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2007-08

Paul Adams, University of Texas, Spaces of the Word in Oral, Scribal and Print Societies

Jonathan Phillips, University of Kentucky, Geomorphic miracles in the arms of god

Susan Larson, University of Kentucky, Hispanic Studies.

Ted Schatski, University of Kentucky, Philosophy, On Time-space and social life

Clayton Rosari, Bowling Green University, Infrastructures of Feelign: Aspiration, Ecstasy, and Struggles for the Landscapes of Culture.

Anu Sabhlok, University of Louisville, How Gandhi saved my Greencard and other geographic readings of Gandhi

James Fox, University of Kentucky, Fine Sediment Source, Fate and Transport in Kentucky Watersheds

Joel Outtes, Rowan University, Society, Territory and Planning in Latin America and Elsewhere from a Global Comparative Perspective (1850-2007)

Edward Carr, University of South Carolina, What is Being Managed? Understanding Adaptations to Development, Environmental Change and Economic Uncertainty in Coastal Ghana

Becky Mansfield, Ohio State University, The Surprises of Property: Remaking Nature-Society Relations through Privatization

Nancy Ettinger, Ohio State University, Reframing the scale debate: unchaining the micro and rescaling cooperative politics

Morgan Robertson, University of Kentucky, She'll Be Right: Australian Neoliberalisms at Work in Environmental Credit Markets

David Zurick, Eastern Kentucky University, Landscape and imagination in the Himalaya

David Wilson, University of Illinois, Engineering Cities, the Global Trope, and African-American Poverty Spaces in America's Rust Belt.

Henri Grissino-Mayer, University of Tennessee, Historical Dendroarchaeology in the Southeastern U.S.: Human Nature Versus Mother Nature.

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2006-07

Louise Crewe, Nottingham. Geography, Does shopping matter? Passion, possession and the production of meaningful consumption

UK Geographers, U.K. Geography, What I Did this Summer

Patrick Lawless, U.K. Geography, Floristic Biogeography of a Geographically Widespread Rock Outcrop Vegetation Type in eastern North America

Catherine Dolan, Northeastern University, Anthropology & Sociology, Fields of Obligation: Gender, Labor and the Politics of the Luxury Vegetable in Kenya

Sarah Lyon, U.K. Anthropology, Somos Cooperativistas: Strengthening Participatory Democracy in Rural Guatemala through Fair Trade Coffee Consumption

Jane Collins, Wisconsin, Madison. Sociology & Womens Studies, Do Commodity Chains have a Theory?

Walter Benn Michaels, University of Illinois-Chicago Circle. English, The Death of a Beautiful Woman: Memento and the Idea of Aesthetic Form

Joel Wainwright, OSU. Geography.

Peter Little, UK. Anthropology.

Sven Koppany, Department of Geography Clark University Wireless Philadephia: a geography of urban human-computer interaction

Jeff West,U.K. Geography, Negotiating Muslim Identity and Secular Politics: The Spatialities of Religion and State in Turkey's Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi

Sue Roberts, U.K. Geography, Contradictions at the border: the case of US port security

Bruce D'Arcus, Miami, Ohio. Geography, Sovereignty, Law and the Spatial Architecture of Rights: The Exceptional Spaces of Extraordinary Rendition

Mary Thomas, OSU, We're all God's children: banal multiculturalism and racial-ethnic identification at a Los Angeles high school

Keiron Bailey, University of Arizona, Mileage runners, weedeaters and cyberhybridspaces: an actor-network investigation of the geographies of elite frequent fliers

Bert Winther-Tamaki, University of California, Irvine, The Transnational Genre of the Nude: Koide Narashige

Michael Samers, U.K. Geography, Situating Islamic banking and finance, building
postcolonial economic geographies

Carl Dahlman, Miami, Ohio.

Jim Duncan, Cambridge.

Amy Glasmeier, Semple Day Speaker: Department of Geography, Pennsylvania State University, Economic Opportunity in America: One Nation Pulling Apart

Youngmin Lee, Ewha Womans University, Globalization and Re-ethnicization of L.A. Koreatown: between Multiculturalism and Transnationalism


2005-06

Jonathan Phillips, U.K. Geography, Evolutionary Geomorphology: Thresholds and Nonlinearity in Landform Response to Environmental Change

S. Brunn, M. Marchman, Z. Musselman, and L. Phillips, U.K. Geography, "The Teaching Thunderbirds" or "What I taught last semester"

Karl Raitz, U.K. Geography, Rock Fences of the Bluegrass

Nick Clifford, School of Geography University of Nottingham, UK, Eco-hydraulics, River Management and River Restoration: Some Experiences in Combining Field Survey and Numerical Simulation

Don Mitchell, Department of Geography Syracuse University, Spaces No Longer of Struggle: Dead Labor and the Transformation of Nature in California's Imperial Valley

Jason Henderson, Department of Geography San Francisco State University, Secessionist Automobility: Racism, Anti-Urbanism, and the Spatial Politics of Automobility in Atlanta, Georgia

Anna Secor, U.K. Geography, Devlet baba ("Father State"), Space, and the Subject in Turkey

Marcia England, U.K. Geography, When Good Neighbors Go Bad: Territorial Geographies of Neighborhood Associations

Esther Long, Voice for Humanity, Adventures in Afghanistan: Civic Education, Small Media Communication, and Evaluation Research

Yuko Aoyama, Department of Geography Clark University Evolution of the Triad: Art, Technology, and Commerce in Video Games

Paul Lovelace, Nick Neices, and Andrew Berry, Ground-Truthing the Daniel Boone National Forest

David Nickell, West Kentucky Community and Technical College, Does 'Between the Rivers' Still Exist in the Land Between the Lakes: The Struggle for Cultural Legitimacy

Craig Colten, Semple Day Speaker: Department of Geography and Anthropology Louisiana State University, History of Flood Relief Projects in New Orleans

Masatomo Umitsu, Graduate School of Environmental Science, Nagoya University, Costal Landforms and Tsunami Disaster in Banda Aceh, Indonesia and the Andaman Sea Coast, Southern Thailand


2004-05

Jeff Keaton, AMEC Earth & Environmental,Soil stratigraphy and Surface-Water Hydrology of Part of the Hualapai Valley, Mohave County, Arizona

Amy Mills , University of Kentucky, The Practice and Imagination of Neighborhood Space in Istanbul, Turkey

Tad Mutersbaugh, University of Kentucky, A Brave New World of 'Harmony for Prosperity'? Theorizing the Local Consequences of Global Standards

Proinnsias Breathnach, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, The political Economy of the Celtic Tiger

Ellen Hostetter, University of Kentucky, The Emotions of Landscape: Anxiety and the Roadside Strip

Chris Pool, University of Kentucky, Constructing Government: Urban Spaces and Political Strategies in Ancient Veracruz, Mexico

Boyd Shearer, OutrageGIS, Inc., Mapping Recreation with GPS, GIS, and Cartographic Art

Francie Chassen-Lopez, University of Kentucky, From Liberal to Revolutionary Oaxaca: the View from the South, Mexico, 1867-1911

P. P. Karan, University of Kentucky, Environment and Development in the Himalayas

Michael Heffernan, University of Nottingham, UK Over There: The USA, France, and the Politics of Memory in the Early 20th Century

Viva Nordberg, University of Kentucky, What Goes Around, Comes Around: Metaphors in Geomorphology

Anne Chin, Texas A&M University, Urbanization Impacts on Dryland River Channels: Adjustments, Hazards, and Management Implications

Ken Lowrey, Wright State University, Real Estate Sales and the Residence of Sex Offenders

William "Drew" Andrews, University of Kentucky, Geologic Evolution of the Kentucky River Valley in the Bluegrass

Jeffery Clymer, University of Kentucky, The 1886 Chicago Haymarket Bombing and the Rhetoric of Terrorism in America

Jennifer Weisser, University of Kentucky, Micro Sacred Sites: The Spatial Pattern of Roadside Memorials in Warren County, Ohio

Innes Keighren, University of Edinburgh, UK, Miss Semple's 'Influences': A Study in the Historical Geography of Authorship, Publishing, and Reading


2003-04

Tom Mueller, University of Kentucky,Map quality for Site Specific Management

Richard Hasler , Rockefeller Resident Fellow, Community Based Wildlife Management in Zimbabwe and Botswana: Reflections from an Environmental Anthropologist

Keiko Tanaka, University of Kentucky, Network of Actions, Agency of Networks: The Case of New Zealand and South Africa in the Global Red Meat Chain

Basil Gomez, Indiana State University, Sediments as Recorders of Landscape Response to Late Holocene Environmental Change: Waipaoa River Basin, New Zealand

Jim Coffman, Kentucky Office of Geographic Information, The Commonwealth Map: Kentucky's Statewide Digital Basemap

Susan Carson Lambert, Governer's Office of Technology (Frankfort, KY), The Kentucky Landscape Snapshot

William H. Renwick, Miami University (Ohio), Millions of ponds! Distribution and Significance of Small Artificial Impoundments

Gillian Rose, Open University, Encountering Family Photographs: Domestic Spaces, Maternal Spaces

Andy Doolen, University of Kentucky, War, National Expansion, and the Geographies of Race in Early America

Andy Jones, Community Organizing in Harlan County

Holly Barcus, Morehead State University, Aging, Migration and the "Elasticity" of Place in Eastern Kentucky

Mike Begin, University of Kentucky, Globalizaing Anastasia: Exoticism, Cyberspace, and the Post-Soviet Mail-Order Bride Market

Nalani Hennayake, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, Globalization from Within: Interplay of the Global and Local in Sri Lanka

Taro Futamura, University of Kentucky, Are We Where We Eat? Re-examining 'Local' Food and Commodification of Place

Esther Long, University of Kentucky, Between 'Ukraine' and 'the West': Ukrainian Protestants Negotiate a Transnational World

Andrew Leyshon, University of Nottingham, UK, Towards a Geography of Open Sources Software

Lassi Heininen, University of Lapland, Finland, Northern European Geopolitics and Security Policy

Shantha Hennayake, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, Nation: Is It Imagined or Imposed?

Dorothy Sack, Ohio University, Lake Bonneville and its Fluvial Connections


2002-03

Anna Secor, University of Kentucky, 'There is an Istanbul That Belongs to Me': Citizenship, Space and Identity in the City

Jonathan Phillips, University of Kentucky, I Just Wanna Testify... Laws, Locality, and Explanation in Geography

Mike Walls, University of Kentucky, GIS and its Application to Historical Geography

Marcia England, University of Kentucky, Public Privates

Andrew Leyshon, University of Nottingham, Scary Monsters? Software Formats, Peer-to-peer Networks and the Spectre of the Gift

Caroline Desbiens, University of Georgia, Producing North and South: A Political Geography of Hydro Development in Quebec

Tom Barnes, University of Kentucky, Exploring Kentucky's Last Great Places

Nicholas Dunning, University of Cincinnati, Birth and Death of Waters: Environmental Change, Adaptation, and Symbolism in the Maya Lowlands

Banu Gokariksel, University of Washington, Gendered Modernities: Geographies of Morality, Identity and the Veil

Deborah Thompson, University of Kentucky, Soundscapes of Appalachia: A Music Geography

Kathleen O'Reilly, University of Kentucky, Developing Contradictions: Women's Participation as a Site of Struggle within an Indian NGO

Wolfgang Zierhofer , Universitat Basel, The Unity of Difference: An Invitation to Breed Paradoxes and Social Systems with Niklas Luhmann

Bobby Ann Mason, Writing Out of Kentucky

Tony Grubesic , University of Cincinnati, Spatial Implications of Wireless Fidelity (802.11b) Access


2001-02

Stanley Brunn, John Pickles, Richard Ulack, University of Kentucky, International Teaching Opportunities: Promises, Surprises, and Pitfalls

Keiron Bailey, University of Kentucky, Women at Work: English Language Learning, Gender Alterity and Social Transformation in Kanagawa, Japan

Josh Lepawsky, University of Kentucky, 'Digital Development'? Malaysia and the Multimedia Super Corridor

Scott Kirsch, University of North Carolina, John Wesley Powell, Geographical Solutions, and the Economy of Environmental Values

Tad Mutersbaugh, University of Iowa, The Number is the Beast: A Cultural Politics of Transnational Organic Coffee, Mexican Producer Unions, and Village Certification Inspectors

Kendra McSweeny, Ohio State University, Indigenous Micro-demographics and Landscape Change: Making the Link in the Lowland Neotropics

Chris Groves, Western Kentucky University, Carbonate Chemistry: Some Pretty Durn Useful Stuff

Linda Martin, University of Kentucky, Geomorphic Adjustments of Ozark Streams Due to Urbanization, Southwest Missouri

Jerry Baskin, University of Kentucky, Landscape and Vegetation of the Kentucky Karst Plain

Taro Futamura, University of Kentucky, Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) for Agro-Environmental Development in the Kansas High Plains: A Case Study of Kearny County

Maggie Walker, University of Kentucky, Mixtec Narratives: Perceptions of Poverty along the U.S.-Mexico Border

Mitch Rose, University of Nottingham, Heritage Under Siege: Narrative and Obscurity in the Village of Nazlat Essamman

Dydia DeLyser, Louisiana State University, How Tourists Haunt a Western Ghost Town


1998-99

Simon Batterbury, Brunel University, Political Ecology, Scale and Time: Re-encountering Development and Understanding Environmental Change in Africa

Mona Domosh, Florida Atlantic University,  A Feminine City?: Women, Shopping, and the 19th Century Downtown

Cindi Katz, The Graduate School, City University of New York, Disintegrating Developments: Global Economic Restructuring and the Question of Social Reproduction, Reflections on Sudan and New York

Caroline Nagel, University of Kentucky, Beirut, Inc: Urban Entrepreneurship and the Construction of Nationhood in the 'Ancient City of the Future' 

