Victor Konrad is adjunct research professor of geography and environmental studies at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. Victor was visiting professor at Eastern China Normal and Yunnan Normal Universities in Shanghai and Kunming, Radboud University, Netherlands, and Karelian Institute of University of Eastern Finland, and visiting fellow at the Border Policy Research Institute, Western Washington University. From 1990 to 2001, Victor established the Canada-US Fulbright Program and Foundation for Educational Exchange between Canada and the United States. During the 1970s and 1980s, he was a professor of anthropology and geography at the University of Maine and director of the Canadian-American Center. Victor is author and editor of more than 100 books, articles and book chapters in cultural and behavioral geography, border studies and Canadian studies. Recent books include North American Borders in Comparative Perspective (2020), Borders, Culture, and Globalization: A Canadian Perspective (2021), and Border Culture: Theory, Imagination, Geopolitics (2023). Victor is past president of the Association of Borderlands Studies and the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States, and recipient of the Donner Medal. Victor is a Fellow of Salzburg Global Seminar.