The American Association of Geographers (AAG) honors geographers who advance their discipline through their hard work and brilliant insight.
Congratulations to Ph.D. Candidate Jimena Perez for winning the AAG Latinx Geographies Speciality Group's 2025 LxG Graduate Student Paper Award for her paper "Restorying the L.A. River."
Ph.D. Candidate Lee Crandall won the Digital Geographies Specialty group award for Best Graduate Student Paper Award for their paper "Plotting cryptoeconomic imaginaries and counterplotting the network state." Congrats, Lee!
Ph.D. Candidate Andrea Lara-Garcia won the Legal Geographies Specialty Group award for Best Graduate Student Presentation for "Who Owns the Border?: Contested Territorialities in the Arizona and Texas Borderlands.” Way to go, Andrea!
We are so proud of these students’ hard work, dedication, and commitment. Congratulations to all!
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