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This award, made possible by an anonymous donor, is to be used to “support graduate student research.” To honor the donor’s wishes, the Department makes this award late in the Spring semester so that it can be used for conference travel through the end of Fall 2025.

This award will be used to provide support to graduate students for field research in the Geography Department at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Shelby Ross is the winner of the Spring 2025 Gilbert F. White Doctoral Fellowship in Geography Award.

What would happen to our geographic analyses if we wholeheartedly approached Latinx women and non-binary people as significant, multifaceted spatial thinkers and actors who form Latinx feminist geographies?

We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2025 Mapathon! Thank you to all who submitted their maps. We had 27 submissions this year. The categories were: Sustainability & Environmental Justice, Relationality & Community Engagement, Inclusivity & Diversity, Personal Exploration & Storytelling, Social Justice, and Innovation. With one Overall Best Map, one People's Choice, and a few Honorable Mentions.

A U.S.-Ukraine accord on a ceasefire proposal has put the notion of a negotiated end to the three-year war on the agenda, and in the hands of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

��������'s Geography Department is calling for maps that capture life affirming geographies - following Cindi Katz’s invitation for imagining Topographies of Hope (2001) and Sarah Elwood’s (2021) invitation for reading how social movements enact thriving otherwise, this Mapathon is an exercise in the active enactment of hope.

Sarah Posner was awarded the NSF Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences Program - Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Award (HEGS-DDRI) for her project, 'The Role of Local Institutions in Managing Pastoralists' Natural Resources and Related Conflict in Northern Kenya’.

The Colorado Geographies event will feature a panel of community leaders, elders, and activists living, working, who express the everyday ways of enacting life affirming geographies in the here and now.

Practicing hope keeps the possibility of change alive—a methodology against fear in dismal times. And while the dismal touches all too many places in multiple registers these days, countertopography is a way of marking the common effects of, and responses to, large-scale processes in disparate locations.