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Bailey Alumni Lecture

The University of Kentucky Department of Geography invites you to our 10th Annual Harrison and Eva Lewis Bailey Distinguished Alumni Lecture. Harrison and Eva graduated from UK; Eva from Psychology in 1948 and Harrison from Geography in 1949. Read more about the fund here, established by Harrison in memory of Eva. 

Prof Deborah P. Dixon, University of Glasgow
10th Harrison and Eva Lewis Bailey Distinguished Alumni Lecture

Lecture Title TBA

Schedule of Events, Friday November 21, 2025:

  • A Friday Afternoon Address by Prof Deborah P. Dixon (PhD Alum 1995), University of Glasgow, Gatton B&E 191, University of Kentucky at 3:00pm.
  • A Reception at the Commonwealth House of the Gaines Center for the Humanities, immediately following the lecture.

Dr Deborah Dixon is Professor of Geography in the School of Geographical and Earth Sciences at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. She received her PhD in Geography from the University of Kentucky in 1995. Prof Dixon is an internationally-recognized scholar in feminist geopolitics, and has been key to the emergence of ‘geohumanities’ as an interdisciplinary field of research and practice. She is the co-founder of the interdisciplinary (American Association of Geography) journal GeoHumanities, which publishes analytic and practice-based research. She has researched aesthetic, technological, political, and cultural responses to environmental problematics (including toxic landscapes, loss of biodiversity, and climate change impacts) in Europe, the US, sub-Saharan Africa, Australia and Japan. Most recently her research has addressed the making of an 'innovative interdisciplinarity,' including the potential for creative geo-visualization in narrating and reimagining the stressed relationships between people and place. 

Please contact the Geography Department's office for more information about joining us for the Bailey Alumni Lecture.

Past Speakers

  • Eugene McCann (PhD, 1998), Professor, Simon Fraser University [2024]
  • Carolyn Gallaher (PhD, 1998), Professor, American University [2023]
  • Sarah A. Moore (PhD, 2006), Professor, University of Wisconsin [2022]
  • Aretina Hamliton (PhD, 2018), Director of DEI, Brandeis University [2021]
  • Mark Graham (PhD, 2008), Professor, Oxford Internet Institute [2019]
  • Mary Gilmartin (PhD, 1995; MA, 2001), Professor, Maynooth University [2018]
  • Edward Carr (PhD, 2002), Professor, Clark University [2017]
  • Jamie Winders, Chair and Professor (PhD, 2004; BA, 1998), Syracuse University [2016]
  • Vincent Del Casino, Jr. (PhD, 2000), Vice Provost and Professor, University of Arizona [2015]