Gearoid O Tuathail, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Postmodern Geopolitics: Risk Society and Global Change

Maureen Sioh, University of British Columbia, Fractured Reflections: Rainforests and Plantations in Malaysian Development

Adrian Smith, University of Sussex, Multiple Transitions: Economic Geographies of Change in East-Central Europe

Neil Smith, Rutgers University, Third Wave Gentrification in New York: The Reassertion of Economics


1997-98

Keiron Bailey, University of Kentucky, The Urban Resort in the Making: Power, Politics, and Urban Development in Honolulu

Deborah Dixon, East Carolina University, Cultivating Discourse

Matthew Kurtz, University of Kentucky, Sometimes Strangely Embedded Fellows: Researching The Development Of Economic Development Research Centers

Byron Miller, University of Cincinnati, Social Movements on the Head of Pin?

Katharyne Mitchell, University of Washington, Transnational Migration, Citizenship, and The Politics Of Space

Scott Salmon, Miami University, Rethinking Regeneration? Globalization, Accumulation Crises and the Search for a Local Fix

Boyd Shearer, University of Kentucky, A Douglas Park Documentary Project

Matthew Sparke, University of Washington, Cascadia As Palimpsest: Graphing the Geo of a Transborder Region 

Ulf Strohmayer, University of Wales, Lampeter, Technology, Modernity and the Restructuring of the Present

Gary Younge, The Guardian, Down Freedom's Main Line: A Black Englishman's Journey Journey through the Deep South


1996-97

Tim Cresswell, University of Wales, Lampeter, The Politics of Mobility and the Production of Difference: Representing the Hobo and the Tramp, 1870-1939

Carl Dahlman, University of Kentucky, Exactly What You Feared: Gothic Readings of Republican Environmental Rhetoric

Lorraine Dowler, Syracuse University, Borders or Frontiers: Women's Political Space in Belfast, Northern Ireland

John Metz, Northern Kentucky University, A Geographical and Environmental Overview of the US Nuclear Weapons Complex

Alexander Murphy, University of Oregon, Territory and Identity in Contemporary Europe

Jeff Popke, University of Kentucky, Dismantling Apartheid Space: Reflections on Transition in South Africa

Scott Samson, University of Kentucky, Are you sure you are where you are? Mapping with GPS in the mountains of southeastern Kentucky

Laurel Smith, University of Kentucky, In the Museum Case of Otis Mason: Secular Stories of Origin and Gender-Specific Technology 

Richard Ulack, University of Kentucky, The Atlas of Kentucky

Stephen White, Kansas State University, Changing Landscapes of Western Kansas: Colonial Exploitation or Rural Renaissance


1995-96

Elizabeth Barrett, Appalshop, and Judi Jennings, University of Louisville, Film/Work In Progress; 'Stranger with a Camera'

Susan Christopherson, Cornell University, Democracy Delayed or Democracy Denied: Market Liberalization and Political Reform in Mexico

Barbara Cellarius and Chad Staddon, University of Kentucky, Environmental Organizations and Civil Society in Bulgaria: Perspectives from Anthropology and Geography

Harry Cleaver, University of Texas, Austin, The Electronic Fabric of Struggle: Zapatista Subversion in Cyberspace

Alexander Cockburn, The Nation, The State of Environmental Movements in the United States

George Collier, Stanford University, The Zapatista Rebellion in Chiapas: Background and Prospects

Stuart Corbridge, Cambridge University, Forest Struggles, Forest Citizens, and Forest Protection in the Jharkhand, India, 1980-1995

Vincent DelCasino, University of Kentucky, Creating "Tourism Space": The Social Construction of Sex Tourism in Thailand.

James Duncan and Nancy Duncan, Syracuse University, The Suburban Wilderness

Piper Gaubatz, University of Massachusetts, The New Chinese City: Transformation and Change in the Urban Environment

Honorable Rob Haswell, Mayor of Pietermaritzburg SA, Rebuilding the South African City

Kris Miranne, University of Kentucky, The Social Organization of Sheltering and Space: Housing Independence among Older, African-American Women

Ron Mitchelson, Morehead State Department, Power and Empowerment: Revitalizing Rural America with Bill Clinton

Gearoid O Tuathail, Virginia Polytechnic University, Shadow Warriors and the Electronic Jury: Mexico, Chiapas, and the Geo-Economic Panopticon

Priya Rangan, University of Kentucky, Discourses and Realities of Common Property Resources

Miranda Schreurs, University of Maryland, Japanese Environmental Leadership: The Search for Global Mission

Stan Stevens, University of Massachusetts, Deforestation in the Mt. Everest Region