Greetings!  I am a qualitative human geographer with a broad interest in the uneven geographies of sociospatial change.  My research has taken me to a wide range of locales—from South Africa to Mexico and, most recently, the Caribbean—and has focused around a diverse array of issues, including urban change, transnational migration, climate change, and energy transitions.  What these investigations have in common is a concern to bring geographic theory and an ethical lens to bear in better understanding the local dynamics of social and economic transformations.

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My recent fieldwork has been oriented around two interrelated projects, one focused on agriculture and climate change in Jamaica, and the other investigating the dynamics of energy transitions across the wider Caribbean.  More information about these ongoing projects, as well as my previous work and teaching activities, can be found elsewhere on this site.  If you share similar interests, have comments or questions about my research, or would like copies of my published work, please do not hesitate to get in touch.  – JP