Profile

Nerve V. Macaspac (he/him) is a political geographer and cartographer with a regional focus in Southeast Asia. His current research examines community-led peace zones as spaces of peace amid active violent conflicts. He is a Co-Investigator for “Creating Safer Spaces,” a 5-year international and interdisciplinary research project funded by the United Kingdom Research and Innovation’s Arts and Humanities Research Council, and for “Building the SUNY/CUNY Southeast Asia Consortium,” a 4-year project establishing Southeast Asian Studies network in the SUNY and CUNY systems funded by the Luce Foundation.

At CUNY, he serves as an Assistant Professor of Information Studies at the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, and a Doctoral Faculty at the Earth and Environmental Sciences at the Graduate Center. He received his Ph.D. in Geography at the University of California in Los Angeles. He completed an MA in Asian Studies at the University of California at Berkeley and a Bachelors in Education at the University of the Philippines Diliman.