Geography

Matthew Derrick

Assistant geography professor Matthew Derrick's article "Containing the Umma?: Islam and the Territorial Question" was recently published in the Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion.

Monica Stephens

The work of Geography Dept. faculty member Monica Stephens was featured recently in an article in The Atlantic. In "Where Do the World's Tweets Come From?," associate editor Rebecca J.

Matthew Derrick

Assistant Geography Professor Matthew Derrick was selected as a grantee by the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) Eurasia Program Title VIII to participate in its “Summer Workshop in Quantitative Methods” in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, this June.

Matthew Derrick

Junior Nicholas Klein-Baer was one of 12 U.S. students awarded a fellowship by the Russian Geographical Society to conduct archeological fieldwork in Tuva, Russia. Nick will spend June 2012 at the "Valley of Kings" camp near Kyzyl, the capital of the Tuva province.

Matthew Derrick

Assistant Geography Professor Matthew Derrick co-authored an article titled “A Splintered Heartland: Russia, Europe, and the Geopolitics of Networked Energy Infrastructure” in _Geopolitics_.

Stephen F. Cunha

Geography Professor Stephen Cunha has published a book chapter on the origin and worldwide diffusion of national parks.

Alicia Iverson

HSU Geography senior Alicia Iverson won top honors at the recent North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS) conference in Madison, Wisc. Iverson’s map-rich poster titled “Insecure at Last: a Political Memoir. A novel by Eve Ensler,” won the NACIS Student Poster Competition.

Rosemary Sherriff

Rosemary Sherriff published two articles with co-authors over the summer months in the journals Ecology and Ecological Applications.

Yang Yang

Yang Yang, a Geography and International Studies major at Humboldt State University, has won the $250 “Outstanding Student Paper” award from the Ethnic Geography Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers in 2011.

Stephen Cunha

Mary and Stephen Cunha published California: A Changing State. An Atlas for California Students. The effort includes over 90 original maps, diagrams, and tables completed by 14 HSU students under the direction of Mary Beth, along with Stephen's accompanying text and photographs.