Mathew Coleman

Assistant Professor
Geography
1156 Derby Hall
614.292.9686
coleman.373@osu.edu

Education
B.A., Political Science, Université d'Ottawa (1996)
M.A., Political Economy, Carleton University (1999)
Ph.D., University of California Los Angeles (2005)

Teaching/Research
Dr. Coleman's research interests include immigration law and politics, the U.S.-Mexico border, interior immigration enforcement, critical geopolitics, political geography, states and statecraft, geographies of power and resistance.

Selected Publications
"Sovereignty," in International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, ed. by R. Kitchin and N. Thrift (Elsevier, forthcoming)
 
"What Counts as Geopolitics, and Where?  Devolution and Immigrant Insecurity After 9/11" (Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 2009)

"Biopolitics, Biopower and the Return of Sovereignty," with Grove K (Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 2009)

"U.S. Immigration Law and its Geographies of Social Control: Lessons from Homosexual Exclusion During the Cold War" (Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 2008)

"Between Public and Foreign Policy: U.S. Immigration Law Reform and the Undocumented Migrant" (Urban Geography, 2008)

"Deserting Sovereignty? The Securitization of Undocumented Migration in the U.S.," in Geopolitics of American Insecurity — Terror, Power and Foreign Policy, eds. by F. Debrix and M. Lacy (Routledge 2008)

"A Geopolitics of Engagement: Neoliberalism and the War on Terrorism at the Mexico-U.S. Border," (Geopolitics, 2007)

"Immigration Geopolitics Beyond the Mexico-U.S. Border" (Antipode, 2007)

"The Problem with Empire," in Space, Knowledge and Power — Foucault and Geography, eds. by J. Crampton and S. Elden (Ashgate, 2007)

"U.S. Statecraft and the U.S.-Mexico Border as Security/Economy Nexus" (Political Geography, 2005)

"The Naming of Terrorism and Evil Outlaws: Geopolitical Place-Making After 11 September" (Geopolitics, 2003)

"Thinking about the World Bank's 'Accordion' Geography of Financial Globalization" (Political Geography, 2002)

Honors, Awards, and Service
Executive board member, Association of American Geographers Political Geography Specialty Group (2007-10)

Editorial review board member, Geography Compass (2006-08)

University of California Dissertation Year Fellowship (2003-04)

University of California Institute for Mexico and the United States (UCMEXUS) Dissertation Research Grant (2002-04)

Mershon Projects
New Spaces of Immigration Enforcement: Sanctuary and the Devolution of Immigration Enforcement in the Aftermath of September 2001 (2009-10)