{"id":10859,"date":"2021-09-29T02:39:03","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T02:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/canada\/?p=10859"},"modified":"2021-09-30T23:09:21","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T23:09:21","slug":"new-affiliate-faculty-mia-bennett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/canada\/news\/new-affiliate-faculty-mia-bennett\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome new affiliate faculty &#8212; Mia Bennett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/canada\/people\/mia-moy-bennett\/\">Mia Bennett<\/a> is beginning at UW this fall as an assistant professor in the Department of Geography. As a political geographer with geospatial skills, through fieldwork and remote sensing, Mia researches the geopolitics of development in northern frontiers, namely the Arctic, Russian Far East, and the more remote corridors of China\u2019s Belt and Road Initiative. She has conducted fieldwork along the Inuvik-Tuktoyaktuk Highway in Canada\u2019s Northwest Territories and is particularly interested in the role of Indigenous Peoples in leading infrastructure development in the North American Arctic. Previously, Mia taught and researched at the University of Hong Kong. She received a Ph.D. in Geography from UCLA, where she was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, and a Master\u2019s in Philosophy in Polar Studies from the University of Cambridge, where she was a Gates Scholar. She has published extensively in both peer-reviewed journals and popular publications and edits a long-running blog on the Arctic at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cryopolitics.com\/\">cryopolitics.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mia Bennett is beginning at UW this fall as an assistant professor in the Department of Geography. 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