Dr. Steven Radil is an Assistant Professor of Geography and arrived at Ball State in 2011. His research, situated largely within political geography and critical geopolitics, draws on geographic and political perspectives to interrogate how geographic situation and context impact political agency. He is also interested in social network analysis as a means to integrate social theory into spatial analysis and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). His current research is into the processes of the diffusion of war, focusing on the cases of World War I and the recent wars in the Great Lakes region of sub-Saharan Africa. At Ball State, Dr. Radil teaches Urban Geography (Geog 321), Political Geography (Geog 470), Introduction to GIS (Geog 265), and GIS Workshop (Geog 448). His research has been published most recently in The Annals of the Association of American Geographers, the Journal of Quantitative Criminology, and Eurasian Geography and Economics. He earned his Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.