Cultural, historical, and political geography; science and technology studies; social theory; science and environmental politics; US Military-industrial-scientific complex, esp. nuclear issues; American geopolitics; American colonialism in the Philippines
Relevant Experience:
February 2008. Visiting scholar at the University of the Philippines, Diliman. 2008-present. Geography Department liason for UNC-National University Singapore joint degree program.
Dissertations and Theses Supervised in Past 5 Years:
6
Relevant Courses Taught:
• Teaches graduate seminars in geography, social theory and science studies. (Geographic Thought: History and Philosophy of Geography, Lefebvre, Historical Materialism and Human Geography and Technology and Democracy) Also teaches undergraduate courses focused in geography (453: political geography, 062: The culture of technology, 650: Technology and democracy workshop, 120 World Regional Geography, 435: Environmental Politics)
Recent Publications:
• 2017 Crampton, J, Ginn, F., Kirsch, S., Kobayashi, A., Naylor, S., and J. Seemann. 2017. Teaching the history of geography: Current challenges and future directions. Progress in Human Geography 41(2): 245-262
• 2017 Kirsch, S. 2017. Aesthetic regime change: The Burnham Plans and US landscape imperialism in the Philippines. Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints (Philippines) 65(3): 315-356.
• 2016 Kirsch, S. 2016. Insular territories: US colonial science, geopolitics, and the (re)mapping of the Philippines. The Geographical Journal 182(1): 2-14.
• 2016 Kirsch, S., and Flint, C. 2015. “Geographies of Reconstruction: Rethinking Post-War Spaces” in M. Turner and F.P. Kühn (eds), The Politics of International Intervention: The Tyranny of Peace, pp. 39-58. London: Routledge.
• 2016 Kirsch, S. 2015. Cultural geography III: Objects of culture and humanity, or, re-‘thinging’ the Anthropocene landscape. Progress in Human Geography 39: 818-826.
• 2016 Kirsch, S. 2015. West Philippine Sea? ASEAN Sea? What’s in a Name. Geography Directions (online publication, Royal Geographical Society), posted October 22, 2015: http://blog.geographydirections.com/2015/10/22/west-philippine-sea-asean-sea-whats-in-a-name/
• 2016 Rose-Redwood, R., Alderman, D., Cravey, A., Kirsch, S., Babatunde, O.R., and Inwood, J. 2015. Op-Ed: #KickOutTheKKK: Challenging White Supremacy at UNC. Association of American Geographers Newsletter June 2015: http://news.aag.org/2015/06/op-ed-kickoutthekkk-challenging-white-supremacy-at-unc/
• 2015 Kirsch, S. 2014. Cultural geography II: Cultures of nature (and technology). Progress in Human Geography 38: 691-702.
• 2015 Crampton, J, Ginn, F., Kirsch, S., Kobayashi, A., Naylor, S., and J. Seemann. 2015. Teaching the history of geography: Current challenges and future directions. Progress in Human Geography first published on March 16, 2015 as doi:10.1177/0309132515575940.
• 2015 Kirsch, S. 2015. Cultural geography III: Objects of culture and humanity, or, re-‘thinging’ the Anthropocene landscape. Progress in Human Geography, first published on February 4, 2015 as doi:10.1177/0309132514566741.
• 2014 Kirsch, S. Insular territories: US colonial science, geopolitics, and the (re)mapping of the Philippines. The Geographical Journal.
• 2014 Kirsch S. 2014. "War and peace" in P Cloke, P Crang, M Goodwin (eds) I Introducing Human Geographies, revised 3rd edn, 542-555. London and New York: Routledge
• 2013 Kirsch S. 2013. Cultural Geography I: Materialist Turns. Progress in Human Geography 37: 433-441.
• 2012 Kirsch S. 2012. State, Space, World: Selected Essays by Henri Lefebvre. Antipode 44: 1042-1049
• 2011 Kirsch, S. and Flint, C. (eds). 2011. Reconstructing Conflict: Integrating War and Post-War Geographies. Ashgate, Critical Geopolitics Series.
• 2011 Kirsch, S. 2011. “Object Lessons: War and American Democracy in the Philippines” In Kirsch and Flint (eds) Reconstructing Conflict, pp. 203-225. Ashgate, Critical Geopolitics Series.
• 2005 Kirsch, S. 2005. Proving Grounds: Project Plowshare and the Unrealized Dream of Nuclear Earthmoving. New Brunswick, NJ, and London: Rutgers University Press.
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