Geography, Environment & Spatial Analysis

Sarah Jaquette Ray

Students Ivan de Soto and Paradise Martinez Graff have been chosen to attend the California Forum for Diversity in Graduate Education at Sonoma State on April 18-20, where they'll learn about the challenges and opportunities of pursuing grad school.

Matthew Derrick

Matthew Derrick, assistant professor of Geography, published an article titled "The Muslim Spiritual Board of Tatarstan, Political-Territorial Transformation, and the Changing Character of Tatar Islam" in the December 2014 issue of The Journal of Central Asian and Caucasian Studies, an internatio

Sarah Jaquette Ra

Ray was recently elected Vice President of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment for a two-year term beginning January 2015.

Alma Zechman

Six Geography students, alumni, and faculty represented HSU at the 77th Annual Meeting of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers at the University of Arizona, in Tuscon.

Rosemary Sherriff

Geography faculty member Matthew Derrick was awarded a Kennan Institute grant, a division of the Woodrow Wilson International Center in Washington, DC, that will support archival research in the Library of Congress on "Territory, Islam, and the Muslim Spiritual Boards of Russia: A Comparative Stu

Rosemary Sherriff

Geography Professor Rosemary Sherriff has co-authored a peer-reviewed research article in the online journal PLOS ONE examining the severity of wildfires along Colorado's Front Range.

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).