June 2020 Issue of ‘GeoHumanities’ Now Available
The AAG is pleased to announce that Volume 6, Issue 1 (June 2020) of GeoHumanities is now available. GeoHumanities is the newest journal of the American Association of Geographers. It features articles that span conceptual and methodological debates in geography and the humanities; critical reflections on analog and digital artistic productions; and new scholarly interactions…
The “Nation’s Report Card” on Geography Reveals a World of Opportunities
Periodically since 1994, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) has released its “report card” on geography education in America, providing a snapshot of student achievement. The most recent assessment was conducted in 2018 with a nationally representative sample of nearly 13,000 8th grade students. NAEP assesses geography achievement in three content domains: Space and…
Facing an Existential Crisis or COVID-19 and the Long Term Future of Geography
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…
Spring 2020 Issue of ‘The AAG Review of Books’ Now Available
Volume 8, Issue 2 of The AAG Review of Books has now been published online. This quarterly online journal publishes scholarly reviews of recent books related to geography, public policy and international affairs. It also features review essays reflecting on several books on a particular theme, and book review with multiple contributors discussing a title. In the first four years of…
Call for Abstracts: Special Issue of ‘Annals’ on “Displacements”
Annals of the American Association of Geographers Special Issue, March 2022 Call for Abstracts The Annals of the American Association of Geographers is seeking contributions for a Special Issue on “Displacements”. Displacements, which have multiple forms and meanings, are deeply geographical: patterns of shifting, dislocation, or putting out of place; substitutions of one idea for…
May 2020 Issue of the ‘Annals of the AAG’ Now Available
The AAG is pleased to announce that Volume 110, Issue 3 (May 2020) of the Annals of the American Association of Geographers is now available. A full list of contents is below. The Annals contains original, timely, and innovative articles that advance knowledge in all facets of the discipline. Articles are divided into four major areas: Geographic…
Doing Geography in the Age of Coronavirus or How is Everybody Coping?
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…
Geographers Act on COVID19
GeoDS Lab at University of Wisconsin, Madison. County-level Spring 2020 travel data from March shows thousands of trips generated in the , which may help explain the rapid growth of infection cases across the country. On March 23, AAG asked how our members and followers are responding to the COVID19 pandemic. We got an extraordinary…
2018 NAEP Geography Report Card Offers Crucial Insight into Geographic Literacy
April 23, 2020 marks the date for The National Assessment Governing Board (NAGB)’s release of the 2018 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Geography Report Card, along with the nation’s 2018 assessments of History and Civics education. This year’s Geography Report Card is particularly important, as the NAEP is not due to assess geography again…
‘GeoHumanities’: COVID-19 Announcement
Not Business as Usual: A Message from the Editors of GeoHumanities There is little about being an academic in the current time that can be called "business as usual". Academic publishing is no exception. It is the joint act of many people - authors, reviewers, readers, people in the offices of publishers and professional societies such…
‘The AAG Review of Books’: COVID-19 Announcement
It has been my pleasure to serve as Editor in Chief for the AAG Review of Books for eight years. As I work on the transition to a new incoming editor, to prepare for the rest of 2020, we have been served up with an unexpected challenge, in the form of the COVID-19 crisis. The…
‘The Professional Geographer’: COVID-19 Announcement
To the authors, readers, reviewers, and staff members who contribute their energy and insight to The Professional Geographer, I am grateful to this community of scholars and practitioners, whose contributions to The Professional Geographer have helped maintain its high quality and excellent reputation. Your dedication to scholarship and reflections on practice have put The Professional…