Klaus Dodds


Klaus Dodds is Professor of Geopolitics at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Academia

He was educated at Wellington College and the University of Bristol where he completed degrees in geography and political science. After taking up a position at the University of Edinburgh, he was appointed to a lectureship at Royal Holloway in 1994. He is the co-editor of the Routledge Geopolitics Book Series with Reece Jones.
He is the author of ‘Geopolitics: A Very Short Introduction’, published by Oxford University Press

Recognition

In 2005 Klaus Dodds was awarded the annual Philip Leverhulme Prize by the Leverhulme Trust for "an outstanding contribution to political geography and ‘critical
geopolitics'"
He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.

Research

Klaus Dodds is a geopolitician and focuses his work on, amongst others, the representation of space in visual media like internet, movies and pictures. He is also engaged in research about the geopolitics of the South Pole.

Selected publications

His books include Geographies, Genders and Geopolitics of James Bond, Geopolitics: A Very Short Introduction and Pink Ice: Britain and the South Atlantic Empire.