2018 AAG Annual Meeting Presidential Plenary Announced
The AAG announces the 2018 annual presidential plenary session from its current president, Derek Alderman, as well as a panel of esteemed scholars. The presidential plenary is currently slated to take place during the 2018 AAG annual meeting on Tuesday, April 10, 2018 in the Grand Ballroom at the Sheraton Hotel from 6:30 -8:30 Alderman will…
A Glance at New Orleans’ Contemporary Hispanic and Latino Communities
Las Acacias, a Latino market located in the revitalized Freret Street District in Uptown. Photo credit: James Chaney Situated near the mouth of North America’s largest river, New Orleans has long served as a major port that advantageously connects the United States’ heartland to the rest of the world. Proximity and access to the Gulf…
New Orleans Was Once Above Sea Level
Everyone has heard that New Orleans is below sea level; locals joke about it with a mix of dark humor and beleaguered pride, and it affects the region’s flood risk and future sustainability in fundamental ways. Yet few people realize that this condition is anthropogenic in its origins, and for the first 170 years of…
An Ethnic Geography of New Orleans
This Journal of American History article by Tulane geographer Richard Campanella maps and spatially analyzes the residential settlement patterns of various ethnic and racial groups in New Orleans, from antebellum times to post-Katrina. New Orleans: Place Portraits — Over the next nine months, AAG’s “Focus on New Orleans and the Gulf Coast,” will feature a series…
The Evolution of Creole Architecture
New Orleans’ earliest structures, and some of its most distinctive extant buildings, are described as being “Creole.” What does Creole architecture mean, where did this design thinking come from, and how did it evolve? Tulane geographer Richard Campanella reviews the evidence, courtesy The Times-Picayune (PDF). New Orleans: Place Portraits — Over the next nine months, AAG’s…
New Features of the Abstract and Session System
As you may have noticed, the AAG has recently updated several of its online platforms related to the Annual Meeting. Our updated email templates are optimized for use on mobile devices and tablets. The new website, , presents everything you need to know about #AAG2018 in (what we think is) a more logical, streamlined layout. …
AAG Announces 2018 Annual Meeting Themes
The AAG is pleased to announce three themes for the 2018 Annual Meeting to be held in New Orleans from April 10-14. Each year, the AAG Council and Executive Director identify theme areas of geography for the annual meeting in order to provide a fresh take on some of the more pressing and timely issues…
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…
14 to 1: Post-Katrina New Orleans Architecture by the Numbers
So what does post-Katrina New Orleans architecture actually look like? Media has given most attention to high-profiles exceptions; here’s an empirical look at the norm in Post-Katrina New Orleans architecture, according to a study by Tulane geographer Richard Campanella and Tulane Architecture student Cassidy Rosen, courtesy Places Journal. New Orleans: Place Portraits — Over the next…
Four Cadastral Fingerprints on the Louisiana Landscape
The Louisiana landscape bears the imprints of four cadastral (land surveying) systems, more than nearly any other state, and they reflect and affect local society in profound ways today. By Tulane geographer Richard Campanella, courtesy Louisiana Cultural Vistas (PDF). New Orleans: Place Portraits — Over the next nine months, AAG’s “Focus on New Orleans and the…
Cityscapes of the New Orleans Slave Trade
New Orleans formed the nation’s premier slave emporium for most of the years between the 1808 ban on the international slave trade and the outbreak of the Civil War. As Tulane geographer Richard Campanella describes in this two-part article courtesy Preservation in Print Magazine, the slave trade formed a veritable cityscape in New Orleans, as…
Essential Geographies of New Orleans Music
Part 1: Congo Square, Atlantic Exchange, and the Emergence of Jazz New Orleans is a meeting ground. Situated at the confluence of the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico, the city connects North America’s most expansive riverine network with the vast Atlantic basin. Its strategic location has long attracted diverse peoples and ideas, whose…