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    Alex R. Colucci

    Alex R. Colucci

    College of Architecture & Environmental Design
    Adjunct Faculty
    Campus:
    Kent
    Office Location:
    415
    Contact Information
    Email:
    acolucc3@kent.edu

    Biography

    Dr. Alex R. Colucci is a geographer, and adjunct faculty in both the Kent State University the College of Architecture and Environmental Design, and Department of Geography. His research and teaching interests center on the political economy and political ecology of violence, social and spatial theory, knowledge production, and science and technology studies. He has published research in several areas related to these interests: on the production and design of capital punishment spaces with a focus on commodity circulation, labor, and infrastructure; on the production of geomorphological infrastructure in the context of the Cambodian Genocide; on the relationship between carceral design, prison infrastructure, and extreme temperature exposure.

    His current research is focused on hostile architecture, utopian/dystopian design, suburbia and alienation, and wildlife/built environment interactions. He enjoys teaching students in his CAED elective courses about inclusive design, the production of suburban landscapes, punitive architecture, bird-building strikes, lighting, and landscaping with native plants.

    He holds a Ph.D. in Geography and an MA in Geography from Kent State University, and a BA in Geography, with a minor in Environmental Studies, from the State University of New York at New Paltz


    Publications

    • “Thermal (In)equity and incarceration: A necessary nexus for geographers” | Environmental and Planning E: Nature and Society, 2023
    • "Critical Physical Geography and the Study of Genocide: Lessons from Cambodia" | Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 2021
    • "Geographies of capital punishment: New directions and interventions" | Geography Compass, 2020
    • "The cultural necrotechnologies of capital and the production of (post) industrial capital punishment" | Geographies of Post-Industrial Place, Memory, and Heritage | Taylor & Francis, 2020
    • "Bare Life, Dead Labor, and Capital(ist) Punishment" | ACME, 2015
    • "Memory and the everyday landscape of violence in post-genocide Cambodia" | Social & Cultural Geography, 2012

    Education

    Ph.D. (Geography) Kent State University - 2019
    M.A. (Geography) Kent State University - 2013
    B.A. (Geography) State University of New York at New Paltz - 2010, Minor (Environmental Studies)

    Documents

    PDF icon Colucci~CV-2023.pdf
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