AAG Lifetime Achievement Honors: Susan Christopherson, George Malanson
The 2016 AAG Lifetime Achievement Award is awarded to Susan Christopherson and George Malanson. The AAG Honors Committee chose to recognize Susan Christopherson as one of the awardees for the Lifetime...
View Article2016 AAG Honors Announced
The AAG is pleased to announce the selection of eight Honorees who will receive the 2016 AAG Honors in one of six categories. Recipients to be honored at an annual awards luncheon during the AAG Annual...
View ArticleMatt Rosenberg to Receive AAG Media Achievement Award
The 2016 AAG Media Achievement Award is presented to Matt Rosenberg in recognition of his success in promoting greater understanding of geography through his work in the web and in social media. He has...
View ArticleTemple University Press Selected for AAG Publication Award
The AAG Publication Award is presented to the Temple University Press in recognition of its support for scholarship in geography and urban studies. At a time when many smaller University presses are...
View Article2016 AAG Rose Award for Anti-Racism Research and Practice: Joe T. Darden
The AAG Rose Award for Anti-Racism Research and Practice was created in 2012 to honor Harold M. Rose, who was a pioneer in conducting research on the conditions faced by African Americans. The award...
View Article2016 AAG Enhancing Diversity Award: Lawrence Estaville
The AAG is pleased to bestow an annual award honoring geographers who have pioneered efforts toward, or actively participated in efforts toward, encouraging a more diverse discipline over the course of...
View Article2016 AAG Susan Hardwick Excellence in Mentoring Award: Kenneth Foote
The AAG bestows an annual award recognizing an individual geographer, group, or department, who demonstrates extraordinary leadership in building supportive academic and professional environments and...
View Article2016 AAG Stanley Brunn Award for Creativity in Geography: Michael Goodchild
The AAG Stanley Brunn Award for Creativity in Geography is given annually to an individual geographer or team of geographers that has demonstrated originality, creativity and significant intellectual...
View ArticleAudrey Kobayashi Selected for AAG Presidential Achievement Award
The AAG Presidential Award is given with the purpose of recognizing individuals for their long-term, major contributions to geography. The Past President has the honor of bestowing this distinction on...
View ArticleAAG Announces Inaugural Award for Program Excellence
The AAG is pleased to announce that the Department of Geography at DePaul University will receive the inaugural AAG Award for Program Excellence, which was established to recognize geography programs...
View Article2015 AAG Book Awards
The AAG’s three annual book awards recognize outstanding works written by geographers and published by during the previous year. The Meridian Book Award for Outstanding Scholarly Work in Geography...
View Article2016 AAG Research Grants
Every year the AAG provides small grants to support research and fieldwork that address questions of major importance to the discipline. Three recipients were chosen this year from among 15 applicants...
View Article2016 Anne U. White Fund
Every year the AAG provides funding to enable a member of the AAG to take their domestic partner on a research trip, regardless of them having any formal training in geography. One recipient was chosen...
View Article2016 Mel Marcus Fund for Physical Geography
The AAG is pleased to announce that the Mel Marcus Fund for Physical Geography is awarded in 2016 to Hannah Cooper from the Department of Geosciences at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton. She...
View Article2016 Miller Award
The AAG is pleased to announce that the winner of this year’s AAG E. Willard and Ruby S. Miller Award is Professor Mei-Po Kwan from the Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science,...
View Article2016 Harm J. de Blij Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Geography Teaching
The 2016 Harm J. de Blij Award is presented to Donald J. Zeigler of Old Dominion University for his long and distinguished career as a teacher of geography to undergraduate students. The Harm J. de...
View Article2016 AAG Dissertation Research Grants
Every year the AAG provides support for doctoral research in the form of small grants to PhD candidates of any geographic specialty. Three recipients were chosen this year from among 25 applicants...
View Article2016 J. Warren Nystrom Award
Four early-career academics presented high-quality research papers in the final of the 2016 Nystrom Competition on March 30, 2016 during a special session at the AAG Annual Meeting in San Francisco....
View ArticleRecommend Candidates for AAG Honors and Nominating Committees
Call for Nominations: AAG Honors and Nominating Committees The AAG Council seeks nominations for candidates to serve on the AAG Honors Committee and the AAG Nominating Committee. The Council will...
View Article2017 AAG Honors Recipients Announced
The AAG is pleased to announce the selection of seven Honorees who will receive the 2017 AAG Honors in one of four categories. Recipients to be honored at an annual awards luncheon during the AAG...
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