Klaus Dodds

Klaus Dodds is executive dean of the School of Life Sciences and Environment and professor of geopolitics at Royal Holloway, University of London. He was a visiting professor at the College of Europe in Natolin Warsaw Poland. He is a former editor of The Geographical Journal (2010-2015) and most recently Editor in Chief of Territory Politics Governance (2018-2024).

Academia

Dodds completed his PhD studies at the Department of Geography (now School of Geographical Sciences) University of Bristol in 1994. His research was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and fieldwork was carried out in Argentina and the United States. He was a visiting student at Emporia State University in Kansas and the Inter-American Defence College in Washington DC. The PhD examiners were Professor Sir Nigel Thrift FBA and Professor Peter Taylor FBA. After taking up a position at the University of Edinburgh, he was appointed to a lectureship at Royal Holloway in 1994. Since 1994, he has worked at the Department of Geography at Royal Holloway and served in the past as dean of the graduate school for the university and director of research for the School of Life Sciences and Environment. He has supervised many PhD students in a range of subjects from critical and popular geopolitics and polar studies to cybersecurity and digital statecraft. He has held visiting fellowships at University of Canterbury in New Zealand, Loughborough University and St Cross College and St Johns College University of Oxford. He is a former co-editor of the Routledge Geopolitics Book Series with Reece Jones.[1]

Recognition

In 2005 Klaus Dodds was awarded the annual Philip Leverhulme Prize by the Leverhulme Trust for "an outstanding contribution to political geography and ‘critical geopolitics'"[2] In 2008 he was awarded the Richard Morrill Public Outreach Award by the Political Geography Speciality Group of the AAG. In 2012 he was elected to the UK’s Academy of Social Sciences as Fellow. In 2017 he was awarded a Major Research Fellowship by the Leverhulme Trust for his work on polar geopolitics. Beyond academia he has worked as a specialist adviser to the House of Lords select committee on the Arctic and the House of Commons Environment Audit Committee. He is a former Trustee of the Royal Geographical Society (2019-2022) and continues as an Honorary Fellow of British Antarctic Survey. In 2022, he was invited to join the Shackleton Medal (for the Protection of the Polar Regions) awarding committee and has served for three years running as a judge. He remains a long standing Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and more recently a Fellow of the Regional Studies Association.

Selected publications

His books which have been translated into multiple languages include Border Wars (Ebury Press, 2021, Penguin 2022), Geographies, Genders and Geopolitics of James Bond (Palgrave 2017, with Lisa Funnell), Geopolitics: A Very Short Introduction (OUP 2007, 2014, 2019) and Pink Ice: Britain and the South Atlantic Empire (I B Tauris 2002).[citation needed]

References

  1. ^ "Routledge Geopolitics Series - Routledge". Routledge.com. Retrieved 6 April 2018.
  2. ^ Philip Leverhulme Prizes 2005 Archived 2007-04-02 at the Wayback Machine Leverhume Trust. Accessed August 6, 2008. Award citation:"Klaus Dodds had made an outstanding contribution to political geography and ‘critical geopolitics’. His work ranges from historical investigations of British policy towards the South Atlantic and Antarctica in the post-war period, to studies of ‘popular geopolitics’ in the news media and film. He pioneered the study of geopolitical issues focused on Antarctica and southern Latin America, and this work has also had a substantial impact within the foreign policy communities of several countries, including the UK."