Shiloh Krupar is a geographer, collaborative interdisciplinary scholar, and professor of Culture and Politics in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown. She holds a Ph.D. in Geography from the University of California-Berkeley, an MA in East Asian Studies from Stanford University, and a BA from Case Western Reserve University. Her research investigates the spatial administration of inequality, vulnerability, toxicity, and uneven life conditions, which she considers to be geographical political and embodied relationships. Krupar currently is a "Data Ecologies" fellow in the Institute for Sustainable Energy and Environment of Virginia Commonwealth University. In AY 2023-24, she was a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study’s “Platform ” research group, where she began a project on optimization, spanning health care/medical hot spotting, heat/climate securitization, and crime/ambient policing. At Georgetown she was an AY20-23 Mortara Faculty Fellow in the research cluster “Technology and Violence” at the Mortara Center for International Studies.
She is author of Health Colonialism: Urban Wastelands and Hospital Frontiers (2023) and Hot Spotter’s Report: Military Fables of Toxic Waste (2013); co-author of Deadly Biocultures: The Ethics of Life-making (2019) and the volume-in-progress Territories of Exaction: Austerity, Bias, Dross. She co-developed the digital research infrastructure A People’s Atlas of Nuclear Colorado (https://www.coloradonuclearatlas.org/) —a resource tool and platform for civic action, infusing nuclear public policy with humanistic forms of inquiry. Deeply committed to the public humanities and public geographies, Krupar received the American Association of Geographers Glenda Laws Award (2023) for outstanding geographic scholarship on social issues. She was honored with the Georgetown School of Foreign Service Excellence in Teaching Award in 2019.
Krupar's research has been published in numerous geography and interdisciplinary venues, including: Society and Space; Theory, Culture & Society; Annals of the American Association of Geographers; Science, Technology & Human Values; You Are Here: The Journal of Creative Geography; Environmental Humanities; Journal of Medical Humanities; Culture, Theory & Critique; Antipode; Public Culture; Radical History Review; Configurations; Liminalities; cultural geographies; Medicine, Conflict and Survival; Occasion; Social Semiotics; The New Inquiry; Progress in Human Geography; Georgetown Journal of International Affairs; and chapters in the edited volumes: Routledge Handbook of Waste Studies; Toxic Immanence: Decolonizing Nuclear Legacies and Futures; Routledge Handbook of Architecture, Urban Space & Politics Vol I; Slow Down: How the Arts and Humanities Can Reclaim the University from the Cult of Speed; Subprime Health: Debt and Race in US Medicine; Global Spectacles; Critical Landscapes: Art, Space, Politics; SAGE Handbook of Architectural Theory; and Spaces of Danger: Culture and Power in the Everyday.