This fall, I’ll be joining the University of South Florida as Assistant Professor of U.S. Public History! Grateful, excited, and ready for this next era 💚🤘🏻

for creativity, community and a shared love of the weird and whimsical.

They may not be historically accurate, but cultural geographers Katrina Stack of the University of Tennessee and Reagan Yessler of Pellissippi State Community College explain why Renaissance fairs remain spaces...

Renaissance fairs began as a countercultural experiment in 1960s California. Today, you might see Vikings strolling alongside mermaids, elves and pirates — with tickets costing more than $50.

We 🫶 our grad students! Our master’s and doctoral students do it all—balancing coursework and thesis or dissertation research while showing up as incredible TAs, teaching associates, and research assistants.🧡🌎 #gpsaw #gradstudentappreciationweek

Where can you find UTK at #AAG2026 next week? Scroll this 🧵 or click the 🔗 below to check out some of the papers, posters, and panels we’re part of at the annual meeting in San Francisco starting March 17! www.canva.com/design/DAHCq...

Bad Bunny has a consulting historian. news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...

I love the Olympics because people in my life know that I’m the figure skater / judge who can answer their questions.

My love language: making baked goods for people I care about 🤍

Describing the “loan” of objects taken through colonial violence as “positive” or “very innovative” doesn’t hold up. It leaves the colonial system that put those objects there completely intact. news.artnet.com/art-world/br...

It feels so good! 🧡

Because nothing says “one week till your dissertation defense!” like having a broken foot.

On this day 70 years ago, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus. On display at UT Libraries are these sketches done by Beauford Delaney, which precede his Rosa Parks series. They include phrases like "Ain't getting up" and "I will not be moved."

I really loved reading and reviewing Southern Beauty and highly recommend it!

PhD Candidate Katrina Stack @katgeographic.bsky.social presented “Remapping Black Paris: Walking Tours as Embodied Archives and Cartographies” at the REP Conference last week in Albuquerque! Her collaborators are her advisor Derek Alderman @derekgeographer.bsky.social and Monique Y. Wells.

My dissertation defense is scheduled!!

I just sent my dissertation to my committee and asked to schedule my defense.

Check out these call for papers and panelist for #AAG2026 ! If you have a CGSG sponsored session you’d would like us to share, please email the graphic to our grad rep at [email protected]

We are excited to invite you to a one-hour virtual Graduate Program Information Session for the Department of Geography & Sustainability at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville! 📅: Wednesday, October 29, 2025 ⏰: 12:00 PM-1:00 PM EDT Register to attend at this 🔗: tiny.utk.edu/UTKGeogInfo

📢 Call for Panelists | #AAG2026 “Ethics, Creativity, and Refusal in Storytelling and Scholarship” Interested in joining our panel? Email 📩 [email protected] + [email protected] Full panel description ⬇️ www.canva.com/design/DAG2h...

where was the section 106 review on this?

recent baking: • dirty chai snickerdoodles • caramel apple macarons • dubai chocolate macarons • brown sugar poptart bars

I really mean it when I say that I hope I can be as good of an advisor and mentor to my future students as my advisors and mentors have been to me throughout the years.

yay field trips! 🧡 loved spending time in @greatsmokynps.bsky.social !

Gave a tour of my exhibit and approved the page proofs of the exhibition album I wrote today!

I trial judged at my first figure skating competition! While it was challenging, I really loved being immersed in skating for a whole weekend ❤️⛸️

As the resident Swiftie and social media girlie of my department, you know I had to ❤️‍🔥

NCPH has issued a joint statement with @aaslh.org, @oah.org, @asalh-bhm.bsky.social, and #AAAM on the erasure of history at National Park Service sites and steps you can take to support NPS sites. Read the full statement here: ncph.org/wp-content/u... #Advocacy #PublicHistory #SupportNPS

I finished my fellowship position for the Beauford Delaney Papers Collection last week. This part of the exhibit is one of my contributions. One case highlights his sketches that precede his Rosa Parks series, while the other than explores his relational geographies in Knoxville, NYC, and Paris.

Today’s baking: Dubai chocolate brownies Cheesy garlic focaccia bread

I was accepted to trial judge for a US Figure Skating non-qualifying competition! I’m excited for this new role in the figure skating world ⛸️ 🧡

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I probably spent more time on this postdoc app than any other application I’ve submitted and I hope it makes a difference.

If you only want sites that highlight “beauty, abundance, or grandeur," then you don't care about actual history — you want propaganda. www.sfgate.com/california-p...

Me: I have so much writing to do. Also me: What are the requirements to be a @usfigureskating.bsky.social judge?

Last week, I took a spontaneous trip back to Paris. I didn't open my laptop the entire time I was there, and I loved every minute. It was the reset I needed.

The highlight of my return to Paris was definitely Paris Noir at @centrepompidou.bsky.social. Studying Beauford Delaney for the last two years and seeing so many of his works in one place was truly special.

I published some stuff this year.

I haven’t opened my laptop the entire time I’ve been in France.

Application is in the mail! 9-11 months to Irish citizenship!

not my best set, but kinda cute for @utkgeography.bsky.social end of the year awards ceremony

how am i supposed to get any work done.

someone in the writing group on zoom: “are you back in france?” me: “…not yet.” but this is 10000% my favorite place to get work done on a friday morning.

Returning to Paris since I’m not graduating when I planned to.

PhD candidate Katrina Stack is the research fellow for the Beauford Delaney Papers Collection at UT Libraries. Read this article that discusses how she brought her perspective as a geographer to studying the archive of an abstract expressionist artist. volumes.lib.utk.edu/features/see...

Read more about how I've been looking at an artist geographically, beginning with his archive and then in his footsteps in Paris. ⬇️ volumes.lib.utk.edu/features/see...

Yesterday, we had several grad students, as well as faculty and staff who support them, recognized at the GSS awards brunch! Check out this 🧵 to see all the awards our department received!

Katrina Stack also received an Honorable Mention for the Clyde Woods Graduate Student Paper Award from the Black Geographies Specialty Group for her paper, “Researching and Preserving Resistant Homescapes: The Past and Present of Freedom Houses in the Mississippi Delta."

Congratulations to PhD candidate Katrina Stack, who won the Terry G. Jordan-Bychkov Paper Award from the Cultural Geographies Specialty Group for her paper, “Exhibit Space Activism: The Potential for Using Civil Rights Memory as a Catalyst for Change.”