Dr Paul Richardson MA, PhD

Dr Paul Richardson

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Associate Professor in Human Geography

Contact details

Email
p.b.richardson.1@bham.ac.uk
Address
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
University 麻豆精选
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Paul Richardson’s research and teaching is at the intersection of political and historical geography, with regional interests in Russia and Eurasia. His research activities focus on national identity, nationalism, borders, sovereignty, and territory, which have been supported by funding from the ESRC, AHRC, British Academy, and Leverhulme Trust. He is author of , which was nominated for the Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographer’s Political Geography Research Group Book Prize and has been reviewed to critical acclaim in: The Russian Review, Inner Asia, Journal of Asian Studies, The Historian, Pacific Affairs, and Japanese Studies. His research has also been published in leading journals across disciplines, including Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Geopolitics, Politics, and Eurasian Geography and Economics.

Qualifications

  • PhD Geography - University 麻豆精选, 2011
  • MA Geography - University of California Los Angeles, 2003
  • BA Geography - University College London, 2000

Teaching

Dr Richardson is module lead for the final year course “Russia in a Global Context” and the MSci module “Geopolitics and Globalization”

Postgraduate supervision

Dr Richardson would be happy to hear from potential graduate students with research proposals around the following areas:

Russia
International borders / Territorial disputes
Political geography / geopolitics
Sovereignty
Identity politics
Nationalism and national identity

Other activities

  • School Internationalisation Lead (Education)
  • Academic Appeals Committee Panel Member
  • Research Theme Lead: Geopolitics and Carceral
  • Fellow, Higher Education Academy
  • HEFi Award for Education Enhancement and Innovation (2019)
  • Vice-Chair, Political Geography Research Group of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)
  • Board Member, Association for Borderlands Studies
  • Editor, Eurasia Border Review (Japan)
  • International Referee Panel: Janus – Journal of International Relations (Portugal); Novus Orbis: Journal of Politics and International Relations (Turkey)
  • Referee: Estonian Research Council; European Research Foundation Flanders
  • International Programme Committee: Annual and World Conferences of the Association for Borderlands Studies; International Conference on Eurasian Politics and Society (IEPAS); and Border Regions in Transition XII
  • Visiting researcher: University of Eastern Finland; University of Kyushu, Japan   

Peer reviewer for:

Environment and Planning D: Society and Space; Geopolitics; GeoJournal; Nationalities Papers; Europe-Asia Studies; Territory, Politics and Governance; Eurasia Border Review; Journal of Borderlands Studies; Romanian Journal of Political Science, Journal of Eurasian Studies; Cambridge University Press; Rowman & Littlefield; Lexington Books; Sage

I have also given invited talks at the University of Cambridge, University of California Berkeley, Kyushu University, Hokkaido University, Akita International University, Södertörn University, Autonomous University of Nayarit, Ludwig Maximilian University, University of Manchester, University of London (Royal Holloway; King’s College), the Swedish Institute for International Affairs, and the German Historical Foundation, Moscow.

Publications

Recent publications

Book

Richardson, P 2018, . Perspective of the Global Past, University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu .

Article

Richardson, P 2024, '', Europe - Asia Studies.

Richardson, PB 2022, '', Eurasian Geography and Economics, vol. 63, no. 6, pp. 779-786.

Richardson, PB 2021, '', Geography Compass, vol. 15, no. 8, e12583.

Richardson, P 2019, '', Annals of the Association of American Geographers, vol. 109, no. 6, pp. 1999-2015.

Richardson, P 2018, '', Eurasian Geography and Economics, vol. 59, no. 1, pp. 7-27 .

Bassin, M, Richardson, P, Kolosov, V, Clowes, EW, Agnew, J & Plokhy, S 2017, '', Geopolitics, vol. 22, pp. 665-692.

Richardson, PB 2017, '', Journal of Borderlands Studies, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 7-21.

Smith, J & Richardson, P 2017, '', Journal of Borderlands Studies, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 1-6.

Richardson, P 2016, '', Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, vol. 41, no. 2, pp. 201-215.

Richardson, P & Tripathi, D 2016, '', Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 51, no. 17, pp. 27-28. <>

Richardson, P 2015, '', Global Change, Peace and Security, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 229-236.

Chapter (peer-reviewed)

Richardson, P 2015, . in D Lane & V Samokhvalov (eds), The Eurasian Project and Europe. Palgrave Macmillan Ltd., pp. 89-101.

Chapter

Richardson, P 2023, . in S Dahlke, A Renner & B Beuerle (eds), Russia's North Pacific: Centres and Peripheries. Russia and the Asia-Pacific, Heidelberg University Publishing, pp. 7-20.

Richardson, P 2020, . in A Research Agenda for Border Studies. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., pp. 43-54.