Announcements

Black Geographies Graduate Student Conference, March 17-18, 2023

January 13, 2023

The Black Geographies Graduate Student Conference promotes critical dialogue on the racial, ecological, sociopolitical, cultural, economic, and sociospatial processes that constitute the materialities of Black life and its everyday contours. The BGGSC foregrounds the geographical practices, knowledge, and interventions of African Diasporic communities while challenging, reorienting, and refuting racialized colonial conceptions of space, place, time, scale, diffusion, and landscapes. This collective gathering is designed for graduate students and advanced undergraduates to collaborate and...

Christopher Lesser, PhD Alum and Current Visiting Scholar, Publishes Article for American Anthropologist

January 12, 2023

Christopher Lesser

"Located on a former plantation in the Paraíba Valley of Rio de Janeiro, a region central to state and market formation, and to Atlantic slavery in the nineteenth century, this “forest” contains ecological histories different from those encoded in environmental law. Rather than a legislative failure, this incongruence constitutes an important structural feature of the juridical authority that marginalizes...

Three Geography Undergraduate Students Accepted for GENIUS at Penn State

December 21, 2022

Mia Albano Jazmin Hernandez. Angela McMahon

I'm excited to announce that three of our Geography undergraduate students, Mia Albano, Jazmin Hernandez, and Angela...

Gray Brechin and Richard Walker Featured on PBS Newshour

November 14, 2022

Gray Brechin Richard Walker

"Our job in The Living New Deal is to educate Americans what the New Deal did, not just as a historical nicety, but because it's relevant today." - Richard Walker

Emeritus Geography professor,...

Erin Beller, GEOG PhD Alum (Spring 2020), Featured on Google's Blog

November 1, 2022

Erin Beller

“Nature and people should be able to flourish together in the campuses and communities that Google calls home.”

Erin Beller, Geography alumni (PhD, Spring 2020) has been featured on a Google blog post about ecosystem restoration in Silicon Valley. The post highlights Beller's paper, "...

Jane Henderson, Geography alum (PhD, Summer 2022), Co-Authors Essay Published in Society and Space

October 31, 2022

Jane Henderson

"We call on geographers, planners, geo-spatial analysts, and all spatial thinkers to divest themselves from the creation of carceral space."

Congrats to Jane Henderson, Geography Alumni (PhD, Summer '22) and current Research Associate at Dartmouth, on her wonderful essay,...

Chris Lesser, Visiting Scholar and Geography Alum (PhD, Summer 2022), Published in American Anthropologist

October 24, 2022

Christopher Lesser

"Neither can history resolve the question of Santa Mônica’s past, nor law disentangle its possible futures. These properly political problems can only be resolved in the present."

Chris Lesser, current visiting scholar and Geography alumni (PhD, Summer 2022) has written a fantastic research article entitled, "Another "education by stone": An archaeological case study in Brazil's environmental law,"...

Gray Brechin Narrates New Film, American: An Odyssey to 1947

October 20, 2022

Gray Brechin will be a narrator in the new film, American: An Odyssey to 1947. The film, directed by Danny Wu, features a collection of stories leading to the year 1947, most notably exploring the life and politics of Orson Welles. The film uses rare archival footage and innovative 3D modeling to immerse the audience in the era. American: An Odyssey to 1947 debuts October 20 at the Newport Beach Film Festival. Check out the trailer here!

Robert Symens-Bucher, Geography Undergrad, named Chancellor's Public Fellow

October 11, 2022

Robert Symens-Bucher

Robert Symens-Bucher, graduating senior in Geography, has been named the Chancellor's Public Fellow this semester. The fellowship recognizes his work in the American Cultures Engaged Scholarship (ACES) partnership with Canticle Farm for students in...