Kopack, Robert Allen
Instructor
Dr. Kopack received his Ph.D. in human geography from the University of Toronto in 2020. Working across political economy and the environment, his doctoral research focused on Soviet defense industry conversions in Kazakhstan in formerly secret cities and their adjacent military installations and landscapes. For this research Dr. Kopack spent more than two years in Kazakhstan and other parts of the former Soviet Union.
Biographical Profile
- College
- College of Arts and Sciences
- Department
- Geography
- Tenure Status
- Non-Tenure Track
Interest Background
- Interest Keywords
- Defense industries and security; the Cold War, energy policy and political ecology, commercial space industries, environmental history, social justice and public health, former Soviet Union
- Personal Focus Areas
- the closure, remediation, and repurposing efforts of defense sites in Kazakhstan, environmental regulations/public/private sector negotiations related to commercial space facilities
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