Announcements

Peter Ekman, PhD alum and current faculty member at USC's School of Architecture, has published his first book. Timing the Future Metropolis is a hemispheric intellectual history of planning, urbanism, design, and social science. It reconstructs the midcentury intellectual network that gave rise to the interdisciplinary field of urban studies — at a time when geography departments were closing across the U...

ISSI Director Stephen Small will be on sabbatical during spring semester, researching his new book on Black Liverpool. Brandi T. Summers, Associate Professor of Geography, has agreed to serve as Interim Director until Professor Small’s return on July 1, 2024. Summers is currently a member of the ISSI Advisory Committee and has been deeply involved with ISSI for a few years, including serving as a respondent for ISSI Graduate Fellows.

Professor Emerita Gillian Hart's latest paper, Progeny of Empire: Defining Moments of Nation Formation in South Africa and Palestine/Israel, aims to confront and counter the equation of antisemitism and anti-Zionism by recognizing the value of—but also reaching beyond—the apartheid analogy by situating both South Africa and Palestine/Israel in a global comparative and spatio-historical frame. Using Hart's South African Jewish roots, the paper focuses on how South Africa and Palestine/Israel have been forged as...

Ally Matheson, Geography undergraduate, has been hired as a summer research assistant for the Dayer Lab at Virginia Tech! Ally will be working closely with Nathan Thayer, a postdoctoral researcher, to analyze survey data collected from members of professional societies, review and report on social science literature on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging in the sciences, assist in writing reports, and create presentations to report out...