Jonathan Bratt

Jonathan Bratt is a PhD. candidate in Geography at Arizona State University. His does research in the areas of cultural geography, geographic thought, urbanism, public life, aesthetics, postphenomenology, and China. Jonathan is currently completing a dissertation under the supervision of Professor Kevin McHugh on relations between public life, urban space, and social aesthetics in the city of Tianjin, China. He speaks and writes Chinese and has spent the past two summers conducting research in Tianjin. Apart from his research at ASU, he serves as a teacher or teaching assistant for courses on topics such as human-environment relations, physical geography, and urban geography, and co-directs a graduate student organization called the Post-Human Network.