Mia Bennett is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography. As a political geographer with geospatial skills, she is interested in transportation infrastructure and natural resource development in northern frontiers. Her work combines ethnographic fieldwork and remote sensing to consider issues such as how local and Indigenous actors leverage geopolitical transformations to attract development to their homelands. In recent years, Bennett's work has expanded to consider the geopolitics and epistemologies of satellites and remote sensing, leading her to collaborate with colleagues to develop the field of critical remote sensing. Her research has been published in journals such as World Development, Political Geography, Annals of the American Association of Geographers, and Remote Sensing of Environment, and has been supported by grants from the Regional Studies Association, National Science Foundation, and International Council for Canadian Studies, among others. Bennett is passionate about making research about the Arctic accessible and meaningful to wider audiences, and is founder and editor of a long-running blog on the region, Cryopolitics.
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