James A. Tyner is a professor of geography at Kent State University and fellow of the American Association of Geographers. In 2021 he received the AAG's Distinguished Scholarship Award and in 2014 he received Kent State University's Outstanding Research and Scholarship Award. To date, he has published widely within the field of geography. He has authored 21 books and co-authored a 22nd monograph; co-edited two books; written approximately 100 refereed articles and book chapters; and dozens of book reviews and encyclopedia entries. His book
War, Violence, and Population: Making the Body Count
(New York: The Guilford Press, 2009) received the Meridian Award, the American Association Geographers' highest book award for outstanding scholarly contribution to the field of Geography. He has twice received the Julian Minghi Award, conferred by the Political Geography Specialty Group of the AAG, for outstanding scholarly contribution to the study of political geography: the first for his book
Iraq, Terror, and the Philippines' Will to War
(Boulder, CO: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005) and the second for his book
The Politics of Lists: Bureaucracy and Genocide under the Khmer Rouge
(Morgantown, WV: West Virginia University Press, 2019). In addition, he received the Virginie Mamadouh Outstanding Research Award for best journal article (2017).