Jared Margulies
- Title: Assistant Professor
- Department: Geography
- College: Barefield College of Arts & Sciences
Bio
Jared Margulies is an interdisciplinary environmental geographer whose work engages with the fields of political ecology, political geography, biodiversity conservation, and the environmental humanities. His research focuses on wildlife conservation, trade, and the commodification and management of non-human life. His book, The Cactus Hunters, which focuses on illegal trade in cactus and succulents, was published in 2023. Relevant to the CARI Fellows program, he is also interested in incorporating forms of creative practice into his research, which to date has involved experiments and collaborations in sound, smell, and participatory installation. In 2021-2022 his work on the sonic geographies of the U.S-Mexico border was included in an exhibit at the U.S. National Building Museum in Washington D.C.
Through CARI, he has collaborated with (and continues to collaborate with) visual artist Joel Fuller (Art and Art History) as part of a National Geographic Explorer funded project, Sarah Marshall (Art and Art History), as well as Misha Hadar (Theatre and Dance) and John Haley (Journalism and Creative Media). The project with Misha and John recently received external support from the Verdant Fund. This includes the researching and production of an original, 16-page illustrated comic with Joel Fuller about Venus flytrap conservation, trade, and criminalization entitled “Traplines.” At UA, Jared runs the Critical Conservation Geographies Collective (ccgc.ua.edu).