Meet Andrew N. Grant
Assistant Professor, Geography
Phone: (813) 257-4091
Email: agrant@ut.edu
Address: 401 W. Kennedy Blvd. Tampa, FL 33606
Mailbox: 100F
Building:
KBB
Room: 215
Education
2006 University of Wisconsin Madison, B.A.
2012 University of California Los Angeles, M.A.
2016 University of California Los Angeles, Ph.D.
Courses Taught
World Regional Geography
GIS Mapmaking for the Social Sciences
Career Specialties
Andrew Grant is a geographer interested in the political and social dynamics of development. His research focuses on borderlands and urbanization in China, Tibet and other places in Asia.
Professional and Community Activities
Grant's research contributes to discussions of the role of urban and environmental development in global borderlands. He is interested in how borderland communities navigate wider shifts in geopolitics and geo-economics that alter their social environments. Grant uses qualitative methods including ethnography, interviews, textual analysis and critical cartography to offer bottom-up accounts of social change.
Grant's studies have examined how state-led urbanization in China has encouraged urban Tibetan communities to challenge assimilatory normative governance strategies, revealed complications between soft power and security at the Sino-Kazakh border, and analyzed contradictory geopolitical images of China’s Belt and Road Initiative cartography.
Grant is currently developing a manuscript on the social dynamics of the recent shift from consent-building development to coercive control in China's western and northwestern borderlands.
At the community level, he also enjoys participating in environmental activities including tree planting and consumer climate transition education.
Honors and Awards
Grant's 2022 book Concrete Plateau: Urban Tibetans and the Chinese Civilizing Machine from Cornell University Press was awarded the Weatherhead East Asia Institute First Book Award and the American Association of Geographers Julian Minghi Distinguished Book Award.