Fellow 2022-2023 ROBERT KIRSCH
PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION
Ph.D., Social, Political, Ethical, and Cultural Thought; Virginia Tech (2012)
M.A., Political Science, Virginia Tech (2008)
B.A., Political Science, St. John’s University (MN) (2004)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2017 - Assistant Professor, Faculty of Leadership and Integrative Studies, Arizona State University
2019 - Senior Global Futures Scholar, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory, Arizona State University
RELATED PUBLICATIONS / WORKS IN PROGRESS
[Under contract] Kirsch, R. E. & Ray, E. (2022). Worst case scenario: The politics of prepping in America. New York, NY: Columbia University Press.
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Kirsch, R. (2020). Manufacturing alienation in the Bakken: Toward a political economy of extraction. Theory & Event 23(1), 231-247. .
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Kirsch, R. (2019). You can’t handicraft the apocalypse: The invidious consequences of “opting out.” New Political Science, 41(4), 529-543. .
Kirsch, R.E. (2020). Mumford and Bataille: Toward a political economy of energy consumption. In R.E. Kirsch (Ed.), Limits to Terrestrial Extraction. Routledge Focus Series on Environment and Sustainability. New York, NY: Routledge.
[In progress] From Tinkering to Hacking and the Rise of Neoliberalism.