I received my PhD in Government from Cornell University in 2002. I have been a visiting research fellow at the University of Tokyo’s Institute of Social Science several times, most recently in 2008. In 2009-2010, I was an S.V. Ciriacy-Wantrup visiting research fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to joining Laurier, I was an assistant professor at Trent University from 2002 to 2006. I hold a cross-appointment to the Balsillie School of International Affairs. I grew up in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

My main research interests are in international political economy, Japanese politics, the political economy of East and Southeast Asia, the history of capitalism, and the political economy of food, land, agriculture and the environment. My current research projects are on Japan’s role in the global land grab and the role of decommodification in the expansion of capitalism. I am the co-coordinator of the Waterloo Political Economy Group.

• Merit Award, Wilfrid Laurier University (2013).
• S.V. Ciriacy-Wantrup Visiting Research Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley (2009-10).
• Co-Investigator, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Standard Research Grant (2007-11).

I am willing to supervise graduate students in the areas of international political economy: East/Southeast Asian politics; the theory/history of capitalism; and the political economy of food, land, agriculture and the environment.

• Hall, Derek. Land. Cambridge: Polity. (2013).
• Hall, Derek, Philip Hirsch and Tania Murray Li. Powers of Exclusion: Land Dilemmas in Southeast Asia. Singapore and Honolulu: NUS Press and University of Hawai‘i Press. (2011).
• Schoenberger, Laura, Derek Hall and Peter Vandergeest. "What Happened when the Land Grab came to Southeast Asia?" Journal of Peasant Studies 44(4), 697-725. (2017).
• Hall, Derek. "Land's Essentiality and Land Governance" in Olivier de Schutter and Katharina Pistor (eds), Governing Access to Essential Resources. New York: Columbia University Press, 49-66. (2015).
• Hall, Derek. “Primitive Accumulation, Accumulation by Dispossession, and the Global Land Grab.” Third World Quarterly 34(9), 1582-1604. (2013).
• Bush, Simon, Ben Belton, Derek Hall, et al. “Certify Sustainable Aquaculture?” Science 341 (9 September), 1067-1068. (2013).