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Volume 41, Number 2 • February 2006 In This Issue Deskins and Cohen to Receive AAG Enhancing Diversity Award he AAG is pleased to (COMGA) in 1968. announce that Saul Cohen In that role and T and Don Deskins will each others, he worked receive an AAG Enhancing tirelessly to increase From the Meridian ....................2 President’s Column....................3 Diversity Award for 2005. The the representation of AAG Washington Monitor ........5 new annual award honors those African-American Corrections......................................8 geographers who have pioneered students in geography 2005 AAG Membership efforts toward or actively partici- departments. His Statistics....................................................13 pated in efforts toward encouraging Deskins Cohen efforts resulted in a Members of Note ......................15 a more diverse discipline over the core of newly trained Op-Ed..............................................16 course of several years, whether or not they are Black geographers during the decade of the seven- Specialty Group News ............18 current AAG members. Deskins and Cohen will ties, in the collection and dissemination of critical Quarter Century ........................18 be recognized with these awards at the Chicago information on the status of African-Americans in New Appointments ..................18 Annual Meeting Awards Luncheon on Saturday, geography, in important liaisons with Black Call for Papers..............................19 March 11, 2006. colleges and major universities across the country, Award Deadlines........................19 Don Deskins receives the award in recognition of in at least one issue in major geography journals Geographic Centers..................20 his leadership toward enhancing diversity within devoted to research on Black America, in leadership Grants and Awards....................20 geography. Deskins served as the first Director of Grants and Competitions ......20 the Commission on Geography and Afro-America Continued on page 8 New Members ............................22 Jobs in Geography....................26 Necrology......................................37 Books Received ..........................38 Events ............................................39 Chicago’s Changing Downtown A revitalized Chicago downtown plays displacement are major concerns for host to the 2006 Annual Meeting of the neighborhood activists. AAG, March 7-11. Chicago's downtown has A recent article in the Chicago Sun Times experienced an explosion of development (Roeder, 2005) declares that downtown has that is reflective of a real estate boom that not had it so good since the 1920s. The is sweeping the city. From the development downtown has extended its historic bound- of massive luxury high-rise developments aries and economic growth is encouraging in the South Loop to the transformation development in neighborhoods previously of industrial spaces in working-class viewed as undesirable. One study found neighborhoods like Pilsen, Chicago is a that 30,000 multi-family housing units have city remaking its urban landscape in the been added to the region since 1990 (Roed- image of the global city it aspires to be. er, 2005). Millennium Park has become a Chicago’s Millenium Park featuring this Frank While this redevelopment has brought new symbol of this revitalized downtown. The Gehry designed pavilion in is only a few blocks housing and population growth to the city, from the AAG meeting headquarters hotel. it has come at a cost. Gentrification and Continued on page 6 Deadline for discounted AAG Meeting registration is February 10. Deadline for discounted hotel rates is February 6. www.aag.org AAG Newsletter 1 February 2006 From the Meridian AAG Newsletter AAG and of the Association of American International Outreach Geographers hether as students, scientists, such as the Millennium Development scholars, or average citizens, we Goals, not to mention finding ways we are reckoning with a world where can help address immediate global Douglas Richardson, Publisher W economies are increasingly connected. needs such as the Asian Tsunami disaster, and Managing Editor Country boundaries are ever-shifting, hurricane recovery efforts, and other Megan D. Nortrup, communication technologies enable events of international urgency. Editor information to circle the globe with great Collaboration on a global scale among AAG Voice 202-234-1450 speed, workplaces are increasingly inter- geographers and geographic organizations represents another key avenue for supporting AAG Fax 202-234-2744 nationally distributed, and cities and towns are growing in ethnic and racial diversity. and enhancing faculty exchanges, student [email protected] These phenomena impact our activities as internships and ongoing AAG programs, www.aag.org geographers, especially as we perform our and for providing concrete ways to work of understanding space and place in strengthen our discipline's relevance. USPS 987-380 ISSN 0275-3995 the myriad ways we collectively do so. Such AAG activities include the Online It is not surprising then, as a professional Center for Global Geography Education, The AAG Newsletter ISSN 0275-3995 and scholarly association, that the AAG an innovative NSF-funded project that is published monthly with July/August approaches international collaboration supports international collaborative learning combined, by the Association of Amer- and outreach as a strategic initiative while using Internet technologies. Also, AAG's ican Geographers, 1710 16th Street integrating a global perspective within participation in the Carnegie Foundation- NW, Washington, DC 20009-3198. our core activities. At Doug Richardson's sponsored American Council on Educa- The cost of an annual subscription is invitation, I'm pleased to report on some of tion (ACE) project has generated an $25.00 The subscription price is the ways in which the AAG is addressing action plan that articulates how faculty, included in the annual dues of the these challenges and opportunities for departments, and the AAG can work to Association. Not available to non- international outreach. enhance internationalization within the members. Periodicals postage paid in discipline. AAG staff also participate in the Washington, DC. All news items and Building Avenues for International Network for Teaching and letters, including job listings, should be International Collaboration Learning, aiming to improve the quality and sent to the Editor at the address below The AAG continues to nurture status of learning and teaching of geography or to [email protected]. relationships with international organizations in higher education internationally. All Newsletter materials must that share interests and constituents arrive at the Association office by the with the community of geographers Developing Regional Models for 1st of the month preceding the month around the world. These include liaison International Outreach of the publication. This includes job with internationally-focused offices of Many of you have responded warmly listings. Material will be published on scientific organizations and with to and welcomed the AAG's recent activities a space available basis and at the dis- scientifically-focused offices of regional reaching out to Latin American geographers, cretion of the editorial staff. and national organizations, such as the as introduced in Doug's column in this When your address changes, please InterAmerican Development Bank (IDB), newsletter (July/August 2005). At that time, notify the Association office immediate- the World Bank, the OAS, the US State AAG announced its intent to expand the ly. Six weeks notice is necessary to Department, various United Nations Guide to Geography Programs to encompass insure uninterrupted delivery of AAG agencies (UNEP, UNDP, UNESCO, all of the Americas. When you pick up publications. To assist the AAG office in FAO), and the US Agency for International your copy of the 2005-2006 edition in your address change, include the address Development (USAID). Chicago at the AAG booth, you will label with your change of address. Taken together, and with many others like already find eleven new institutional Postmaster: Send address changes them, these relationships are important in listings from countries not previously to AAG Newsletter, 1710 16th Street that they represent avenues for discovering represented in the publication. NW, Washington, DC 20009-3198, or how the discipline of geography can [email protected]. contribute to broad international agendas Continued on page 4 2 AAG Newsletter www.aag.org President’s Column Volume 41, Number 2 Making a Difference: Geographers in NGOs eographers by nature are interested grassroots links, expertise in field-based “first career” to working for the British NGO in the big questions of science and development, ability to innovate and Save the Children in Mali, Zimbabwe, G the humanities and the place of adapt, process-oriented approach to Malawi, and Lesotho, after finishing his humans in the world. The American development, use of participatory bachelors and masters degrees in disciplines populace as a whole has been characterized methodologies and tools, long-term com- other than geography. A critical part of as “insular.” The training, experience, and mitment and emphasis on sustainability, his NGO work involved mapping areas expertise we gain as geographers however, and cost-effectiveness. My first-hand vulnerable to food security problems. Bill expands our outlook