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Biography:

Dr. Asaka is an Assistant Professor of Security Studies in the Department of Security Studies at Sam Houston State University. He specializes in environmental and human security issues. Some of his works have been published in the Routledge Handbook of Resource Nexus, Routledge Handbook of Environmental Conflict and Peacemaking, Case Studies in the Environment, Journal of Arid Environments, and The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs among others. He has also written opinion pieces for New Security Beat – a blog of the Washington DC-based Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars' Environmental Change and Security Program; Adelphi's Environment, Conflict and Cooperation online platform; and Africa edition of the Conversation among others.

Prior to joining SHSU, Dr. Asaka completed a two year National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) Coasts and Communities Fellowship at the University of Massachusetts Boston, one week Summer School on Sustainable Climate Risk Management (SCRiM) at Pennsylvania State University, and two year Lectureship in Global Studies at Middle Tennessee State University where he developed and taught a special topics course on Globalization, Environment and Security wherein students explored the nexus between environment and security in a globalizing world.

Dr. Asaka earned an M.S. degree at Ohio University, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees at University of Massachusetts Boston.

Recent Publications:

• Asaka, J. O. (2019). Transformations, changes, and continuities in conservation governance: a case study of wildlife conservation in Kenya, 1980-2016. Case Studies in the Environment, 1–9. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1525/cse.2018.001768
• Asaka, J. O. (2019). Water-energy-food nexus and human security in northwestern Kenya. In A. Koulouri & N. Mouraviev (Eds.), Policy and Governance in the Water-Energy-Food Nexus: A Relational Equity Approach. Routledge.
• Adivilah, T., Asaka, J. O., Holcombe, L., McSparren, J., & Van DeVeer, S. (2018). Environmental conflicts and peacebuilding in Africa: connecting resources, issues and ongoing initiatives. In A. Swain & J. Öjndela (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Environmental Conflict and Peacemaking. Routledge.
• Bassel, D., Lee, S., Mohtar, R., Asaka, J. O., & VanDeveer, S. (2018). Security, climate change and the nexus. In R. Bleischwitz, H. Hoff, C. Spataru, E. van der Voet, & S. VanDeveer (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of the Resource Nexus. Routledge.
• Asaka, J. O., & Smucker, T. A. (2016). Assessing the role of mobile phone communication in drought-related mobility patterns of Samburu pastoralists. Journal of Arid Environments, 128, 12–16.
• Asaka, J. O. (2015). Colonial Kenya observed: British rule, Mau Mau and the wind of change. The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs, 104(5), 631–633.
• Asaka, J. O. (2012, September 28). Water and land conflict in Kenya in the wake of climate change. Retrieved from New Security Beat website: http://www.newsecuritybeat.org/author/jasaka/#.UsszEv1fRuY