Jeffrey M. Banister is a geographer, writer and podcaster whose work explores the political and historical geographies of water, land, and infrastructure in Mexico and the U.S. Southwest. His research focuses on the afterlives of agrarian and hydraulic modernization, settler colonialism, and environmental imaginaries in places like Sonora and Mexico City. He is currently completing a hybrid scholarly-memoir project titled Where Rivers Once Ran: Ancestral Geographies and the Political Life of Aquatic Commons in Mexico, which draws on archival research, fieldwork, and personal experience. Banister is editor-in-chief of Journal of the Southwest, host of the Journal of the Southwest Radio Hour, associate research social scientist in the Southwest Center, and associate professor in the School of Geography, Development and Environment. He teaches courses on the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, Mexico, and the American West.

Read Jeff´s contributions to the Journal of the Southwest