GES Welcomes New Faculty

Dr Adam Bledsoe will be joining the Department of Geography, Environment & Society as Assistant Professor in fall 2019.

Bledsoe is interested in a variety of questions pertaining to the African Diaspora and how people of African descent in the Americas understand, critique, and offer alternatives to societal structures that oppress them. He sees Blackness as a global phenomenon that manifests in different ways across different times and spaces. These variations aside, he also sees Blackness as a phenomenon that has led to important theorizations and practices of liberation around the world. An engagement with the ways in which Black populations understand, conceive of, and create space is thus fundamental to imagining and establishing new ways of existing. These interests have led Bledsoe to engage with a number of bodies of literature, including Black geographies, feminist geography, political geography, critical social theory, and critical race theory.