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Dr. Mia Bennett is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Washington. She specializes in political geography and geospatial skills, focusing her research on geopolitics and infrastructure development in areas often considered frontiers, such as the Arctic and orbital space. Her work involves tracing, mapping, and critiquing the politics of frontier-making, including the material and discursive processes that underpin these transformations. Bennett employs a variety of methodologies, including experimental methods, ethnographic fieldwork, critical remote sensing, visual discourse analysis, archival research, and geovisualization, to investigate how climate change is reshaping the Arctic and recentering human actors in northern social-ecological transformations. Throughout her career, she has received multiple grants from organizations such as the Fulbright Arctic Initiative and the National Science Foundation to support her research. Her scholarship critiques frontier development across terrestrial borders, planetary orbits, and geological layers, illuminating the political agency contained within these constructs. She shares her work through various public and scholarly outlets, demonstrating her commitment to making Arctic research accessible and impactful. Bennett has also been recognized with the Richard Morrill Public Outreach Award and has previously taught at the University of Hong Kong.
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