Dr. Kendra McSweeney

Ohio State University

Dr. Kendra McSweeney is a Professor of Geography at the Ohio State University. She received her MSc in Geography from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville and her PhD from McGill University in Montreal. Her research focuses on the relationships between people and forests, and how those relationships are mediated by demographic, economic, and political factors at multiple scales. Most recently, she is studying how and why the transshipment of cocaine through Central America is associated with social and ecological devastation in indigenous homelands. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Geographic Society, the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC), the Open Societies Foundation, and the American Geographical Society. She has received the Distinguished Career Award from the Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group of the AAG and the Carl O. Sauer Award from the Conference of Latin American Geography. At OSU, she received the Distinguished Undergraduate Research Mentor Award and the Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching.