Professor
Ph.D., School of Geography
Clark University,
Specializations: Environmental Geography,
Political Ecologies of Eurasia,
Social Theory and Nature
M.S., School of Design,
University of Pennsylvania,
Specialization: Energy Management and Policy
B.A., Dept. of Geography and Urban Studies
Temple University,
Specialization: Cartography and Data Handling,
Multilingual Business and Government
Political ecology of resource
development in the Caucasus
Central Asia
The Russian Far East
Jeremy Tasch is Towson University’s first interdisciplinary hire in global studies. He came to Towson from the University of Alaska, Anchorage, where he helped create the university’s first geography and environmental studies department and first undergraduate degree program in international studies. From 2009-2013 Jeremy was a principal investigator on a five-country, NSF-funded study on the human dimensions of climate change in the Arctic. A recipient of three Fulbright awards to the Russian Far East, the Kyrgyz Republic, and the Republic of Azerbaijan, he previously served as chief-of-mission for an international NGO in Azerbaijan, where he helped create the first multi-institution educational center and American library, funded by the U.S. Department of State. Jeremy has received several competitive research and educational grants, and his publications touch on themes of political ecology, critical geopolitics, and “territorial Imaginaries.”
Co-authored with Philip E. Steinberg, Hannes Gerhardt, Adam Keul and Elizabeth Nyman Contesting the Arctic: Politics and Imaginaries in the Circumpolar North. I.B. Tauris: London, 2015
Co-authored with Weiwei Tasch. “AZERBAIJANI SPRING”? CIVIL DISCOURSE, DISCORD, AND DISSENT. The Pennsylvania Geographer, Journal of the Pennsylvania Geographical Society. Special Issue on Geopolitics, Fall-Winter 2013, pp. 1-18