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Dr Ruth Craggs is a Professor of Political and Historical Geography at King's College London's Department of Geography, School of Global Affairs. Her work bridges critical historical, political, and development geographies with a focus on North-South relations and decolonisation processes.
- Reader in Political and Historical Geography since 2013
- Previous appointments at University of Hull and St Mary's University College
Research spans postcolonial geopolitics, disciplinary histories of geography, urban planning legacies, and Commonwealth networks. She leads the Training Diplomats of Postcolonial African States project (2021-2024) funded by the Leverhulme Trust and contributes to the Empires and Decolonizations Research Hub at King's. Her work intersects with UN Sustainable Development Goals through decolonial lenses.
Recent publications examine diplomatic training as anticolonial practice (2025), postcolonial pedagogies (2024), and disciplinary histories (2023). She supervises research on geographies of empire, urban policy mobility, and geopolitical performance at Commonwealth conferences.
Scientific Awards
- Leverhulme Trust Research Grant (2021)
Supervision
- Principal supervisors: Dimitris Venizelos, Nirali Joshi, Jacob Fairless-Nicholson
- Secondary supervisors: Peter Waring, Lee Butcher
