Alex McCarthy (second from left) (MS, ASP 2017) with health officials and first responders during a training exercise on local implementation of the National Incident Management System in Tuscarawas County.

Faculty News: 

Madhumita Dutta's 2018 edited book, Workers’ Movements and Strikes in the Twenty-First Century was reviewed in the journal Capital and Class.

Kendra McSweeney received the Distinguished Career Award from the Cultural and Political Ecology (CAPE) Specialty Group of the AAG. The award emphasized, "the incredible breadth of her scholarship. A rare three-degree geographer, she has published on ethnobotany, forest dependency, the dugout canoe trade, demography, post-hurricane coping strategies, biodiversity conservation, topographic maps, urbanization of indigenous populations, rural households' livelihoods, plantation agriculture among smallholders, forest recovery, climate disaster and opportunity, health surveys, economic geography for land change science, vaccines, fertility and power in indigenous health, conditional cash transfers, the illicit geography of cocaine, sexual harassment in academia, neocolonialism in corporate social responsibility, drivers of land-climate dynamics, and the military agro-industrial complex."

Student News: 

Bernard Hayman defended his MA thesis, “Community, Identity, and Agency in the Age of Big Social Data: A Place-Based Study on Literacies, Perceptions, and Responses of Digital Engagement.” His committee members were Madhumita Dutta, Treva Lindsey (WGSS), Rosalyn Lee-Won (Communications), and advisor, Nancy Ettlinger.

Ning Zhang (PhD, Geog 2020) has accepted a position as Project Scientist at the University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources (UCANR). She will be located in the Sierra Nevada Research Institute at UC Merced.

Alumni News: 

The College of Arts and Sciences recently profiled alumnus Alex McCarthy's (pictured above) work as director of the Tuscarawas County Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency.

Upcoming Events: 

The Geography Department will not have a reception this Spring as planned, but we will host an online recognition of our awards and Spring graduates as planned on Friday, May 1st, 4 pm. More details to follow.

Geography Blog: 

This week's blog post is "Sustainability in a World of Cities," by Harvey Miller.

Darla Munroe
Professor and Chair