Kate S. Coddington
PhD with distinction, Geography, Syracuse University (2014)
Certificate of Advanced Study (C.A.S.), Women’s and Gender Studies, Syracuse University (2012)
MA, Geography, Syracuse University (2009)
BA with distinction, Carleton College (2003)
About
I research approaches to public policy dealing with migrants and postcolonial governance that influence processes of bordering and citizenship. My work is grounded in feminist epistemology, and uses literature from geography, anthropology, and interdisciplinary scholarship on migration, mobility, and governance to understand the everyday consequences of public policies for migrants, non-governmental organizations, and policy-makers. I teach courses related to mobility, migration, human dimensions of global change, environment and gender.
Research
Kate S. Coddington on Google Scholar
Grants/Funding
National Science Foundation Conference Grant (2022-2023)
American Association of Geographers Award, Summer Series Advanced-Level Workshop (2022)
National Science Foundation Standard Grant (2019-2024)
SUNY Conversations in the Disciplines Grant (2019, cancelled due to COVID-19)
British Council Researcher Links Travel Grant (2015)
Publications
Publications since 2011
2025
Coddington, K. (In Press) Deterrence for whom? Public information campaigns as border internalization in Australia. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, https://doi.org/10.1177/23996544241308719
Coddington, K. (In Press) “Protection Gaps.” The SAGE Encyclopedia of Refugee Studies, Yến Lê Espiritu (ed). SAGE Reference.
Coddington, K. and J. Williams. (2025) Feminist visualization challenges: Methodological innovation, opportunities, and lessons learned. Area, 57(1): e12974. https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12974
Sperandio, E., J. Williams and K. Coddington. (2025) Feminist Geopolitics: Gender and the Everyday Production of Insecurity through Public Information Campaigns, Handbook on Gender and Security, J. Joachim, A. Kronsell, and N. Dalmer (eds), Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 49-60, https://doi.org/10.4337/9781803928364.00010
2024
Coddington, K. and J. Williams. (2024) Feminist Periscoping & Feminist Data Visualization: Strategies for Analyzing and Disseminating Messy Data, The Professional Geographer, 76(4): 458-466, doi:10.1080/00330124.2024.2308624.
Coddington, K. (2024) Public information campaigns as enforcement infrastructure: Australia’s No Way campaign, colonial logics, and the migration fix. Environment and Planning D: Society & Space, 42(2): 211-233. DOI: 10.1177/02637758241230178
Coddington, K. (2024) Towards a feminist practice of comparison in political geography, Political Geography in practice: methods, theories and methodologies, F. Menga, K. Grove, S. Costalli, C. Nagel, K. Peters and A. Vradis (eds), Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature Switzerland, pp. 103-120.
Coddington, K. (2024) Approaching Thailand’s national screening mechanism through affective governmentality: protection and competent governance, or maintaining the status quo? Refugee Protection in Southeast Asia: Between Responsibility and Sovereignty, Susan Kneebone, Antje Missbach and Reyvi Marinas (eds), New York: Berghahn, pp. 140-158.
Coddington, K. (2024) Examining the politicization of asylum through public information campaigns: deterrence messaging for whom? Deter, Detain, Dehumanise: The politics of seeking asylum, R. Sharples and L. Briskman (eds). Leeds, UK: Emerald Publishing, 51-64.
2023
Williams, J. and K. Coddington. (2023) Transnational Affective Circuitry: Public information campaigns, affective governmentality, and border enforcement. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 113(10): 2376-2391, DOI: 10.1080/24694452.2023.2226193
Williams, J. and K. Coddington (2023): Deterring transnational migration: public information campaigns, affective governmentality, and the family, International Feminist Journal of Politics, 25(2): 201-222, DOI: 10.1080/14616742.2022.2134046 (percentage co-authored: 50%)
2022
Coddington, K. and J. Williams. (2022) Relational Enforcement: The family and the expanding scope of border enforcement, Progress in Human Geography, 46(2): 590-604, https://doi.org/10.1177/03091325211044795. (percentage co-authored: 50%)
Steinberg, P., G. Ferloni, C. Aporta, G. Bridge, A. Chircop, K. Coddington, S. Elden, S. C. Kane, T. Koivurova, J. Shadian, and A. Stammler-Gossmann (2022) Navigating the Structural Coherence of Sea Ice, Laws of the Sea: Interdisciplinary Currents, I. Braverman (ed.) Milton Park, Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 165-183.
Mitchell-Eaton, E. and Coddington, K. (2022) Refusal and migration research: New possibilities for feminist geographical research on migration. Displacement, Belonging, and Migrant Agency in the Face of Power, T. Mayar and T. Tran, eds. Milton Park, Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 317-330.
2021
Coddington, K. (2021) For political geographies of fertilities, Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 39(8): 1675-1691, https://doi.org/10.1177/23996544211050078
Coddington, K. (2021) The everyday erosion of refugee claims: Representations of the Rohingya in Thailand, Social & Cultural Geography, DOI:10.1080/14649365.2021.1939125
Williams, J. M. & K. Coddington (2021) Feminist periscoping in research on border enforcement and human rights, Journal of Human Rights, 20(1): 143-150.
Coddington, K. (2021) Incompatible with life: embodied borders, migrant fertility, and the UK’s ‘hostile environment,’ Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 39(8): 1711-1724, https://doi.org/10.1177/2399654420968112
2019
Coddington, K. (2019)Fractures in Australia’s Asia-Pacific border continuum: deterrence, detention, and the production of illegality, in Jones, Mitchell and Fluri (eds) Handbook on Critical Geographies of Migration. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Press: 232-243.
