Dr. Elizabeth Nyman is an academic and writer who specializes in international maritime issues. Currently she is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Texas A&M University at Galveston. She has a Ph.D. in political science from Florida State University, and a BA in international relations from the College of William and Mary.

Dr. Nyman’s research focuses on international maritime conflict, piracy, and environmental issues, and has been published in a variety of academic venues. She is particularly interested in oceanic resources, such as fish or offshore oil and gas, and how those impact state desires to control ocean spaces. She has conducted research in a variety of locations, from Iceland to Barbados to Canada, focusing on maritime issues such as the Cod Wars between Britain and Iceland and the flying fish dispute between Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago. She has also presented at a number of national and international conferences on island and maritime issues.

She also does work relating to video games, both through analysis of ocean related issues in games and through conveying marine based topics through the creation of video games. She has created and supervised the completion of a vertical slice demo of a game focusing on maritime piracy, and is currently working on a visual novel about Antarctica.

You can follow Dr. Nyman on Twitter, or view her professional profile at LinkedIn. She is always interested in talking to people about her work or hearing from former students or colleagues.