Associate Professor in Historical and Political Geography
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B26a School of Geography, Sir Clive Granger Building, University of Nottingham. NG7 2RD.
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RGS-IBG Book Series (Co-editor)
Cultural and Historical Geography Research Theme (Lead)
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Areas of expertise:
My research intersects around three themes:
Internationalism: My work considers the geographies of internationalist thought, with a particular focus on how ‘marginal’ groups interact with liberal internationalism and global governance.
Publications on this topic include an edited book Placing Internationalism (Bloomsbury, 2021), an edited special issue of *Political Geography,* and articles in Transactions of the IBG and *Political Geography.*
United States: My work considers the geographies of modern America, with a particular focus on twentieth century race relations and the US’s global role.
Publications on this topic include articles in *Annals of the American Association of Geographers,* Journal of American Studies and History Workshop Journal.
Archives: My work considers the changing political and economic infrastructures of archives, with particular focus on the expanding role of digital archive technologies.
Publications on this topic include articles in Progress in Human Geography, the Journal of Historical Geography and *Area.*
Major grants
| 2022-25 | British Academy / Wolfson Foundation | Internationalising race: The League of Nations and the struggle for racial equality in the United States, 1919-1939 |
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| 2015-19 | Arts and Humanities Research Council | Conferencing the international: a cultural and historical geography of the origins of internationalism, 1918-1939 |
| 2009-13 | Economic and Social Research Council | Bayard Rustin and the historical geographies of radical pacifism |
Small grants (e.g. for fieldwork, pilot work)
| 2024 | British Academy | Mentorship funding |
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| 2022 | Arts and Humanities Research Council | International placement, Library of Congress, Washington DC. |
| 2020 | Royal Geographical Society | Small research grant |
| 2011 | Economic and Social Research Council | Overseas field work grant |
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Publications also available on Google Scholar
Conference sessions and presentations can found here
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Legg S, Heffernan M, Hodder J and Thorpe B (eds) (2021) *Placing Internationalism: International Conferences and the Making of the Modern World* (London: Bloomsbury)
Hodder J and Krishnan S (In press) Archives as Worldmaking. Journal of Historical Geography
Legg S, Heffernan M and Hodder J (2015) Historical Geographies of Internationalism. Political Geography, 49.