Gender, Identity and Citizenship
Feminist geographers explore the relationships between gender, space, and place, and the distinct ways that women and men shape spaces and experience places. Feminist geography asks how various aspects of identity, such as gender, class, race, and sexual orientation, intersect and are re-made across the landscape.  Geographers at SU study gendered spaces of everyday life as sites of oppression and resistance where identities are made and re-made across the landscape.  They examine the gendering of geopolitical relationships that structure human migration, labor practices in the global economy, gender and the city, memory, social justice, historical geography, feminist methodologies, and other critical standpoints from which to study men's and women's places in the world. Central to each of these themes is a re-working of the concept of citizenship.

Graduate student projects in the field of feminist geography at SU examine the relationship between national security and bodily security for North Korean migrants in China, the gendered dynamics of the high tech industry's labor force in India, art and the subversion of urban spaces of London, and the spatial politics of discrimination in thin, anti-obese space.

Faculty
Anne Mosher (Historical geography, urban geography, social geography, United States)
Alison Mountz (Social geographies of transnational migration; cultural geographies of power, the nation-state, and the border; feminist and urban geography; research methodologies)
Jamie Winders (Race/ethnicity, gender, migration, social theory, US South, urban and historical geography, research methods)

Related Courses
In addition to courses offered by the Women's Studies Program and other departments in the social sciences and humanities at SU, the Department of Geography offers the following classes in this area:

Mixed undergraduate and graduate
Gender, Place, and Space
Geography and Race
Globalization, Caribbean, & City
The City of Syracuse: Gender, Geography, Architecture

Graduate
Feminist Geography
Theories of the border and human migration
Gender and Globalization
Research Design