Syracuse Geography

Tenure track position in Physical Geography at Syracuse! A great opportunity at a great place to work (⁦@SUGeographer⁩, ⁦@MaxwellSU, ⁦@SyracuseU⁩). Please spread the word! #biogeography #geomorphology sujobopps.com/postings/94570

Very worthwhile paper from my friend/colleague @Bob_WilsonGEO on teaching scholars to write. Writing geography: Teaching research writing and storytelling in the discipline - Robert M Wilson, 2022 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

The SU Dept. of Geography & the Environment is hiring a scholar whose research focuses on Cartographies of Racial Justice and who can teach courses in Map Design. This will be a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor. sujobopps.com/postings/87037

While environmental history tends to emphasize Perkins Marsh’s Man and Nature, @JacobBendix & Urban argue that Marsh’s legacy extends further and underlies modern geomorphology and biogeography bit.ly/3hnOVYP

Featured: Ethan Coffel's NSF Project on Climate Change Ethan Coffel studies how crop growth affects local climate, which in turn impacts crop production. See article: syracuse.edu/stories/ethan-….

Congratulations to Jamie Fico who has received an important grant from the American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS)! This will support her travel and research for her MA project, "The Livelihood Strategies in a Diversifying Economy in the Draa Valley, Morocco.”

Congratulations to Katie MacDonald, who has been selected by the Graduate School for an Outstanding TA Award for 2021! This is a prestigious, university-wide award that recognizes consistent excellence in teaching.

"Climate change, COVID-19, and the co-production of injustices: a feminist reading of overlapping crises," by Farhana Sultana, (Social & Cultural Geog) Analysis of crises produced by climate change and pandemic shows importance of simultaneous investigation through feminist lens.

Congratulations! to Madeleine Hamlin who has been awarded a Graduate Dean's Award for her research: “Policing the Projects: Crime, Carcerality, and Chicago Public Housing.”

Congratulations to SU Geographer Bob Wilson, who has been awarded a Humanities Center Maxwell Faculty Fellowship for Spring 2022!

Congratulations to SU Geographer, Ethan Coffel, who learned today that he has been awarded an NSF grant for his project “The Crop-Climate Feedback Cycle and its Implications for Global Food Production!

Congratulations to Xiwei Guo whose article – “Morphological characteristics and changes of two meandering rivers in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, China” was just published in Geomorphology! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Ethan Coffel, assistant professor of geography and the environment, answers some questions about how warming temperatures will impact every part of our power infrastructure. news.syr.edu/blog/2020/12/2…

"How to Lie with Maps" by Mark Monmonier was named one of eight essential books for geographers by Geographical Magazine (UK). Updated in a new edition, the book examines the many ways that technology offers new opportunities for cartographic mischief, deception, and propaganda.

Congratulations to Collin Chambers for his recent publication. Collin Chambers “Historical materialism, social change, and the necessity of revolutionary optimism” Human Geography (early view). journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

Congratulations to Chad Chambers for his recent publication! Chad Chambers. 2020. “Beneath the surface: Capital-labor relations, housing and the making of the Bakken boom” Extractive Industries and Society 7(3): 908-917. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Here is an op-ed on the complex geography of wildfire by Syracuse University Geography professor Jake Bendix, published today in The Hill: thehill.com/opinion/energy…

Don Meinig was a scholar of extraordinarily impressive accomplishments who was never impressed by himself. A gracious, generous friend and colleague; a real loss for @SUGeographer and for all of #geography. obits.syracuse.com/obituaries/syr…

CONGRATULATIONS to the @SUGeographer graduating seniors listed here! I got to have just about every one of these students in at least one class, and it truly was a pleasure. Proud of their accomplishments, and wishing them all the best in their futures... maxwell.syr.edu/geography/unde…

#geography making a difference! ⁦@SUGeographer⁩ Alumna Tracks the COVID-19 Outbreak - Syracuse.edu syracuse.edu/stories/rebeka…