Dr. Ariel Otruba (12'M) is a feminist political geographer, whose scholarship brings embodied, emotional, and more-than-human insight to the study of political violence, critical geopolitics, migration, and political ecology. She is Interim Program Director of the International Peace and Conflict Resolution graduate program at Arcadia University for the 2025-2026 academic year and a Non-Resident Research Fellow at the Virginia Tech Institute for Policy and Governance. Her current research project examines the emotional impact of housing infrastructure disrepair on internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the Republic of Georgia using visual ethnographic and community-based, photographic participatory action research methods. She is the curator of a traveling photovoice exhibit based on this project and editor of the companion volume, Violent Infrastructure: Protracted Displacement and Housing Injustice in Tskaltubo, Georgia (Virginia Tech Publishing, 2025). Her other publications have appeared in several edited volumes and Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space. Beyond the classroom, Dr. Otruba supports advocacy and trauma-informed care for human trafficking survivors in the Lehigh Valley.