Exit Talks & Honors Symposium

We are excited to host our annual Exit Talks & Honors Symposium event featuring graduating Geography PhD and undergraduate students! Friends, family, and the larger Geography community are invited to join us on Thursday, May 11 and Friday, May 12 to celebrate the work of our amazing students and connect with one another.

Join us in-person in 575 McCone or remotely via our Zoom Webcast.

Honors Symposium | 10:00am - 12:30pm

Liam Spencer Kiyoshi Chok

Southern California's Hawaiian Community: Migration and the Formation of Cultural Space

Faculty Advisor: Diana Negrin

Will Roddy

Pajubá and Sheng: Decolonizing Linguistic Ideologies in Brazil and Kenya through Music

Faculty Advisor: Diana Negrin

Angie Wu

Branching Out: What Are the Largest Drivers of Leaf Allocation Traits?

Faculty Advisor: Jeff Chambers

Kathryn Jia

Beijing Olympics: Aesthetic Space

Faculty Advisor: Desiree Fields

Deyna Arteaga

Reimagining El Salvador: The Influence of Media and Pop Culture on Geographic Thought

Faculty Advisor: Diana Negrin

Exit Talks | 1:40pm - 3:40pm

Sol Kim

Atmospheric Rivers: Genesis, Representation, and Structure

Faculty Advisor: John Chiang

Keith Brower Brown

Solar Flux: Remaking landscapes, labor, and environmental politics in California

Faculty Advisors: Nathan Sayre & Sharad Chari

Kan Liu

Forestry, Farms, Family, and Small Towns in the Hill Country of Central China

Faculty Advisor: You-tien Hsing

Exit Talks | 9:00am - 2:00pm

Evangeline McGlynn

Reading the Disaster Landscape: Life in a Post-earthquake Armenian City

Faculty Advisors: Clancy Wilmott & Jake Kosek

Leonora Zoninsein

How a Whale Becomes a Molecule: A Geography of Modern Olfaction

Faculty Advisor: Jake Kosek & Michael Watts

Britt H. Young

Incubated Futures: Ethiopia's Tech Start-up Sector

Faculty Advisors: Michael Watts & Jake Kosek

Xiaowei Wang

Caring at the End of the World: Inscriptions of race, place and space in the electronic health record

Faculty Advisor: Brandi Summers

Adam Jadhav

Fishing for empire: The (post)colonial political ecology of Indian fisheries

Faculty Advisor: Michael Watts

Bobby Moeller

‘Infinitely Soothing to the Western Eye’: Leveeing and Leveraging Whiteness to Soothe Capitalist Crisis in Sacramento, CA

Faculty Advisor: Jovan Scott Lewis

Phillip Campanile

A Natural History of Destruction: the Once and Future Wetlands of Buffalo’s Postindustrial Waterfront

Faculty Advisor: Michael Watts

Honors Symposium | 2:30pm - 4:00pm

Em Wolfgram

Oneiric Church: a process of (dis)embodiment

Faculty Advisor: Clancy Wilmott

Silas Kirsch

Pavement, Placement, and Displacement: A Spatial History of Bay Area Freeways, 1893-2005

Faculty Advisor: Seth Lunine

Rosie Ward

Visualizing California's Solar Installations: Environmental, Physical, and Economic Determinants of Adoption through Time

Faculty Advisor: Clancy Wilmott

Exit Talks & Honors Symposium