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Biography
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Expertise Summary
- Internationalism
- Global governance
- United States
- Race relations
- Archives
- Digital geographies
Teaching Summary
Current teaching (*convenor):
- Year 1 - Exploring Human Geography (2018-)
- Year 2 - Political Geography* (2020-)
- Year 3 - European Urban Geographies [Berlin Field Trip] (2010-)
- Year 3 - Geographies of Modern America* (2025-)
N.B. I also teach tutorials (Year 1), research tutorials (Year 2) and supervise dissertation students (Year 2/3).
Research Summary
I am a historical and political geographer and my research intersects around three themes:
1. 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 , a special issue of , and articles in and .
2. 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 the , , and .
3. 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 , the and .
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To date, my research has been funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (2009-14), the Arts and Humanities Research Council (2015-19; 2021), the Royal Geographical Society (2021) and the British Academy / Wolfson Foundation (2022-25). As part of my current project, I am working on a book-length account of how race relations were internationalised after the First World War.
I am co-editor of the RGS-IBG Book Series. I also sit on the editorial board of Geography Compass, the academic advisory board of Nottingham Contemporary, lead the School's Cultural and Historical Geography Research Theme, and I am Director the University's Urban Culture Network.
Selected Publications
JAKE HODDER, 2025. Journal of Historical Geography. 88, 84-94
JAKE HODDER and DAVID BECKINGHAM, 2022. Progress in Human Geography. 46(6), 1298-1310
JAKE HODDER, 2021. History Workshop Journal.
STEPHEN LEGG, MIKE HEFFERNAN, JAKE HODDER and BENJAMIN THORPE, eds., 2021. Bloomsbury.