Notes on Contributors

Derek H. Alderman is a cultural geographer of memory, race, heritage tourism, and critical approaches to place name study and mapping - often in the African American Freedom Struggle context. He is a Chancellor's Professor at the University of Tennessee and a former president of the American Association of Geographers. He is a (co)author of over 170 articles, book chapters, and essays, a recipient of National Science Foundation and National Endowment for the Humanities funding, and an advocate for publicly engaged scholarship.

Ben Anderson is a cultural-political geographer whose research conceptualizes ordinary affective life and examines the politics of affect in relation to emergency governance, contemporary post-2018 political turbulence, including the rise of right-wing populisms, climate change, and other contemporary conditions. He is author of Encountering Affect: Capacities, Apparatuses, Conditions (2017, Routledge) and the forthcoming (with Professor Anna Secor) The Politics of Feeling: Populism, Progressivism, Liberalism (2025, Goldsmiths University Press/MIT).

James Ash is a professor in technology and society at Newcastle University. His work investigates the cultures, economies, and politics of digital interfaces and the role that digital technologies play in transforming everyday life. He is the author of Phase Media (Bloomsbury 2017) and The Interface Envelope (Bloomsbury 2015) and coauthor, with Rob Kitchin and Agnieszka Leszczynski, of Researching Digital Life (Sage 2024).

Ishan Ashutosh is associate professor of geography at Indiana University-Bloomington. His work encompasses the study of migration, the politics of race and ethnicity from an international and comparative perspective, and urban studies. He has published in cultural geographies, Progress in Human Geography, Geography Compass, Environment and Planning C: Space and Politics, Journal of Historical Geography, South Asian Diaspora, Diaspora, and Geopolitics.

Alison L. Bain is a professor in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change at York University in Toronto, Canada. As an urban social geographer, she studies the inequalities of contemporary urban and suburban place-making through the lens of artistic practice and spatialized identity politics. Her books include Creative Margins, the coedited The Cultural Infrastructure of Cities and Urbanization in a Global Context, and forthcoming Queer Geographies and Co-Authoring Feminist and Queer Geographies.

Stefano Bloch is associate professor in the School of Geography, Development & Environment at the University of Arizona in Tucson and on Tohono O'odham and Pasqua Yaqui territory. He researches, writes about, and teaches courses focused on law and criminalization in the context of neighborhood change, gang territoriality, identity, and cultural place-making.

Jordan Brasher is a broadly trained critical human geographer with research specializations in cultural-historical geography, heritage tourism, and the politics of commemorating slavery and settler colonialism in the Americas. His work earned the Best Paper Award in the Journal of Heritage Tourism for 2021 and has been featured in The Conversation, the Washington Post, Folha de São Paulo, and other outlets.

Eve Z. Bratman is a political ecologist and associate professor of Environmental Studies in the Department of Earth & Environment at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, PA. She is author of an award-winning book, Governing the Rainforest: Sustainable Development in the Brazilian Amazon (Oxford University Press 2019), and has published over twenty articles about the politics of pollinator protection, energy infrastructures, environmental education, and urban sustainability in venues including Antipode, Earth Stewardship, Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, and Orion Magazine.

Tianna Bruno is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on the intersection of Black geographies, critical environmental justice, political ecology, and critical physical geography. Through her work, she aims to foreground Black life, sense of place, and relationships to the environment within spaces of present-day environmental injustice.

Tim Bunnell is professor in the Department of Geography and director of the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore. He works mainly on the politics of urban development in Southeast Asia (particularly in Malaysia and Indonesia) and that region's global connections. Tim's latest book is Urban Asias: Essays on Futurity Past and Present (Jovis 2018; coedited with Daniel P.S. Goh).

Daniel Cockayne is an associate professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Management at the University of Waterloo. He is a feminist economic geographer and cultural geographer who explores workplace culture and changing attitudes toward work among entrepreneurs and office workers. His current research explores the shift toward working from home as a result of COVID-19 lockdowns in Ontario, Canada.

Susan Craddock is professor emerita from the Institute for Global Studies at the University of Minnesota. Her research focused on the social and political determinations of risk to ill health and in particular to infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, COVID-19, HIV, and influenza and the convergence of financial, political, and scientific factors in determining the availability or not of life-saving medications for these diseases, particularly in low-income countries. Her publications include Compound Solutions: Pharmaceutical Alternatives for Global Health (2017), City of Plagues: Disease Poverty, and Deviance in San Francisco (2000), HIV and AIDS in Africa: Beyond Epidemiology (coedited, 2004), and Influenza and Public Health: Learning from Past Pandemics (coedited, 2012).

Nicholas Jon Crane is an associate professor of geography and international studies at the University of Wyoming. Crane teaches cultural geography, political geography, and interdisciplinary themes in cultural politics and political economy across multiple world regions. Crane's current research examines relationships between configurations of place and the production of unequal social vulnerabilities in the context of urban economic development in central Mexico (including Mexico City) and the Aegean region of Türkiye (centered on Izmir).

Karen Culcasi is associate professor of geography at West Virginia University. Her book, Displacing Territory, Syrian and Palestinian Refugees in Jordan, won the 2023 Meridian Book Prize for Outstanding Scholarship. She is currently working on a project on anti-Muslim discrimination in West Virginia. She teaches courses on political geography, geographies of the "Middle East" (though she prefers to use "Southwest Asia and North Africa"), digital cartography, geopolitical theories, and geographic thought.

Declan Cullen is an assistant professor in geography at The George Washington University. His interests are in geographies of colonialism, economic transitions, and the effects of digital technologies on people and places.

Anindita Datta is professor of geography at the University of Delhi. She is vice president of the International Geographical Union (IGU) and past chair, IGU Commission on Gender and Geography. Her work focuses on gendered and epistemic violence, feminist dissidence, spaces of resistance, and geographies of care. Datta is associate editor of Dialogues in Human Geography and author of Gender Space and Agency in India: Exploring Regional Genderscapes.

Menusha De Silva is a lecturer at the Department of Geography, National University of Singapore. Her research focuses on the intersections of aging, transnational migration, and citizenship. Her recent work on geographical education focuses feminist pedagogy and blended forms of learning. She has published in peer-reviewed journals such as Gender, Place & Culture, Population, Space and Place, and Professional Geographer. In 2020, she received the Area journal prize for New Research in Geography.

Christabel Devadoss is a political and cultural geographer. She is an associate professor of global studies and human geography in the Department of Political and Global Affairs at Middle Tennessee State University. She received her PhD in geography from West Virginia University in 2018 and her master's in geography and bachelor of science in visual journalism from Kent State University (2014, 2009). She has been a lecturer at MTSU, an instructor for Kent State University's School of Journalism and Mass Communication, and a professional photographer.

Kim England (she/her) is professor of geography and emerita Harry Bridges Endowed Chair of Labor Studies, University of Washington. Her research investigates various aspects of the globalization of care work and the experience of care workers and the ways these knit together the restructuring of care provision, international migration, and the home as a workplace. Her current research explores workplace rights and domestic workers' activism in the United States.

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