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Department of Geography
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Cluster Members

We are in the process of updating our membership list for AY 2021-22 to include new and continuing PhD students and post-doctoral fellows; check back soon!

Geographies of Life Staff Members

Prof Ben Anderson Theories of affect and emotion; affective politics; neoliberalism and populism; events; futures; non-representational theories
Prof Sarah Atkinson Geographies of health; Medical humanities; Community and collective wellbeing; Everyday spaces of health; Ageing and multimorbidity
Dr Andrew Baldwin geographies of race and nature, political geography, migration/displacement, climate change, Anthropocene, political economy of adaptation
Dr Sage Brice gender and identity, multi-species landscapes, wetlands, Israel-Palestine, creative methods, art-geography
Prof Gavin Bridge extractive economies; energy transition; natural resources; geographies of energy; political ecologies of resource production and investment; political economy of fossil fuels; global production networks
Prof Harriet Bulkeley environmental governance; climate change; urban infrastructure; urban sustainability; nature and biodiversity; energy transitions; socio-technical systems; sustainable finance; urban political ecology; governmentality 
Dr Elizabeth Johnson Science and Technology Studies; Political Ecology; More-than-human Geographies; Bioscience & Society; Bioeconomies; Oceanic Geographies; Anthropocene
Dr. Meghan Kelly feminist mapping, Critical GIS, cartography, GIScience, feminist geographies, visual storytelling, design justice
Dr Jessica Lehman science and technology studies; environmental politics; oceans; resource geographies; feminist and queer theory; postcolonial and decolonial geographies; political ecology; climate change
Dr Lauren Martin Political geography, carceral geographies, political economies of borders and migration control, datafication and digitalisation of mobility controls. 
Prof Cheryl McEwan postcolonial and decolonial theory; cultural economy; sustainable consumption; political ecology; Anthropocene; South Africa; sub-Saharan Africa; art as social practice
Dr Marijn Nieuwenhuis elemental geographies; creative methods; Chinese geographies; poetics; arts; breathing; weathers; political geographies; phenomenologies
Professor Joe Painter political geography; state theory; citizenship; urban and regional politics and governance; theories of territory; social innovation; localism, local governance and community action; politics of everyday life; art, creativity and urban politics;
Dr Jeremy Schmidt water, ethics, energy, Earth system, Anthropocene, settler colonialism
Prof Anna Secor difference, space, (geo)politics, psychotopologies, Iraqi refugee resettlement to the US, Turkey
Prof Philip Steinberg Political geography; materialities; mobilities; political cultures, visualisations, and imaginaries; sovereignties; extra-state governance; law; borders; oceans; Arctic
Dr Monica Stephens social media; GIScience; data science; critical GIS; digital mapping; misinformation; inauthentic content; quantitative methodologies; social network analysis; big data
Dr Erin Torkelson debt, development, universal basic income, racial capitalism, feminist/postcolonial science and technology studies, South Africa, Africa
Dr Helen F. Wilson encounter; encounterable life; difference; cities; urban politics; multiculture; avian geographies; conflict management; postcolonial theory; environmental humanities