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Tristan Sturm is a Reader in Human Geography at Queen's University Belfast. He researches apocalyptic thought related to geopolitics, climate change, conspiracies, and religious movements in the USA and Israel-Palestine. He has published over 35 academic articles/book chapters and has written opeds for the Toronto Star, Haaretz, Jerusalem Post, National Post, THE Magazine, and The Forward. His interviews have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, The New Statesman, BBC Radio 4, The Independent, among others. He is currently finishing a book entitled, The Future is a Foreign Country: Christian Zionists and Landscapes of the Apocalypse in Israel-Palestine and is co-author with Tom Albrecht of Apocalyptic conspiracism: American evangelicalism in an age of climate crisis (Bloomsbury 2024). He is co-editor with Jason Dittmer of Mapping the End Times (Routledge 2016) and The Bloomsbury Handbook of Millennialism and Apocalypticism with Andrew Crome (Bloomsbury forthcoming in 2025).
He is currecntly on the editorial board of the journal, Politics & Governance.
Website: www.apocalypticgeopolitics.com
Particulars
EDUCATION
Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education Teaching (PGCHET), 2015-2016 Queen’s University Belfast
Ph.D., Geography, 2006 – 2011 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
M.A., Geography & Environmental Studies, 2004 – 2006 Carleton University
B.A., Geography w/ honours & distinction, 2001 – 2003 University of Victoria
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Reader, Queen's University Belfast. Geography 2024 - present
Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor), Queen’s University Belfast.Geography, 2019 - 2024
Lecturer (Assistant Professor), Queen’s University Belfast. Geography, 2015 – 2019
Assistant Professor, York University. Geography, 2012 – 2015.
SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow and lecturer, University of British Columbia. Geography, 2011 – 2012.
Lady Davis Doctoral Fellow. Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2008-9.
Sessional Lecturer, University of California, Los Angeles. Geography, 2008, 2010 – 2011.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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Projects
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R3831SES: A Translational case study of empowerment into practice: A realist evaluation of the Dementia NI Ser
Best, P. (PI), Donnelly, M. (CoI), McCorry, N. (CoI) & Sturm, T. (CoI)
16/11/2016 → …
Project: Research
Research output
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(Dealing with) illegal drugs and "unwanted land-use": a socially inclusive future planning imagination for drug consumption rooms
Boland, P., Sturm, T. & Shorter, G. W., 17 Mar 2025, (Early online date) In: Journal of Planning Education and Research. 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Conspiracist knowledge geographies and the potentiality of an impossible political alliance
Sturm, T., 30 May 2025, (Early online date) In: Dialogues in Human Geography. 5 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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First things on last things
Sturm, T. & Crome, A., 25 Mar 2025, (Accepted) The Bloomsbury Handbook of Apocalypticism and Millennialism. Bloomsbury Publishing , 34 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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Glossary
Sturm, T. & Crome, A., 25 Mar 2025, (Accepted) The Bloomsbury Handbook of Apoclaypticism and Millennialism. Bloomsbury Publishing , 6 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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Preventative/radical: depoliticization, the contestatory, and apocalyptic principles for the anthropocene
Sturm, T., 25 Mar 2025, (Accepted) The Bloomsbury Handbook of Apocalypticism and Millennialism. Bloomsbury Publishing , p. 376-393 17 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
Prizes
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Affective Apocalypses: Emotional Well-Being in the New Age of Anxiety: £3250 from ICRH
Sturm, T. (Recipient), 2015
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively
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Centre for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies: €16,000
Sturm, T. (Recipient), 15 Mar 2025
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively
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Critical Border Studies Seminar Series, York Centre for International and Security Studies: $1000
Sturm, T. (Recipient), 01 Sept 2013
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively
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Jerome Niles Fellowship from the Virginia Tech College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences: $1500
Sturm, T. (Recipient), 13 Apr 2011
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively
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Lady Davis Doctoral Fellow $15,000
Sturm, T. (Recipient), 01 Sept 2008
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively
Activities
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Global Public Health (Journal)
Sturm, T. (Peer reviewer)
14 Jun 2025Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Publication peer-review
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Urban Studies (Journal)
Sturm, T. (Peer reviewer)
14 Jun 2025Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Publication peer-review
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New Histories of Irish Art and Modernism:A Conference in Honor of S. B. Kennedy
Stapleton, J. (Organiser) & Sturm, T. (Organiser)
23 May 2025Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
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Conspiracist Knowledge Geographies and the Potentiality of an Impossible Political Alliance
Sturm, T. (Advisor)
08 May 2025Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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Geographica Helvetica (Journal)
Sturm, T. (Peer reviewer)
28 Apr 2025Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Publication peer-review
Press/Media
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Kate Middleton Conspiracy theories (BBC Talkback)
11/03/2024
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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New York Times Magazine: The Comet Strike Theory That Just Won’t Die
05/03/2024
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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Doomsday Clock (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists) - BBC Talkback
25/01/2024
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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Schoolchildren exposed to drinking water containing dangerous levels of lead
14/07/2023
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment