Paul C. Adams is Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. His research addresses place images in the media, the historical geography of communication technologies, geopolitical discourses, and the integration of communication technologies into particular places. He has published articles in the Annals of the AAG, Progress in Human Geography, and Political Geography, among other journals. His books include The Ashgate Research Companion to Media Geography (co-edited with Jim Craine and Jason Dittmer, Ashgate, 2014), Geographies of Media and Communication (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), Atlantic Reverberations (Ashgate, 2007), The Boundless Self (Syracuse University Press, 2005), and Textures of Place (co-edited with Steven Hoelscher and Karen Till, University of Minnesota Press, 2001). He is the founder of the Communication Geography Specialty Group of the AAG.
John Agnew is Distinguished Professor of Geography at University of California at Los Angeles, USA. He was co-editor of the first edition of the Companion to Political Geography.
Anne-Laure Amilhat Szary, PhD, is a full Professor at Grenoble-Alpes University, France, and a member of the Institut Universitaire de France. A political geographer dedicated to border studies, her latest research concerns the interrelations between art and culture, in and about contested places. She is a founding member of the antiAtlas of borders collective (http://www.antiatlas.net/en/), an art-science project. Her most recent book, Borderities: The Politics of Contemporary Mobile (Palgrave Macmillan 2015) was co-edited with F. Giraut.
Marco Antonsich is a senior lecturer in Human Geography at the Loughborough University, UK. His work lies at the intersection between territory, power, and identity, exploring the production of Western geopolitical discourses; the relationship between territory and identity in the age of globalization at multiple scales; and how togetherness in diversity is theorized and lived within contemporary multicultural societies. Funded by various institutions (US National Science Foundation; NATO and Italian National Research Council; CIMO-Finland; and the European Commission), his work has appeared in leading academic journals: Progress in Human Geography, Political Geography, European Urban and Regional Studies, European Journal of Social Theory, and Annals of the Association of American Geographers, among others. He holds a PhD in Political Geography from the University of Trieste, Italy and a PhD in Geography from the University of Colorado at Boulder, USA.
Joshua E. Barkan is an Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Georgia, USA, where he studies the intersection of law, political economy, and social and political thought. His writing focuses on the relationships between corporations and sovereign, disciplinary, and biopolitical power. He recently published his first book, Corporate Sovereignty: Law and Government under Capitalism (University of Minnesota Press, 2013).
Kath Browne is a Reader in Human Geography at the University of Brighton, UK. Her work exists on the interstices of gender, sexualities, and geographies. Her scholarship includes resistances to LGBT equalities, lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans lives, womyn’s separatist spaces, pride events, and queer, feminist, and participatory methodologies. Her most recent book, Ordinary in Brighton: LGBT, Activisms and the City (Ashgate, 2013), was co-authored with activist researcher Leela Bakshi. Research with Catherine Nash has exposed transnational resistances to LGBT equalities. She is currently working on an Economic and Social Research Council grant that explores what makes life liveable for LGBTQ people.
Brett Christophers is associate professor at the Institute for Housing and Urban Research and the Department of Social and Economic Geography at Uppsala University, Sweden. His research ranges widely across the political and cultural economies of Western capitalism, in both historical and contemporary perspectives. Particular interests include money, finance, and banking; housing and housing policy; urban political economy; markets and pricing; accounting, modeling, and other calculative practices; competition and intellectual property law; and the cultural industries and the discourse of “creativity.”
Simon Dalby is CIGI Chair in the Political Economy of Climate Change at the Balsillie School of International Affairs and Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada. He is author of Creating the Second Cold War (Pinter/Guilford, 1990), Environmental Security (University of Minnesota Press, 2002) and Security and Environmental Change (Polity, 2009).
Cristina Del Biaggio teaches at the University of Geneva and has been invited researcher at the Institute of European Studies, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2013–2014). She obtained her PhD at the University of Geneva in 2013. In her thesis she studied processes of regional institutionalization through a qualitative analysis of networks of local actors that took form from the 1990s in the Alps. Her current postdoctoral research relates to borders and migrations in Europe.
Patricia Ehrkamp is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Kentucky, USA. She researches contemporary processes of immigration, citizenship, and democracy in the United States and Europe. Her research examines expectations for immigrant assimilation in the context of exclusionary discourses about Islam in Western Europe, attending to the relationship between religion, gender, secularism, and democracy. Most recently, she completed a US National Science Foundation–funded research project, “Places of Worship and the Politics of Citizenship: Immigrants and Communities of Faith in the U.S. South.”
