Trevor Barnes received his Doctor of Philosophy in 1983 at University of Minnesota with a thesis under the supervision of Eric Sheppard titled The Geography of Value, Production, and Distribution: Theoretical Economic Geography after Sraffa.
Barnes began his career as a spatial scientist, but in recent years his interest has moved to the history of economic geography. In 2014 he was elected a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. Barnes is considered by notable geographers as a "Key Thinker on Space and Place" and in 2011 was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
His current projects concern the history of geography’s quantitative revolution. Epistemological pluralism in economic geography. The institutional analysis of forestry with Roger Hayter.
And creative industries.
