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Bruce Braun Appointed AAG Annals Section Editor

The AAG Council voted recently to appoint Bruce Braun, Professor of Geography at the University of Minnesota, as Editor of the Nature and Society section of the Annals of the Association of American Geographers. His term will begin on January 1, 2012.
Click here for the full article at the AAG website.
Continue ReadingDecember 13th, 2011
WWII vet leads an old-fashioned classroom

Fraser Hart, Professor in the Geography Department, is the subject of a special Veterans Day salute in the Minnesota Daily's November 10th issue. Click here for the full story.
Continue ReadingNovember 11th, 2011
Urban Revolutions In the Age of Global Urbanism

A new grant was received from the UK-based journal Urban Studies Foundation's International call for proposals for a seminar series. PI's on the grant include professors Vinay Gidwani, Helga Leitner, and Eric Sheppard of the Geography Department.
This grant will support a conference that will take place in Jakarta, March 16-20, 2012.
Urban Revolutions in an Age of Global Urbanism to be organized by Eric Sheppard (University of Minnesota), Helga Leitner (University of Minnesota), Ananya Roy (University of California), Vinay Gidwani (University of Minnesota), Jo Santoso (Tarumanagara University), and Michael Goldman (University of Minnesota)
Continue ReadingNovember 3rd, 2011

The Department of Geography has substantial strengths in the following eight overlapping clusters: