UTK Geography & Sustainability
@utkgeography.bsky.social
Department of Geography and Sustainability at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. A student-centered department where one can VOLUNTEER to explore, study, and make a better world 🌎
Where can you find UTK at the annual #SEDAAG meeting on Sunday and Monday? Click the 🔗 below to see some of the sessions and panels we have faculty, graduate students, and undergrads participating in!
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November 21, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Where can you find UTK at the annual #SEDAAG meeting on Sunday and Monday? Click the 🔗 below to see some of the sessions and panels we have faculty, graduate students, and undergrads participating in!
www.canva.com/design/DAG4a...
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Wrapping up Geography Awareness Week with a huge thank you to Dr. Michael McCanless for an engaging talk, an insightful Lunch & Learn, and a fun Mappy Hour ✨🌎 Thanks to everyone who joined us to celebrate the power of geographic thinking and the many ways it helps us understand our world!
November 21, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Wrapping up Geography Awareness Week with a huge thank you to Dr. Michael McCanless for an engaging talk, an insightful Lunch & Learn, and a fun Mappy Hour ✨🌎 Thanks to everyone who joined us to celebrate the power of geographic thinking and the many ways it helps us understand our world!
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Great new piece with my main writing partner @derekgeographer.bsky.social www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcomm...
Remapping the Legacy of Enslavement: Street Names, Stealth Stickers, and the Living Black Atlas | Article | Media and Communication
Derek H. Alderman, Joshua Inwood
www.cogitatiopress.com
October 30, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Great new piece with my main writing partner @derekgeographer.bsky.social www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcomm...
Join us for Mappy Hour with Dr. Michael McCanless during Geographic Awareness Week! 🗺️✨
📅 Thursday, Novemver 20
⏰ 5:00–7:00 PM (right after the public seminar in SU270)
📍 Barley’s Taproom — 200 E. Jackson Ave, Knoxville
📅 Thursday, Novemver 20
⏰ 5:00–7:00 PM (right after the public seminar in SU270)
📍 Barley’s Taproom — 200 E. Jackson Ave, Knoxville
November 18, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Join us for Mappy Hour with Dr. Michael McCanless during Geographic Awareness Week! 🗺️✨
📅 Thursday, Novemver 20
⏰ 5:00–7:00 PM (right after the public seminar in SU270)
📍 Barley’s Taproom — 200 E. Jackson Ave, Knoxville
📅 Thursday, Novemver 20
⏰ 5:00–7:00 PM (right after the public seminar in SU270)
📍 Barley’s Taproom — 200 E. Jackson Ave, Knoxville
Check out some of our Spring 2026 course offerings! ⬇️
November 12, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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!
📅Thursday, November 20
🕦 11:30am–12:20pm
📍 I-House Great Room
🍲 Lunch from Tarik’s North African provided!
November 12, 2025 at 1:54 PM
🌍 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!
📅Thursday, November 20
🕦 11:30am–12:20pm
📍 I-House Great Room
🍲 Lunch from Tarik’s North African provided!
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.
November 11, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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.
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.
November 10, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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!
November 10, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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!
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UT Geography & Sustainability merch is here! 🧡🌎
Crewnecks and hoodies in black and sand.
Order by Nov. 3 @ 11:59pm ⬇️
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📦Choose shipping:
• Group order → pickup at BGB
• Ship to any address for a extra cost
Questions? Contact kstack@vols.utk.edu
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
October 24, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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
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
❗️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...
Read here: www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcomm...
November 3, 2025 at 3:39 PM
❗️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...
Read here: www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcomm...
Tomorrow!!!
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
📅: Wednesday, October 29, 2025
⏰: 12:00 PM-1:00 PM EDT
Register to attend at this 🔗: tiny.utk.edu/UTKGeogInfo
October 28, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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
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
October 24, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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
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
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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
📅: Wednesday, October 29, 2025
⏰: 12:00 PM-1:00 PM EDT
Register to attend at this 🔗: tiny.utk.edu/UTKGeogInfo
October 15, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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
📅: 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.
October 23, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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.
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📢 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 ⬇️
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“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...
October 23, 2025 at 1:11 AM
📢 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...
“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...
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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
Looking forward to participate next year #CanYouDigIt
October 20, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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
Looking forward to participate next year #CanYouDigIt
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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
October 19, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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
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.
October 18, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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
📅: Wednesday, October 29, 2025
⏰: 12:00 PM-1:00 PM EDT
Register to attend at this 🔗: tiny.utk.edu/UTKGeogInfo
October 15, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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
📅: Wednesday, October 29, 2025
⏰: 12:00 PM-1:00 PM EDT
Register to attend at this 🔗: tiny.utk.edu/UTKGeogInfo
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.
October 8, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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!
October 8, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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!
❗️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....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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...
www.tandfonline.com
September 23, 2025 at 6:22 PM
❗️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....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Another successful teamwork with the best dendro-team! 🌲💚 @utk-dendro.bsky.social @utkgeography.bsky.social
Quercus montana forever, y’all ❤️ @hydroclimp.bsky.social @utkgeography.bsky.social
September 21, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Another successful teamwork with the best dendro-team! 🌲💚 @utk-dendro.bsky.social @utkgeography.bsky.social
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World maps get Africa’s size wrong: cartographers @utkgeography.bsky.social @geographers.bsky.social explain why fixing it matters. Grateful for the talent and collaboration of @jswab.bsky.social theconversation.com/world-maps-g...
World maps get Africa’s size wrong: cartographers explain why fixing it matters
Maps help shape how we make sense of the world.
theconversation.com
August 28, 2025 at 5:42 PM
World maps get Africa’s size wrong: cartographers @utkgeography.bsky.social @geographers.bsky.social explain why fixing it matters. Grateful for the talent and collaboration of @jswab.bsky.social theconversation.com/world-maps-g...