Fellow 2022-2023 MIA BENNETT
Employment: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Geography, University of Washington; Assistant Professor, Dept. of Geography and School of Modern Languages & Cultures (China Studies Programme), University of Hong Kong (2018-2021)
Education: PhD, Geography, UCLA (2017), MPhil, Polar Studies, Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge (2013), BA, Political Science and European Studies, UCLA (2010)
Fellowships: 2020-2021 Visiting Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies, Loughborough University, Doris Zimmern HKU-Cambridge Hughes Hall Fellowship, University of Cambridge (2019), National Science Foundation GROW Fellowship, University of Vienna (2017)
Major Research Grants: Collaborator: Navigating Convergent Pressures on Arctic Development (U.S. National Science Foundation, US$80,966), Consortium Member: JUSTNORTH: Towards just, ethical, and sustainable Arctic economies, environments, and societies (Horizon 2020, EU Framework Programme for Research, PI: Effects of Indigenous land rights on land use decisions (Regional Studies Association Early Career Fellowship, £10,000)
Recent Publications:
Bennett, M.M. & Faxon, H.O. (2021) Uneven frontiers: Exposing the geopolitics of Myanmar’s borderlands with critical remote sensing. Remote Sensing 13(6): 1158;
Kim, S.K., Bennett, M.M., van Gevelt, T., & Joosse, P. (2021) Urban agglomeration worsens spatial disparities in climate adaptation. Scientific Reports 11: 8846.;
Bennett, M.M. & Iaquinto, B.L. (2021) The geopolitics of China’s Arctic tourism resources. Territory, Politics, Governance;
Liu, C., Yang, K., Bennett, M.M., Lu, X., Guo, Z., Li, M. Changes to anthropogenic pressures on reach-scale rivers in South and Southeast Asia from 1990 to 2014, (2020) Environmental Research Letters 16: 014025;
Bennett, M.M. (2020) Ruins of the Anthropocene: The aesthetics of Arctic climate change; Annals of the American Association of Geographers 111: 921-931.;
van Gevelt, T., Zaman, T., George, F., Bennett, M.M., Fam, S.D., & Kim, J.E. (2020) End-user perceptions of success and failure: Narratives from a natural laboratory of rural electrification projects in Malaysian Borneo. Energy Research & Social Science, 59: 189-198.;
Bennett, M.M., Stephenson, S.R., Yang, K., Bravo, M.T., De Jonghe, B. (2020) The Opening of the Transpolar Sea Route: Logistical, geopolitical, environmental, and socioeconomic impacts. Marine Policy (120): 104178.