Graduate Student Spotlight: Yoonjung Ahn from the Department of Geography

What department are you a graduate student in?  I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Geography department. Why did you decide to go to graduate school? Before my Ph.D., I worked at the Korea Environment Institute (KEI), a government-funded think tank in Korea. While working at KEI, I learned that administrative and census data have…

Research Quick Take

Here at the College of Social Sciences and Public Policy (COSSPP), our faculty have been quite busy! Here are some of the projects that our faculty have recently published. “The limits of liberal recognition: Racial capitalism, settler colonialism, and environmental governance in Vancouver and Atlanta” by Dr. Tyler McCreary In his recent article, Dr. McCreary…

Dissertation Spotlight: Queer Urban Space Beyond the Gayborhood: Sexuality, Gentrification, and Displacement in Atlanta

Through collected data from thirty-five participant interviews, the researcher, Rachael Sarah Cofield, examines the relationship between queer geography and gentrification in Atlanta, Georgia, as well as the transformations of the former gayborhood (or gay neighborhood) of Midtown and its relationship to the broader queer geographies of Atlanta. Cofield intrinsically ties the relationship to issues of…

Research Quick Take

Here at the College of Social Sciences and Public Policy (COSSPP), our faculty have been quite busy! Here are some of the projects that our faculty have recently published. “Evolving and Implementing a New Disaster Management Paradigm: The Case of the Philippines” by Dr. Janet Dilling In her recent article, Dr. Dilling examines the evolution…

Research Quick Take

Here at the College of Social Sciences and Public Policy (COSSPP), our faculty have been quite busy! Here are some of the projects that our faculty have recently published. “The effect of stereotypes on black college test scores at a historically black university” by Dr. Mckenzie Alston In her recent article, Dr. Alston conducted lab…

Dissertation Spotlight:  A Forest of Fire: Limming Materiality and Interpretation in the Morphology of the Longleaf Pine Forest as a Cultural Landscape

The Longleaf Pine Forest is a cultural landscape that has been shaped by human presence throughout time. The researcher discusses both human interpretations and material practices to further understand this landscape. The researcher uses a neo-Sauerian methodology when utilizing Richard Schein’s (1997) conception of landscape as “discourse materialized” as the base model for this research….