Important Election Information: Update Your Email Address with AAG
The AAG election will be conducted online again, and will take place Jan. 31-Feb. 22, 2018. Each member who has an email address on record with the AAG will receive a special email with a code that will allow them to sign in to our AAG SimplyVoting website and vote. The 2018 election slate will…
Broadening and Caring for the Footprint of Published Scholarship
Many of us can vividly remember the first time we published something and the sense of exhilaration and accomplishment that came with seeing one’s name on an article, chapter, or book. We had good reason to feel that way. The publication was the culmination of long hours spent analyzing data, reviewing literature, developing theory, writing…
Regional Divisions Announce Outstanding Graduate Student Papers from their Fall Meetings
The AAG is proud to announce the Fall 2017 student winners of the AAG Council Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Paper at a Regional Meeting. The AAG Council Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Paper at a Regional Meeting is designed to encourage graduate student participation at AAG Regional Division conferences and support their attendance at AAG…
Dining with Cajuns and Creoles
The foods of New Orleans are an expression of south Louisiana's history, culture, and wetlands. Influences upon the area's traditional cuisine are much like using recipes gathered at a crossroads of European, Caribbean, and Acadian culinary customs at interplay with local ideas and available ingredients. Understanding menus means knowing terms like — roux, remoulade, and…
Making Every Week About Geography Awareness and Advocacy
This column comes to you just a couple weeks before Geography Awareness Week’s 30th birthday. Founded by presidential proclamation in 1987, Geography Awareness Week (GeoWeek) is observed the third week of November each year. This year’s observance, which takes place November 12-18, highlights the “geography of civil rights movements.” The theme of civil rights fills…
AAG Hurricane Relief Fund
Credit: Kris Grogan, Customs and Border Protection The AAG has established its Hurricane Relief Fund to help coordinate support for those in affected Geography Departments in Florida, Puerto Rico, and Texas from the devastation of Hurricanes Maria, Harvey, and Irma. Read more.
On Finding One’s Voice (and the Voices of Others)
I am pleased to announce that the American Association of Geographers (AAG) is launching the Geography Speakers Bureau. The Bureau is part of the Geography is REAL initiative and builds upon the AAG’s long-time commitment to public outreach, informed and timely communication, and lending geographic research and education to addressing pressing issues and debates. Open…
AAG Newsletter: September 2017
September 2017 Welcome to the Newsletter of the American Association of Geographers (AAG). For more up-to-date news, stories, and announcements, read PRESIDENT'S COLUMN Moving at Twitter Speed By Derek Alderman The title of my column comes from a recent NPR story on the NAACP. The storied civil rights organization is undergoing a wholesale “retooling” of its structures…
NCRGE Welcomes Abstracts for a Special Track During AAG 2018 New Orleans
Transformative Research in Geography Education For the 2018 AAG Annual Meeting in New Orleans, the National Center for Research in Geography Education (NCRGE) is welcoming abstracts and organized session proposals for a special track of sessions on Transformative Research in Geography Education during the AAG Annual Meeting on April 10-14, 2018, in New Orleans. This track…
Moving at Twitter Speed
The title of my column comes from a recent NPR story on the NAACP. The storied civil rights organization is undergoing a wholesale “retooling” of its structures and tactics in an effort to regain relevance among younger generations of activists and to enhance its efficacy in anti-racism advocacy and education. In adapting to a dramatically…
NSF Seeks Candidates for Division Director of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences
The National Science Foundation is in the process of identifying potential candidates for division director for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences within the Geography and Spatial Sciences Program. This division includes many psychological sciences, as well as geography and spatial sciences, cultural and biological anthropology, linguistics, and archaeology. The current director term ends at the…
Coline Dony Joins AAG as Senior Geography Researcher
The AAG welcomes Coline Dony as a Senior Geography Researcher. Before joining the AAG staff in Washington, , Coline served as a visiting assistant professor at the University of Maryland Baltimore County where she taught undergraduate and graduate level courses in GIS, geovisualization and programming for spatial data analysis. Coline also taught an undergraduate course…