Jennifer L. Fluri is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Colorado-Boulder, USA. Her research examines geopolitics, gender politics, and the geo-economics of international military aid and development interventions in South Asia. Her research appears in several peer-reviewed academic journals. Her forthcoming book, co-authored with Rachel Lehr, explores intimate geopolitics through several different entanglements between Americans and Afghans, and the various currencies from gender to grief that have manifested from discursive framing of 9/11 and the US-led war in Afghanistan. She is currently working on a new project that explores the role of Afghan women’s organizations in Afghanistan’s political and economic transitions.
Sara Fregonese is Birmingham Fellow in the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Studies and the Institute for Conflict, Cooperation and Security at the University of Birmingham, UK. Her research concerns the mutual influence between geopolitics and the urban environment. She researches and publishes on urban warfare, radicalization and social cohesion, uprising and protest, and has over ten years’ research experience in Beirut, Lebanon. She co-authored The Radicals’ City: Urban Environment, Polarization, Cohesion (Ashgate, 2013).
Kathryn Furlong is an Assistant Professor in Geography at the Université de Montréal, Canada. She holds the Canada Research Chair in Urban, Water and Utility Governance. Her most recent work looks at the shifting nature of public utility corporations in Colombia and The Netherlands.
Jouni Häkli is Professor of Regional Studies at the University of Tampere, Finland. He is Vice Director of the Research Center of Relational and Territorial Politics of Bordering, Identities and Transnationalization (RELATE), and leads the Space and Political Agency Research Group (SPARG). He specializes in spatial and social theory, border studies, transnationalization, and political agency and subjectivity.
Malene H. Jacobsen is a PhD student in the Department of Geography at the University of Kentucky, USA. Her research focuses on the experiences of forced migrants with transnational migration management institutions that straddle the Middle East and Europe, with particular emphasis on Syrian asylum seekers migrating to Denmark.
Alex Jeffrey is a University Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Cambridge, UK. His research has examined the geographies of state-building after conflict, in particular in the former Yugoslavia. In 2013 he published The Improvised State: Sovereignty, Performance and Agency in Dayton Bosnia (Wiley-Blackwell). He is currently undertaking research exploring the geographical implications of war crimes trials.
Andrew E.G. Jonas is Professor of Human Geography at Hull University, UK. His PhD is from The Ohio State University under the supervision of Kevin R. Cox. His latest book, co-authored with Eugene McCann and Mary Thomas, is Urban Geography: A Critical Introduction (Wiley-Blackwell). His co-edited books include The Urban Growth Machine: Critical Perspectives Two Decades Later (SUNY Press, 1999), Interrogating Alterity (Ashgate, 2010), and Territory, State and Urban Politics (Ashgate, 2012).
Kirsi Pauliina Kallio is Academy Fellow at the University of Tampere, Finland, Research Center of Relational and Territorial Politics of Bordering, Identities and Transnationalization (RELATE), Space and Political Agency Research Group (SPARG). Her areas of interest in political geographies include youthful agency, subject formation and socialization in the early years, and children’s rights.
Sara Koopman is an Assistant Professor of Geography at York University in Toronto, Canada. She does research with solidarity movements to support their efforts to change the relationships between global North and South. Her recent work is on international protective accompaniment in Colombia. Her current research looks at the travels of stories from conflict zones, shared to build solidarity and peace. She aims to speak to dynamics in humanitarianism, development, and peacebuilding more generally. She blogs at decolonizingsolidarity.blogspot.com
Merje Kuus is Professor of Geography at the University of British Columbia. Her current research focuses on geopolitics, diplomacy, and transnational policy processes. She is the author of Geopolitics and Expertise: Knowledge and Authority in European Diplomacy (Wiley, 2014) and Geopolitics Reframed: Security and Identity in Europe’s Eastern Enlargement (Palgrave, 2007); she also co-edited (with Klaus Dodds and Joanne Sharp) The Ashgate Research Companion to Critical Geopolitics (Ashgate, 2013).
Andrew M. Linke is Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Utah, USA. He earned his PhD in 2013 from the University of Colorado-Boulder Department of Geography. His research interests are political geography, political violence, climate change and conflict, African politics, spatial statistics, and GIS. Among other journals, his research has been published in Political Geography, Global Environmental Change, and International Interactions.
Virginie Mamadouh is Associate Professor of Political and Cultural Geography at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and one of the editors of the international academic journal Geopolitics.
Lauren Martin is an Academy of Finland Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Geography at the University of Oulu, Finland. She has published research on US immigrant family detention, border enforcement, and homeland security. Her current research explores the commercialization of border security and the commoditization of mobile bodies in the United States and European Union.
