Submitted by Nell Gross
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The Department of Geography celebrates the many award winners among our faculty and graduate students from this year's Association of American Geographers conference!
- Carrie Freshour, Feminist Geography Specialty Group's Rickie Sanders Junior Faculty Award: "Your activist-research through deep and long-term work among 'poultry families' in Georgia, public education and advocacy around food supply systems and 'essential workers' over the past 2 years, and mentoring of geography students in community-serving public research projects are just a few examples of how you have advanced an anti-racist geographic agenda in the spirit of Dr. Sanders' own contributions to Geography." (From the FGSG board statement.)
- Isaac Rivera, Digital Geographies Specialty Group's Graduate Student Paper Award: "Undoing Settler Imaginaries, Re-Imagining Digital Knowledge Politics"
- Sam Kay, Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group's Scholar-Activist Award: "The Housing Spectrum, Temperature Extremes, and the Costs of Survival: A Needs Assessment for Unhoused Neighbors and Low-Income Renters"
- Adam Romero, Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group's Outstanding Publication Award: Economic Poisoning: Industrial Waste and the Chemicalization of American Agriculture (UC Press)
- Visiting Graduate Student Xiaofeng Liu, Political Geography Specialty Group's Alexander B. Murphy Dissertation Enhancement Award: "Sustainable development with Chinese characteristics? The politics of the Green Belt and Road Initiative”