Latest Achievements
Former Geography faculty (1998-2001) and Potawatomi Nation tribal member Margaret Wickens Pearce was awarded a prestigious MacArthur Fellowship for her “Foregrounding Indigenous understandings of land and place in maps that visualize Native Peoples’ knowledge, history, and stories.” The Fellowship is an $800,000, no-strings-attached grant for individuals who demonstrate exceptional creativity in their work and the promise to do more. This follows multiple NSF grants and a 2023 Guggenheim award. While at Humboldt, Margaret and Mary Beth Cunha established the Kosmos Lab from which students then and now have won an avalanche of state and national awards for their innovative cartography.
Former Geography faculty (1998-2001) and Potawatomi Nation tribal member Margaret Wickens Pearce was awarded a prestigious MacArthur Fellowship for her “Foregrounding Indigenous understandings of land and place in maps that visualize Native Peoples’ knowledge, history, and stories.” The Fellowship is an $800,000, no-strings-attached grant for individuals who demonstrate exceptional creativity in their work and the promise to do more. This follows multiple NSF grants and a 2023 Guggenheim award. While at Humboldt, Margaret and Mary Beth Cunha established the Kosmos Lab from which students then and now have won an avalanche of state and national awards for their innovative cartography.