Edgar Garcia-Velozo | University of Kentucky College of Arts & Sciences

Edgar Garcia-Velozo

PhD Student, Teaching Assistant

Contact Information

edgar.velozo@uky.edu

1422 Patterson Office Tower

Research Interests

Political geography
geographies of borders and displacement
Palestinian diaspora
transnationalism
Latin American Studies
geography education

Affiliations

Geography
Association of American Geographers (AAG)
Associação dos Geógrafos Brasileiros

Teaching

Primary Instructor:

GEO222 - Cities of the World (Spring and Fall 2024, 2025)

GEO261 - Global Dynamics of Health and Disease (Summer 2024)

Graduate Teaching Assistant:

GEO222 - Cities of the World (Fall 2023)

Selected Publications

Selected Publications:

Peer-reviewed articles:

2021 Dorfman, Adriana, Lara-Valencia, Francisco and Velozo, Edgar. "Paisagem Transfronteiriça: Ensinando e pesquisando em ambas Aceguás e ambos Nogales” Revista da Anpege, vol. 16, pp. 363–382. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5418/ra2020.v17i30.10687.

Refereed book chapters:

2021 Velozo, Edgar. "Intercultural Border Schools and Identity (De)Construction in Ambas Aceguás (BRA/URU)" In: Ensinando Fronteiras: projetos estatais, representações sociais e interculturalidade, pp. 327–346. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21826/9786599023460.

Reviews:

2022 Velozo, Edgar, and Patricio, Caroline. "Erasing Territorial Sovereignty: Bacurau." Borders in Globalization Review 3, no. 2: 130–131. DOI: https://doi.org/10.18357/bigr32202219915.

2021 Velozo, Edgar and Caye, Luísa. "Review of Vélez-Ibañez, Carlos G. Reflections of a Transborder Anthropologist: From Netzahualcóyotl to Aztlán. University of Arizona Press, 2020." Journal for Borderlands Studies, no. 1–2. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/08865655.2021.1984975.