Nicholas Bauch
Esri Cartographer
Los Angeles
Nicholas Bauch is a Cartographic Designer in the Creative Lab at a mapping GIS company called Esri. He holds a Ph.D. in Geography (2010) from the University of California-Los Angeles, and an M.F.A. in Visual Arts (2021) from the University of Minnesota. He is author of Enchanting the Desert (2016, Stanford University Press), and A Geography of Digestion (2017, University of California Press). Prior to pursuing an M.F.A. degree, he was founding faculty director of the Experimental Geography Studio at the University of Oklahoma, the Studio’s first home. He has taught geography, photography, history, and language at six universities since 2004. Between 2012 and 2016, he was a scholar at CESTA, Stanford University’s digital humanities research center.