Where can you find UTK at the annual #SEDAAG meeting on Sunday and Monday? Click the 🔗 below to see some of the sessions and panels we have faculty, graduate students, and undergrads participating in! www.canva.com/design/DAG4a...

Wrapping up Geography Awareness Week with a huge thank you to Dr. Michael McCanless for an engaging talk, an insightful Lunch & Learn, and a fun Mappy Hour ✨🌎 Thanks to everyone who joined us to celebrate the power of geographic thinking and the many ways it helps us understand our world!

Great new piece with my main writing partner @derekgeographer.bsky.social www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcomm...

Join us for Mappy Hour with Dr. Michael McCanless during Geographic Awareness Week! 🗺️✨ 📅 Thursday, Novemver 20 ⏰ 5:00–7:00 PM (right after the public seminar in SU270) 📍 Barley’s Taproom — 200 E. Jackson Ave, Knoxville

Check out some of our Spring 2026 course offerings! ⬇️

🌍 Join us for a Lunch & Learn on careers in Geography & Sustainability with Dr. Michael McCanless! 📅Thursday, November 20 🕦 11:30am–12:20pm 📍 I-House Great Room 🍲 Lunch from Tarik’s North African provided!

PhD Candidate Sukanya Das presented her paper, “Empowerment Capability Utilization: A Theory of Power, Awareness, and Informed Utilization” at the 13th Race, Ethnicity and Place (REP) Conference last week in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

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.

PhD student Swachhatoya Das presented her paper “Centuries in Motion: Charting the Historical Pathways of Indian Migration to North America” at the Race, Ethnicity, and Place (REP) Conference 2025 in Albuquerque!

UT Geography & Sustainability merch is here! 🧡🌎 Crewnecks and hoodies in black and sand. Order by Nov. 3 @ 11:59pm ⬇️ www.b-unlimited.com/collections/... 📦Choose shipping: • Group order → pickup at BGB • Ship to any address for a extra cost Questions? Contact [email protected]

❗️Publication Alert❗️Congratulations to Dr. Derek Alderman for his recent publication with Dr. Joshua Inwood in Media and Communication, “Remapping the Legacy of Enslavement: Street Names, Stealth Stickers, and the Living Black Atlas”! Read here: www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcomm...

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UT Geography & Sustainability merch is here! 🧡🌎 Crewnecks and hoodies in black and sand. Order by Nov. 3 @ 11:59pm ⬇️ www.b-unlimited.com/collections/... 📦Choose shipping: • Group order → pickup at BGB • Ship to any address for a extra cost Questions? Contact [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

Sally Horn, Karen King, Dimitris Herrera and many grads and undergrads shared demos and activities related to tree ring, soil, and sediment records of environmental history at the #CanYouDigIt Day outreach event at McClung Museum last weekend.

📢 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...

Fantastic teamwork with dendroclimate folks! It was fun sharing our work with families, especially kids. I was impressed by the curiosity and interest children show about climate and trees @utk-dendro.bsky.social @utkgeography.bsky.social Looking forward to participate next year #CanYouDigIt

The kiddos, honorary tree-ringers Dimitris and Jordan, and I made some great progress on our drought tree cookie today! We made it from 1895-1927CE. Only 98 more years to go! #STEAM #DendroArtsnCrafts #PDSI @hydroclimp.bsky.social @utkgeography.bsky.social

Students and instructors from GEOG 200: Environmental Issues in National Parks and GEOG 345: People and Environment spent the day at Look Rock along the Foothills Parkway in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

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

Dr. Thomas Bell, professor emeritus with the Department of Geography and Sustainability, was honored at the ISLPMC (International Society for Landscape, Place, and Material Culture) Annual Meeting for receiving the Henry H. Douglas Distinguished Service Award.

PhD candidate Seth T. Kannarr recieved the Warren E. Roberts Graduate Student Paper Award at the ISLPMC Annual Meeting! His paper was titled “Public Memory in Your Pocket: Analyzing Coins as Everyday Geographies of American Identity.” Congratulations Seth!

❗️Publication Alert❗️Congratulations to Derek Alderman, Mayra Román-Rivera, Michael Camponovo and Rev. Reneé Kesler for their recent publication, “Mapping as Black Memory-Work: Toward a Restorative Cartography of Urban Renewal/Removal in Knoxville, Tennessee”! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Another successful teamwork with the best dendro-team! 🌲💚 @utk-dendro.bsky.social @utkgeography.bsky.social

World maps get Africa’s size wrong: cartographers @utkgeography.bsky.social @geographers.bsky.social explain why fixing it matters. Grateful for the talent and collaboration of @jswab.bsky.social theconversation.com/world-maps-g...

