Jason Dittmer
Jason Dittmer is Professor of Political Geography at University College London.
Background
Dittmer comes from Jacksonville, Florida. He attended a secondary school where geography was on the curriculum from seventh grade onwards. He attended Jacksonville University, where he completed an undegraduate degree in political science and international studies.{{Cite web |title=Interview: Jason Dittmer - ProQuest |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/905648318?fromopenview=true&pq-origsite=gscholar&sourcetype=Scholarly%20Journals |access-date=2025-06-11 |website=www.proquest.com |language=en}} He completed a masters degree in International Affairs at Florida State University.{{Cite web |title=University College London |url=https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/5134-jason-dittmer |access-date=2025-06-11 |website=profiles.ucl.ac.uk}} His PhD thesis, also completed at Florida State University, is entitled: European Re-Union, Representations of Eastern Europe in NATO and EU Expansion.{{Cite web |last=Dittmer |first=Jason |date=2003 |title=European Re-Union, Representations of Eastern Europe in NATO and EU Expansion |url=https://repository.lib.fsu.edu/islandora/object/fsu:168901/datastream/PDF/view |access-date=11 June 2025 |website=Florida State University}}
Career
Dittmer's book Popular Culture, Geopolitics, and Identity was the first textbook to examine, from a geographical perspective, the connections between popular culture and international relations.{{Cite web |last=Relations |first=E.-International |date=2021-11-07 |title=Interview – Jason Dittmer |url=https://www.e-ir.info/2021/11/07/interview-jason-dittmer/ |access-date=2025-06-11 |website=E-International Relations |language=en-US}} The book was first published in April 2010.{{Cite web |first=Amazon |title=Popular Culture, Geopolitics, and Identity (Human Geography in the Twenty-First Century: Issues and Applications): Amazon.co.uk: Dittmer, jason: 9780742556348: Books |url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Popular-Geopolitics-Identity-Geography-Twenty-First/dp/0742556344 |access-date=11 June 2025 |website=Amazon}}
Dittmer has been an academic at University College London since 2007, and has been a Professor since 2016.
As of the late 2010s, Dittmer's work was focusing on materiality's role in geopolitics.{{Cite web |title=Jason Dittmer {{!}} Middlebury |url=https://www.middlebury.edu/rohatyn-center-global-affairs/jason-dittmer |access-date=2025-06-11 |website=www.middlebury.edu |language=en}}