Katie Meehan is an Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Oregon, USA. Her research and teaching interests focus on water, technology, and climate adaptation in cities, the role of infrastructure in development, and the social studies of transdisciplinary science in Latin America.
Claudio Minca is Professor of Cultural Geography and Head of the Cultural Geography Department at Wageningen University, The Netherlands. His current research centers on three major themes: tourism and travel theories of modernity; the spatialization of (bio)politics; and the relationship between modern knowledge, space, and landscape in postcolonial geography. His most recent books are On Schmitt and Space (with R. Rowan, Routledge, 2015), Moroccan Dreams (with L. Wagner, I.B. Tauris, 2015), Real Tourism (with T. Oakes, Routledge, 2011), Social Capital and Urban Networks of Trust (with J. Häkli, Ashgate, 2009).
Sami Moisio is Professor of Spatial Planning and Policy in the Department of Geosciences and Geography at the University of Helsinki, Finland. His research interests include critical geopolitics, political geographies of Europeanization, state spatial transformation, and the geopolitics of the knowledge-based society.
Olivia C. Molden is a master’s student in the Department of Geography at the University of Oregon. Her current research investigates the contemporary role of ancient and traditional water infrastructure in urban development and modernization efforts in Kathmandu, Nepal. She grew up in South Asia.
Martin Müller is Swiss National Science Foundation Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. His theoretical interests comprise discourse theories, actor-network theory (ANT), socio-materiality, and the psychoanalytic approach to fantasy and desire. He does research on the planning and organization of mega-events as well as on natural disturbances.
Luca Muscarà is Associate Professor at the Università del Molise, Italy. His research interests include the history of geographical thought, political geography, geopolitics, and urban geography. Honorary Fellow of the Société de Géographie, he is on the scientific board of Limes and Nomisma’s OSSS. He has published an intellectual biography of Gottmann, a collection of essays on borders, and co-authored with Agnew the second edition of Making Political Geography (Rowman & Littlefield, 2012).
Catherine J. Nash is a Geography Professor at Brock University. Her research interests include geographies of sexualities, and feminist/queer and trans geographies, mobilities, and digital technologies. Her work examines the historical geographies of Toronto’s gay village, queer women’s bathhouse spaces, new LGBTQ neighborhoods, and methodologies and pedagogical issues. Recent work considers intergenerational changes in sexual and gendered identities, new LGBT mobilities, new social media and LGBT urban places, and transnational oppositions to LGBTQ rights in Canada and the UK. She is also working with Andrew Gorman-Murray on changing LGBT neighborhoods in Sydney, Australia and Toronto, Canada.
Emma S. Norman is Chair of the Science Department/Native Environmental Science Program at Northwest Indian College, Bellingham, Washington State, USA. She is also a Research Associate with the Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of the American Indian, USA, and a long-term collaborator with the Program on Water Governance at the University of British Columbia, Canada.
John O’Loughlin is Professor of Geography at University of Colorado-Boulder, USA. He obtained his PhD in 1973 from Pennsylvania State University. He has been editor of Political Geography since 1981 and Eurasian Geography and Economics since 2001, and his research interests are in the geographies of conflict, including the relationship between climate change and conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa and post-Soviet conflicts. He has also published on the electoral geography of Nazi Germany, regional political geographies of Ukraine, geopolitical views of Russians, and social capital in post-Communist societies.
Anssi Paasi is Professor of Geography at the University of Oulu, Finland. He has published widely on political geographical concepts and processes (e.g., borders, territory, spatial identities) and power–knowledge relations in academia. His books include Territories, Boundaries and Consciousness (Wiley, 1996). He has recently co-edited The Sage Handbook of Progress in Human Geography (Sage, 2014) and The New European Frontiers (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014).
Joe Painter is Professor of Geography at Durham University in the UK, where he teaches urban and political geography. His research interests include the geographies of citizenship and the state, and urban and regional governance and politics. His books include Political Geography (co-authored with Alex Jeffrey, Sage, 2009) and Spatial Politics: Essays for Doreen Massey (co-edited with David Featherstone, Wiley-Blackwell, 2013).
Marcus Power is a Professor of Human Geography at the University of Durham, UK. His research interests include postsocialist transformations in Southern Africa; critical geographies and genealogies of (post)development; postcolonial geographies of Lusophone Africa; vision, visuality, and geopolitics; and the terms of China–Africa engagement. He is co-author of China’s Resource Diplomacy in Africa: Powering Development? (Palgrave, 2012).
