TRISTAN STURM
E-mail: tristan.sturm@gmail.com
Office: A121

EDUCATION

PhD Candidate (2008): UCLA in Geography. Dissertation: Apocalyptic Geopolitics: Landscape, War, and Evangelicals in Israel and Palestine.

MA (2006): Carleton University in Geography and Environmental Studies.
Thesis: Prophetic Eyes: The Theatricality of Mark Hitchcock's Apocalyptic Geopolitics, VII+160 pp. Advisers: Simon Dalby (Chair), Iain Wallace.

BA (2003) Honours w/ Distinction: University of Victoria in Geography and Political Science.
Thesis: Spatializing Borders: The Geopolitical (Re)organization of the US-Mexico Border, IV+153pp.
Advisers: Bernard Henin (Chair), Jutta Gutberlet

SUBFIELDS

Canadian and American evangelicals; Social movments; political geography; future spaces; critical geopolitics; environmental anxiety; apocalyptic geopolitics; US-Israel relations; property insurance and natural disasters

NOTES

TEACHING
Lecturer UCLA, Dept of Geography:
Designed and taught GE88 "Religions and Environments", Winter 2008.


SERVICE

Editorial board:
Critical Planning journal 2010 -

Manuscript editor for:
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers; Geopolitics; Environment and Planning D: Society and Space

Elected Positions
2009-2011 Board Member of the Graduate Student Affinity Group (GSAG)
of the AAG.
2006-2008 Board Member for the Geographies of Religion and Belief
Systems (GORABS) of the AAG.

PUBLICATIONS

Edited Volume

Dittmer, J. and Sturm, T. (eds.) (2010) Mapping the End Times: American
Evangelical Geopolitics and Apocalyptic Visions. Farnham, UK: Ashgate, xviii+266 pp.
Hbk ISBN: 978-0-7546-7601-0
Pbk ISBN: 978-1-4094-0083-7
Click here for more info


Refereed Journal Articles

Sturm, T. and Oh, E. (2010) "Natural Disasters as the End of the Insurance Industry? Scalar Competitive Strategies, Alternative Risk Transfers, and the Economic Crisis." Geoforum, 41 (1 or 2).
Pre-published: doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2009.09.010

Sturm, T. (2006) "Prophetic Eyes: The Theatricality of Mark Hitchcock's Premillennial Geopolitics." Geopolitics. 11 (2), pp. 231-255.


Short Journal Essays

Sturm, T. and Bauch, N. (2009) "Nationalism and Geography: An Interview with
Rogers Brubaker." Geopolitics 14 (4).

Sturm, T. (2008) "The Christian Right, Eschatology, and Americanism: A Commentary
on Gerhardt." Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 26 (5), pp. 929-934.

Sturm, T. (2008) "Critical Methodological Geopolitics: Discourse
Analysis/Ethnography." Geopolitics. 13 (3), pp. 600-609.


Book Chapters

Sturm, T. and Dittmer, J. (2010) "Introduction: Mapping the End Times." In J.
Dittmer and T. Sturm (eds.), Mapping the End Times: American Evangelical Geopolitics and Apocalyptic Visions. Farnham, UK: Ashgate, pp. 1-23.

Sturm, T. (2010) "Re-Mapping the End Times: Post-Cold War American
Dispensational Visions." In J. Dittmer and T. Sturm (eds.), Mapping the End Times: American Evangelical Geopolitics and Apocalyptic Visions. Farnham, UK: Ashgate, pp. 133-154.

Levine, G. J. and Sturm, T. (accepted). "Historical Materialism as Method in the
Geography of Religion: Methodist and Catholic Sabbath Observance in Kingston, Ontario 1880-1901." In C. Prorok and M. Ferber (eds.), Doing Geographies of Religion. Los Angeles, CA: Sage.


Book Review

Sturm, T. (accepted) "William E. Connolly's Capitalism and Christianity, American
Style. Durham: Duke University Press." Antipode.


Opeds

Sturm, T. (2009) "Bible Politics and Palestinian Zionists." Haaretz. B4, Fri. 25 Sept. Click here to read

GRANTS AND AWARDS

UCLA
2009 Dissertation Year Fellowship, UCLA.
2008 Lady Davis Fellowship, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
2007 Political Geography Specialty Group of the AAG best doctoral paper award.
2007 Extramural Grant Award, UCLA.
2006 UCLA Departmental Fellowship (and non-resident tuition waiver).
2006 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral
Fellowship.
2006 Canada Graduate Doctoral Scholarship (Declined).
2006 Ontario Graduate Scholarship (Declined).

