Geography

Matthew Derrick

Sixteen geography students, along with two faculty members (Chris Haynes and Matthew Derrick), attended the 68th annual meeting of the California Geographical Society, held May 2-4 at Los Angeles City College.

Geography Students Earn Award For Service Learning Project

Three graduate students from Professor Monica Stephens’ advanced cartography class earned the “Most Unique Poster honor for their service learning presentation at the California Geographic Society’s (CalGIS) Conference in Monterey, Calif. on April 14-16.

Sarah Jaquette Ray

Geography professor Sarah Jaquette Ray has been invited to give a talk on her book, The Ecological Other: Environmental Exclusion in American Culture (University of Arizona Press, 2013) at UC Berkeley on February 24.

Matthew Derrick

Geography faculty member Matthew Derrick's book chapter, titled "Islam as a Source of Unity and Division in Eurasian," was recently published in the book Eurasian Corridors of Interconnection: From the South China to the Caspian Sea (Routledge, 2014).

monica

Geography faculty member Monica Stephens' "Geography of Hate" map was recently named to Gizmodo's "Best Data Visualizations of 2013" list. Stephens' students mapped tweets across the United States that contained slurs against gays, the disabled and minorities.

Sarah Jaquette Ray

Sarah Jaquette Ray published an article titled "Environmental Justice, Transnationalism, and the Politics of the Local in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead" in the Journal of Transnational American Studies.

Stephen Cunha

Geography professor Stephen Cunha contributed a chapter on “Agricultural Settlement and Landuse” to Mountain Geography: Physical and Human Dimensions, published by UC Press.

Geography students score big

Ryland Karlovich, Talisa Rodriquez, Miles Ross, Matthew Eiben, and Amelia Egle and Dept. of Geography Faculty Members

Matthew Derrick

Matthew Derrick, assistant professor of Geography, was the featured guest on the most recent "Research on Religion" podcast.

Matthew Derrick

The most recent issue of The California Geographer, a peer-reviewed journal, includes two articles by HSU Geography majors.