Katrina Stack

Because nothing says “one week till your dissertation defense!” like having a broken foot.

All images from the Beauford Delaney Papers, MS.3967, Betsey B. Creekmore Special Collections and University Archives, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Estate of Beauford Delaney by permission of Derek L. Spratley, Esquire.

On this day 70 years ago, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus.

On display at UT Libraries are these sketches done by Beauford Delaney, which precede his Rosa Parks series. They include phrases like "Ain't getting up" and "I will not be moved."

I really loved reading and reviewing Southern Beauty and highly recommend 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.

My dissertation defense is scheduled!!

I just sent my dissertation to my committee and asked to schedule my defense.

Check out these call for papers and panelist for #AAG2026 ! If you have a CGSG sponsored session you’d would like us to share, please email the graphic to our grad rep at jlh7707@psu.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

Thank you! I am really excited about the conversations that could develop in this!

Inspired by Katherine McKittrick’s 2025 AAG Stanley Brunn Award lecture, this panel will explore the tensions between sharing stories and protecting them, particularly when working with or within marginalized communities.

@demonicgrounds.bsky.social

📢 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...

guess no one foresaw a president demolishing some of the east wing in 1966.

where was the section 106 review on this?

recent baking:
• dirty chai snickerdoodles
• caramel apple macarons
• dubai chocolate macarons
• brown sugar poptart bars

I really mean it when I say that I hope I can be as good of an advisor and mentor to my future students as my advisors and mentors have been to me throughout the years.

yay field trips! 🧡 loved spending time in @greatsmokynps.bsky.social !

Gave a tour of my exhibit and approved the page proofs of the exhibition album I wrote today!

I trial judged at my first figure skating competition! While it was challenging, I really loved being immersed in skating for a whole weekend ❤️⛸️

As the resident Swiftie and social media girlie of my department, you know I had to ❤️‍🔥

NCPH Logo. NCPH Signs Joint Statement on Erasure of History at NPS Sites.

NCPH has issued a joint statement with @aaslh.org, @oah.org, @asalh-bhm.bsky.social, and #AAAM on the erasure of history at National Park Service sites and steps you can take to support NPS sites. Read the full statement here: ncph.org/wp-content/u... #Advocacy #PublicHistory #SupportNPS

And stay tuned for the exhibition album for *this* exhibit, which I am the lead author of! Opening this fall at UTK Libraries, “Beauford Delaney: Light Beyond the Canvas” ✨

I was also able to include things like the exhibit album from Paris Noir at @centrepompidou.bsky.social, which I brought back from my visit in May. By including nods to recent exhibitions that featured Delaney, it emphasizes his continued importance and connections to items in this collection.

I finished my fellowship position for the Beauford Delaney Papers Collection last week. This part of the exhibit is one of my contributions. One case highlights his sketches that precede his Rosa Parks series, while the other than explores his relational geographies in Knoxville, NYC, and Paris.

Today’s baking:
Dubai chocolate brownies
Cheesy garlic focaccia bread

I was accepted to trial judge for a US Figure Skating non-qualifying competition! I’m excited for this new role in the figure skating world ⛸️ 🧡

🧚‍♀️🧝‍♂️🏰

I probably spent more time on this postdoc app than any other application I’ve submitted and I hope it makes a difference.

Signs to police 'negative' history went up at Manzanar. Historians are nervous. "It sends a pretty clear message that your story is not welcome here."

If you only want sites that highlight “beauty, abundance, or grandeur," then you don't care about actual history — you want propaganda. www.sfgate.com/california-p...

Me: I have so much writing to do.

Also me: What are the requirements to be a @usfigureskating.bsky.social judge?