The number of majority-Black cities and towns in the United States has more than doubled in the past 50 years, including 21 cities of more than 100,000 people. An ongoing and dynamic process of “white flight” is mainly responsible for this trend. While many US cities are global cities, hubs of wealth, power, information, and…
Category: geography
Research Quick Take: Identifying county-level factors for female breast cancer incidence rate through a large-scale population study
Geographers can bring a unique spatial perspective to topics in a variety of disciplines. Zhao et al. (2020) use spatial statistics to improve our understanding of breast cancer. To do so, they analyze the spatial variation in the incidence rate of female breast cancer across the United States. This is the largest scale study, as…
Research Spotlight: Why our longleaf pine habitats in the southeast are not forests but savannas and why it matters
If you find yourself in a longleaf pine savanna, remember to look down. Although this habitat is named for the dominant tree species, most of the biodiversity is in the understory. In one square meter on the ground – which is probably smaller than the hood of your car – there can be more than…
Graduate Student Spotlight: Elizabeth Ruff from the Department of Geography
What department are you a graduate student in? Geography Why did you decide to go to graduate school? I decided to pursue my doctoral degree when I was job hunting after my master’s degree. All the positions that I was excited by and could envision myself doing required a PhD, so here I am. Did…
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….
Wicked Problems, Wicked Solutions 