Associate Professor, Justice Studies
watki2ac@jmu.edu
Contact Info
Dr. Case Watkins is a cultural and environmental geographer and Associate Professor of Justice Studies. Dr. Watkins studies interactions of cultures, politics, and environments; how they shape landscapes and societies; and what they can teach us about social and environmental justice. He offers courses on environmental justice, mapping, global justice, community-based research, and academic writing.
Affiliation
Justice Studies
Selected Publications
2025. Williams, Teona, Christian Keeve, Case Watkins, Brian Williams, Levi Van Sant, Alex Moulton, and Judith Carney. “Black livingness and insurgent ecological politics: Thinking across Black geographies / Atlantics / ecologies.” Dialogues in Human Geography. DOI: 10.1177/20438206251364964.
2025. Watkins, Case. “Changing Climates, Same Old Stories: Recognizing and Intersecting the Futurities of Bahia’s Ancestral (Agro)forests.” In Political Ecologies of Futurity: Storytelling Plantation Afterlives, Climate Erasures, and Socioecological Justice, eds. Dylan M. Harris and Alex A. Moulton. New York: Bloomsbury Academic.
2021. Watkins, Case. Palm Oil Diaspora: Afro-Brazilian Landscapes and Economies on Bahia’s Dendê Coast. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108778893
