Research Interests and Current Projects |
General Interests: Political-‐Social-‐Cultural Geography, International Relations, Geographic and Social Theory |
Specific Interests: Border Studies; Geographies of Nationalism & Transnationalism; Mobilities and Immobilities; Geopolitics; Geographies of Islam; Processes and Consequences of Territorialization; Urban Landscape Change; Justice, Ethics, and Geographies of Belonging |
| Regional / Area Studies Foci: Central Eurasia, Mongolia, Xinjiang, Islamic Borderlands, Russian Borderlands |
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Courses Taught and Teaching Awards |
| Geog 100 - World Regional Geography |
| Geog 571 - Topics in Cultural Geography: Understanding Central Asia |
| Geog 980 - Seminar: Borders, Territory & Sovereignty |
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Publications During the Last 5 Years |
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A Very Short Introduction to Borders co-authored with Joshua Hagen (New York and London: Oxford University Press 2012 – ISBN 978-0-19-973150-3) pp. 137 |
One Homeland or Two?:Nationalization and Transnationalization of Mongolia’s Kazakhs (Palo Alto, CA and Washington DC: Stanford University Press and Woodrow Wilson Center Press 2009 – ISBN 978-0-8047-6191-8) pp.405 |
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Borderlines and Borderlands: Political Oddities at the Edge of the Nation State co eds. Joshua Hagen (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2010 – ISBN 978-0-7425-5635-5) pp. 264 |
Urban Change in Post-Communist Contexts co eds. Joshua Hagen, Nationalities Papers Special Issue (forthcoming 2013 -provisional title) |
Articles and Edited Volume Chapters |
“From Socialist to Post-‐Socialist Cities: Narrating the Nation through Urban Space” co-‐authored with Joshua Hagen(NationalitiesPapers)forthcoming 2013 |
“City of Concrete and Felt: Negotiating Cultural Hybridity in Mongolia's Capital of Ulaanbaatar” co-
authored with Joshua Hagen (Nationalities Papers) 2013 |
“The Borderland Existence of Mongolia’s Kazakhs: Boundaries and the Construction of Territorial Belonging” in Doris Wastl‐Walter (ed.) Research Companion to Border Studies London: Ashgate (2011) pp. 373-393 |
“Will New Mobilities Beget New (Im)Mobilities?: Prospects for Change Resulting from Mongolia’s Trans-‐State Highway” in Stanley Brunn (ed.) Engineering Earth: The Impact of Mega Projects (Kluwer/Springer Press 2011) pp.627-642 |
“Kaliningrad's Past, Present, and Future: Russian and E.U. Perspectives on the Geopolitics of Exclave and Enclave” co-‐authored with Joshua Hagen (Eurasian Geography and Economics v.52, no. 4, 2011) pp. 567–592 |
“Diasporic Stances: Comparing the Historical Geographic Antecedents of German and Korean
Migration Decisions in Kazakhstan” (Geopolitics v. 14 no. 3 2009) pp. 462-487 |
“Theorizing Borders in a Borderless World: Globalization, Mobility and Scale” co-‐authored with
Joshua Hagen (Geography Compass v.3 no.3 2009) pp.1196-‐1216 |
“Introduction” and “Conclusion” co. authored with Joshua Hagen in A. Diener and J. Hagen (eds.) Borderlines and Borderlands: Political Oddities at the Edge of the Nation State (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2010) pp.1-15 & 189-195 |
“Russia’s Kaliningrad Exclave: Discontinuity as Threat to Sovereignty” co-‐authored with Joshua Hagen in A. Diener and J. Hagen (eds.) Borderlines and Borderlands: Political Oddities at the Edge of the Nation State (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2010) pp.121-136 |
“Kaliningrad” with Joshua Hagen in Geography of Russia, Joel Quam (ed.) Glen Ellyn IL: College ofDuPage Press (2009) |
“Settlement of the Returning Kazakh Diaspora: Practicality, Choice, and the Nationalization of Social Space” in C. Buckley and B. Ruble Migration, Homeland, and Belonging in Eurasia Woodrow Wilson Press (2008), pp. 265-304 |
“Democracy, Civil Society and the Damage Limitation Component of Strategy” co-authored with Timothy Crawford in eds. Paul R. Viotti, Michael Opheim, Nicholas Bowen, Terrorism and Homeland Security: Thinking Strategically About Policy CRC Press (2008), pp.191-206 |
“Diasporic and Transnational Social Practices in Central Asia” (Geography Compass v. 2 no. 2 2008) pp. 956-978 |
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Other Significant Publications |
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Homeland Conceptions and Ethnic Integration among Kazakhstan's Germans and Koreans (Lampeter UK: Edwin Mellen Press, 2004 – ISBN 0-7734-6311‐9) pp. 180 |
| Articles and Edited Volume Chapters: |
“Negotiating Territorial Belonging: A Transnational Field Approach to Mongolia’s Kazakhs” (Geopolitics v.12 no.3 2007) pp. 459‐487 |
“Koreans and Germans of Kazakhstan: A Comparative Study of Belonging” (Korean Studies Almaty: March 2007 – in Russian) pp. 4-16 |
“Mongols, Kazakhs, and Mongolian Territorial Identity: Trajectories of Nationalization” (Central Eurasian Studies Review v. 3-4 no.1 2005) pp. 18-25 |
“Research among Mongolia’s Kazakhs: Brief Reflections on Data Collection and Community Access” (Mongol Survey no. 15 Winter/Spring 2005) pp. 14-18 |
“Kazakh-stan or Kazakhstani-stan: Identity, Territory, Legitimacy” in B. Suzhikova ed. Issues of Interethnic Relations and Globalization in the Central Asian Republics, Almaty: Ministry of Education & Science of Republic of Kazakhstan - Institute of Philosophy and Politics (2003) pp. 212-227 |
“Homeland as Social Construct: Territorialization among Germans and Koreans in Kazakhstan” (Nationalities Papers v.34 no.2 2006) pp. 201-236 |
“Kazakhstan’s Kin-State Diaspora: Settlement Planning and the Oralman Dilemma” (Europe Asia Studies v.57 no.2 March 2005) pp. 327-348 |
“Problematic Integration of Mongolian-‐Kazakh Return-‐Migrants in Kazakhstan (Eurasian Geography and Economics, no.6, 2005) pp. 465-478 |
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