AAG Newsletter

Geographers Study Chicago

When the AAG returns to Chicago in 2015 for its third annual meeting in 20 years, participants will be revisiting the site of a lively field of inquiry for the...

Strategic Essentialism and Radical Intra-Disciplinarity

I’ve been an Anglophile ever since I was a postdoc at Loughborough University in the late 1980s. As you might have guessed, it wasn’t the food or weather that...

MyCOE / SERVIR Capstone Fellows Describe Their Experiences

In the spring, 14 students traveled from all over the world to Washington, D.C., to discuss their efforts using satellite data and mapping technologies to address climate change issues in their...

Strategic Essentialism and Radical Intra-Disciplinarity

Mona DomoshJuly 15, 2014No Comment

2014-07-16T09:29:57+00:00

I’ve been an Anglophile ever since I was a postdoc at Loughborough University in the late 1980s. As you might have guessed, it wasn’t the food or weather that convinced me to love all things British; it was its geography, or, rather I should say, the fact that it had Geography. What I mean...

The Future of Physical Geography

Julie Winkler June 30, 2014 No Comment

2014-07-16T09:32:20+00:00

For my last column as AAG President, I explore further the role and status...

Women in Academia: It’s Not Just About Numbers

Julie Winkler May 29, 2014 No Comment

2014-07-16T09:34:25+00:00

While I appreciate, and have even contributed to, the extensive literature on the underrepresentation...

News

AAG Statement on Potential Human Rights Issue in Tajikistan

AAG StaffJuly 17, 2014No Comment

2014-07-17T17:25:15+00:00

The AAG has adopted a statement regarding the arrest and detainment of Alexander Sodiqov in Tajikistan. Sodiqov, a doctoral student in political science at the University of Toronto, was in Tajikistan working with UK-based political scientists and geographers on an Economic and Social Research Council (UK) funded project. Sodiqov was arrested on June 16...

Important Changes in the Recently Released NSF Geography and Spatial Sciences (GSS) Program Solicitations

AAG Staff June 19, 2014 No Comment

2014-06-19T16:57:30+00:00

Late in February 2014, officials at the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the United...

FIRST Act Threatens Social Science Funding

AAG Staff June 6, 2014 No Comment

2014-06-06T17:59:55+00:00

As we reported to you in February, the Omnibus Appropriations Bill under which the...

Announcements

Hannah Deindorfer Interns at AAG for Summer Semester

AAG StaffJuly 21, 2014No Comment

2014-07-21T10:12:16+00:00

Hannah Deindorfer is a senior at Michigan State University pursuing a B.A. in Geography with a double minor in Geographic Information Systems and English. Her areas of interest include geographic education and human and environment interaction, with a focus in agriculture, ecology, and tourism. After graduation, she is interested in working on research projects for...

AAG Award Applications, Nominations Due September, October

AAG Staff July 17, 2014 No Comment

2014-07-17T10:27:40+00:00

Deadlines for some AAG awards are approaching in September and October. If you would...

AAG Publishes New Edition of Guide to Geography Programs

AAG Staff July 9, 2014 No Comment

2014-07-09T12:04:39+00:00

The new 2013-2014 edition of the Guide to Geography Programs in the Americas is now available...

Annual Meeting

Geographers Study Chicago

John C. HudsonJuly 21, 2014No Comment

2014-07-21T13:02:53+00:00

When the AAG returns to Chicago in 2015 for its third annual meeting in 20 years, participants will be revisiting the site of a lively field of inquiry for the study of cities. Beginning with the famed “Chicago school sociologists” of the 1920s, the city has served as a model of urban form and function...

A Decade of Change: AAG Returns to Chicago

AAG Staff June 11, 2014 No Comment

2014-06-11T16:16:30+00:00

The AAG is pleased to be holding its next annual meeting April 21-25, 2015,...

AAG 2014 Tampa: Publishing for Non-Native Speakers of English Sessions Now Online

AAG Staff May 30, 2014 No Comment

2014-05-30T17:11:15+00:00

“Publishing for Non-Native Speakers of English” was a presentation of two sessions held during AAG’s...

of Note

Cartography Specialty Group Selects Joel Radunzel for Master’s Thesis Grant

AAG StaffJuly 22, 2014No Comment

2014-07-22T16:04:29+00:00

Joel Radunzel of the Maxwell School at Syracuse University has received the AAG Cartography Specialty Group Master’s Thesis Grant. Radunzel’s thesis, “Position Mapping: Cartography, Intelligence, and the Third Battle of Gaza, 1917,” will provide a deeper understanding of the history of cartography. His work will also offer insight into current cartographic techniques by examining...

Richard Schroeder to Receive NAGS Teaching Award

AAG Staff July 22, 2014 No Comment

2014-07-22T15:31:27+00:00

Richard Schroeder, Professor and Chair of Geography at Rutgers University, has been selected to...

Research by Virginia Tech’s Oliver Featured in Guardian Article

AAG Staff July 15, 2014 No Comment

2014-07-15T16:55:53+00:00

Robert Oliver’s research on Toronto’s bid for the Olympics was featured in a lead article...

‘The AAG Review of Books’ Volume 2, Issue 3 Is Now Available

AAG StaffJuly 18, 2014No Comment

2014-07-18T16:21:45+00:00

The AAG is pleased to announce Volume 2, Issue 3 of The AAG Review of Books, featuring scholarly book reviews as formerly published in the Annals of the AAG and The Professional Geographer, along with reviews of significant current books related more broadly to geography and public policy and/or international affairs. To access the full AAG Review of Books, visit the...

New Books Received – June 2014

AAG Staff July 16, 2014 No Comment

2014-07-16T15:36:11+00:00

The AAG Review of Books office has released the list of the books received...

How to Succeed in Business with a Degree in Geography

James Chan June 17, 2014 No Comment

2014-06-17T10:13:55+00:00

There are many business opportunities for people with geography degrees. I have three degrees...