Congratulations to Geography Phd candidates Andrea Lara-Garcia and Kendrick Manymuleson receiving prestigious fellowships for the 2025–2026 academic year!
Lara-Garcia has been awarded the Mentored Research Award. This fellowship supports diverse doctoral...
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."
PhD Candidate in Geography Sherine Ebadi is featured on the Social Science Matrix podcast and discusses her research on Special Immigrant Visas and the Afghan diaspora. Ebadi's work explores immigration bureaucracy in times of conflict and humanitarian crises, and engages with the role of labor in precipitating refugee...
I study the politics of climate crisis, construction labor, and migrant & environmental justice movements; focusing on California and Brazil; developing on theories of social reproduction, hegemony, racial capitalism, and political ecology.
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...
“We are caught in a bionic-hand arms race. It’s time to ask who prostheses are really for, and what we hope they will actually accomplish.”
KQED Forum invited Brittany Young, Geography PhD Candidate, to speak about how the prosthetics industry's focus on high-tech limbs impacts the disabled folks it’s meant to help....
