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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…

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…

Pictures of AAG 2018 Themes: Black Geographies; Hazards-Geography-and-GIScience; and Public Engagement in Geography

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…

Featured News

2018 AAG Annual Meeting Presidential Plenary Announced

StaffOctober 13, 20172017-10-20T14:33:20+00:00

On Finding One’s Voice (and the Voices of Others)

Derek Alderman October 1, 2017 Comments Off2017-10-20T14:33:25+00:00

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…

AAG Announces 2018 Annual Meeting Themes

Staff September 22, 2017 Comments Off2017-10-20T14:33:30+00:00

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…

Essential Geographies of New Orleans Music

Case Watkins August 31, 2017 Comments Off2017-10-20T14:33:37+00:00

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…

AAG Releases New Edition of Guide to Geography Programs in the Americas

Staff July 19, 2017 Comments Off2017-10-20T14:33:56+00:00

The AAG's Guide to Geography Programs in the Americas, or The Guide, includes detailed information on undergraduate and graduate geography programs in the United States, Canada, and Latin America, including degree requirements, curricula, faculty qualifications, program specialties, financial…

Recent News

Trevor Paglen Named 2017 MacArthur Fellow

StaffOctober 19, 20172017-10-20T14:33:19+00:00

Geographer and artist Trevor Paglen has been named a MacArthur Fellow for 2017 for his work revealing the secret world of military operations and corporate power through a mixture of artistic photography, cartographic analysis, and…

Fall 2017 Issue of ‘The AAG Review of Books’ Now Available

Staff October 16, 2017 Comments Off2017-10-20T14:33:20+00:00

Volume 5, Issue 4 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…

2018 AAG Annual Meeting Presidential Plenary Announced

Staff October 13, 2017 Comments Off2017-10-20T14:33:20+00:00

AAG Hurricane Relief Fund

Staff October 6, 2017 Comments Off2017-10-20T14:33:21+00:00

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…

December 2017 Issue of the ‘African Geographical Review’ Now Available

Staff October 6, 2017 Comments Off2017-10-20T14:33:21+00:00

The AAG is pleased to announce that Volume 36, Issue 3 (December 2017) of the African Geographical Review is now available. The full table of contents for this issue is below and can also be accessed here. The African…

President's Column

On Finding One’s Voice (and the Voices of Others)

Derek AldermanOctober 1, 20172017-10-20T14:33:25+00:00

Moving at Twitter Speed

Derek Alderman August 31, 2017 Comments Off2017-10-20T14:33:37+00:00

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…

The Serious Business of Public Communication

Derek Alderman August 1, 2017 Comments Off2017-10-20T14:33:50+00:00

If you have not yet examined the AAG Long Range Plan, 2015-2025, then I encourage you to do so. It provides a useful update on the Association’s progress since its 2002 strategic plan and offers…

Expanding and Empowering a Culture of Mentorship

Derek Alderman July 1, 2017 Comments Off2017-10-20T14:33:58+00:00

The Geography Faculty Development Alliance (GFDA) Early Career Workshop class of 2017 gathered for a photo at the close of the conference on June 24 at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tenn. Words cannot…

Upon Reflection

Glen M. MacDonald June 6, 2017 Comments Off2017-10-20T14:34:07+00:00

How fast time flies. It is hard to believe that the end of the academic year is upon us, June has come and I am writing my last president’s column. I want to use the…

Association News

AAG Hurricane Relief Fund

StaffOctober 6, 20172017-10-20T14:33:21+00:00

Charles Christonikos Interns at AAG for Fall Semester

Staff September 29, 2017 Comments Off2017-10-20T14:33:26+00:00

Charles Christonikos is currently a senior at The George Washington University, pursuing a in Geography with minors in GIS and Criminal Justice. Charles is passionate about urban geography and planning, and hopes to pursue a…

Shane Colgan Interns at AAG for Fall Semester

Staff September 26, 2017 Comments Off2017-10-20T14:33:29+00:00

Shane Colgan recently completed his bachelor of science in Geographical Sciences from the University of Maryland, College Park. He will be attending the University of Maryland, College Park to pursue his masters in GIS starting…

Tolu Ajayi Interns at AAG for Fall Semester

Staff September 26, 2017 Comments Off2017-10-20T14:33:29+00:00

Tolu Ajayi is currently in his last semester at University of Maryland College Park, pursing a in Geographical Sciences. Some of Tolu's strengths include GIS, Computer Cartography, and Programming. After graduating Tolu plans on obtaining…

