Sam Chambers, PhD

Sam Chambers is an independent scholar working in the fields of critical cartography and geospatial sciences. Although he has worked in in fields as varied as Forestry/Wildlife and Epidemiology, his primary focus is on the critical analysis on the methods of impeding of movement in contested landscapes. He is currently working on projects, in cooperation with colleagues at the University of Arizona and Earlham College, assessing the physical and psychological impacts of deterrence tactics in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. Sam has worked/works in cooperation with the humanitarian groups No More Deaths and Coalición de Derechos Humanos in Tucson, Arizona and the indigenous Tohono O'odham Nation in Sonora, Mexico.

August 2013