Professor Cindi Katz published an article in a special symposium issue of Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography called On Being Outside “the Project”: A Symposium in honor of Susan Christopherson. The article is entitled On Rocking “the Project”: The Beat Goes On. Check it out. The radical geography community lost one of its leading lights last year when Susan Christopherson, Professor of City and Regional Planning and Department Chair at Cornell, passed away. In 1989, Susan wrote a short, germinal essay in the pages of this journal that challenged the persistence of marginalizing and minimizing social difference in radical geography. …
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June 2018 Critical PAR Institute Application due 1/8.
Annual Spring Critical PAR Institute Now in it’s 8th season, the Critical Participatory Action Research Institute is designed to introduce the theory, methods, and ethics of critical participatory action research (PAR) to graduate students, faculty, and members of community based organizations. Through seminars, roundtables, and hands-on workshops with experienced researchers, participants gain the necessary skills and knowledge to integrate a critical PAR approach into their scholarship, research, and/or organizing. For more information about the Public Science Project click here. What will I learn? The history, theory, method, and ethics of Critical PAR Building partnerships with community & community –based organizations …
Pathways Geospatial Courses for the Spring
Geospatial Technology (Spatial analysis and Modelling) are important tools for any study that has a strong spatial component. Bronx Community College in collaboration with the BCC Geospatial Center of the CUNY CREST Institute (BGCCCI) www.bcc.cuny.edu/geospatial/ is offering two PATHWAYS courses in geospatial technology. Any CUNY student may enroll in them through the e-permit facility. The credits they earn after successfully completing the course requirements will seamlessly transfer to any other CUNY college! The course names are: Introduction to Geographic Information System (GIS 11) Introduction to Remote Sensing (GIS 12) Contact Dr. Sunil Bhaskaran for more information Sunil.Bhaskaran@bcc.cuny.edu
EES Professor Brian Rosa wins Henry Wasser Award!
ESS faculty member Brian Rosa of Queens College is a 2017 recipient of the Henry Wasser Award for CUNY Assistant Professors from the CUNY Academy for the Humanities and Sciences. Congratulations Professor Rosa! As an interdisciplinary urban researcher, Rosa draws on his training as a city planner (MRP Cornell, 2009) and human geographer (PhD Manchester, 2014). Through an examination of the changing built environments of cities, Rosa explores the interwoven social, cultural, political, and economic contexts of urban (re)development, particularly in the context of post-industrial urban spaces and sites of contested urban heritage. His current research deals with the relationship between …
#EESPublishes: Prof Vörösmarty on a global delta sediment balance model for sea-level rise
ESS Professor Charles Vörösmarty coauthored a paper entitled “A model of water and sediment balance as determinants of relative sea level rise in contemporary and future deltas” in the Journal of Geomorphology. Highlights from the article include; A delta sediment balance model is developed for a global selection of deltas. Sediment flux and relative sea-level rise vary under modern and future scenarios. Watershed and coastal sediment processes outweigh sea-level rise in some deltas. Full use of hydro-resources in upstream basins strongly impacts downstream deltas. Dr. Vörösmarty’s research focuses on the development of computer models and geospatial data sets used in …
#EESPublishes: Prof @SethaLow on private securitization practices & state/capitalist control
ESS Professor Setha Low published an article in Anthropological Theory entitled “Security at home: How private securitization practices increase state and capitalist control“. The article is featured in a special issue of the Journal on “Producing Sates of Security” which offers a theoretical framework and critical grounding for the anthropology of security. Abstract: The impact of the security state is not only seen in the political and spatial restrictions on public space and the public sphere or inscribed in militarized national borders and cities, but also in the increasing penetration of the domestic and private realm of home. These securitization …
#EESPublishes: EES student Yi Tang & Prof Stewart on Particle Characteristics in the N. Atlantic
EES Student Yi Tang and Professor Gillian Stewart published a paper in Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers entitled The influence of particle concentration and composition on the fractionation of 210Po and 210Pb along the North Atlantic GEOTRACES transect GA03. Congratulations Yi! Article highlights include: Provide links between particle features and 210Po and 210Pb activities in N. Atl. Particle characteristics, relationships with isotopes varied geographically. Particle characteristics, relationships with isotopes varied with particle size. Particle composition, especially litho and opal, could predict sorption of 210Pb. Sorption of 210Po is more complicated, but consistently related to POC content.
EES Meagan (Mae) Miller Student wins @WomanGeographer New York Fellowship for 2017/18
ESS Student Meagan Miller has been selected as a Society of Woman Geographers New York Fellowship awardee for 2017-2018. Mae will receive support for research on the role of colonial seamen in anti-racist and anti-colonial activism in the early twentieth century. SWG has awarded over a hundred fellowships to women studying for advanced degrees in geography or its allied fields, as part of carrying out the vision of our founders to “further geographical work, to spread geographical knowledge, and to encourage geographical research.” Congratulations Mae!
EES & @JohnJayCollege Prof. Monica Varsanyi wins @nehgov grant for #immigration work!
Monica Varsanyi, a Professor in Earth and Environmental Sciences, received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for her research project, “The Contentious Evolution of Hispanic Identity During the Chicano Movement in New Mexico, 1962-1974,” which she worked on this past summer. The project is inspired by research Professor Varsanyi first conducted for Policing Immigrants: Local Law Enforcement on the Front Lines, which she co-authored with Doris Marie Provine (along with Paul Lewis and Scott Decker), who is also part of the NEH project. During her earlier research, Varsanyi became fascinated with the dynamic between New Mexico and Arizona, two …