Clionadh Raleigh is a Professor of Political Geography at the University of Sussex, UK. Her work is focused on subnational patterns of political violence across Africa, governance in developing states, the relationship between environmental change and insecurity, and complex emergencies. She is the creator and director of the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED).
Michael Samers (BA Clark, MS Wisconsin, DPhil Oxford University) is an Associate Professor of Economic and Urban Geography in the Department of Geography at the University of Kentucky, USA, having previously held positions at the University of Liverpool and the University of Nottingham. His research interests include the political-economic, urban, and labor market dimensions of migration/immigration, as well as alternative forms of economic activity. In 2013–14, he held a Fulbright Fellowship at CERAPS, Université de Lille II. He has also served as Editor of Geoforum, consulted for the Belgian Federal Science Policy Office and the UK Home Office, and has appeared a number of times on BBC radio and BBC4 television. He is the author of numerous articles, book chapters, and several books, including Migration (Routledge, 2010), which has been translated into Italian and Korean.
Anna J. Secor is Professor of Geography and the Hajja Razia Sharif Sheikh Islamic Studies Professor in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Kentucky, USA. Her research on Islam, state, and society in Turkey has been funded by the National Science Foundation. She serves on the editorial boards of the journals Political Geography, Geopolitics, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Gender, Place and Culture, and others.
Joanne Sharp is Professor of Geography at the University of Glasgow, UK. Her research interests are in feminist, postcolonial, cultural, and political geographies. Much of her research has been undertaken in Africa, most recently in Tanzania. She is currently the reviews editor for Political Geography and sits on the boards of Scottish Geographical Journal, Geography Compass, Resources, Urban Studies, and Space and Polity. She is co-editor of The Ashgate Research Companion to Critical Geopolitics (2013, with Klaus Dodds and Merje Kuus) and Geopolitics: an introductory reader (2014, with Jason Dittmer).
Michael Shin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA. His research interests include electoral geography, applied spatial analysis, and Italian politics and society.
Simon Springer is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Victoria, Canada. His research explores the political, social, and geographical exclusions that neoliberalism engenders in the global South, emphasizing its geographies of violence. He cultivates a cutting-edge approach to human geography by foregrounding a radical revival of anarchist philosophy. His books include To Make the Colossus Tremble! Anarchist Geography and Spatial Emancipation (University of Minnesota Press, 2016), Violent Neoliberalism: Development Discourse and Dispossession in Cambodia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), and Cambodia’s Neoliberal Order: Violence, Authoritarianism, and the Contestation of Public Space (Routledge, 2011).
Tristan Sturm is a Lecturer at Queen’s University Belfast. He wrote his dissertation at UCLA on American Christian Zionists in Israel and Palestine. His current research explores competing apocalyptic environmental discourses.
Farhana Sultana is Associate Professor of Geography at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs of Syracuse University, USA. Previously, she taught at King’s College London and worked at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Farhana has a BA (Cum Laude) in Geosciences and Environmental Studies from Princeton University, and an MA and a PhD in Geography from University of Minnesota, where she was a MacArthur Fellow. She has broad and interdisciplinary research interests in critical development geographies, water governance, feminist geography, political ecology, and climate justice. She has published on an array of topics in journals such as Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, The Professional Geographer, Society and Space, Gender Place and Culture, among many others. Her latest book is The Right to Water: Politics, Governance and Social Struggles (Routledge, 2012), where she is also a Faculty Affiliate in a number of other programs and departments.
James Tyner is a Professor of Geography at Kent State University, USA. He is the author of 14 books and numerous articles and book chapters. His 2009 book, War, Violence, and Population, received the Association of American Geographer’s Meridian book award for its outstanding contribution to geography. His most recent book (2016) is Violence in Capitalism: Devaluing Life in an Age of Responsibility (University of Nebraska Press).
Herman van der Wusten is professor emeritus of the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, where he taught political geography. His dissertation was on Irish resistance against the political unity of the British Isles, 1800–1921. He has studied Dutch electoral politics in a comparative perspective and has been active in the field of international relations. Current main interests are political center formation in Europe, EU governance, and diplomacy.
Chih Yuan Woon is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Geography, National University of Singapore. His research interests lie in the areas of critical geopolitics, geographies of peace and non-violence, and social movements. He has worked with non-governmental organizations and “rebel” groups in the Philippines on issues at the interface of terrorism, violence, and sustainable peace. His most recent publications have appeared in journals such as Progress in Human Geography, Geopolitics, and Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers.