Student Presentations
The annual Geography Symposium (held in mid or late April) is an opportunity for students to present their work professionally to a friendly audience of peers and professors. Students may also present at the annual Research and Creativity Day Symposium put on by the College of Arts and Sciences.
Sometimes, research results in publications.
- During the 2022-23 academic year, students worked with Dr. Stephen Hanna, Dr. Christine Henry (HISP), the City of Fredericksburg, and Chris Williams, Assistant Director of the James Farmer Multicultural Center, on the Fredericksburg Civil Rights Trail. Follow this link to see an online story map as well as printed maps from this project; read more here!
Since 2013, we have also collected the names and titles of presentations given off-campus, at annual conferences of the American Association of Geographers (AAG), the Southeastern Division of the American Association of Geographers (SEDAAG), Race, Ethnicity and Place (REP), and the Virginia Social Science Association (VSSA). These are listed below:
| Student(s) | Title/Topic | Conference | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Josie Allamby, Elisa Luckabaugh | Stories of Segregation in Virginia’s National Parks | NURVa | 2022 |
| Alex Chrvala | Extending Interstate 97 to Richmond to Fix Mid-Atlantic Transport Headache | AAG | 2019 |
| Darby Libka | Reconstruction of the Physical Environment at Crow’s Nest, VA | AAG | 2019 |
| Darby Libka | #nolaeats: Marketing New Orleans’ French Quarter Restaurants Using Instagram | AAG | 2018 |
| Alistair Andrulis | Response of a Small Stream in Virginia to Major Rainfall Events | AAG | 2018 |
| Jordan Chandler, Darby Libka | The World War II Memorial | SEDAAG | 2018 |
| Eli McCleary, Stephen Hanna | Using Qualitative GIS to Track Change in Commemorative Landscapes after Charlottesville | SEDAAG | 2018 |
| Sarah Giuseppe, Hannah Woehrle | Young People’s Photographs and the Idea of “Place” in Childhood | SEDAAG | 2018 |
| Lillian Lester, Melina Patterson | Adulting at the Kids’ Table: Undergraduate Researchers doing Children’s Geography | SEDAAG | 2018 |
| Hallie Heinzen | Planning a Mobile Farmers’ Market in Fredericksburg, VA | SEDAAG | 2017 |
| Alistair Andrulis | Drainage Basin Characteristics of a Small Stream at Crow’s Nest | SEDAAG | 2017 |
| Katie Boston, Caitlin Finlayson | (Im)Perfect Food: A visual Analysis of the Ugly Food Movement | SEDAAG | 2017 |
| Colin Cate | Preserving a Livelihood: Chesapeake Watermen and Heritage Tourism | SEDAAG | 2016 |
| Christine Mackrell, Stephen Hanna | More than just a Ghost Story | REP | 2016 |
| Xavier Griffin | Hung out to dry: Case Studies Comparing California counties’ water management solution to the drought | AAG | 2016 |
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| Xavier Griffin, Ian Spangler, Meredith Stone | Searching for the enslaved in the “Cradle of Democracy”: Spatializing Narratives of the Enslaved at Plantation Museums | SEDAAG | 2015 |
| Philip Devine | Visualizing Sacredness using Mental Maps and GIS | SEDAAG | 2015 |
| Christine Mackrell | Gendered Experiences in Mosques: The Utilization of Sacred Space as a Tool for Marginalization | SEDAAG | 2015 |
| Meredith Stone | Places to Play: Mapping Early 20th Century Playgrounds | AAG | 2015 |
| Jacob Snyder | Comparing methods for measuring park access (GIS) | AAG | 2015 |
| Xavier Griffin, Ian Spangler, Meredith Stone | Visualizing Social Memory: Exploring Narratives at Plantation Museums in the James River Region | VSSA | 2015 |
| Julia Wood | Gendered understandings of the lived religious experience: Exploring emotional responses through sacred space | AAG | 2014 |
| Andrew Walz | Paradise Tourism Imagery Analysis in Samoa | AAG | 2014 |
| Julia Wood | Gendered understandings of the lived religious experience: Exploring emotional responses through sacred space | SEDAAG | 2014 |
| Sherry Young | Using GIS to Explore Causes of Slope Failure in Stafford County, VA (poster) | SEDAAG | 2014 |
| Allison MacKrell | Interpreting Children’s Perceptions of their Neighborhood through the use of Participatory GIS (poster) | SEDAAG | 2014 |
| Fariss Hodder, Stephen Hanna | Reading the Heritage Landscape using a public history GIS | AAG | 2013 |
| Adam Hager, Carl Larsen, David Chambers | A Foundational GIS to Monitor Agriculture Production in Alta Verapaz, Guatemala (poster) | SEDAAG | 2013 |
| Ethan Bottone | Documenting Language Erosion and Preservation Efforts in the Canadian Arctic (poster) | SEDAAG | 2013 |