Today in Geography

Today, we welcomed LeoZulu ⁠, a professor in the  ⁠Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences⁠  , and the Director of the African Studies Center at Michigan State University. Dr. Zulu’s areas of study include Political ecology, environment and development, resource management in rural Africa, remote sensing, and GIS. Leo discussed World Environment Day, a celebration observed annua...

Today, we welcomed Angelique Willis to the show. Angelique is a dual-major PhD student in the MSU Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences and the Environmental Science and Policy Program. Angelique is strongly committed to leveraging her expertise in Geography, Public Health, Epidemiology, Environmental Health, and GIS to enhance drinking water quality and safeguard human health...

Today, we welcomed ⁠ Mehmet Eroğlu ⁠, a recent graduate of the Ph. D. program at the  ⁠Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences⁠  at Michigan State University. Mehmet is a human geographer whose research focuses on power struggles in the production of landscapes, particularly in relation to workers and working-class communities. His work seeks to understand how, to what extent, a...

Today, we welcomed Leo Baldiga to the show. Leo is a dual-major PhD student in the MSU Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences and the Environmental Science and Policy Program. His research interests include the areas of Agrarian Change, Natural Resource Rights, Commons Politics, Development, and Demographic and Cultural Shifts in Southeast Asia. Leo graduated with a BA in Compa...

Today, we welcomed Alanna Post to the show. Alanna is a PhD student in the MSU Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences with a dual major in Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior. She received her B.S. in Ecology and Environmental Biology from the Biology department at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and her M.S. in Biology from Sonoma State University (Rohnert Park, CA). She i...

Today, we welcomed Dr. Sue Grady, a professor in the Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences at Michigan State University. Dr. Grady is a health and medical geographer. Her research focuses on women’s health, specifically maternal and infant health. She is interested in understanding how local environments in which women live impact their health (i.e., increase the opportunity f...

Today we welcomed  Kyla Dahlin  an associate professor in the ⁠ Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences at Michigan State University. Dr. Dahlin is also a member of  AgBio Research , the  Department of Plant Biology , the  Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior (EEB) program , and the  Environmental Science and Policy Program (ESPP)  at MSU. Dr. Dahlin’s research aims to better unders...

Today, we welcomed  Katie Brown , a doctoral candidate in the Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences at Michigan State University. Katie is a health geographer interested in how the places we interact with impact our health. While pursuing her PhD, her work has focused on how urban transformations may affect residents' mental health in the city of Detroit, Michigan, which i...

Today we welcome  Sandhya Sharma , a dual-major Ph. D. candidate in the  ⁠Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences⁠  and the  Environmental Science and Policy Program  at Michigan State University. She earned her master's degree in forestry from the Forest Research Institute in Dehradun, India, and her bachelor's degree in forestry from Kathmandu Forestry College in Nepal...

Today we welcomed  Stephen Przybylinski , a professor of urban and political geography in the ⁠Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences at Michigan State University. Dr. Przybylinski is broadly interested in the ways in which liberal democracies both enable injustices and how such political systems mediate responses to injustices within their frameworks. Before arriving at MSU, h...

In this episode, we welcome  Angie Sanchez , a PhD student in the Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences at Michigan State University. Angie’s research focuses on health and medical geography with an emphasis on Indigenous communities and access to breastfeeding support resources and other health disparities. We also discuss the evolution of Native American Heritage Month, the...

This week in Today in Geography, host Nathan Moore sits down with Alan Arbogast , professor and geomorphologist in the Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences at Michigan State University. He is best known for his research on the geomorphic history of coastal sand dunes along Lake Michigan. This work has demonstrated that the dunes are much younger than originally thought and th...

In this episode, we welcome Ethan Theuerkauf , a coastal geomorphologist in the Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences at Michigan State University. Dr. Theuerkauf’s research focuses on how and why coastal landscapes, such as beaches, barrier islands, and wetlands, change across timescales ranging from storms to millennia. We also discuss the 50th anniversary of the wreck of th...

Today we welcome  Mehmet Eroğlu , a Ph. D. candidate in the Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences at Michigan State University. Mehmet is a human geographer with a research focus on power struggles in the production of landscapes, particularly in relation to workers and working-class communities. His work seeks to understand how, to what extent, and under what structural const...

Hello and welcome to  Today in Geography —a podcast produced by the Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences at Michigan State University. Each episode, we talk with members of our community about their research and interests, and then we spend some time spotlighting events and celebrations that have shaped the field of geography. Join host Nathan Moore, an Associate Professor in...