Drs. Jack Swab and Derek Alderman have a new article for @theconversation.com, “World maps get Africa’s size wrong: cartographers explain why fixing it matters.” Read it at the 🔗 below! theconversation.com/world-maps-g... @derekgeographer.bsky.social @jswab.bsky.social

Congratulations to Swachhatoya Das for presenting her paper, “Gendered Income Disparities among Indian Immigrant Workers in the United States: Analyzing the Returns of Education to Income” at the Royal Geographical Society Annual International Conference this week at the University of Birmingham!

🌎 We’re hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in climate extremes and their impacts on the environment and/or human communities. 🔗 Link to apply + full description is in our bio!

Happy first day of classes to our favorite geographers, sustainers, and GIScientists! 🍊

Ready for a new era 🌎🧡 Seriously, a new semester starts next week!

Although recent headlines have drawn attention to naming conventions, #maps have always been #political. Derek Alderman, professor at @utkgeography.bsky.social, says: Maps are... shaped by decisions about what matters, who gets to be seen, and how the world should be understood. buff.ly/Tea3gJd

❗️Publication Alert❗️Congratulations to Dr. Qiusheng Wu on the release of his book “Introduction to GIS Programming: A Practical Python Guide to Open Source Geospatial Tools" 🎉 📘 Amazon: amazon.com/dp/B0FFW34LL3 💻 PDF on Leanpub: leanpub.com/gispro

❗️Publication Alert❗️Dr. Reagan Yessler (PhD, ‘25) and PhD candidate Katrina Stack just published their chapter, “‘Once Upon a Time, Somewhere in Europe…’: Mythicisation and Identity Crafting in Renaissance Festivals,” in Magical Tourism and Enchanting Geographies! Find the 🔗 to the book in our bio!

Congratulations to Elizabeth Barnes, who successfully defended her Masters thesis, "Long-Term Fire and Vegetation History from Soil Charcoal in Boone Creek Barrens, Indiana, U.S.A." last week!

Congrats to Dr. Qiusheng Wu on receiving the Paul E. Trentham Sr. Library Partner Award! He invited UT Libraries to participate in the Open Science Workshop and Symposium, creating space to discuss open-access funding, open data, and library services. lib.utk.edu/news/2025/05...

Congratulations to everyone recognized at this year’s department awards ceremony! Check out this 🧵 of this year’s graduate and faculty recipients!

Big congratulations to Annie Liu for successfully defending their Master’s Thesis, “Being Asian American in Southern Appalachia: Counternarratives of Race and Space in Higher Education”! Special thanks to their committee: Drs. LaToya Eaves, Nikki Luke, and Stefanie Benjamin!

Congratulations to Jenny Ott, who successfully defended her Masters thesis, “Campus Social Infrastructure for International Students at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK)” on Tuesday! Thanks to her committee: Drs. Derek Alderman, Solange Munoz and Gabe Schwartzman.

Our group just had a fantastic semester! @nazifa57.bsky.social won the prestigious GSRA @utknoxville.bsky.social, Jordyn finished her first semester with top grades, and Karson presented her first research poster ever, winning the award for best use of graphics and design. @utkgeography.bsky.social

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

On the count of three, everyone smile and say “plot work!!” 😬 🌲 💍 @greatsmokynps.bsky.social @utkgeography.bsky.social

Another successful sampling trip in the Smokies this week! PhD student Brij Banerji will be using tree-ring data to evaluate the efficacy of hemlock woolly adelgid treatments across GSMNP. @utkgeography.bsky.social @greatsmokynps.bsky.social

Congratulations to our Ph.D. student @nazifa57.bsky.social for winning a prestigious Graduate Student Research Award sponsored by UTK Graduate School! Congratulations, Nazifa! @utkgeography.bsky.social.

Congratulations to all the Geography and Sustainability undergraduate students who presented their research at EUReCA! We are so proud of all of your work and how you represent our department!

Congrats to PhD candidate Seth Kannarr who was recognized with the Extraordinary Graduate Student Teaching Award at the Academic Honors Banquet!

Congratulations to Brian Boyce, who has been selected as a McClure Scholar by the Center for Global Engagement! The McClure Scholarship, rooted in a legacy of global understanding and cross-cultural collaboration, supports students whose work transcends both geographic and intellectual borders.

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...

Stunning spring day in East Tennessee. Couldn’t ask for better sampling weather, mountain stream lunch spot, or sampling crew! GEOG 432- Environmental History from Tree Rings @utkgeography.bsky.social

Join us tomorrow for our colloquium "A Multiproxy View of Gulf Coast Paleohurricanes" with Dr. Josh Bregy from Clemson University. 📅 April 10th, 2025 ⏰ 4:05pm-5:15pm 📍 WAB M307 and on Zoom

Congratulations to Elizabeth Barnes, who won the AAG Biogeography Specialty Group's paper award at the Master's level for her paper, "A Soil Charcoal Record of Fire History from Boone Creek Barrens, Indiana."