ICS Associate Professor in Environmental Futures appointment

We are pleased to announce the appointment of Dr Amer Kanngieser to the role of Associate Professor (Environmental Futures) at the Institute for Culture and Society.

Dr. Amer Kanngieser is an award-winning political geographer and artist who recently completed a prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellowship in GeoHumanities at Royal Holloway, University of London. They earned their PhD from the School of Resource Management at University of Melbourne in 2009, with a dual focus on Cultural Geography and Media Studies. Amer has held several prominent research positions, including Senior Research Fellow at the University of Sydney's Seedbox Environmental Humanities Laboratory and Vice-Chancellor's Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Wollongong within the Australian Centre for Culture, Environment, Society and Space. Their interdisciplinary work operates at the nexus of environmental geography, political economy, and sonic arts. This approach has allowed them to achieve significant academic milestones in academic geography while simultaneously shaping the international contemporary art and environmental justice sectors. For over a decade, they have been at the forefront of integrating experimental audio—such as field recordings, data sonification, and oral testimonies—into geographical inquiry to document environmental change. Amer has led and developed deep collaborative work with Pacific scholars, grassroots organisers, and queer and transgender artists to amplify community-led responses to resource extraction, environmental racism, and ecocide. These efforts extend to facilitating audio training and podcasting in Fiji and the Marshall Islands to support community self-determination. Amer is the author of Experimental Politics and the Making of Worlds (Routledge, 2013) and Between Sound and Silence: Listening toward Environmental Relations (forthcoming with Duke University Press). Their research is featured in top-tier journals including Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Progress in Human Geography and WIREs Climate Change. Their radio art and immersive installations have been shown at Venice Biennale, CTM x Transmediale and LACMA, and broadcast by international platforms such as the BBC and ABC, with their piece "And Then The Sea Came Back" receiving a Prix Ars Electronica Jury nomination in 2017.