Kyle Davis

I consider myself a human geographer, with my core interests revolving around the concept of change. I'm interested in processes of growth, decline, rebranding, and other forms of transformation that can be understood across political, geopolitical, and demographic contexts. I find myself coming back to questions such as "how has this society or group transformed over time?", "how do shifts in sentiment manifest spatially?", and, at an individual level, "how and why do individuals reshape their identities?" To date, most of my research has approached these questions at the societal level.

My earliest research endeavors focused extensively on demographic change and how this intersects with voting patterns in the United States, particularly at the presidential level. For example, my thesis involved mapping changes in county-level support for Donald Trump across the 2016, 2020, and 2024 elections, using various socioeconomic variables to investigate why Trump's gains and losses were spatially uneven. I believe that electoral geography provides a valuable and underappreciated perspective in the current political climate.

More recently, I have applied my interest in change to a range of other topics, including Middle Eastern geopolitics (in the context of Iran-United States tensions), cenote tourism in Mexico, and the distribution of European toponyms in the United States and Canada.