Julie Michelle Klinger

Julie Michelle Klinger (born 1983, in Rockford, Illinois) is an Assistant Professor at the University of Delaware in the program on Geography and Spatial Sciences. Between 2015-2019 she was Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University.

She studies the geography, geology and geopolitics of development and resource usage. She has carried out in-depth fieldwork in China, Brazil, and other countries that are affected by the mining of rare earth elements.

Klinger is the author of ''Rare Earth Frontiers: From Terrestrial Subsoils to Lunar Landscapes'' (2017) which traces the history and use of rare earth elements from the 1880s to the present. ''Rare Earth Frontiers'' won the 2017 Meridian Book Award for Outstanding Scholarly Work in Geography given by the American Association of Geographers (AAG). Provided by Wikipedia