Assistant Professor
PhD 2021 Geography, University of Kentucky
MA 2013 Socio-Legal Studies, The International Institute for the
Sociology of Law, Onati, Spain
MA 2012 Geography, Syracuse University
BA 2008 Geography, Women's and Gender Studies. University of Oregon
Digital, Feminist, Political, and Urban Geographies
Qualitative and Creative Methodology
Queer and Crip Theory
Neurodivergence and Disability in Academia
Care and Caregivers in Academia
Children’s Geographies
Abolition
Policing, Surveillance, and Securitization
Biometric Technologies
Recent Publications
Kaufman, E.C. (2026) Minor, not Marginal, Police Geographies. Progress in Human Geography. Online first. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/03091325261451492
Kaufman, E.C. (2026) "The cameras look at us when we be doin' our dances": Children's everyday experience of securitization. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space. Online first. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/23996544261448014
Kaufman, E.C., A. Baum, and N. Nguyen (Requested by editor, in preparation) Updates to “Biometric Technologies.” Oxford Bibliographies in "Geography". Ed. Barney Warf. New York: Oxford University Press
Kaufman, E, Molana, H. and Chennault, C. (2024) “Slow(ed) Scholarship: On Crip Time and Refusal from the Intersections of Privilege and Precarity.” ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies. 23(5), 379–401. https://doi.org/10.14288/acme.v23i5.2326
Kaufman, E.C. (2021) Staying with the trouble of collegiality, professionalism and care: Fertilities in academia. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space. 39(8) 1737-1754
Kaufman, E.C. (2020) “Police Geographies.” Introductory Essay to the forum “Police Geographies.” Society and Space Open Site, edited by Emily Kaufman.
Nguyen, N. and Kaufman, E.C. (2019) “Biometric Technologies.” Oxford Bibliographies in "Geography". Ed. Barney Warf. New York: Oxford University Press
Kaufman, E.C.(2018) Review Essay of Police: A Field Guide by David Correia and Tyler Wall. In Review Forum for Environment and Planning D: Society and Space organized by Mat Coleman
Crampton, J.C., Huntley E.M., Kaufman E.C. (2017) "Societal Impacts and Ethics of GIS" in GIS Principles and Technical Designs of GIS. Edited by Thomas J. Cova and Ming-Hsiang Tsou. Oxford: Elsevier.
Kaufman, E.C. (2017) Data-Driven or Data-Justified? Antipode Intervention Symposium: "Algorithmic Governance" organized by Jeremy Crampton and Andrea Miller.
Kaufman, E.C. (2016) “Policing Mobilities Through Bio-Spatial Profiling In New York City.” Political Geography 55, 72-81
Kaufman, E.C. (2015) “Bryant Park and the Production of Social Control.” Oñati Socio-Legal Series 5.5
Kaufman, E.C., and L. Nelson (2012) “Malthus, Gender and the Demarcation of ‘Dangerous’ Bodies in 1996 US Welfare Reform.” Gender, Place & Culture 19.4: 429–448
Recent Grants and Awards
2025-2027: Lumivero Grant for Early Career Researchers on Research Excellence that Impacts Our World: $20,000
2025-2026: Faculty Research Development Committee Grant: $5,160
2022-2023: Diversity and Inclusion Faculty Fellowship, Towson University (TU): Course Release
2019: National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant: $17,950