Nicholas Anderman
I am a critical geographer and Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at Oberlin College, where I am also affiliated with the Critical AI Studies program.
Broadly, my research concerns relationships between nature, labor, science and technology, and the history of empire, particularly in oceanic contexts. I’m currently writing a book about logistics and time; additional projects focus on the oceanographic sciences, the politics of sound, and environmental policy in Southern California.
I teach classes that span geography, science and technology studies, political economy/ecology, development studies, and the environmental humanities. Recent Oberlin courses include: Environment and Society; Logistical Worlds; Labor and Climate Justice; Against Technology?; and Science, Technology and the Environment.
I completed my PhD in 2025 in the Department of Geography at the University of California, Berkeley, with a designated emphasis in Science and Technology Studies. I hold degrees in geography (MSc University College London), literature (BA Northwestern University), and musicology (BM Northwestern University).
A full CV is available upon request. Contact me at Oberlin.
Selected publications
“Paranoid Space: Conspiracy theory and the new politics of logistics” Environment and Planning D: Society & Space, June 2026
“Tropicana, Tropicana, Tropicana: An Interview with Fred Moten” Qui Parle, December 2025
“Coffee and Hernias, Cotton and Death: The Bay Area Waterfront Writers and Artists, 1977–1994” w/ Erfan Moradi, Long-Haul, October 2025
“Deep-Sea Sound System: Scientific Listening, Ocean Heat, Colonial Power” w/ John Shiga, Journal of Environmental Media, April 2024
“Sounding Maritime Metal: Listening to Logistics at Sea” in Capitalism and the Senses, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023
“The Pot Still Boils: Introducing Totality and Culture” w/ Zachary Hicks, Qui Parle, June 2023
“Notes on Oceanic Pharmacology: Nature, Technics, Time” Media Theory, December 2022
“Everything and Nothing at All: A Review of Capitalism and the Sea: The Maritime Factor in the Making of the Modern World by Liam Campling and Alejandro Colás” Society & Space, December, 2021
© Nicholas Anderman 2026