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Jim Tyner is Professor of Geography and Fellow of the American Association of Geographers. He is the author of 22 books, including War, Violence, and Population: Making the Body Count, which received the AAG Meridian Book Award for Outstanding Scholarly Contribution to Geography. Jim is also the author of over 100 articles and book chapters. Other honors include the AAG Glenda Laws Award, which recognizes outstanding contributions to geographic research on social issues. His research interests include the political economy of violence and the histories and geographies of 20th century Marxism.

MONOGRAPHS

Tyner, James A. (2023) Famine in Cambodia: Geopolitics, Biopolitics, Necropolitics. Athens:  University of Georgia Press.

Tyner, James A. (2022) The Alienated Subject: On the Capacity to Hurt. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Tyner, James A. (2021) Red Harvests: Agrarian Capitalism and Genocide in Democratic Kampuchea. Morgantown: West Virginia University Press.

Tyner, James A. and Mindy Farmer (2020) Cambodia and Kent State: In the Aftermath of Nixon's Expansion of the Vietnam War. Kent: 5XÉçÇø Press.

Tyner, James A. (2019) Dead Labor: Toward a Political Economy of Premature Death. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Tyner, James A. (2018) The Politics of Lists: Genocide and Bureaucracy under the Khmer Rouge. Morgantown: West Virginia University Press.

Tyner, James A. (2018) The Nature of Revolution: Art and Politics under the Khmer Rouge. Athens: University of Georgia Press.

Tyner, James A. (2017) From Rice Fields to Killing Fields: Nature, Life, and Labor under the Khmer Rouge. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press.

Tyner, James A. (2017) Memory, Landscape, and Post-Violence in Cambodia. London: Rowman & Littlefield International

Tyner, James A. (2016) Violence in Capitalism: Devaluing Life in an Age of Responsibility. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

Tyner, James A. (2012) Genocide and the Geographical Imagination: Germany, China, Cambodia. (Boulder, CO: Rowman & Littlefield.

Tyner, James A. (2012) Space, Place, and Violence: Violence and the Embodied Geographies of Race, Sex, and Gender. New York: Routledge.

Tyner, James A. (2009) Military Legacies: A World Made by War. (New York: Routledge).

Tyner, James A. (2009) War, Violence and Population: Making the Body Count. New York: Guilford Press. 

Tyner, James A. (2008) The Philippines: Mobilities, Identities, and Globalization. New York: Routledge. 

Tyner, James A. (2008) The Killing of Cambodia: Geography, Genocide, and the Un-Making of Space. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate.

Tyner, James A. (2007) America’s Strategy in Southeast Asia: From the Cold War to the Terror War. Boulder, CO: Rowman & Littlefield.

Tyner, James A. (2006) The Business of War: Workers, Warriors, and Hostages in Occupied Iraq. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate

Tyner, James A. (2006) Oriental Bodies: Discourse and Discipline in US Immigration Policy, 1875-1942. Lanham, MD: Lexington Press.

Tyner, James A. (2006) The Geography of Malcolm X: Black Radicalism and the Remaking of American Space. New York: Routledge.

Tyner, James A. (2005) Iraq, Terror, and the Philippines’ Will to War. Boulder, CO: Rowman & Littlefield.

Tyner, James A. (2004) Made in the Philippines: Gendered Discourses and the Making of Migrants. London: Routledge Curzon.

HONORS

2021   Distinguished Scholarship Honors, American Association of Geographers   

2019   Julian Minghi Distinguished Book Award for Outstanding Research Contribution in Political Geography

2019   Distinguished Advisor Award, College of Arts and Sciences, 5XÉçÇø

2018   President's Faculty Excellence Award

2018   Fellow, American Association of Geographers

2018   David Olsen Appreciation Award for Graduate Mentorship, 5XÉçÇø Department of Geography

2017   Virginie Mamadouh Outstanding Research Award, AAG Political Geography Specialty Group

2014   5XÉçÇø Outstanding Research and Scholarship Award 

2013   David Olsen Appreciation Award for Graduate Mentorship, 5XÉçÇø Department of Geography

2013   Ethnic Geography Distinguished Scholar Award, Association of American Geographers

2012   Asian Geography Distinguished Service Award, Association of American Geographers

2010   AAG Meridian Book Award for Outstanding Scholarly Work in Geography

2010   James Blaut Award, Association of American Geographers

2007   Glenda Laws Award, Association of American Geographers

2006   Julian Minghi Distinguished Book Award for Outstanding Research Contribution in Political Geography