Announcements

Graduate student Camilla Hawthorne published article "In Search of Black Italia" in Transition

June 9, 2017

Camilla Hawthorne. “‘In Search of Black Italia.” Transition 123 (2017): 152-174. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/transition.123.1.17?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

Undergraduate student Juan Velez wins 2017 Judith Lee Stronach Prize for Seed Sovereignty Research

October 17, 2017

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Graduate student Wenwen Kong published on the East Asian summer monsoon in The Journal of Climate

April 26, 2017

Seasonal Transitions and the Westerly Jet in the Holocene East Asian Summer Monsoon

Paper by Professor John Chiang and Graduate student Wenwen Kong featured in EOS as a Research Spotlight

October 17, 2017

A paper published in Geophysical Research Letters published by Professor John Chiang and graduate student Wenwen Kong was featured in Earth and Space Science News. Read the full story here or the original GRL paper

Graduate Student Jesse Rodenbiker Published an Article on Sustainability and China's Cities in Upland-Journal of Urban Planning, Landscape, & Environmental Design

December 14, 2017
Rodenbiker, J. (2017). Superscribing Sustainability: The Production of China’s Urban Waterscapes. UPLanD-Journal of Urban Planning, Landscape & Environmental Design, 2(3), 71-86. Link to Article

Professor Norm Miller's work on Santa Ana fire risk cited in Live Science article about Ventura Fires

December 7, 2017

Professor Norman Miller‘s work on Santa Ana fire risk was cited in a recent article in Live Science: Here’s Why the Ventura Wildfire Is So Explosive

Geography alum Tripti Bhattacharya (PhD 2016) interviews on NPR about the current challenges of climate science funding in the US

December 14, 2017

https://www.wnyc.org/story/are-we-facing-climate-science-brain-drain/

Graduate students Ilaria Giglioli, Camilla Hawthorne, and Alessandro Tiberio co-edited a special issue of Ethnography and Qualitative Research titled “Rethinking ‘Europe’ through an ethnography of its borderlands, peripheries and margins”

February 14, 2018

Graduate students Ilaria Giglioli, Camilla Hawthorne, and Alessandro Tiberio co-edited a special issue of Ethnography and Qualitative Research titled “Rethinking ‘Europe’ through an ethnography of its borderlands, peripheries and margins”

Professor Emerita Gillian Hart Awarded the 2018 Vega Medal from the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography for her Contributions to Human Geography

January 12, 2018

http://ssag.se/english/vega-symposium/

Geography alum Julie Klinger wins AAG Meridian Book Award for Outstanding Scholarly Work in Geography

April 10, 2018

Julie Klinger’s Rare Earth Frontiers: From Terrestrial Subsoils to Lunar Landscapes (Cornell University Press, 2017) wins AAG Meridian Book Award for Outstanding Scholarly Work in Geography.

Read more: http://news.aag.org/2018/03/2018-aag-book-awards-announced/