Greetings QRSG community!
We are delighted to share our 2017 QRSG Graduate Student Paper award winners, who were announced at our AAG business meeting in Boston last month.
We again received a fabulous pool of papers, and were so impressed to see the creative uses of qualitative methods showcased in the work of a very talented group of graduate students. Please join us in congratulating all of writers for their quality submissions, and in recognizing the outstanding work of the MA paper award winner, Shona Loong, and PhD paper award winners, Rachel Baker and Chad N. Steacy!
QRSG 2017 MA Award:
Shona Loong
MA Candidate, Department of Geography
National University of Singapore
Paper Title: “Slow violence in the borderlands: attritional violence, naked labour, and displacement along the Thai-Myanmar border”
QRSG 2017 PhD Awards:
Rachael Baker
PhD Candidate, Department of Geography
Canada-US Fulbright Student Researcher
York University/Wayne State University
Paper title: “A Lifetime of Grace; a Pedagogy of the City and the Beloved Community in the 21st Century City”
Chad N. Steacy
PhD Candidate, Department of Geography
Researcher, Coweeta Listening Project
Graduate Fellow, Diversity & Inclusion Project
University of Georgia
Paper title: “Geographies of attachment and despair: Evoking the ambivalence of place(ment) through poetic analysis of urban decline”
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All the best,
2016-2017 QRSG Board: Dan Trudeau, Jennifer Fluri, Amy Trauger, and Amy Piedalue