Brittany Meché

Brittany Meché is a transdisciplinary scholar working across the fields of Environmental Studies, Security Studies, African/Diaspora Studies, and Science and Technology Studies. Brittany earned her PhD in Geography from the University of California, Berkeley. Her research examines the politics of environmental expertise, global security projects, French and United States empire, and the making of Black/African diasporic worlds. She currently serves as Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies and Affiliated Faculty in Science and Technology Studies at Williams College (Massachusetts, USA). Brittany’s work has been featured in Transition, Antipode, Society and Space, ACME, Environment and Society, and in the edited volumes A Research Agenda for Military Geographies (Edward Elgar), Nos Lieux Communs (Fayard), and Engage: Indigenous, Black, and Afro-Indigenous Futures (Pluto). Brittany previously served as a visiting research fellow at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University and at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh. She is the co-editor of the forthcoming volume Heartbreak and Other Geographies: Collected Writings of Katherine McKittrick (University of Minnesota Press). Her first book, Natural Insecurities: Empire and Expertise in the Sahel (under review with Duke University Press) examines security interventions, climate change, and the afterlives of empire in West Africa. As a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, she will be working on her next book, Desert Black: Arid Lands and Imperial Democracy in the Transatlantic World.