Kevin St. Martin

Cohort 2024-2025
Dr. St. Martin is a Professor of Geography at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. He is a human geographer whose work is at the intersection of economic geography, political ecology, and critical cartographies. His work includes critical analyses of economic and resource management discourse as well as participatory projects that work to rethink economy and foster economic and environmental wellbeing.

Dr. St. Martin’s projects have in common the regulation and transformation of the marine environment. He uses the paradigmatic case of fisheries in the U.S. Northeast to better understand the power of discourse, data, and devices to shape economic and environmental outcomes. He co-edited Making Other Worlds Possible: Performing Diverse Economies, he is an editor of the Diverse Economies and Liveable Worlds book series, he is an associate editor for the journal Maritime Studies, and he serves on the advisory board of the Floating Laboratory of Action and Theory at Sea (FLOATS).