Education

PhD: Geography, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2010

MA: Geography, California State University, East Bay, 2004

BA: History, Pomona College, 1998

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.

I also have an interest in relational and processual theorizing of key geographical and sociological concepts such as place, scale, territoriality, and events.

For full text copies of articles and books see my ResearchGate 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

Courses & Presentations

Graduate courses

Thinking, Researching, and Writing with Place

Key Spatial Concepts in Human Geography

Qualitative Methods and Social Science Research

Territoriality and Territory in Geographic Thought

Writing, Publishing, and Evaluating Books on Politics and Geography

Undergraduate courses

Political Geography: Geopolitics (Geography)

Introduction to International and Area Studies (International Institute)

Fascism: Then and Now (International Institute)

Nationalism, Victimhood, Politics (International Institute)

The Russia-Ukraine War (International Institute)

1989: Europe’s Revolutions (International Institute)

Forced Ethnic Un-mixing in 20^th Century East and South-East Europe (International Institute)

The Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s (International Institute)

Displacement in Europe After WWII (International Institute)

War and its Aftermath in Bosnia and Herzegovina (International Institute)

Graduate Students

Current PhD Students

Irma Losada Olmos. Interests:  Infrastructural violence, development

Anastasia Hollande. Interests: Urbicide

Former PhD Students and Postdocs

Nerve Macaspac (PhD, 2018): Associate 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