 1007-1024.
Email: kw731@georgetown.edu