Mark Cooper is an assistant professor of Community & Regional Development at the University of California, Davis. He is a geographer and interdisciplinary social scientist focused on climate change, agriculture, and the environment. Mark’s research draws on and engages political ecology, geographical political economy and economic geography, science and technology studies, applied ethics, critical policy studies, cultural economy, environmental sociology, and animal studies.

Prior to UC Davis, Mark was a Postdoctoral Researcher in Political Science at Lund University, and a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental Science and Policy at the College of William & Mary. He completed his PhD in Geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, holds a master’s degree in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a Postgraduate Diploma in History from the University of Otago, and a Bachelor of Arts (with Distinction) in History (Honors) and Political Science from the University of Kansas.