Alexander Arroyo is a critical geographer and environmental designer. Working across written and spatial media, his research broadly explores relations between the environmental geographies, infrastructural formations, and spatial imaginaries of American empire. His first book, Ecologies of Power (MIT Press, 2016), co-authored with Pierre Bélanger, investigates the logistical landscapes of global U.S. militarism beyond the battlefield, and was awarded the John Brinkerhoff Jackson Book Prize for Landscape Studies. His current book project, Designing an Ocean, focuses on the transoceanic design imaginaries and “geographic techniques” (or “geotechnics”) of U.S. imperialism in the Pacific and Arctic, ranging from the mid-19th century into speculative near-futures. A second manuscript under development develops a geographic genealogy of spatial research on “mass fire” from the mid-19th century through the present, tracing out a contemporary “pyropolitics” of contemporary climate crisis. New work explores the anticolonial intersection of geographic and environmental thought over the 20th century. Ongoing collaborative projects include the Climate Rights project, which develops critical tools to advance struggles for climate justice, and the “political life” of the ice edge as a contested cartographic object mediating contentious “just transition” debates over oil and deep sea mineral extraction in the Arctic and beyond; and a project with communities and researchers at the Florida Coastal Everglades Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) site to find new, bottom-up ways to design and visualize the complex socio-ecological impacts of climate change.. His research has been supported by the Research Council of Norway, University of Chicago’s Institute on the Formation of Knowledge and International Institute of Research in Paris, the National Science Foundation, Institute on Global Cooperation and Conflict, Peder Sather Center for Advanced Study, and UC Berkeley Bancroft Library, among others. He holds a PhD in Geography from UC Berkeley with a designated emphasis in Science and Technology Studies, and additional degrees in Landscape Architecture (MLA, Harvard Graduate School of Design), Philosophy, and Human Rights (BA, Columbia University).