Reece Jones (geographer)

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Reece Jones (born 1976) is an American political geographer and Guggenheim Fellow. He has a BS in biology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an MS (2004) and PhD (2008) in geography from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He teaches geography and environment at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. From 2014 to 2015, he served as president of the Political Geography Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers. He is the editor-in-chief of the journal Geopolitics and co-editor of the Routledge Geopolitics Book Series with Klaus Dodds. He was named a Fellow of the American Association of Geographers in 2023. Jones is best known for his work on border walls, the militarization of borders, and migrant deaths. His book Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move argues that creating and enforcing a border is inherently violent. The Royal Geographical Society described it as one of the most influential political geography books in recent times. Jones also writes for a popular audience, with opinion pieces in The New York Times opposing border walls and in The Guardian advocating open borders.