From: Nagle, Nicholas <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wednesday, January 11, 2023 at 2:10 PM
To: GeogFaculty <[log in to unmask]>, GeogGrads <[log in to unmask]>, Club Geography <[log in to unmask]>, Horn, Sally <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Announcing the 2023 AAG Fellows -- Congratulations to Dr. Eaves!

• LaToya, with fellow inductee Priscilla McKutcheon, are the first Assistant Professors ever to be given this honor (you may remember, Dr. McCutcheon visited UTK in the Fall for Colloquium).
• LaToya, joins Derek Alderman, Sally Horn, Carol Harden, and Budhu Bhaduri as UTK faculty with AAG Fellows.  By a quick count, our 5 AAG fellows ties UTK for the #2 spot in the nation, tied with UCLA, and second to Arizona State's 7 fellows. (I don't promise to have counted that right).

Nicholas N Nagle

On Jan 11, 2023, 12:45 PM -0500, Horn, Sally <[log in to unmask]>, wrote:

Congratulations to Dr. LaToya Eaves on being named an AAG Fellow!

 

The email announcement from the AAG is below and here is the additional information from the Awards page!

 

 

Dr. LaToya Eaves has established a record of transformative research, dynamic teaching, and dedicated mentoring in the field of geography. Her contributions to the fields of Black Geographies, Black feminism, queer geographies, and the U.S. South are particularly noteworthy. Dr. Eaves’ rigorous and accessible scholarship pushes geography as a discipline to engage with the importance of Black geographic thought and practices in the production of space and place. Her scholarship provides accessible entry points for students to engage with Black Geographies, and she has contributed foundational texts for scholars doing work within Black Geographies literature. Her research has been published in Geoforum, Dialogues in Human Geography, Gender, Place & Culture, The Professional Geographer, and Journal of Geography in Higher Education, among other journals and edited volumes. She has received numerous accolades within geography, including but not limited to Department of Geography’s Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Academic Advancement Award by the Tennessee LGBT+ College Conference, the Ronald F. Abler Distinguished Service Honors by the AAG, and the Enhancing Diversity Award by the AAG. One of the founders of the Black Geographies Specialty Group, Dr. Eaves’ organization and caring mentorship has transformed the discipline of geography and provided a space and academic home for Black scholars and scholars of Black Geographies.  She is a generous and caring mentor as well. Her reputation within the geography community broadly and within the Black Geographies community specifically speaks to her generous mentorship of students and junior scholars, much of which is invisible, uncompensated, and unrecognized work in institutional settings. She has been committed to recognizing and honoring senior Black scholars, organizing panels, special issues of journals, and award applications to assure that these senior scholars are recognized for their foundational contributions.  Beyond the subfield of Black Geographies, Dr. Eaves has served the AAG in the roles of National Councilor, Treasurer and Chair of the Finance Committee. She also contributed to the AAG Harassment Free Task Force and the AAG Task Force on Diversifying the Curriculum in Geography, and she co-chaired the AAG New Orleans Featured Theme Committee. She has served as an editor for Dialogues in Human Geography and on numerous editorial boards.

 

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Great news, LaToya!

 

Cheers,

 

Sally

 

Sally P. Horn, Professor
Department of Geography & Sustainability
304 Burchfiel Geography Building

1000 Phillip Fulmer Way
The University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996-0925  U.S.A.

phone: (865) 974-6030
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
http://geography.utk.edu/about-us/faculty/dr-sally-horn/

 

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From: American Association of Geographers <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2023 12:18 PM
To: Horn, Sally <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Announcing the 2023 AAG Fellows

 

Recognizing contributions to global research and action in geography

 

 

The American Association of Geographers (AAG) announces its 2023 Fellows, recognizing 16 geographers in a variety of practice areas for their contributions to geographic research, advancement of practice, and careers devoted to strengthening the field of geography, including teaching and mentoring. The honorary title of AAG Fellow is conferred for life.   AAG Fellows serve the AAG as an august body to address, contribute to, and at times create initiatives to advance the discipline. Fellows also advise AAG on strategic directions and challenges, and mentor early- and mid-career faculty.   The AAG Fellows Selection Committee has recommended this class of Fellows for its 2023 class. Serving on the committee are Anne Chin, University of Colorado Denver; Doug Allen, Emporia State University; Jovan Scott Lewis, UC Berkeley; David Butler, Texas State University; Daniel Block, Chicago State University; and Heike Alberts, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh.   The Fellows will be formally recognized in March at AAG 2023, our annual meeting. Individual citations and backgrounds can be found at AAG’s website.   2023 Fellows, American Association of Geographers   Dr. Timothy Beach, professor, C.B. Smith, Sr. Centennial Chair in United States - Mexico Relations #2, and Director, Beach-Butzer Soils and Geoarchaeology Lab in Geography, University of Texas at Austin   Dr. Martin Doyle, Professor of River Science and Policy at Duke University Nicholas School of the Environment, and Director, Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment & Sustainability   Dr. LaToya Eaves, Assistant Professor of Geography, University of Tennessee-Knoxville   Dr. A. Stewart Fotheringham, Regents' Professor of Computational Spatial Science, Director of the Spatial Analysis Research Center (SPARC) in the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, and a distinguished sustainability scientist in the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability   Dr. Nik Heynen, Distinguished Research Professor, University of Georgia Department of Geography   Dr. Reece Jones, Professor and Department Chair, Department of Geography and Environment, University of Hawaii-Mānoa   Dr. David H. Kaplan, Professor, Department of Geography, Kent State University   Dr. Robin Leichenko, Professor, Department of Geography, Rutgers University   Dr. Wei Li, Professor, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Arizona State University   Dr. Wenwen Li, Professor and Director, Cyberinfrastructure and Computational Intelligence Lab (CICI), Arizona State University   Dr. Priscilla McCutcheon, Assistant Professor of Geography, University of Kentucky   Dr. Lindsay Naylor, Associate Professor and Graduate Director, Department of Geography and Spatial Sciences, University of Delaware   Dr. M. Duane Nellis, Professor of Geography, President Emeritus and Trustee Professor, Ohio University   Dr. Bimal Paul, Professor, Kansas State University   Dr. William Solecki, Professor and Founder Director, Emeritus, Institute for Sustainable Cities at Hunter College   Dr. David Wilson, Professor of Geography and Geographic Information Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign     Learn more

 

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