Vital geographies team:

Dr Gerry Kearns, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, gk202@cam.ac.uk
Gerry Kearns is a senior lecturer in geography at the Cambridge University. He is also a director of the Centre for Gender Studies at Cambridge, and is Historical Geography Convenor for the European Social Science History Association. His research focuses on the history and cultural politics of public health; geography and imperialism; and geographical imaginaries of Irish nationalism. He has published over thirty articles and is co-editor of Selling Places: the city as cultural capital, past and present (1993) (with Chris Philo). He is currently working on Geopolitics and Empire, a book about the relations between the ideologies of Victorian-British and Neo-Conservative-American imperialism.

Dr Simon Reid-Henry, Department of Geography, QMUL, s.reid-henry@qmul.ac.uk
Simon Reid-Henry is a lecturer in geography at Queen Mary, University of London. He is currently engaged in two research projects: one on the intersection of geopolitics and the management of life at the American prison camp at Guantanamo and one on the political economy of the global pharmaceutical industry. His previous work on the history of biotechnology in Cuba is to be published by Chicago University Press under the title, The Cuban Cure.

Clare Herrick, Department of Geography, UCL, clare.herrick@ucl.ac.uk
Clare Herrick is a doctoral student at University College London where she has carried out research on the bio-politics of obesity under late modernity.