Undergraduate Student Affinity Group Elects Inaugural Board

Staff September 5, 2017 Comments Off2017-10-20T14:33:36+00:00

The AAG’s new Undergraduate Student Affinity Group has elected their first board. Congratulations to the following: USAG Chair: Michelle Church; Michigan State University USAG Secretary-Treasurer: Lauren Gerlowski; Point Park University USAG General Board Member: Siobhan…

Annual Meeting

2018 AAG Annual Meeting Presidential Plenary Announced

StaffOctober 13, 20172017-10-20T14:33:20+00:00

A Glance at New Orleans’ Contemporary Hispanic and Latino Communities

James Chaney October 2, 2017 Comments Off2017-10-20T14:33:23+00:00

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…

New Orleans Was Once Above Sea Level

Richard Campanella October 2, 2017 Comments Off2017-10-20T14:33:23+00:00

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…

An Ethnic Geography of New Orleans

Richard Campanella October 2, 2017 Comments Off2017-10-20T14:33:24+00:00

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:…

The Evolution of Creole Architecture

Richard Campanella October 2, 2017 Comments Off2017-10-20T14:33:25+00:00

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…

Resources & Opportunities

Visiting Geographical Scientist Program Accepting Applications for 2017-18

StaffJuly 25, 20172017-10-20T14:33:53+00:00

The Visiting Geographical Scientist program (VGSP) is accepting applications for the 2017-18 academic year. VGSP sponsors visits by prominent geographers to small departments or institutions that do not have the resources to bring in well-known speakers. The…

The Department of Education Call for Applications for New Awards

Staff July 25, 2017 Comments Off2017-10-20T14:33:53+00:00

The Department of Education is issuing a notice inviting applications for new awards for fiscal year 2017 for the American History and Civics Education—National Activities Grants Program. The National Activities Grants Program promotes innovative instruction,…

NSF Is Recruiting Geographers for its Graduate Research Fellowship Program

Staff June 30, 2017 Comments Off2017-10-20T14:34:00+00:00

In addition to opportunities via the DDRI program in GSS, grad students in geography and related spatial sciences also have an opportunity to compete in NSF’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP). This program is run…

Job Announcement for a Geography and Spatial Sciences Program Director at NSF

Staff April 20, 2017 Comments Off2017-10-20T14:36:51+00:00

The Geography and Spatial Sciences (GSS) Program at the National Science Foundation (NSF) seeks applicants for a Program Director position that will become available in Summer 2017. The job description for this new GSS program…

GTU Accepting Scholarship Applications

Staff March 24, 2017 Comments Off2017-10-20T14:37:02+00:00

The Gamma Theta Upsilon International Geographical Honor Society is accepting scholarship applications through June 1, 2017. Details about the 2017 GTU Scholarships are posted at Five awards of $1,000 each are available to support the education of GTU…

Of Note

Trevor Paglen Named 2017 MacArthur Fellow

StaffOctober 19, 20172017-10-20T14:33:19+00:00

Maya Peoples Making History Conference

Staff September 18, 2017 Comments Off2017-10-20T14:33:31+00:00

AAG Vice President, Dr. Sheryl Luzzadder-Beach, presenting her research at the Maya Peoples Making History conference. Presentations by Sheryl Luzzadder-Beach, AAG VP, UT Austin Timothy Beach, UT Austin Geoffrey Wallace, McGill University Adrienne Kates, Georgetown…

AAG Snapshot: How to Make the Most of your Student Membership

Candice Luebbering August 3, 2017 Comments Off2017-10-20T14:33:48+00:00

Over 40% of AAG members are students and it is this 40%+ that I want to speak to and encourage to make the most of your membership to the AAG. While I am currently an…

AAG Members Publish New Book on Florida Weather and Climate

Staff July 27, 2017 Comments Off2017-10-20T14:33:52+00:00

AAG members Jennifer M. Collins, associate professor in the School of Geosciences at the University of South Florida; Robert V. Rohli, professor of geography at Louisiana State University; and colleague Charles H. Paxton, an American Meteorological Society…

Camelia Kantor Named USGIF Director of Academic Programs

Staff July 12, 2017 Comments Off2017-10-20T14:33:56+00:00

The United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) has appointed Camelia Kantor as its new Director of Academic Program. In this position, she will manage USGIF’s Collegiate GEOINT Accreditation Program, which awards students GEOINT Certificates accompanying…

