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Professor Julie Cupples is a Personal Chair of Human Geography & Cultural Studies at the School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh. She actively supervises PhD students and focuses on interdisciplinary research at the intersections of cultural geography, media studies, and Latin American decolonial theory. Her work critically examines Indigenous and Afrodescendant media, neoliberalism, environmental justice, and popular geopolitics in Latin America and Aotearoa New Zealand.
- University of Edinburgh, School of Geosciences (since 2013)
Her research spans cultural geography, media convergence, and disaster studies, with a strong emphasis on social justice. She co-authored Transmedia Geographies (2025) and Shifting Nicaraguan Mediascapes (2018), and has edited volumes on Latin American development and urban marginality. She is a member of the Creole Connections project, mapping cultural ties across the Caribbean and Central America.
Professor Cupples has served on editorial boards for journals like Gender, Place and Culture and Media Studies. She is also an executive producer for the upcoming film Cordillera de Fuego. Her activism and research intersect in her work on Nicaraguan human rights, including advocacy for political prisoners like Irving Larios. She has publicly opposed the Ortega-Murillo regime’s authoritarian practices and contributed to debates on academic integrity and anti-predatory publishing.
- Senior Fellowship (Dialogical Cultures, Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, 2022)
