In the News: Natalie Koch
Koch Talks to KTVK About Arizona’s Outdated Water Law
Natalie Koch, professor of geography and the environment, argues that state lawmakers need to update the state’s 43 year old water law and create more active management areas to regulate water use across Arizona. “There needs to be some way of monitoring and regulating who is drawing what from the aquifers,” says Koch.
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Koch Explores Exchange of Colonial Technologies Between the Arabian Peninsula and the US in New Book
In her recently published book, “Arid Empire: The Entangled Fates of Arizona and Arabia” (Verso, 2023), Maxwell School faculty member Natalie Koch explores the exchange of colonial technologies between the Arabian Peninsula and the United States over the last two centuries.
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Koch Article on Arizona Depleting its Groundwater Supply Published in New York Times
“Pumping groundwater in Arizona remains largely unregulated,” writes Natalie Koch, professor of geography. “It’s this legal failing that, in part, allows the Saudi company to draw unlimited amounts of water to grow an alfalfa crop that feeds dairy cows 8,000 miles away.”
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Maxwell School Announces 2022 Faculty Promotions
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Koch Quoted in BBC Article on Dubai, Desertification
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Koch talks to Middle East Institute about UAE's citizenship initiative
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Handbook on the Changing Geographies of the State: New Spaces of Geopolitics
Koch discusses her book The Geopolitics of Spectacle on BBC Radio
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The Geopolitics of Spectacle: Space, Synecdoche, and the New Capitals of Asia
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Koch speaks with Astana Times about Kazakhstan’s energy landscape
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Koch study on sports, urban geography published in Geography Compass
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Maxwell names Montgomery Gruber Professor, O'Hanley Faculty Scholars
Andrew Wender Cohen, professor of history, has been announced as the recipient of the Montgomery Gruber Professorship. Additionally, the O’Hanley Faculty Endowed Fund for Faculty Excellence, which serves to help recognize, reward and retain excellent teachers at the school, announced three new scholars: Azra Hromadžić, associate professor of anthropology; Natalie Koch, associate professor of geography; and Rebecca Schewe, assistant professor of sociology.
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Critical Geographies of Sport: Space, Power, and Sport in Global Perspective
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