UTK Geography & Sustainability

Need a lab? Dr. Sally Horn is teaching GEOG 431: Like Sediments and Environmental History (aka, Secrets in Mud)!

Dr. Tracey Norrell is teaching both GEOG 444: Age of Migration: Global Conflict and the Movement of Peoples and GEOG 350: Geography of Human Rights: Africa and the Americas!

Dr. Derek Alderman is teaching GEOG 423: Geographies of American Pop Culture!

Dr. LaToya Eaves is offering a new course - GEOG 495: Community Geography!

Check out some of our Spring 2026 course offerings! ⬇️

🌍 Join us for a Lunch & Learn on careers in Geography & Sustainability with Dr. Michael McCanless!

📅Thursday, November 20
🕦 11:30am–12:20pm
📍 I-House Great Room

🍲 Lunch from Tarik’s North African provided!

Her advisor and co-author, Dr. Madhuri Sharma contributed to the development of this work. This framework will soon appear in print. Stay tuned for its publication!

Her presentation introduced a conceptual framework for reproductive justice and health equity in non-Western settings. This framework grows out of her doctoral research on maternal health justice in South Asia, where her PhD dissertation builds an empirical statistical model based on the ECU theory.

PhD Candidate Sukanya Das presented her paper, “Empowerment Capability Utilization: A Theory of Power, Awareness, and Informed Utilization” at the 13th Race, Ethnicity and Place (REP) Conference last week in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

This research grew out of Katrina's two-year fellowship studying the Beauford Delaney Papers Collection at UT Libraries. You can explore materials from the collection now on display at Hodges Library—don’t miss it!

PhD Candidate Katrina Stack @katgeographic.bsky.social presented “Remapping Black Paris: Walking Tours as Embodied Archives and Cartographies” at the REP Conference last week in Albuquerque! Her collaborators are her advisor Derek Alderman @derekgeographer.bsky.social and Monique Y. Wells.

PhD student Swachhatoya Das presented her paper “Centuries in Motion: Charting the Historical Pathways of Indian Migration to North America” at the Race, Ethnicity, and Place (REP) Conference 2025 in Albuquerque!

UT Geography & Sustainability merch is here! 🧡🌎
Crewnecks and hoodies in black and sand.

Order by Nov. 3 @ 11:59pm ⬇️
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Questions? Contact kstack@vols.utk.edu

❗️Publication Alert❗️Congratulations to Dr. Derek Alderman for his recent publication with Dr. Joshua Inwood in Media and Communication, “Remapping the Legacy of Enslavement: Street Names, Stealth Stickers, and the Living Black Atlas”!

Read here: www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcomm...

Tomorrow!!!

UT Geography & Sustainability merch is here! 🧡🌎
Crewnecks and hoodies in black and sand.

Order by Nov. 3 @ 11:59pm ⬇️
www.b-unlimited.com/collections/...

📦Choose shipping:
• Group order → pickup at BGB
• Ship to any address for a extra cost

Questions? Contact kstack@vols.utk.edu

We are excited to invite you to a one-hour virtual Graduate Program Information Session for the Department of Geography & Sustainability at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville!

📅: Wednesday, October 29, 2025
⏰: 12:00 PM-1:00 PM EDT

Register to attend at this 🔗: tiny.utk.edu/UTKGeogInfo

Sally Horn, Karen King, Dimitris Herrera and many grads and undergrads shared demos and activities related to tree ring, soil, and sediment records of environmental history at the #CanYouDigIt Day outreach event at McClung Museum last weekend.

📢 Call for Panelists | #AAG2026
“Ethics, Creativity, and Refusal in Storytelling and Scholarship”

Interested in joining our panel? Email 📩
kstack@vols.utk.edu + EFrazier@MissouriState.edu

Full panel description ⬇️
www.canva.com/design/DAG2h...

Fantastic teamwork with dendroclimate folks! It was fun sharing our work with families, especially kids. I was impressed by the curiosity and interest children show about climate and trees @utk-dendro.bsky.social @utkgeography.bsky.social
Looking forward to participate next year #CanYouDigIt

The kiddos, honorary tree-ringers Dimitris and Jordan, and I made some great progress on our drought tree cookie today! We made it from 1895-1927CE. Only 98 more years to go! #STEAM #DendroArtsnCrafts #PDSI @hydroclimp.bsky.social @utkgeography.bsky.social

And of course, no field trip is complete without the traditional Waffle House stop on the way back! 🧇🧡

With Ranger Julianne, they learned all about carbon sequestration and took in the incredible views from the tower.

A huge thank you to course instructors, PhD Candidates Seth Kannarr and Katrina Stack, for leading the trip.

Students and instructors from GEOG 200: Environmental Issues in National Parks and GEOG 345: People and Environment spent the day at Look Rock along the Foothills Parkway in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

We are excited to invite you to a one-hour virtual Graduate Program Information Session for the Department of Geography & Sustainability at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville!

📅: Wednesday, October 29, 2025
⏰: 12:00 PM-1:00 PM EDT

Register to attend at this 🔗: tiny.utk.edu/UTKGeogInfo

This prestigious recognition was given for a long career of meaningful contributions in research, teaching, and service to the organization’s mission in promoting historic preservation and study of material culture. Congratulations to Dr. Thomas Bell!

Dr. Thomas Bell, professor emeritus with the Department of Geography and Sustainability, was honored at the ISLPMC (International Society for Landscape, Place, and Material Culture) Annual Meeting for receiving the Henry H. Douglas Distinguished Service Award.

PhD candidate Seth T. Kannarr recieved the Warren E. Roberts Graduate Student Paper Award at the ISLPMC Annual Meeting! His paper was titled “Public Memory in Your Pocket: Analyzing Coins as Everyday Geographies of American Identity.” Congratulations Seth!

Mapping as Black Memory-Work: Toward a Restorative Cartography of Urban Renewal/Removal in Knoxville, Tennessee* GIS students and faculty at the University of Tennessee are engaged in a long-standing and ongoing community-academic partnership with the Beck Cultural Exchange Center, a local African-American-le...

❗️Publication Alert❗️Congratulations to Derek Alderman, Mayra Román-Rivera, Michael Camponovo and Rev. Reneé Kesler for their recent publication, “Mapping as Black Memory-Work: Toward a Restorative Cartography of Urban Renewal/Removal in Knoxville, Tennessee”!

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Another successful teamwork with the best dendro-team! 🌲💚 @utk-dendro.bsky.social @utkgeography.bsky.social