Education

PhD: Geography, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2010

Research

Broadly conceived my research concerns the political and geographical dynamics of war, militarism, and peace, or what I call conflict geographies. Topics of particular interest include geopolitics, political violence, ethnic conflict, nationalism, intrastate war, postwar peacebuilding, Southeast European politics, military labor, military contracting, and the militarization of U.S. foreign policy.

For full text copies of articles and books see my academica.edu profile.

Selected Publications

Grants & Awards

Empire’s Labor: Globe Book Award for Public Understanding of Geography, American Association of Geographers

Peacebuilding in Practice: Julian Minghi Distinguished Book Award, Political Geography Specialty Group, American Association of Geographers

Graduate Students

Current PhD Students

Lindsey Rogers. Interests: Police violence, sheriffs, federalism

Irma Losada Olmos. Interests: Migration, refugees, humanitarianism, infrastructure, development

Former PhD Students and Postdocs

Nerve Macaspac (PhD, 2018): Assistant Professor, Queens College, CUNY

Ali Hamdan (PhD, 2019): Assistant Professor, University of Amsterdam

James Walker (PhD, 2021): Post-doc, Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat Erlangen Nurnberg (FAU)

Danya Al-Saleh (ACLS postdoc, 2021-22): Assistant Professor, University of Washington

Nour Joudah (PhD, 2022): Assistant Professor, UCLA