For Current Students

January 9, 2015

For information on policies and procedures relating to graduate study, course requirements, and degree completion, please refer to the Department of Geography and Environment’s Graduate Handbook. The schedule of courses for the upcoming semester can be found under Courses above. Students may also visit the Department’s catalog of classes for advanced undergraduates and graduate students, graduate courses, and graduate seminars. For information ab…

Contested Territory: Điện Biên Phủ and the Making of Northwest Vietnam

March 12, 2015

Based on archival and ethnographic research, Contested Territory is a historical and political geography of 1950s Điện Biên Phủ—a small out of the way place but also a pivot point in world history. In one of the 20th century’s most important battles, Vietnam defeated France there in 1954 to win the First Indochina War and earn independence. The battle was a fulcrum in a global transformation from European empire to national self-determination, in…

PHD student Matt Dannenberg received an AAG Dissertation Research Grant

March 12, 2015

… Matt Dannenberg just received an AAG Dissertation Research Grant, which consists of a certificate and cash prize of $1,000. More information about AAG Dissertation Research Grant. …

Dr. Wise publishes paper entitled “Cool-Season Precipitation Patterns Associated with Teleconnection Interactions in the United States”

March 1, 2015

… Wise, E. K., M. L. Wrzesien, M. P. Dannenberg & D. L. McGinnis (2014) Cool-Season Precipitation Patterns Associated with Teleconnection Interactions in the United States.Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology. …

Dr. Kirsch publishes paper entitled “Objects of culture and humanity, or, re-‘thinging’the Anthropocene landscape”

March 1, 2015

… Kirsch, S. (2015) Cultural geography III Objects of culture and humanity, or, re-‘thinging’the Anthropocene landscape. Progress in Human Geography, 0309132514566741. …

Dr. Moody publishes paper entitled “Defining and evaluating the umbrella species concept for conserving and restoring landscape connectivity”

March 1, 2015

… Breckheimer, I., N. M. Haddad, W. F. Morris, A. M. Trainor, W. R. Fields, R. JOBE, B. R. Hudgens, A. Moody & J. R. Walters (2014) Defining and evaluating the umbrella species concept for conserving and restoring landscape connectivity. Conservation Biology, 28,1584-1593. …

Dr. Gray publishes paper entitled “Declining use of wild resources by indigenous peoples of the Ecuadorian Amazon.”

February 1, 2015

… Gray, C., M. Bozigar, and R. Bilsborrow. (2015). Declining use of wild resources by indigenous peoples of the Ecuadorian Amazon. Biological Conservation 182: 270–277. …

Graduate Student Nathan Swanson publishes paper entitled “Embodying Tahrir: Bodies and geopolitics in the 2011 Egyptian uprising”

February 1, 2015

… Swanson, N. W. (2015) Embodying Tahrir: bodies and geopolitics in the 2011 Egyptian uprising. Area, 10.1111/area.12163 …

Dr. Gokariksel publishes paper entitled “Post-secular geographies and the problem of pluralism: Religion and everyday life in Istanbul, Turkey.”

February 1, 2015

… Banu Gokariksel and Anna Secor, Political Geography, Vol 46, May 2015, pages 21-30. This article is open access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0962629814001024 …

Darius Scott has been awarded a Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship from the Social Science Research Council

March 4, 2015

… Darius Scott has been awarded a Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship from the Social Science Research Council. The fellowship provides support for six weeks of summer fieldwork and participation in summer workshops in Berkeley, CA and Minneapolis, Minn. …

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