I hope that everyone who attended AAG’s had a terrific meeting (the EGSG sponsored a total of 114 sessions this year!)
On behalf of the board of the Economic Geography Specialty Group, I am very pleased to announce the winners of this year's student award competition. Graduate Student Research Award: Yui Hashimoto, PhD Researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Yui's dissertation research, “Theorizing fast food workers and the ‘Fight for 15,” will examine gendered and racialized low-wage work in a mid-western American city, with a focus on geographic dimensions of fast food worker activism in the context of a global push for a living wage. Yui’s dissertation study is supervised by Anne Bonds. Student Paper Award: Aarti Krishnan, PhD Researcher at the University of Manchester for "Expansion of regional value chains: The case of Kenyan horticulture.” Aarti's paper (which forms part of her dissertation) examines how regional value chains evolve from participation in global value chains in the marketing of agricultural produce in Kenya, showing how local context affects forms of participation. Aarti’s dissertation work is supervised by Stephanie Barrientos. Dissertation Award: Sophie Webber, Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Geography at UCLA, for "Adaptation Ecologies: Circuits of Climate Change Finance, Policy and Science in the Pacific Islands.” Sophie’s dissertation (completed at the University of British Columbia under supervision of Jamie Peck and Simon Donnor) explores the role of international development institutions in bringing about climate change adaptation projects and policies in the context of small island states in the Pacific region. Congratulations to everyone who submitted their excellent work in the competition! Robin Leichenko Professor and Chair, Department of Geography Co-Director, Rutgers Climate Institute Rutgers University robin.leiche...@rutgers.edu geography.rutgers.edu climatechange.rutgers.edu
