Jared Margulies is assistant professor of political ecology in the Department of Geography at the University of Alabama. Previously, he was a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Sheffield, UK. Margulies’s research explores the politics of biodiversity conservation and illegal wildlife trade. His past research in South India focused on how certain governmental strategies aiming to reduce forms of conflict between humans and animals often exacerbate them, and why this is so. At the Rachel Carson Center, he worked on his first book, later published as The Cactus Hunters: Desire and Extinction in the Illicit Succulent Trade (University of Minnesota Press, 2023). Margulies’s research has been supported by the Fulbright-Nehru program and he has published in journals including World Development, Political Geography, The Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Environmental Humanities, and Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space. He received his PhD in Geography and Environmental Systems from the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) in 2017.