Doctor of Philosophy
Geography
Kent State University
Master of Arts
Geography
Kent State University
Bachelor of Arts
Geography and Environmental Studies
The State University of New York at New Paltz
The subject of geography might bring to mind maps, globes and memorizing the names of mountains and rivers. But geography is as much about people as it is about places.
Alex Colucci teaches human and physical geography at 51吃瓜网, where students explore the relationship between geography and the environment, and the spatial interactions between people, society, politics and power structures. In a time when our environment is constantly changing, Colucci’s courses can help students think critically about what those changes mean for people around the globe.
Colucci joined 51吃瓜网’s faculty in fall 2025. He describes 51吃瓜网 students as “inquisitive and curious ... two of the best traits in good students.” He takes a political ecology approach to his teaching with an emphasis on social and environmental justice. In his courses, he especially enjoys sharing how a geographic understanding of the world can be useful to students in the social and natural sciences. He enjoys working on student engaged research projects and his favorite course to teach is Geography of the United States and Canada.
You might spot Colucci on his bike commute to campus or exploring local trails in search of birds as he gets to know Maryland’s environment after moving from Ohio, where he taught geography, environmental studies, and architecture courses at Kent State University. When he’s not exploring the outdoors, he enjoys reading science fiction novels.
Colucci, Alex R. 2025. Avian Migration, Building Collisions, and Ecosocial Landscape Design. "Climate Mobilities: Urban Infill," volume 9: 79-86.
Colucci, Alex R., Daniel J. Vecellio, and Michael J. Allen. 2023. Critical Physical Geographies of Air, Atmosphere, and Climate. "Progress in Environmental Geography" 4 (2): 225-239, doi:
Colucci, Alex R., Daniel J. Vecellio, and Michael J. Allen. 2023. Thermal (In)Equity and Incarceration: A Necessary Nexus for Geographers. "Environment and Planning E: Nature and Society" 6 (1): 638-657, doi:
Colucci, Alex R. 2022. Emergent Specters and Disruptive Play in the Production of Disc Golf. "Sociological Focus" 55 (3): 236-253, doi:
Colucci, Alex R., James A. Tyner, Mandy Munro-Stasiuk, Stian Rice, Sokvisal Kimsroy, Chhunly Chhay, and Corrine Coakley. 2021. Critical Physical Geography and the Study of Genocide: Lessons from Cambodia. "Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers" 46 (3): 780-793, doi:
Colucci, Alex R. 2020. Geographies of Capital Punishment: New Directions and Interventions. "Geography Compass." 14 (12): 1-16, doi:
Tyner, James A. and Alex R. Colucci. 2015. Bare Life, Dead Labor and Capital(ist) Punishment. "ACME: An International Journal of Critical Geographies" 14 (4): 1083-1099, doi:
Tyner, James A. and Alex R. Colucci. 2015. Interrogating the ‘Interrogation’ Fetish in Geography: Towards a Critical Interrogative Writing. "Progress in Human Geography" 39 (3): 246-248, doi:
Tyner, James A., Gabriela Brindis Alvarez and Alex R. Colucci. 2012. Memory and the Everyday Landscape of Violence in Post-Genocide Cambodia. "Social and Cultural Geography" 13 (8): 853-871, doi:
Colucci, Alex R. 2021. The Cultural Necrotechnologies of Capital and the Production of (post) Industrial Capital Punishment, in "Geographies of Post-Industrial Memory, Place, and Heritage," edited by William Price, Mark Alan Rhodes II, and Amy Walker. Routledge, 158-171.
Colucci, Alex R. 2019. Capital Punishment, entry in the "International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, 2nd edition," edited by Audrey Kobayashi. Elsevier, vol. 2, 9-14.
Colucci, Alex R. and Amanda N. Mullett. 2016. Maya as Commodity Fetish: Accumulation by Dispossession and Ecotourism in the Riviera Maya, in "Political Ecology and Tourism," edited by Sanjay Nepal and Jarkko Saarinen. Routledge, 149-162.
Colucci, Alex R. 2022. Book review of “Living by Inches: The Smells, Sounds, Tastes, and Feeling of Captivity in Civil War Prisons” by Evan A. Kutzler. "Material Culture: The Journal of the International Society for Landscape, Place, & Material Culture" 54 (1): 56-57.
Colucci, Alex R. 2012. Book Review of “African Soccerscapes: How a Continent Changed the World’s Game” by Peter Alegi. "Material Culture: The Journal of the International Society for Landscape, Place, & Material Culture" 44 (2): 81-82.