Publications

Fall 2017 Issue of ‘The AAG Review of Books’ Now Available

StaffOctober 16, 20172017-10-20T14:33:20+00:00

December 2017 Issue of the ‘African Geographical Review’ Now Available

Staff October 6, 2017 Comments Off2017-10-20T14:33:21+00:00

New Books in Geography — September 2017

Staff October 5, 2017 Comments Off2017-10-20T14:33:22+00:00

Every month the AAG compiles a list of newly-published books in geography and related fields. Some are selected for review in the AAG Review of Books. Anyone interested in reviewing these or other titles should contact…

November 2017 Issue of the ‘Annals of the AAG’ Now Available

Staff September 27, 2017 Comments Off2017-10-20T14:33:28+00:00

The AAG is pleased to announce that Volume 107, Issue 6 (November 2017) 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…

November 2017 Issue of ‘The Professional Geographer’ Now Available

Staff September 12, 2017 Comments Off2017-10-20T14:33:31+00:00

The AAG is pleased to announce that Volume 69, Issue 4 (November 2017) of The Professional Geographer is now available. The focus of The Professional Geographer is on short articles in academic or applied geography,…

Necrology

In Memoriam: Anne Buttimer

StaffJuly 27, 20172017-10-20T14:33:51+00:00

Anne Buttimer Anne Buttimer (1938-2017) Anne Buttimer, emeritus professor of geography at University College Dublin, died July 15, 2017. Buttimer was Fellow of Royal Irish Academy, Royal Geographical Society (UK) and Academia Europaea. She served…

In Memoriam: Masatoshi Yoshino

Staff July 27, 2017 Comments Off2017-10-20T14:33:52+00:00

Masatoshi Yoshino (1928-2017) Masatoshi Yoshino, a distinguished Japanese physical geographer who served the IGU as the founder and the Chair of the Commission on Climatology (1988-1992) and as a Vice President (1992-1996), died on July…

In Memoriam: Marvin W. Mikesell

Staff May 5, 2017 Comments Off2017-10-20T14:36:38+00:00

Marvin W. Mikesell June 16, 1929–April 26, 2017 Marvin W. Mikesell, Professor of Geography in the Committee on Geographical Studies, died unexpectedly Wednesday morning, April 26, 2017, at the University of Chicago Hospital in Hyde…

In Memoriam: John Davey

Staff May 5, 2017 Comments Off2017-10-20T14:36:38+00:00

John Charles Armstrong Davey April 19, 1945–April 21, 2017 John Davey, a prodigious figure in academic, trade and reference publishing for almost 50 years, died at home with family at his side on April 21,…

In Memoriam: Ray Henkel

Staff May 4, 2017 Comments Off2017-10-20T14:36:39+00:00

Ray Henkel January 28, 1931–March 11, 2017 Ray Henkel was born Jan. 28, 1931 on a farm along the Cimarron River about 30 miles west of Tulsa. He died March 11, 2017, at age 86.…

Addenda

Civil Rights Featured Theme of 2017 Geography Awareness Week: A Call for Participation

Derek H. Alderman, LaToya EavesMay 16, 20172017-10-20T14:36:33+00:00

Established by a joint resolution of the Congress in 1987, Geography Awareness Week (GAW) is observed the third week in November every year. GAW promotes what geography is, why it is important, and the relevance…

Library of Congress Publishes New Book, “Picturing America: The Golden Age of Pictorial Maps”

Staff April 20, 2017 Comments Off2017-10-20T14:36:50+00:00

Designed to educate, amuse, or advertise, pictorial maps were a clever and colorful component of print culture in the mid-20th century, often overlooked in studies of cartography. A new book published by the Library of…

Survey for a National Assessment of GIS&T in Higher Education

Staff March 24, 2017 Comments Off2017-10-20T14:37:04+00:00

Professor David Cowen is leading a survey to assess the current status of GIS instruction across the higher education system. This project is being undertaken with the support of the AAG, UCGIS, and Esri. According to…

A Museum of Geography, What?

Rob Sullivan November 23, 2016 Comments Off2017-10-20T14:38:41+00:00

Los Angeles's Hollywood Bowl Overlook (Beau Rogers via Compfight) On October 21, 2016, the Los Angeles Museum of Geography opened its first exhibition, “The Homeless Amongst Us,” in its temporary home at 2426 SET in…

NSF Advisory Committee on Environmental Research and Education Survey Notice

Staff October 25, 2016 Comments Off2017-10-20T14:38:53+00:00

The National Science Foundation Advisory Committee for Environmental Research and Education (AC-ERE) is looking for your assistance. This committee is charged with providing guidance on future research directions across the Foundation in the over the coming…