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

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.