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Vote for Geography

Amy Lobben October 31, 2020 Vote for Geography2020-12-09T14:44:18-05:00 Featured News
No matter what happens with this week’s election, the United States will pivot. Four years ago, most people in my life expressed horror, shock, and disgust following the presidential election in the United States. The day after the election, I shared with my husband my apprehensive relief following the results. I’ll explain. I grew-up in…
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An Interview with AAG Executive Director Gary Langham (Part 2)

Amy Lobben October 3, 2020 An Interview with AAG Executive Director Gary Langham (Part 2)2020-11-03T09:49:33-05:00 President's Column
Last month I shared Part 1 of an interview I conducted with AAG's Executive Director Gary Langham to help the membership learn a bit about his perspectives, goals, and personal history that led him to AAG. We met on August 19, close to the one-year anniversary of his first week in this role—half of which…
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An Interview with AAG Executive Director Gary Langham (Part 1)

Amy Lobben August 31, 2020 An Interview with AAG Executive Director Gary Langham (Part 1)2020-10-04T19:32:40-04:00 President's Column
While the AAG membership elects some of its governance ( president, vice president, Council), the temporal constant in leadership is the Executive Director (ED). Historically, his tenure spans multiple presidents and many dozens of councilors. Since COVID-19 has prevented our new ED, Gary Langham, from meeting the membership and vice versa, I decided to interview…
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The Invisible and The Silent

Amy Lobben July 31, 2020 The Invisible and The Silent2020-09-03T11:46:19-04:00 President's Column
I am the parent of an adult child with intellectual and developmental disabilities and have spent the past two decades watching how society (dis)engages with him. People avert their eyes. People pretend not to see him.  People give him a wide berth in store aisles. Some adults demonstrate shockingly bad behavior when he makes his…
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The Geography of Despair (or All These Rubber Bullets)

Aretina R. Hamilton July 10, 2020 The Geography of Despair (or All These Rubber Bullets)2020-09-03T11:38:50-04:00 Recent News
Aretina R. Hamilton This article was originally published on Medium. Follow Dr. Hamilton on Twitter at As a scholar, I entered the world of academia as a planner. I examined urban planning and the devolution of American cities — and then I discovered Geography. The original scene of the crime. This original technology was used…
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The Spatial Scale of ‘We’

Amy Lobben June 29, 2020 The Spatial Scale of ‘We’2020-08-31T15:51:52-04:00 President's Column
Every day around my town, I see signs of encouragement, most frequently — “We’re All In This Together.” That statement refers to the coronavirus pandemic, suggesting and assuming that we are all equally engaged in and affected by the pandemic. Similar messaging is delivered via emails, websites, and store speakers. Oregon’s public campaign takes the…
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Making Data Meaningful Or Geography’s Contribution to Data Science

David H. Kaplan June 1, 2020 Making Data Meaningful Or Geography’s Contribution to Data Science2020-06-30T17:17:39-04:00 President's Column
Geography has always been about data. After all, the field was founded and developed over the search for more and better information. It was 200 years ago that Alexander von Humboldt, perhaps the most famous geographer, acquired field observations in the Andes Mountains and used these observations to make a series of connections. In her…
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Facing an Existential Crisis or COVID-19 and the Long Term Future of Geography

David H. Kaplan May 5, 2020 Facing an Existential Crisis or COVID-19 and the Long Term Future of Geography2020-06-03T11:03:27-04:00 President's Column
It does not seem so long ago that people were talking about the compression of space and time, about the “ends of history and geography.” How recent events have obliterated this! The pandemic of COVID-19—with its echoes of the 1918 Spanish Flu and the great contagious scourges of the past—demonstrates again that “history doesn't repeat…
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Doing Geography in the Age of Coronavirus or How is Everybody Coping?

David H. Kaplan March 31, 2020 Doing Geography in the Age of Coronavirus or How is Everybody Coping?2020-05-05T10:56:16-04:00 President's Column
You hear it from everyone you know: these are strange and frightening times. While most of us have witnessed major disease outbreaks from afar – Ebola, SARS, Swine Flu – it is another thing to encounter something so directly, so personally, so comprehensively. Pandemic: what once seemed part of a grim historical record has smashed…
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Going Global or How Best to Recognize the Internationalization of the AAG; Plus – an Addendum to my Previous Column

David H. Kaplan February 29, 2020 Going Global or How Best to Recognize the Internationalization of the AAG; Plus – an Addendum to my Previous Column2020-04-01T11:21:22-04:00 President's Column
We have always been the “AAG” but five years ago the membership overwhelmingly decided to change the full title from the Association of American Geographers to the American Association of Geographers. I remember being part of the Council when this change was discussed. It went beyond verbal tweaking and reflected our best efforts to recognize…
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Beyond the Academic 1 Percent Or How to Create a More Inclusive and Equitable Academic Culture

David H. Kaplan January 30, 2020 Beyond the Academic 1 Percent Or How to Create a More Inclusive and Equitable Academic Culture2020-03-03T16:44:16-05:00 Featured News
Social media can be dangerous. I recently read a post on Twitter, sent by a non-geographer, which seemed to lament geography’s absence from the Ivy League and similarly selective private institutions. If I could share an unpopular opinion, I’m glad that geography does not have a large representation in the Ivy League. Not because I…
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The Publishing Paradox or How the Publishing Model May be Broken

David H. Kaplan January 1, 2020 The Publishing Paradox or How the Publishing Model May be Broken2020-02-14T14:40:07-05:00 President's Column
Among the familiar litany of New Year’s resolutions, many of you may have promised yourselves that 2020 would be the year to finally finish that book or write that article. In other words: to PUBLISH. Publishing is a huge part of academic life, the coin of the realm. There may have been some mythical past…
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