- Assistant Professor, Geography, College of Arts and Sciences
John Casellas Connors is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography at Texas A&M University. Prior to joining Texas A&M, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Boston University's Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future. He is a human-environment geographer whose research primarily addresses the politics of conservation and wildlife management. His research combines concepts and approaches from political ecology, land change science, legal geographies, and more than human geography. His ongoing research projects examine the politics of white-tailed deer management in suburban communities as well as the intersections of gun politics and conservation politics. Through this work he explores how people make decisions about living with and killing animals, and how existing wildlife management institutions shape the possibilities for human-animal coexistence. In addition, he has ongoing research projects related to food and water security, particularly food pantry access.
- Ph.D. in Geography, Arizona State University - (Tempe, Arizona, United States) 2015
- M.A. in Geographic Information Science, Clark University - (Worcester, Massachusetts, United States) 2007
- B.A. in Geography, Clark University - (Worcester, Massachusetts, United States) 2006
Academic Articles25
- Safayet, M., Casellas Connors, J. P., & Watson, M. (2024). Measuring access to food banks and food pantries: A scoping review of spatial analysis approaches. Health & Place. 88, 103251-103251.
- Anderson, R. M., Connors, J., Cavallo, S. E., & Gianotti, A. S. (2024). Activating uncertainty: Scientific evidence and environmental values in wildlife management. Geoforum. 151, 103999-103999.
- Edelblutte, E., Connors, J., Cavallo, S. E., & Gianotti, A. (2024). Socio-Political and Ecological Dimensions of Municipal Wildlife Management. 37(2), 188-212.
- Connors, J., Carlino, E. A., & Rea, C. M. (2023). The eco-munitionary subject: Conservation with and of firearms. 6(4), 2318-2339.
- Fincher, B., Jepson, W., & Connors, J. (2023). Water insecurity tradeoffs: U.S. drinking water systems during the COVID-19 pandemic. Water Security. 20, 100144-100144.
Chapters1
- Connors, J., Janetos, A., & Romitti, Y. (2021). Agricultural Losses in a Telecoupled World. Castillo, F., Wehner, M., & Stone, D. (Eds.), Extreme Events and Climate Change. 67-88. Wiley.
Internet Publications1
- Casellas Connors, J., & Rea, C. (2022). Fewer Americans are hunting, and that raises hard questions about funding conservation through gun sales. - An article submitted to The Conversation
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