Exit Talks & Honors Symposium

Exit Talks & Honors Symposium

We are excited to host our annual Exit Talks & Honors Symposium events featuring graduating Geography PhD and undergraduate students! Friends, family, and the larger Geography community are invited to join us on Monday, May 13 to celebrate the work of our amazing students and connect with one another.

Join us in-person in 575 McCone!

Jessica Allen | 11:00am

Black Temporal Ties: Mapping Black Motherhood in Rural Geographies

Faculty Advisor: Jovan Scott Lewis

Tohar Zamir | 11:30am

Pico-Robertson: How External Constraints, Ethnic Economies, And Resource Extraction Created A Dense Jewish Enclave

Faculty Advisor: Jovan Scott Lewis

Annabelle Law | 12:00pm

Cultivating Culture with Fire

Faculty Advisor: Clancy Wilmott

Exit Talks

Sam Stein | 1:00pm

Examining restoration of aquatic systems across scales

Faculty Advisor: Laurel Larsen

Mary Jirmanus | 1:40pm

TBD

Faculty Advisor: Gillian Hart

april l. graham-jackson | 2:20pm

Belonging and Strangeness in the Post-Civil Rights Era: Rescaling the Music, Sonic, and Geographic Boundaries of Blackness Across Chicagoland

Faculty Advisor: Jovan Scott Lewis

Morgan P. Vickers | 3:00pm

Reservoir Noir: Drowned Towns, Uneven Development, and Black Dam/nation in New Deal South Carolina

Faculty Advisor: Jovan Scott Lewis