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Julie Michelle Klinger
Assistant Professor, University of Delaware
Born1983 (age 40–41)
Rockford, Illinois
Alma materSarah Lawrence College, University of California, Berkeley
Occupation(s)Assistant Professor, University of Delaware
Notable workRare Earth Frontiers: From Terrestrial Subsoils to Lunar Landscapes (2017)
AwardsMeridian Book Award (2017)

Julie Michelle Klinger (born 1983, in Rockford, Illinois)[1] is an Assistant Professor at the University of Delaware in the program on Geography and Spatial Sciences.[2] Between 2015-2019 she was Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University.

She studies the geography, geology and geopolitics of development and resource usage.[3] She has carried out in-depth fieldwork in China, Brazil, and other countries that are affected by the mining of rare earth elements.[4]

Klinger is the author of Rare Earth Frontiers: From Terrestrial Subsoils to Lunar Landscapes (2017)[5] which traces the history and use of rare earth elements from the 1880s to the present. Rare Earth Frontiers won the 2017 Meridian Book Award for Outstanding Scholarly Work in Geography given by the American Association of Geographers (AAG).[3][6]

Education

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Julie Michelle Klinger graduated from Sarah Lawrence College with a B.A. in 2006.[7] While at Sarah Lawrence, she worked with Joshua Muldavin.[4] In addition, she earned a certificate from the Nanjing University Center for Chinese and American Studies at Johns Hopkins University in 2007.[7] She earned her PhD in geography at the University of California, Berkeley in 2015,[8] with the dissertation On the Rare Earth Frontier.[9] Her advisor was Michael J. Watts.[9]

Career

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After completing her Ph.D. Klinger joined the Pardee School at Boston University where she was Assistant Professor for 4 years between 2015 and 2019. She also served as one of the associate directors of the Land Use and Livelihoods Initiative (LULI) at the university's Global Development Policy Center (GDP Center). In January 2020, she moved to the University of Delaware's Department of Geography and Spatial Sciences as an Assistant Professor in the university's new Minerals, Materials and Society Program.

Klinger traces the history of rare earth elements, 17 elements which are important to a wide variety of technologies including electronics, telecommunications, medicine, green energy (solar panels, wind turbines and electric vehicles), and defensive systems.[6][4][10] Klinger also studies the legal and political implications of proposals to mine rare earths on the moon, which is currently protected under an international treaty.[11][12]

Rare Earth Frontiers

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External videos
video icon “Rare Earths Elements: The Intersection of Science and Society”, Panel discussion including Julie Klinger, 2019.

Klinger received the 2017 Meridian Book Award for Outstanding Scholarly Work in Geography from the American Association of Geographers for her book Rare Earth Frontiers: From Terrestrial Subsoils to Lunar Landscapes. In this book, she examines the production and consumption of the so-called rare-earth elements. The book addresses geographical, geological and geopolitical issues. She examines ways in which the terms "rare earths" and "frontier" reinforce a scarcity myth that is used to justify environmental and human damage.[6][4]

References

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  1. ^ Klinger, Julie Michelle (2011). "The Long Haul". Dissent. No. Summer. Retrieved 21 February 2019.
  2. ^ "Julie Michelle Klinger". Department of Geography, University of Delaware. Retrieved 28 January 2020.
  3. ^ a b "Julie Klinger". Pardee School of Global Studies. Retrieved 19 February 2019.
  4. ^ a b c d Kim, Meeri. "Exposing a Trail of Devastation". Sarah Lawrence College. Retrieved 19 February 2019.
  5. ^ Klinger, Julie Michelle (2017). "From Terrestrial Subsoils to Lunar Landscapes". Rare earth frontiers : from terrestrial subsoils to lunar landscapes. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-1501714603. JSTOR 10.7591/j.ctt1w0dd6d.
  6. ^ a b c "2018 AAG Book Awards Announced". AAG Newsletter. American Association of Geographers. March 12, 2018. Retrieved 19 February 2019.
  7. ^ a b "1JULIE MICHELLE KLINGER, PhD" (PDF). P. 2018. Retrieved 21 February 2019.
  8. ^ Kiggins, Ryan David (2015). The political economy of rare earth elements : rising powers and technological change. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK. p. xii. ISBN 9781137364241. Retrieved 19 February 2019.
  9. ^ a b Klinger, Julie Michelle (2015). On the rare earth frontier. Berkeley, California: University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved 20 February 2019.
  10. ^ Sammler, Katherine (March 22, 2018). "Black Panther's Vibranium and the Super Nature of Earthly Materials". SLOAN Science & Film. Retrieved 21 February 2019.
  11. ^ Gabriel, Elliott (May 17, 2018). "Trump and corporate America are dead serious about plans to conquer outer space". Monthly Review Online. Retrieved 21 February 2019.
  12. ^ Dunnett, Oliver; Maclaren, Andrew S.; Klinger, Julie; Lane, K. Maria D.; Sage, Daniel (21 December 2017). "Geographies of outer space". Progress in Human Geography. 43 (2): 314–336. doi:10.1177/0309132517747727. hdl:2164/11959. S2CID 149382358.
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