Welcome Digital Geographers
The Digital Geographies Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers supports scholarship and pedagogy that advance our understanding of how digital objects and practices produce space, place, and social relations. We bring together a diverse community of scholars whose work centers the digital as object, subject and medium of geographical knowledge and practice.
The Digital Geographies Specialty Group operates within the American Association of Geographers, advocating for and supporting pluralistic scholarship on the relationship between emerging forms of digital life, critical perspectives on (and practices in) spatial data science, and the production of new spatialities.
We invite you to get involved. Please feel free to reach out to our membership, listed below.
Leadership
Eric Robsky Huntley, PhD, GISP
Chair Lecturer in Urban Science and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Eric is a GIScientist, geographer, and urban planner whose research practice focuses on what mapping and spatial data science can do for movements for social justice. In particular, they are interested in 'mapping up', or approaches to mapping and spatial data science that emphasize the role of power and institutions in producing inequality. ehuntley@mit.edu
Ryan Burns, PhD
Vice Chair Associate Professor of Geography, University of Calgary Ryan works at the intersections of GIScience, digital human geographies, urban studies, political economy, and Science & Technology Studies. Much of his research questions how people, places, and knowledge come to be encoded as data, and then analyzed and acted upon through other digital objects, practices, and spatialities. ryan.burns1@ucalgary.ca
Will Payne, PhD
Secretary/Treasurer Assistant Professor, Rutgers University Will uses quantitative and qualitative methods to study the relationship between geospatial technologies and urban inequality, examining how changing technical capabilities, labor relations, and competitive pressures in the location-based services (LBS) industry interact with processes of racialized and class-based segregation in American cities. will.b.payne@rutgers.edu
Emma Fraser, PhD
Board Member At-Large Assistant Teaching Professor, University of California, Berkeley Emma’s research considers digital culture, space and place, modern ruins, and visual media in relation to urban experience and the writings of Walter Benjamin and the Frankfurt School. Emma also researches and writes about games and play across sociology, geography, game studies and media and cultural theory. emma.fraser@berkeley.edu
Muriel Marseille
Board Member At-Large PhD Candidate, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Muriel is an urban geographer with research interests in the financialization of the urban creative economy, digital geographies, dual city narratives, historic preservation, and emotional geographies of place. She contributes to the discourse on urban revitalization by investigating the effects of material culture (theater houses) in neighborhoods in Chicago. marseille.muriel@gmail.com
Nicole Bennett
Student Representative PhD Candidate, Indiana University Nicole Bennett is a human geographer interested in the intersection of digital and physical space. The context in which Nicole researches is how digital space and physical space interact during times of humanitarian crisis. nmbenn@iu.edu