2023 Political Geography Specialty Group Award Winners

Congratulations to all our 2023 award winners.

NON-STUDENT AWARDS

Stanley Brunn Young ScholarMd. Azmeary Ferdoush, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland.

Julian Minghi Distinguished Book AwardAndrew Grant, Boston College. The Concrete Plateau: Urban Tibetans and the Chinese Civilizing Machine (2022). Cornell University Press.

Virginie Mamadouh Outstanding Research AwardKara E. Dempsey, “Spaces of Violence: A Typology of the Political Geography of Violence Against Migrants Seeking Asylum in the EU” Political Geography, 79:102157.

Richard Morrill Public Engagement Travel AwardSrinivas Chokkakula, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi. Panel at the 2023 preconference, “Leveraging Political Geographic Theory for Federal River Water Governance.”

STUDENT AWARDS

Graduate Ph.D. LevelMeagan Harden, University of Hawaii at Manoa.  “Micronesia at the conference on the law of the sea: Bringing ocean ontologies into international law.

Masters LevelAmani Ponnaganti, University of Wisconsin-Madison. “The racialization of citizenship in postcolonial India.”

Undergraduate PaperDavid Lee, James Madison University. “Problems with Infrastructure: The Big Dig.”

Alexander B. Murphy Dissertation Enhancement AwardAndrea Cabrera Roa, Clark University. “Governing present absences: in the making of the sovereign territoriality through indigenous peoples in isolation and in initial contact in the Peruvian Amazon.”