By Richard LeComte
LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Priscilla McCutcheon, assistant professor of geography in the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Kentucky, has been named a 2023 Fellow in the American Association of Geographers.
The University of Kentucky Department of Geography invites you to our 11th 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.
Dr. Patrick Bigger directs CCI’s Research Department as well as leading research on CCI’s Global Systems and Policy work, including writing on Green Industrial Policy, the role of the Pentagon in the climate crisis and the international political economy of biodiversity loss. Before joining CCI, he was a lecturer in economic geography at Lancaster University in the UK and holds a Ph.D. in geography from the University of Kentucky. He has written extensively in academic journals including Science and Nature: Ecology and Evolution, and in popular outlets including Dissent and The Nation. His work has been translated into more than a dozen languages and covered in press globally.
Please contact the Geography Department's office for more information about joining us for the Bailey Alumni Lecture.
To learn more about the Series, please visit the Annual Bailey Lecture Series page. Read more about the fund here, established by Harrison in memory of Eva.
by Francis Von Mann
LEXINGTON, Ky. (May 20, 2026) – Camilo Rey Sabogal, a University of Kentucky Ph.D. alumnus in geography, has been appointed deputy minister of finance and public credit of Colombia.
For 24 hours on April 23, 2026, University of Kentucky alumni, faculty, staff, students, and friends will support their favorite college, program or cause through One Day for UK, the University's annual giving day.
From the beginning, UK has pioneered new ways to carry out its mission and ensure brighter futures in our state and beyond. And one thing has always been true: When UK alumni, faculty, staff, students and supporters lift together, we can achieve anything.
On One Day for UK, join in the fun and make a gift that will help us build upon our momentum and ensure our promise to be the University for Kentucky.
The Department of Geography invites students, faculty and staff to a GeoGuessr Search Party on Friday, April 17, at 3 p.m.
The event will take place in the UK eSports Theater at the eSports Lounge in The Cornerstone building at 401 S Limestone St., Lexington, KY 40508, USA. This space is designed for competitive and interactive digital gaming events. Gameplay will be projected on large displays so participants and spectators can watch teams debate climates, argue over road markings and place a guess in the wrong hemisphere with great confidence.
You can enter the competition or play casually, and even play against Department of Geography's faculty. There will be giveaways and prizes for attendees as well as free food and drinks!
Come test your geographic instincts, represent your side or simply watch geographers overthink landscapes in public.
GeoGuessr is a popular online geographic game that challenges players to identify locations around the world using visual clues from Street View imagery. A player or team is dropped somewhere in the world and must determine where they are based on the landscape, built environment, cultural cues, vegetation, road infrastructure and other environmental indicators.
Join us on Monday, Feb. 16, 2026, from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. to learn more about our GEO major and minors as well as our interdisciplinary program in Environmental and Sustainability Studies.
The University of Kentucky Department of Geography invites you to our 52nd annual Geography in the Bluegrass Day, which is a celebration of the geography program, our history, our students and faculty, our alumni and friends and the achievements of all.
This event is free of charge and does not require RSVP.
Practicing hope keeps the possibility of change alive — a methodology against fear in dismal times. While the dismal touches all too many places in multiple registers these days, counter-topography is a way of marking the common effects of, and responses to, large-scale processes in disparate locations.
Drawing out the common grounds and entanglements of such shifts as global economic restructuring, deskilling, state violence, or dispossession as they play out in distinct and dissimilar places offers a new geographical imagination for political organizing and action. Its "contour lines" intended to incite new political imaginaries and spur alternative geographies of action and activism, which are potential spaces of hope in an expanded field.
In this talk, I will look at some of the experiences, practices and challenges of grassroots organizations negotiating complicated place-based struggles while simultaneously engaging their trans-local aspirations as critical to understand in building social movements at once global and intimate, sustainable and targeted, grounded and boundary crossing. Their actions create contour lines for practice and trace topographies of hope at different times and places making the imagined possible despite the dangers and displacements associated with the mobilities of capital accumulation, racialized state violence and neoliberal land grabs.
Cindi Katz, Ph.D., is a professor of geography, women’s and gender studies and American studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her research concerns social reproduction, the production of nature, the workings of the security state in everyday environments, the privatization of the public environment, the cultural politics of childhood and the intertwining of memory and history in the geographical imagination. She received Distinguished Scholarship Honors from the AAG in 2021 and its Lifetime Achievement Honor in 2024, a fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard (2003-4) and the Diane Middlebrook and Carl Djerassi Visiting Professorship in Gender Studies at Cambridge University (2011-12).
