Bruce Braun is Professor and Chair in the Department of Geography, Environment, and Society at the University of Minnesota. His research and teaching spans political ecology, race and nature, urban natures, and environmental infrastructures. He is currently working on projects that examine the multiple temporalities and political aesthetics of resource extraction in the United States, speculation and experimentation as modes of dwelling in Anthropocene landscapes, and the incorporation of nonhuman actors in urban governance. He is the author of The Intemperate Rainforest: Nature, Culture and Power on Canada’s West Coast (University of Minnesota Press, 2002) and editor of Social Nature: Theory, Practice, Politics (with Noel Castree, Blackwell, 2001) and Political Matter: Technoscience, Democracy, and Public Life (with Sarah Whatmore, University of Minnesota Press, 2010); and past editor of The Annals of the Association of American Geographers.