Professor Keay completed his PhD at the University of British Columbia in 1999. After working as a post-doctoral research fellow at McGill University's Institute for the Study of Canada for two years, he was hired as an Assistant Professor at Queen's in 2000. Professor Keay has spent his sabbatical years as a visiting professor at Yale University, University of Colorado at Boulder, and the Vancouver School of Economics at UBC. His research focuses on North American economic history, environmental and natural resource economics, and law and economics. His papers cover diverse topics, including the development of criminal justice institutions, responses to globalization, the impact of induced technological change, and the recognition of Indigenous rights in Canada. Professor Keay teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in North American and international economic history, and environmental and ecological economics.
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Kris Inwood, Ian Keay, and Blair Long, “Racial Bias in Criminal Sentencing: Historical Evidence from Chinese Railroad Workers in British Columbia,” Canadian Journal of Economics.
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Kris Inwood, Ian Keay, and Blair Long (2024), “Institutional Formalism and Criminal Sentencing on the Frontier: Evidence from British Columbia's Jails, 1864-1913,” Journal of Law Economics and Organization (https://doi.org/10.1093/jleo/ewaf002).
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Kris Inwood and Ian Keay (2024), “The Well-Being of Indigenous Communities in the Pacific Northwest: Anthropometric Evidence from British Columbia’s Jails, 1864-1913,” Economics and Human Biology (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2024.101442).
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Ian Keay and Brian Varian (2024), "The Impact of Preferential Market Access: British Imports into Canada, 1892-1903,” Canadian Journal of Economics (https://doi.org/10.1111/caje.12703).