Category: Publications
Professor Lentz’s book “Contested Territory” is subject of H-Diplo roundtable.
Lentz’s book “Contested Territory” is subject of an H-Diplo Roundtable with reviews by Lien-Hang Nguyen, Pierre Asselin, Brad Davis, and Michitake Aso. Reflecting on the book and the exchange it inspired, Columbia University’s Prof. Nguyen writes, “If Lentz is representative … Continued
Ezra Rawitsch (BA, 2019) publishes article based on honors thesis
Recent graduate and major in geography, Ezra Rawitsch (BA, 2019) just published a journal article called “Seeing Sapa” in URBAN PEOPLE | LIDÉ MĚSTA 22 | 2020 based on his undergraduate thesis. Bravo! For more information, please visit the link.
Gupta, Gokariksel, and Smith publish an article that analyzes how the Indian state employs the narrative of saving Muslim women for masculinist state- and territory-making
Pallavi Gupta, Banu Gökarıksel, and Sara Smith, 2020. “The politics of saving Muslim women in India: Gendered geolegality, security, and territorialization,” Political Geography, volume 83, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2020.102257 Part of special issue: Security, violence, and mobility: The embodied and everyday politics of … Continued
Study led by three geography undergraduate students shows mountain streams emit large rates of CO2 to the atmosphere
Mountain streams are a critical part of the global carbon cycle, because they connect terrestrial and aquatic environments and have a higher proportion of stream water in direct contact with surrounding soils. A new study led by three geography undergraduate … Continued
Four Geography Faculty Publish Book on Land Cover and Land Use Change on Islands
Land Cover and Land Use Change on Islands Social & Ecological Threats to Sustainability Editors: Walsh, S.J., Riveros-Iregui, D., Acre-Nazario, J., Page, P.H. (Eds.) Springer-Nature (2020) https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030439729 Globalization in the 21st century is posing new challenges to humans and natural … Continued
Eck & Murray Publish in Journal of Agricultural & Forest Meteorology
Graduate students Montana Eck and Andrew Murray recently published a paper in the journal of Agricultural and Forest Meteorology which investigates the impact of climate anomalies on crop yield in the southeastern United States.
Graduate student Cyrus Sinai publishes an online article “You can’t fight pandemics without power—electric power”
You can’t fight pandemics without power—electric power
Geography alum Christopher Bennett and Dr. Paul Delamater publish an article entitled “Travel Time to Title X Facilities and Teenage Birth Rates in North Carolina”
Bennett, C.A., Delamater, P.L. Travel Time to Title X Facilities and Teenage Birth Rates in North Carolina. Matern Child Health J (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10995-020-02908-4 For more information about this publication, please click this link – https://rdcu.be/b4Etz
Handbook of Gender and Feminist Geographies, edited by Geography Dept Chair Dr. Betsy Olson and featuring a chapter by PhD Candidate Chris Neubert, Dr. Sara Smith, UNC Geography alum Dr. Pavithra Vasudevan is published!
This handbook provides a comprehensive analysis of contemporary gender and feminist geographies in an international and multi-disciplinary context. It features 48 new contributions from both experienced and emerging scholars, artists and activists who critically review and appraise current spatial politics. … Continued