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Department
Accomplishments 2004-05
"National Geographer"
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Don Meinig is featured
in the Spring 2005 Maxwell Perspective
http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/perspective/Spr05_Meinig.asp
Don Meinig was presented
with two major awards: the 2005 AAG Presidential Achievement
Award and the 2004 John Brinckerhoff Jackson Award
from the Association of American Geographers at the 2005 AAG
conference in Denver, CO.
 
Jane Read
is winner of the
Daniel Patrick Moynihan Award for Teaching and Research
-- named for the late U.S. Senator and former member of the
Maxwell faculty. The award recognizes outstanding teaching,
research, and service by a non-tenured faculty member.
This is the
highest prize in the school to an untenured faculty member.
Mark Monmonier
is winner of an
Excellence in Graduate Education Faculty Recognition Award
from the Arts and Sciences Graduate School. This award honors
faculty members whose dedication to graduate students and
commitment to excellence is graduate mentoring have made a
significant contribution to graduate education.
Tom
Perreault
was been awarded a Meredith
Teaching Recognition Award. These are awarded by the
"Meredith Professors" -- to junior faculty in
recognition of their truly excellent teaching.
Bora
Kim has been awarded an Association of American
University Women Fellowship for 2005-2006.
Aman
Luthra is winner of the Maxwell School MA
program award.
Clayton
Rosati
is winner of a Maxwell School dissertation prize
honorable mention.
Caro
Harper
has received an Outstanding
TA Award this year from the
Arts and Sciences Graduate
School.
David Call
has won the 2005 "Gilbert F. White" award from the Hazards
Specialty Group of the AAG. The White award is given each year
to the author of "an outstanding hazards thesis or
dissertation written in the previous two years." Dave won for
his MA thesis, "Urban Snow Events in Upstate New York: An
Integrated Human and Physical Geographical Analysis."
The
following graduate students were awarded Graduate Student Summer
Research / Creative Project grants (of $1000 each):
Karen Culcasi, Elvin Delgado, Laam Hae,
Brenden McNeil, Reecia Orzeck, Bob Ross.
Elvin Delgado and
Reecia Orzeck have been
awarded Goekjian Summer Research Grants by the Moynihan
Institute of Global Affairs (the amount of each award is $2500).
Sanjukta Mukherjee was awarded the Bharati Memorial
Summer Research Grant from the South Asia Center.
Undergraduate Senior and
Geography major Sarah
Kantrowitz has
won a
National Geographic Society intern position at National Geographic Kids
for
Fall 2005.
Graduate Students:
Karen Culcasi, Reecia Orzeck, Laam Hae, Ben Mosiane, Bob Ross
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each is a
recipient of a Maxwell School Roscoe Martin Award.
Donald
Meinig
Don has completed The Shaping
of America: A Geographical Perspective on 500 Years of History.
This is the 4th volume in this acclaimed series.
http://yalepress.yale.edu/YupBooks/viewbook.asp?isbn=0300104324
Jim Newman
Jim has completed his book on
Henry Morton Stanley entitled
Imperial
Footprints.
http://sites.maxwell.syr.edu/stanley/stanley.htm
Anne
Mosher
Anne has completed her book
entitled
Capital's
Utopia: Vandergrift,
Pennsylvania 1855-1916.
http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title_pages/1269.html
David J.
Robinson
David has been appointed to the
editorial board of the Revista Geográfica de América Central
(Costa Rica) from November, 2004.
David was
appointed Editor of the Journal of Latin American Geography,
University of Texas Press, from June, 2004.
Mark
Monmonier
Mark has been awarded the Globe Book Award for Public
Understanding of Geography by the Association of American
Geographers for his book Spying with Maps.
John
Western
John has been awarded the Wrigley-Fairchild award of the
American Geographical Society for the best article published
during the three-year period of volumes 89 through 91 of The
Geographical Review.
The article in question is "Africa
is Coming to the Cape."
Department
Accomplishments, 2002-2003
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