Prof. Dr. Natalie Koch

Dr. Natalie Koch is Professor for Human Geography at Heidelberg’s Geography Institute since August 2022. She is originally from Tucson, Arizona (Tohono O’odham lands) and first studied Geography and Russian Area Studies at Dartmouth College (B.A. 2006). After completing her M.A. (2009) and Ph.D. (2012) in Geography at the University of Colorado at Boulder, she taught at Syracuse University’s Geography Department for 10 years.

Specialties

political geography, geopolitics, authoritarianism, nationalism, citizenship, energy and resource governance, sport, cultural geography, qualitative methods, Gulf and Arabian Peninsula studies

Publications

Books

• Koch, N. 2022. Arid empire: The entangled fates of Arizona and Arabia. New York: Verso.
• Koch, N. (ed.). 2022. Spatializing authoritarianism. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press.
• Moisio, S., N. Koch, A. Jonas, C. Lizotte, J. Luukkonen (eds.). 2020. Handbook on the changing geographies of the state: New spaces of geopolitics. Northampton: Edward Elgar.
• Koch, N. 2018. The geopolitics of spectacle: Space, synecdoche, and the new capitals of Asia. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
• Koch, N. (ed.). 2017. Critical geographies of sport: Space, power, and sport in global perspective. New York: Routledge.

For further publications, see https://nataliekoch.com/.