As a US political geography professor for over ten years, I have focused nearly all of my research on international contexts—first I was studying Central Asian countries that were once part of the Soviet Union and then the Gulf countries of the Arabian Peninsul..
Natalie Koch
Natalie Koch is Professor of Geography at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. She is a political geographer who works on geopolitics, authoritarianism, identity politics, and state power in hydrocarbon-rich countries, primarily in the Arabian Peninsula. She is the author of The Geopolitics of Spectacle: Space, Synecdoche, and the New Capitals of Asia (Cornell University Press, 2018) and Arid Empire: The Entangled Fates of Arizona and Arabia (Verso Books, 2023), as well as editor of several books, including, Spatializing Authoritarianism (Syracuse University Press, 2022).