Hannah Fitzpatrick

Biography

I earned my BA in Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures (cum laude) from Barnard College, Columbia University in 2010. In 2011, I completed an MA in Social Anthropology of Development at SOAS. I earned my PhD from St Andrews in 2016. Prior to returning to St Andrews, I was a Teaching Fellow in the Department of Geography and Environment at the University of Aberdeen. I am currently preparing my PhD thesis for publication as a monograph, titled ‘The Parallel Tracks of Partition: Geography in the Partition of India and Pakistan’

Research Interest

I am a geographer whose research interests align with the methods and philosophy of the liberal arts and humanities. My areas of expertise are in historical geography, colonialism and postcolonialism, South Asian studies, critical theory, cartography and visual culture, border studies, and the history of geography. I also have interests in the digital humanities, gaming and virtual reality, photography, and literature, particularly drama. From January-June 2017, I held a Carnegie Research Incentive Grant for a project titled, ‘Geography’s Decolonisation: Re-ordering territory and producing geographical knowledge in the midst of decolonisation’. I co-host a podcast, State of the Theory.