Dr. Brittany Meché is a transdisciplinary scholar working at the intersections of Environmental Studies, Security Studies, African/Diaspora Studies, and Science and Technology Studies. She currently serves as Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies and Affiliated Faculty in Science and Technology Studies at Williams College, USA. Professor Meché earned her PhD in Geography from the University of California, Berkeley in 2020. Her research examines the politics of environmental expertise, global security projects, French and United States empire, and the making of Black/African diasporic worlds. Prof. Meché’s work has been featured in Antipode, Society and Space, Acme, and in the edited volume A Research Agenda for Military Geographies. She previously served as the McMillan-Stewart residential fellow at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. She is completing a book manuscript about security interventions, climate change, and the afterlives of empire in the West African Sahel.