
Positions
- Professor and Chair, Geography, Planning, and Environment, College of Arts and Sciences
- Contact Info
Jeff Popke
Affiliation
Publications
selected publications
presentations
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presentation
- Hazard Perception in a Coastal Environment: Riverbank Erosion in Bangladesh, Joint DGPE-Coastal Studies Research Symposium 2023
- Livelihood dynamics and hazard perception in a deltaic landscape: a hydrosocial assessment of riverbank erosion in the lower Meghna River, Bangladesh, American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting 2022
- Emerging Models of Small-Scale Farming in the Caribbean: Re-making the Agrarian Metabolism?, Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers 2018
- Why Drought? A Mixed Methods Approach to Defining Drought in Southwest Jamaica, 10th Annual Conference of the Global Partners in Education 2017
- Mining Steam: The Promise and Peril of Geothermal Energy in the Caribbean Energy Transition, American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting 2017
- Putting Things in Order: The Improvisational Formations and Negotiations of Global Change in Caribbean Agriculture, American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting 2017
- Engaging critical geographies of energy in the Caribbean, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers 2016
- Greenhouse Governmentality: Biopower and Agricultural Subjectivity in Contemporary Jamaica, Annals of the Association of American Geographers 2016
- To 'Catch a Crop': Everyday Hedging and the Calculative Agencies of Smallholder Farming in Jamaica, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers 2016
- Labor, Space and the Common: On Negri's Ethical Materialism and Nonrepresentational Theory, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers 2011
- 'Because You Got to Have Heat': Fuel Poverty, Weatherization, and Landscapes of Care, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers 2010
- The Ontological (Re)Turn in Geography, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers 2010
- Neoliberalization, Transnational Migration and New Subjectivities in Rural Mexico, Association of American Geographers 2008
Research
principal investigator on
- Employers and Hispanic/Latino Workers in Eastern North Carolina awarded by ECU Research Development Seed Grant 2007
- Rural Transformation & Latino Transnational Migration & Settlement in the U.S. South awarded by Research Development Seed Grant, ECU Division of Research and Graduate Studies 2005
- Transnational Migration from the Tierra Caliente region of Mexico awarded by Research/Creative Activity Grant, ECU 2005
- Los Puentes: Dual Language Immersion and Multicultural Education and Research Program awarded by Z Smith Reynolds Foundation 2002
co-principal investigator on
- Collaborative Research -- Vulnerability and Resilience Among Small Farmers in Jamaica: An Assessment of Climate Change, Economic Stress, and the Role of Water Management Strategies awarded by National Science Foundation 2012 - 2016
- Enhancing Sustainability in the Caribbean: The Water-Energy-Food Nexus in an Era of Climate Change awarded by East Carolina University Center for Sustainability 2015
- Collaborative Research: Vulnerability and Resilience Among Small Farmers: An Assessment of Environmental Change, Economic Stress, and the Role of Water Management awarded by GOV-National Science Foundation (NSF) 2014
- Collaborative Research: Vulnerability and Resilience Among Small Farmers: An Assessment of Environmental Change, Economic Stress, and the Role of Water Management awarded by GOV-National Science Foundation (NSF) 2013
- Collaborative Research: Vulnerability and Resilience Among Small Farmers: An Assessment of Environmental Change, Economic Stress, and the Role of Water Management awarded by GOV-National Science Foundation (NSF) 2012
- "Los Puentes" Dual Language Immersion and Multicultural Education and Research Program awarded by Z Smith Reynolds Foundation 2003
investigator on
Service
professional service activities
- Southern Connecticut State Unicersity 2022
- Faculty Promotion and Tenure Case 2022
- Manuscript Review Wellbeing, Space and Society 2021
- Panel Reviewer, National Science Foundation In-person review penalist for the NSF Geography and Spatial Sciences Dissertation Improvement Grant competition. 2017
- Manuscript Reviews Journal of Environmental Studies and Science; ; Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 2017
- Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning 2009
Background
education and training
- Ph.D. in Geography, University of Kentucky