Grad Students Win Awards at the Association of American Geographers

From 9-13 April many of the Geographers in our Department attended and presented at the 2013 Annual Conference of the Association of American Geographers. Three graduate students came away with awards:

Stèfano Bettani won an honorable mention (2nd place winner) in the AAG Sexuality and Space Specialty Group’s 2013 Student Paper Competition. His winning Click to Read More

Congratulations Katie Gillespie, Critical Animal Studies Hilda Scholar of the Year

Please join us in congratulating Geography graduate student Katie Gillespie for being chosen as the Institute of Critical Animal Studies (ICAS) Hilda Scholar of 2013. This award, founded in 2012, recognizes one graduate student a year who is working theoretically and practically on advancing alternatives to the agricultural industrial complex, slaughterhouses, factory farms, dairy Click to Read More

Upcoming Colloquium: A New Urban Dispotif? Governing Life in an Age of Climate Change by Bruce Braun

We are delighted to announce our first colloquium of the Spring quarter, titled  ‘A New Urban Dispotif? Governing Life in an Age of Climate Change’ and given by Dr. Bruce Braun this Friday, 19 April at 3:30. The talk will be in Smith 304, with a reception to follow in Smith 409. Hope to Click to Read More

Walker Ames Lecture: Green Fields and Growth Machines: Building American Suburbs, 1820-2000