The American Geographical Society has released the third volume of its anthology of Black geographers, available online at https://americangeo.org/black-geographers-2011-2020/. Previous AGS publications in this series—Celebrating Black Geographers: the First Cohort 1900-2000 and Celebrating Black Geographers: the Second Cohort 2001-2010—are archived at https://americangeo.org/black-geographers-1900-2000/ and https://americangeo.org/black-geographers-2001-2010/. As AGS describes it, the series is “a single source database that chronicles the contributions of Black Geographers to the discipline of Geography”.

Graduates from our department, highlighted in the reports, include Dr. Harold Rose (1930-2016), who received his PhD from our department in 1960 (A.J. Wright, advisor) and who taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; Dr. Rickie Sanders, Professor Emeritus at Temple, who received her PhD here in 1982 (Larry Brown, advisor); Dr. Marilyn Raphael, Professor of Geography at UCLA, who received her PhD at Ohio State in 1990 (Jeff Rogers, advisor); Dr. Perry Carter, who received his PhD in 1998 (Morton O’Kelly, advisor) and is a professor at Texas Tech University; and Dr. Deondre Smiles, who received his PhD in 2020 (Kendra McSweeney, advisor) and is currently an assistant professor at the University of Victoria.