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David Lee Baylis
205 Kethley Hall
(662) 846-4065
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[email protected]
SUMMARY
I am a geographer with research and teaching interests in the cultural, political, and historical
subfields of human geography. I use a mixed-methods approach which draws from ethnography
and narrative analysis, feminist and queer theory, environmental and cultural history, science
and technology studies, and cartography. I am especially interested in the spaces of bodily
control and regulation, critical population geographies, biopolitics, and governmentality. My
regional focus is in Southwest and Central Asia with a particular emphasis on Turkey and
Uzbekistan. I am also interested in cultural, political, and environmental geographies of the
American South as well as teaching methods in world regional geography and the use of popcultural analysis in cultural geography.
EDUCATION
Ph.D (2015): Geography, Michigan State University
Dissertation: Governmental Narratives of Health, Gender, and Place in the Early Turkish
Republic.
M.S. (2009): Geography, Michigan State University
Thesis: Environmental (Degradation & Uncertain) Security: Reifying the conditions for social
and environmental degradation in Uzbekistan.
B.S. (2006): Summa Cum Laude: Geography & Political Science, Aquinas College
Honors Thesis: New Orleans as the Island City: An Historical Geography of the New Orleans
Cultural Landscape, 1800 – 1970
PUBLICATIONS
Editorial Positions
2014-2015 Gendered Perspectives on International Development Working Paper Series,
Managing Editor, Michigan State University.
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
2014 Howell, Jordan P. and David L. Baylis. “Mapping Energy: Cartographies of Energy into
the 21st Century.” Geographical Review 104: 209-228.
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2011 Baylis, David L. “Environmental (Degradation and Uncertain) Security: Reifying the
Conditions for Social and Environmental Degradation in Uzbekistan. Arab World Geographer
14.3: 259-281.
GRANT, FELLOWSHIP, AND AWARD ACTIVITY
Total: $170,100
2014
Fulbright Hays DDRA Fellowship
E. James Potchen Graduate Student of the Year Award: Geography
Graduate Office Fellowship
Gender, Justice Environmental Change Dissertation Grant
2012 Graduate Office Research Enhancement Award
2011 Interdisciplinary Inquiry and Teaching Fellowship
Boren Fellowship (declined)
Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (FLAS)
Social Science Research Council DPDF
Critical Language Scholarship (declined)
2010 FLAS
Graduate Office Research Enhancement Award
Critical Language Scholarship
Summer Workshop in Central Asian Languages Grant, Indiana
2009 Rasmussen Doctoral Recruitment Award
FLAS
Summer Workshop in Central Asian Languages Grant, Indiana
C OURS ES TAUGHT
Michigan State University (2010 - present)
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Cultural Geography
Thematic Cartography
Cartographic Design and Visualization
Cartographic Design and Visualization
Humans and their Environment
Aquinas College (2008 - present )
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Introduction to Environmental Studies
Critical Geopolitics
Geography of the MENA and Central Asia
Geographic Perspectives on Food and Agriculture
World Regional Geography
Human Geography
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