The Digital Geographies Specialty Group announced its research and paper award winners on April 18, 2024. Congratulations to everyone listed below!
Awardees
- Outstanding Dissertation: Isaac Rivera, “Mapping the Terms of Freedom & the Ongoing Refusal of Settler Imaginaries”
- Outstanding Dissertation: Hongyu Zhang, “Place-based privacy: Understanding attitudes and behaviours across China and beyond”
- Racial Justice Research Award: Tenisha Tevis and Jim Thatcher, “Making Present the Infrastructural Legacies of Slavery”
New Board Members
- Student Representative: Nicole Bennett, Indiana University.
- Student Representative: Tejaswi Polimetla, Harvard University.
Thank you as well to our two outgoing student representatives, Emily Barrett (Vanderbilt University) and Michael McCaneless (University of Kentucky).
Continuing Board Members
The DGSG will continue to benefit from the leadership of the following board members.
- Chair: Eric Robsky Huntley, MIT.
- Co-Chair: Ryan Burns, University of Calgary.
- Secretary/Treasurer: Will Payne, Rutgers the State University of New Jersey.
- At-Large: Emma Fraser, University of California, Berkeley.
- At-Large: Muriel Marseille, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.