The graduate students I work with and I recently read an intriguing book. Written by Kristen Ghodsee, an expert on Russia and Eastern...

Society Despite the State  by Anthony Ince and Gerónimo Barrera de la Torre is a sharp critique of the logic of the state, a tightly...

The graduate students I have the honor and privilege to work with all contributed an essay to the series What is geography? Over the past...

This is a bit of an esoteric start, but: when I think of geography, I think of Heidegger. Specifically, I think of his 1954 essay...

Geography is a term and a field that covers a lot of ground and as such is a social science that is not universally defined and its...

To me, geography is the study of human-environment relationships over various physical, theoretical, locational, and temporal scales....

I am new to the structured, academic world of geography. I have been, up until very recently, far removed from the collegiate world in...

Even as I enter the second year of my master’s degree in geography, I shy away from the prospect of commenting on my field or its meaning...

Unlike some other disciplines, geography has a bit of an identity crisis. Whenever I tell someone that I am in a geography department,...

I am delighted for Sara O'Donnell to join the lab this fall. Sara hails from Wyoming where she grew up and went to undergrad. She has a...

Diana, Ryan, and I published our latest book, A Climate Agenda for System Change: from Theory to Social Transformation. The book outlines...

Ten years ago, I watched an amazing film. I loved the film then and see it in a different light now. This film showcases cancel culture...

In September of 2019, I facilitated a class about the ecological footprint with 12 Peruvian high school students as part of my...

Lab alum Brendan O'Brien graduated from NAU in Geography a couple years ago. His thesis focused on housing in the west but took a unique...

I am lucky enough to have a wonderful new student in my lab this year. Sydney A (we have two Sydneys now!) comes to NAU from South...

Since coming to NAU I have served on the steering committee for the Sustainable Communities (SUS) Graduate Program. Over the years, I...

While living in Austria, Vienna last fall a friend from Flagstaff sent me a link to an article in the Flagstaff local paper. The headline...

Graduation always proves bittersweet. On the one hand, graduation affords an opportunity to celebrate accomplishments and congratulate...

The Progress Illusion: Reclaiming our Future from the Fairytale of Economics, by Jon D. Erickson (2022, Island Press), provides an...

This blog provides a space for my students and I to say a little something about what we are reading, writing, and thinking about. You...