John A. Agnew
Department of Geography
1255 Bunche Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1524
t: 310.825.1713
f: 310.206.5976
email: JAGNEW@GEOG.UCLA.EDU
office: Bunche 1171

EDUCATION

B.A. (Hons.) Geography and Politics, University of Exeter, England, 1970
Cert.Ed. Education, University of Liverpool, England, 1971
M.A. Geography, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 1973
Ph.D. Geography, Ohio State University, Columbus OH, 1976

SUBFIELDS

Political and urban geography, international political economy, Italy

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Political Geography of Modern Italy;
No Borders, No Nations: Making Greece in Macedonia
Sovereignty and Territoriality;
Hegemony in Global Geopolitics;
Politics of Water;
History of Geographic Thought

AWARDS

Chancellor's Award for Distinguished Scholarship, Syracuse University 1996
Wasserstrom Award for Graduate Teaching, Syracuse University, 1995
Guggenheim Fellowship 2003-2004
Hettner Lectures, University of Heidelberg 2000
Choice Outstanding Title Book Award, 2005
Distinguished Scholarship Award, Association of American Geographers, 2006
2007 UCLA Award in Distinguished Teaching
President, Association of American Geographers, 2008-9

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Globalization and Sovereignty (Lanham MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2009)

With Michael Shin, Berlusconi's Italy: Mapping Contemporary Italian Politics (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2008)

"Borders on the Mind: Re-Framing Border Thinking," Ethics and Global Politics, 1/4 (2008), 1-17.

"No Borders, No Nations: Making Greece in Macedonia," Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 97/2 (2007), 398-422.

"Remaking Italy? Place Configurations and Italian Electoral Politics under the 'Second Republic,'" Modern Italy, 12/1 (2007), 17-38.

Hegemony: The New Shape of Global Power (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2005) Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 2005

"Sovereignty Regimes: Territoriality and State Authority in Contemporary World Politics," Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 95/2 (2005), 437-461.

Co-edited with J. Nicholas Entrikin, The Marshall Plan Today (London, Routledge, 2004)

Co-edited with Katharyne Mitchell and Gerard Toal, A Companion to Political Geography (Oxford:Blackwell, 2003)

Place and Politics in Modern Italy (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2002)

Making Political Geography (London:Arnold; New York: Oxford University Press, 2002)

With Jonathan Smith (eds.) American Space/American Place: Geographies of the Contemporary United States (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press; New York: Routledge, 2002)

Geopolitics: Re-Visioning World Politics (London and New York: Routledge, 1998; 2nd edition, 2003)

With Mathew Coleman, "The Problem with Empire," in S. Elden and J. Crampton (eds.) Space, Knowledge and Power: Foucault and Geography (Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 2007).

"Know-Where: Geographies of Knowledge of World Politics," International Political Sociology, 1/2 (2007), 138-148.

With T.W. Gillespie, J. Gonzalez, and B. Min, "Baghdad Nights: Evaluating the US Military 'Surge' Using Nighttime Light Signatures," Environment and Planning A, 40 (2008), 2285-95.