Her area of expertise includes political geography, nationalism, geopolitics, authoritarianism, and Gulf and Arabian Peninsula studies.

She is the author of “” which offers a new perspective teaches us to see deserts anew, not as mythic sites of romance or empty wastelands but as an “arid empire,” a crucial political space where imperial dreams coalesce.

Recent Media Interviews:

• , The World
• , KJZZ
• , The New York Times (opinion)
• , High Country News
• , New Scientist
• , The Conversation Weekly, podcast
• , Channel 12 News (Phoenix)

At ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ, I am a faculty affiliate/associate across several programs and departments, such as Women’s and Gender Studies Department, International Relations Program, Center for Environmental Policy and Administration (CEPA), South Asia Center, Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs, Tolley Humanities Faculty, Democratizing Knowledge Collective, and Asian/Asian-American Studies.

I am also a Visiting Faculty Fellow at the International Center for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) of the Independent University in Bangladesh.

Professor Bendix specializes in geomorphology, biogeography and pyrogeography, which refers to the projected geographic distribution of wildfires. In recent years Professor Bendix has been interviewed extensively about wildfire outbreaks in the U.S., especially in California. He is also interested in the human impacts on environmental systems and media coverage of the environment.

Bendix has a variety of research interests, including how ecological disturbances, mainly fire and floods, affect plant communities and interactions between ecological and fluvial geomorphic processes. Professor Bendix’s research on river ecosystems was featured in a chapter in S. Sabater, A. Elosegi and R. Ludwig, eds., Multiple Stressors in River Ecosystems: Status, Impacts and Prospects for the Future.

As a globally known political ecologist, Perreault’s teaching focuses on the fields of political ecology, environmental justice, agrarian political economy and rural development. Since joining the University community in 2000, Perreault has developed a suite of seven courses that he offers in regular rotation.

Professor Perreault’s research revolves around the relationship between people and their environments, with an emphasis on questions of social justice and political economy. In particular, his scholarship explores how rural peoples and their organizations access, manage, struggle over, and organize themselves in relation to nature and natural resources in the central Andes and western Amazon in South America.

Perreault has written countless journal articles and book chapters. He has also edited a number of books, including Water Justice published by Cambridge University Press in 2018, and The Handbook of Political Ecology published by London: Routledge in 2015. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Colorado.