Job description

My primary research interest is the history, geography, and materiality of urban politics: How are policies made and implemented? What tools, technologies and knowledges are employed? What geographies can a policy inhabit, how does it materialize, and what are its consequences?
 
I have studied this considering activist uses of urban public space, gentrification, the political subjectivities of urban climate mitigation, and the transformation of the ocean economy. In my current research I engage with the relationship between colonialism, decolonization, and urbanity. This work is organized through the research project UrbTrans, a community of researchers, artists, and others working together to understand urban transformations in the Arctic. Our work is interdisciplinary and draws on several strands of research, among them Indigenous studies, urban geography, and science and technology studies (STS).