Member Profiles

Julie Cupples is Professor of Human Geography and Cultural Studies at the University of Edinburgh. Between 2014 and 2018, Julie co-directed the University’s Global Development Academy. She is also a member of the Latin American Executive and the Centre for Contemporary Latin American Studies and Chair of the Human Geography Research Group. She has published work on a range of themes, including gender and sexuality, disasters, elections, energy politics, and indigenous and Afro-descendant media. She has authored and edited five books, Latin American Development (Routledge, 2013), Mediated Geographies and Geographies of Media (2015, Springer, with Susan Mains and Chris Lukinbeal), Communications/Media/Geographies (Routledge, 2017, with Paul Adams, Kevin Glynn, André Jansson and Shaun Moores), Shifting Nicaraguan Mediascapes: Authoritarianism and the Struggle for Social Justice (Routledge, 2018, with Ramón Grosfoguel). She is also the editor of the forthcoming Routledge Handbook of Latin American Development (Routledge, with Marcela Palomino-Schalscha and Manuel Prieto). She has received research funding from the Marsden Fund of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Newton Fund. She has held visiting positions at Granada University, University of Technology-Sydney, University of California-Santa Barbara and Victoria University of Wellington.