Bethany Craig | University of Kentucky College of Arts & Sciences

Bethany Craig

PhD student, Research Fellow

Research Assistant

Contact Information

bethanycraig@uky.edu

818 Patterson Office Tower

Education

2026: Ph.D. in Geography, University of Kentucky. (Lexington, Kentucky). Dissertation: Geopolitics of Reproductive Health: Storytelling Capacities and Political Implications of Bodily Markings (Advisor: Dr. Patricia Ehrkamp)

2022: M.S. in Geography, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Summa Cum Laude. Thesis: Scars as Cartography: Bodily Commemorations and Memorials (Advisors: Drs. Derek H. Alderman and Dr. Nikki Luke).

2020: B.S in Marketing/Collateral: Human Resources, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Summa Cum Laude. Haslam College of Business (Knoxville, Tennessee).

Research Interests

Commemoration
Black Feminist Thought
Symbolic Interaction
Community development
feminist geography
Feminist Geopolitics
Reproductive Health

Affiliations

Geography

Curriculum Vitae (CV)

Selected Publications

Selected Publications:

Craig, B., Swab, J., & DeBruin, J. (2024). Bowling for Better: Reforming World Geography Bowl to Create a More Inclusive Geography. The Professional Geographer, 76(3), 367–374. https://doi.org/10.1080/00330124.2023.2291377
Yessler, R., & Craig, B. (2024). Dungeons and Dragons: Gender, Race, and Power in the Fantasy and Storytelling Space. GeoHumanities, 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1080/2373566X.2024.2352528
Derek H. Alderman, Bethany Craig, Joshua Inwood & Shaundra Cunningham (2023) The 1964 freedom schools as neglected chapter in Geography education, Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 47:3, 411-431, DOI: 10.1080/03098265.2022.2087056
Craig, B. (2023). My Scars Tell My Stories. (B. Craig, Illus.). Kindle Direct Publishing.