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, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory
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
