Biography
My work explores political geography, science, technology, and engineering.
Education
- Ph.D., New School for Social Research, Department of Politics
- MA, University of Westminster, Centre for the Study of Democracy
- B.A., Political Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Courses Taught
GGIS 105 - The Digital Earth
GGIS 221 - Geographies of Global Conflict
GGIS 412 - Geospatial Technology and Society
GGIS 595 - Geopolitics and Engineering
Additional Campus Affiliations
Associate Professor, Geography and Geographic Information Science
Associate Professor, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory
Associate Head, Geography and Geographic Information Science
Recent Publications
Jefferson, B. J. (2022). Programming Colonial Racial Capitalism: Encoding Human Value in Smart Cities. In S. Koshy, L. M. Cacho, J. A. Byrd, & B. J. Jefferson (Eds.), Colonial Racial Capitalism (pp. 232-254). Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478023371-008
Jefferson, B. J., & Melamed, J. (2022). Racial Capitalism Now: A Conversation with Michael Dawson and Ruth Wilson Gilmore. In S. Koshy, L. M. Cacho, J. A. Byrd, & B. J. Jefferson (Eds.), Colonial Racial Capitalism (pp. 311-332). Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478023371-011
Koshy, S., Cacho, L. M., Byrd, J., & Jefferson, B. J. (Eds.) (2022). Colonial Racial Capitalism. Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478023371
Koshy, S., Cacho, L. M., Byrd, J., & Jefferson, B. J. (2022). Introduction. In S. Koshy, L. M. Cacho, J. A. Byrd, & B. J. Jefferson (Eds.), Colonial Racial Capitalism (pp. 1-30). Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478023371-001
Jefferson, B. (2019). Crime Mapping. In International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Second Edition (pp. 11-15). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-102295-5.10528-1