John Rennie Short

• Professor Emeritus of Public Policy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

John Rennie Short is an expert on urban issues, environmental concerns, geopolitics and the history of cartography. He has studied cities around the world, and lectured to a variety of audiences. Recent books include: Hedging and Conflict in the South China Sea (2025), Demography and the Making of the Modern World (2024), Insurrection (2024), Human Geography (2024, 3rd ed.), The Urban Now (2023), The Rise and Fall of The National Atlas (2022), Geopolitics: Making Sense of a Changing World (2021), Stress Testing The USA (2021, 2nd ed.), World Regional Geography (2019), Hosting The Olympic Games: The Real Costs for Cities (2018), The Unequal City (2018), A Research Agenda for Cities (2017), Urban Theory (2015, 2nd ed.), Cities and Nature (2013, 2nd ed.) and Globalization, Modernity and The City (2012).

Before coming to UMBC in 2002, he was a Professor in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. From 1978 to 1990 he taught at the University of Reading UK. He has held visiting appointments as Senior Research Fellow at the Australian National University, as the Erasmus Professor at Groningen University and as the Leverhulme Professor at Loughborough University. Among his research awards are a Fulbright ASEAN Fellowship, the Vietor Fellowship at Yale University, the Dibner Fellowship at the Smithsonian, the Kono Fellowship at the Huntington Library and the Andrew Mellon Fellowship at the American Philosophical Society. His work has been translated into many languages including Arabic, Chinese, Czech, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Turkish and Vietnamese.

• –present Professor School of Public Policy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

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