About the Contributors

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.