Pablo Bose
is associate professor of geography and director of the Global and Regional Studies Program at the University of Vermont and works on migration, urbanization, transnationalism, and political ecology.
He has authored
Urban Development in India: Global Indians in the
Remaking of Kolkata (2015) and coauthored
Displacement by Development: Ethics, Rights and Responsibilities (2011).
His work has also appeared in a number of journals, including the
Annals of the American Association of Geographers,
Area, the
Journal of Geography in Higher Education, and the
Journal of Transport Geography.
He is an editor of
Urban Geography with a particular interest in cities of the Global South.
Karen Culcasi
is associate professor of geography in the Department of Geology and Geography at West Virginia University.
Her research uses critical and feminist geopolitical frames to examine contested places and identities, with a particular focus on the Middle East and the Arab world.
Her work has been published in
Political Geography, the
Professional Geographer,
Cartographica,
Antipode, and the
Arab World Geographer.
Carl T. Dahlman
is professor of geography and director of international studies at Miami University in Ohio.
His research interests include the geopolitics of the Balkans and the modern Middle East.
He is the coauthor of
Bosnia Remade: Ethnic Cleansing and Its Reversal (2011), numerous articles, and three textbooks.
Gary S. Elbow
is professor of geography and honors studies at Texas Tech University.
His work has been published in the
Professional Geographer,
Yearbook of the Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers,
Human Organization, and the
Journal of Geography.
He is a recipient of the Preston E. James Eminent Latin Americanist
Career Award from the Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers in 2003 and the George J. Miller Award from the National Council for Geographic Education in 2009.
His expertise on the Caribbean and Latin America is reflected in grants from the U.S. Information Agency, Fulbright Commission, and the National Science Foundation.
Jouni Häkli
is professor of regional studies at the University of Tampere, Finland, where he is the team leader of the Space and Political Agency Research Group (SPARG) and the vice director of the Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence (RELATE).
His areas of research include political geography, national identities, political agency, transnationalization, and border studies.
His over sixty peer-reviewed publications have appeared in leading international journals and also include
Boundaries and Place.
He is on the editorial boards of
Progress in Human Geography,
Political Geography,
National Identities, and
Terra (Journal of the Finnish Geographical Society).
Guntram H. Herb
is professor of geography at Middlebury College, Vermont.
His major publications include the four-volume reference work
Nations and Nationalisms in Global Perspective: An Encyclopedia of Origins, Development, and Contemporary Transitions;
Perthes World Atlas (editor-in-chief);
Nested Identities: Nationalism, Territory, and Scale; and
Under the Map of Germany: Nationalism and Propaganda, 1918–1945.
He is the recipient of a Fulbright fellowship and on the editorial boards of the journals
Geographical Review,
Political Geography, and
National Identities.
Corey Johnson
is associate professor of geography at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
He is a political geographer with interests in regional identity, borders, and natural resources.
His work on German nationalism has been published in several journals, including in the
Annals of the Association of American Geographers.
David H. Kaplan
is professor of geography at Kent State University.
He has written about sixty peer-reviewed articles and chapters and has also published
Segregation in Cities;
Nested Identities: Nationalism, Territory, and Scale;
Boundaries and Place;
Human Geography;
Urban Geography (three editions);
Landscapes of the Ethnic Economy;
Perthes World Atlas; the four-volume
Nations and Nationalism: An Encyclopedia of Origins, Development, and Contemporary Transitions; and
Imprinting Ethnicity.
His research interests include nationalism, borderlands, ethnic and racial segregation, urban and regional development, housing finance, and sustainable transportation.
He is the editor of the
Geographical Review and
National Identities.
David Keeling
is the University Distinguished Professor of Geography at Western Kentucky University.
His research interests include accessibility and mobility challenges in emerging economies, Latin America, and sociopolitical identity in the Southern Cone.
His monographs include
Buenos Aires: Global Dreams, Local Crises and
Contemporary Argentina, with articles and book chapters on Argentina’s
Malvinas/Falkland claims, Southern Cone geographies, mobility in Medellín, iconic landscapes, and transportation.
Sanan Moradi
is a PhD candidate in geography at the University of Oregon.
His research interests include political geography, cross-border identities, ethno-national movements, and federalism.
Alexander B. Murphy
is professor of geography and Rippey Chair in Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Oregon.
He has published more than one hundred scholarly articles and several books concerned with political, cultural, and territorial issues, and with the nature of geography as a discipline.
He is a former president of the American Association of Geographers and a member of the Academia Europaea.
Kefa M. Otiso
is professor of geography and director of the Global Village at Bowling Green State University, Ohio.
He is the founding president of the U.S.-based Kenya Scholars and Studies Association (KESSA), and his research interests are in urbanization, globalization, international migration, development, governance, and cultural change in the context of Africa and North America.
He has written many refereed journal articles, book chapters, and press editorials.
Recent publications include
Culture and Customs of Tanzania (2013).
Steven E. Silvern
is professor of geography at Salem State University.
His research has focused on American Indians and their relationship between territory and identity.
He has examined this relationship through a study of what he calls the geopolitics of American Indian treaty rights.
His research has appeared in journals such as
Political Geography,
Cultural Geographies,
Historical Geography, and
American Indian Culture and Research Journal.
He is editor of the
Northeastern Geographer: Journal of the New England–St. Lawrence Valley Geographical Society (a regional division of the American Association of Geographers).
Susan M. Walcott
is professor of geography at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Her research interests focus on regional economic development in the United States, China, and Bhutan, particularly high technology and industry clusters.
Publications include several books and numerous articles on Shanghai, Xi’an, Wenzhou, Chengdu, and Chongqing; ethnic entrepreneurs in Atlanta and North Carolina; and studies on tea and furniture
.
George W. White
is professor and head of the Department of Geography at South Dakota State University.
His research interests are in political geography with an emphasis on culture, ethnicity, and nationalism in Europe.
Among his publications are books titled
Nationalism and Territory: Constructing Group Identity in Southeastern Europe (2000) and
Nation, State, and Territory, Vol.
1.,
Origins, Evolutions, and Developments (2004).
Takashi Yamazaki
is professor of geography at Osaka City University, Japan.
His research interests concern political geography, critical geopolitics, and Okinawa studies.
His numerous refereed publications have appeared in leading journals and also include the book
Space, Place, and Politics: Towards a Geography of Politics Second Edition (in Japanese, 2013).
Cartographers
Kevin Cary, GISP, Western Kentucky University
Anna Cerf, Middlebury College
Danielle Guthrie, South Dakota State University
Lea LeGardeur, Middlebury College
Madeleine Frances Li, Middlebury College
Robbie Seltzer, Middlebury College
Laura Strom, Middlebury College
Map production was generously funded by Middlebury College.