Shiloh R. Krupar holds a PhD in geography from the University of California, Berkeley. Her recently completed dissertation, "Shanghaiing the Future," focuses on formations of expertise and spectacular spaces of the future in Shanghai, China. She is currently coauthoring the volume Architectures of Globalization: Figures of Performance and Practice and working on a manuscript and series of performances about the conversion of former U.S. arsenals and nuclear facilities into nature refuges.