
Jesse Rodenbiker is a human-environment geographer and interdisciplinary social scientist focusing on environmental governance, urbanization, and sustainable development in China and globally. Rodenbiker's work intersects with environmental science, policy, and planning, urban geography, and political ecology.
Rodenbiker is Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Geography at Rutgers University, prior to which he was Cornell Atkinson Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Sustainability with the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment at Cornell University. He holds a Ph.D. in Geography from the University of California, Berkeley. Rodenbiker's first book Ecological States: Politics of Science and Nature in Urbanizing China is forthcoming with Cornell University Press (2023). His writing is published in Geoforum, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Land Use Policy, The China Quarterly, Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space and other venues.
Rodenbiker is Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Geography at Rutgers University, prior to which he was Cornell Atkinson Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Sustainability with the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment at Cornell University. He holds a Ph.D. in Geography from the University of California, Berkeley. Rodenbiker's first book Ecological States: Politics of Science and Nature in Urbanizing China is forthcoming with Cornell University Press (2023). His writing is published in Geoforum, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Land Use Policy, The China Quarterly, Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space and other venues.