Carleton
2006 David E. Sopher New Scholar Award, Association of American Geographers.
2006 Michael Hare Fellowship.
2006 Canadian Society for the Study of Religion (CSSR) Graduate Student Essay
Award: Special Mention.
2005 and 2006 Graduate Studies and Research Grant.
2004 Geography and Environmental Studies Departmental Fellowship.
2004 Entrance Scholarship, Department of Graduate Studies.

UVic
2003 The Dart Coon Club and Chinese Freemasons of Victoria China Studies Award(Declined).
2003 President's Scholarship.
2003 Best Honours Thesis and Defence Grade.
2002 and 2003 Ross Geography Scholarship.

MHC
2001 Most Likely to Succeed in Geography Award.

ADVISORS

John Agnew (Chair)
Michael Curry
J. Nicholas Entrikin
Akhil Gupta (External)

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Major Invited Lectures

2009 Panel discussant for session: Geography's Diversity, Coherence,
Prospects. Association of American Geographers (AAG), Las Vegas, NV.
2008 Colloquium Lecture: Apocalyptic Geopolitics: The Evangelical
Citationality of Cartography and Environment. Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Dept. of Geography.


Conference Paper Sessions Organized

2009 Religious Transnationalism. Organizers: J. Wilford and T. Sturm. Association of Pacific Coast Geographers, San Diego.
2009 Evangelical Public Political Performances. Organizers: T. Sturm and J. Dittmer;
Chair: J. Dittmer. Association of American Geographers (AAG), Las Vegas, NV.
2007 Geographies of Religion: Place and Environment. Organizers: N. Bauch and T.
Sturm; Chair: T. Sturm. Association of Pacific Coast Geographers, Long Beach, CA.
2007 Religion and Environment 1: Security. Organizers: T. Sturm and C. Limburg;
Chair: C. Limburg. Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, CA.
2007 Religion and Environment 2: Mediation. Organizers: T. Sturm and C. Limburg;
Chair: T. Sturm. Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, CA.
2006 Religion as Geopolitics. Organizers: T. Sturm and J. Joshi; Chair: T. Sturm;
Association of American Geographers, Chicago, IL.


Conference Paper Presentations

2009 Performing the Geopolitics of the End of the World in the Holy Land.
Association of American Geographers (AAG), Las Vegas, NV.
2008 Natural Disasters as the End of the Insurance Industry? Scaled Recovery and
Managed Environments. A Media Analysis, 2004-2006. Association of Pacific Rim Universities Symposium (APRU), University of California, Davis.
2007 Secular and Evangelical Environmentalism. Association of Pacific Coast
Geographers (APCG), Long Beach, CA.
2007 Environment as Apocalypse. Association of American Geographers (AAG),
San Francisco, CA.
2007 Re-mapping the Apocalypse after the Cold War. Political Geography Specialty
Group Pre-conference of the AAG, Berkeley, CA.
2006 Prophetic Eyes: The Theatricality of Mark Hitchcock's Premillennial
Geopolitics. Association of American Geographers (AAG) in Chicago, IL.
2005 Apocalyptic Geopolitics. Canadian Association of Geographers (CAG) at the
University of Western Ontario.
2005 American Political Economy and Apocalyptic Empire. 6th Annual Graduate
Political Economy Conference (GPEC) at Carleton University.
2004 Without Geography 'They're' Nowhere: Questions on Utopia and Ives Lacoste. Canadian Association of Geographers Ontario Division (CAGONT) at the University of Waterloo.
2003 Is Islam the Savior in a Christian Africa? Explaining a Correlation Between
Religion and the Distribution of AIDS in Africa. Association of Pacific Coast Geographers (APCG) at Portland State University, Oregon.
2003 Geography, Theology and AIDS in Africa. Canadian Association of
Geographers (CAG) at the University of Victoria.
2003 Environmental Geopolitics and Federalism on the US-Mexico Border. Western
Division of the Canadian Association of Geographers (WDCAG) at the University of Northern British Columbia.