Lenette, C., S. Banks, C. Nunn, K. Coddington, T. Cook, S.T. Kong, and N. Stavropoulou (2019) Brushed under the carpet: Examining the complexities of participatory research (PR). Research for All, 3(2).
2018
Coddington, K. (2018) The slow violence of life without cash: borders, state restrictions, and exclusion in the U.K. and Australia. Geographical Review. https://doi.org/10.1111/gere.12332
Coddington, K., Conlon, D. and Martin, L, (2018) Destitution economies: mapping relations of enforced precarity. Society and Space, http://societyandspace.org/2018/12/11/destitution-economies-mapping-rel…
Coddington, K., Conlon, D. and Martin, L, (2018) Introduction: Mapping relations of enforced precarity. Society and Space, http://societyandspace.org/2018/12/11/destitution-economies-mapping-rel…
Coddington, K. (2018) Landscapes of refugee protection, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 43(3): 326-340
Coddington, K. (2018) Settler colonial territorial imaginaries: maritime mobilities and the ‘tow-backs’ of asylum seekers, in Peters, K. Steinberg, P. and Stratford, E. (eds) Territory Beyond Terra. London: Rowman & Littlefield International: 185-202.
2017
Micieli-Voutsinas, J. and Coddington, K. (2017) Spatializing Shattered Subjects: Mapping Geographies of Trauma, Emotion, Space and Society (equal participation in guest editing process)
Coddington, K. (2017) The re-emergence of wardship: Aboriginal Australians and the promise of citizenship, Political Geography, 61: 67-76
Burke, S., Carr, A., Casson, H., Coddington, K., Colls, R., Jollans, A., Jordan, S., Smith, K., Taylor, N. and Urquhart, H. (equal authorship, paper co-authored with undergraduate students) (2017) Generative Spaces: Intimacy, Activism and Teaching Feminist Geographies, Gender, Place and Culture, 24(5) Special issue on Emergent and Divergent Spaces in the Women’s March: The Challenges of Intersectionality and Inclusion: 661-673
Coddington, K. and J. Micieli-Voutsinas. (2017) On trauma, geography, and mobility: towards geographies of trauma, Emotion, Space and Society, 24: 52-56.
Coddington, K. (2017) Contagious trauma: Reframing the spatial mobility of trauma within advocacy work, Emotion, Space and Society, 24: 66-73
Coddington, K. (2017) The mobility of carceral logics: enclosure tactics and violent consequences for Aboriginal communities and asylum seekers in Australia, in Turner, J. and Peters, K. (eds) Carceral Mobilities: Interrogating Movement in Incarceration. London and New York: Routledge: 17-29.
Coddington, K. (2017) Intimate Economies of Erasure and Ambiguity: Darwin as Australia’s 2011-2012 ‘Capital of Detention,’ in Hiemstra, N and Conlon, D (eds) Intimate Economies of Immigration Detention: Critical Perspectives London and New York: Routledge: 140-154.
Coddington, K. (2017) Voice Under Scrutiny: Feminist Methods, Anticolonial Responses, and New Methodological Tools, The Professional Geographer, 69(2): 314-320.
2015
Steinberg, P. and K. Coddington. (2015) From Ice Law to ICE LAW: Constructing an Interdisciplinary Research Project on the Political-Legal Challenges of Polar Environments, in L. Heininen, H. Exner-Pirot, and J. Plouffe (eds.) Arctic Yearbook 2015, Akureyri, Iceland: Northern Research Forum, pp. 445-451.
Coddington, K. (2015) The “entrepreneurial spirit:” Exxon Valdez and nature tourism development in Seward, Alaska, Tourism Geographies, 17(3): 482-497.
Coddington, K. (2015) Feminist geographies ‘beyond’ gender: de-coupling feminist research and the gendered subject, Geography Compass, 9(4): 214-224.
2014
Coddington, K., and A. Mountz. (2014) Countering isolation with use of technology: how asylum-seeking detainees on islands in the Indian Ocean use social media to transcend their confinement. Journal of the Indian Ocean Region, 10(1): 97-112.
2012
Coddington, K., R. T. Catania, J. Loyd, E. Mitchell-Eaton, and A. Mountz. (2012) Embodied Possibilities, Sovereign Geographies, and Island Detention: Negotiating the ‘right to have rights’ on Guam, Lampedusa, and Christmas Island. SHIMA: The International Journal of Research into Island Cultures, 6(2): 27-48.
Mountz, A., K. Coddington, J. Loyd, and R. T. Catania. (2012) Conceptualizing detention: mobility, containment, bordering, and exclusion. Progress in Human Geography, 37(4): 522-541.
2011
Coddington, K. (2011) Spectral geographies: haunting and everyday state practices in colonial and present-day Alaska. Social & Cultural Geography, 12(7): 743-756.
Instruction & Advising
Courses
Human Dimensions of Global Change (AGOG 490 & 503, AGLO 420)
Introduction to Human Geography (AGOG 102)
Geographic Thought (AGOG 493 & 500)
Inequality, Conflict and the Environment (AGOG 200)
Gender, Space and Place (AGOG 328)
Additional Information
Awards & Honors
Service
Chair, University Senate (2024-2025)
Vice-Chair, University Senate (2023-2024)
Associate Editor for Special Issues, Political Geography (2024-)
President, Political Geography Specialty Group (2025-2027)
Vice President, Political Geography Specialty Group (2023-2025)