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Christabel Devadoss

Assistant Professor in Global Studies and Human Geography, Middle Tennessee State University

Assistant Professor in Global Studies and Human Geography, Middle Tennessee State University I am an Assistant Professor of Global Studies and Human Geography at Middle Tennessee State University. I received my PhD from West Virginia University (2018) and my Master’s in Geography and Bachelor of Science in Visual Journalism from Kent State University (2014, 2009). I previously taught at West Virginia University in the Department of Geology and Geography and at Kent State University in the School of Media and Journalism. I am a human geographer whose research focuses on identity, visuality (including photography), South Asia and its diaspora, and the connections between rurality and race in the United States. I have published several articles in Environment and Planning C, Gender Place & Culture, Political Geography, GeoHumanities, Journal of Cultural Geography, and Area as well as book chapters for The Changing World Language Map, Changing geographies of the state: New spaces of geopolitics, Tamil Diaspora, Concise Encyclopedia of Human Geography, and Human Geography and Professional Mobility. Additionally, I have presented 20 papers and organized or chaired 10 sessions at various national and international conferences. I serve on the Editorial Board of the Annals of the American Association of Geographers and I have been a reviewer for several journals including Gender, Place, & Culture, Antipode, Journal of Sonic Studies, Professional Geographer, Media, Culture, and Society, Contemporary South Asia, and National Identities.