How We Hurt Each Other Every Day, and What We Might Do About It
For those who do not experience their ill effects, it is difficult to recognize the ways in which a glance, a comment, something mentioned or overlooked, made invisible or hyper-visible, a seat not taken or a body too close, inflicts pain on others. For those who do experience these often subtle acts of othering, the…
AAG and Esri launch ConnectED GeoMentors Program
The Association of American Geographers and Esri are working together to develop a nationwide network of GeoMentors to support the Department of Education’s ConnectED Initiative, for which Esri has donated $1 billion of ArcGIS Online software to all K-12 schools in the GeoMentors will help maximize the benefits of this donation by assisting schools and…
Give Back By Becoming a GeoMentor
AAG Announces ConnectED GeoMentors Program What is the AAG/Esri ConnectED GeoMentors Program? Esri and the Association of American Geographers (AAG) are working together to develop a nationwide network of GeoMentors to support the Department of Education’s ConnectED Program, for which Esri has agreed to donate free GIS software to all K–12 schools in the GeoMentors…
The Costs (and Benefits?) of Constant Counting
I’m a 24; well, only on Google scholar (the more inclusive research “platform”). Otherwise, on Thomson Reuters’ Web of Science, I’m a 12. For those fluent in the language of academic metrics you will know immediately what I am referring to: my h-index, a number that is calculated based on the subset of my publications…
Family Activities in Chicago
Within a few minutes walk of the Hyatt, there are a number of museums and things to do with children. The best place to start your visit to Chicago is downtown at the Cultural Center. Not only does the Center offer free art exhibitions and musical performances, often at lunch times or early evenings, it…
Curating the AAG
Even more accurate than the first daffodil as a mark of spring’s approach is the onset of my recurring anxiety dream. It goes like this: I’m walking quickly through endless corridors, becoming more and more filled with dread as I just can’t seem to find the room in which I am about to present a…
Keeping Track of Us and Keeping Us on Track
We know a lot about you. Not that we’re spying of course, but the AAG has been keeping track of its members for quite a long time. We collect data on the number and type of geography degree-granting programs, the gender, race and ethnicity of our members, the types of jobs filled by geographers, the…
2015 AAG Honors Announced
The AAG will confer AAG Honors, the Association’s highest honors, to eight individuals for their outstanding contributions to the advancement or welfare of geography. Each year, the AAG invites nominations from the membership, which are then presented to the AAG Honors Committee for consideration. The AAG Honors will be presented at the upcoming AAG Annual Meeting…
Chicago’s Asian Cultures
The Association of American Geographers (AAG) will be holding its next annual meeting April 21-25, 2015, in the American business hub city of Chicago, which can be reached by a direct flight from Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, and many other major Asian cities. It is little wonder that many Asian cultures feel at home here…
The Not-So-Silent Majority
The numbers are staggering: the majority (according to the AAUP, 56 percent) of academics teaching in American universities and colleges are contingent faculty, defined as either full-time non-tenure-track (NTT) or part-time faculty; adding graduate student teachers into the mix increases the percentage to 76 percent. The impact on higher education and on peoples’ lives is also staggering.…
AAG Past President’s Address by Julie Winkler
Julie Winkler will deliver her AAG Past President's Address at the AAG Annual Meeting in Chicago on Thursday, April 23, 2015. Embracing the Complexity and Uncertainty of Climate Change Climate change is one of the defining environmental concerns of our time, and will directly or indirectly affect every sector of society. The complexity of the climate system…
Glen MacDonald on Remembering John Muir
Remembering John Muir on the Centennial of His Passing: Writer, Naturalist, Scientist, Activist, Geographer? John Muir died in Los Angeles, California on Christmas Eve, 1914 with the pages of an unfinished manuscript on Alaska beside him in his hospital bed. As we mark the centenary of Muir’s passing what might we say about him from…