Pronoy Rai

Assoc Prof @Portland_State ; Incoming Chair @AAG_DGSG Alum:@uiucgeoggis @ohioucis 🌈

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Join us as we organize a *new* board to enthusiastically serve our membership!

[AAG Development Geographies Specialty Group @AAG_DGSG]

DGSG Members: We are recruiting candidates for election to the next board (2025-27) chaired by @PronoyRai. Consider running for the Vice Chair (& Chair from 2027-29), Treasurer, Director, & Student Rep roles! Pl email a 200-word statement of interest to @JameyEssex before Jan 30

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Greetings, I'm on 🦋 (https://t.co/uRmUjSK02a) Looking forward to connecting there!

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@ritodhi_c @chowdhury_romit @r_gov11 @ReadingHimalaya @DollyKikon @GeogSara @SouthFeministas @EndangeredHimal @mgergan @Ranjana_rahul @DejDejna @Mayank_Himalaya @T_Dolker @PasangYangjee @anhs_himalaya Thanks, Ritodhi! Happy to collaborate with folks if I can bring my gender and masculinities interests into a conversation!

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where we review the state of our current knowledge on one of the most pressing policy and scholarly concerns, and provide guidance for future research. (2/2)

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Loved collaborating with our team of students (political science and environmental science) and faculty (environmental science, health science, philosophy), especially @ClimateChirper, to produce this work, (1/2)
https://t.co/ucoKCwJ3hq

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@jlcidell Corn omg 😂

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Always proud of my colleague & friend, @alidacantor !

[Portland State Research @psu_research]

Alida Cantor, Associate Professor of Geography at @portland_state, discusses her research on water and social justice and receiving the 2024 Researcher of the Year Award for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Watch: https://t.co/n3j4TBnX3q

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@Nisha_Malhotra_ Oh no! I'm taking AI from & to SFO to India in Aug & absolutely not looking fwd to it 😭

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@_chandnisingh I'll check this out! My aging parents are miserable in Pune, which is also unusually hot 🥵

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Hanging out w/a legend! Sara McLafferty was our Head when I joined @UIUCGeogGIS as a grad student. Always been in awe of her commitment to UG/GR education, contributions to health geographies, & trailblazing career as one of the pioneering woman and feminist geographers #AAG2024

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Grateful to @LaurenGifford & @EBHite22 for putting this together. Geographers, come out if you're still at the #AAG2024 on Saturday morning!

[Julie Cidell @jlcidell]

Final reminder: @UIUCGeogGIS is hiring two (2) Visiting Assistant Professors for next year:
1) Human Geography https://t.co/CNy049fmNO
2) GIS https://t.co/XD3j25tSvI

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Oh the joy and nostalgia I feel when I receive this newsletter! ☺️

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Folks, I transferred to Geography (from Global Studies) at Portland State this summer, & I am (finally!) able to work with grad students. If you'd like to work on a human geography MA with me, or know of students who may be interested, please reach out!

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We are so excited to support scholars from and in Global South institutions through this series. Dhiren's work sounds exciting. Please join us!

[AAG Development Geographies Specialty Group @AAG_DGSG]

We are pleased to announce the first of a planned series of working paper presentations for 2023-24, with @dhirenborisa presenting his paper Holding some ground on a greasy dancefloor: Decoloniality, Caste and South Asian Queer Diaspora (1/3)

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So exciting to hear this conversation between a climate scientist (Deepti Singh) and an artist (Sabina Haque) about the landscapes of climate change (disasters, vulnerability, change) and resilience, from our backyard in Oregon, to Pakistan.
@WSUVancouver @PSU_ARTS

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I'm looking for assistance with Marathi transcribing & Marathi/English translation. Please DM with leads! 🙏🏽

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Yes!

[AAG Development Geographies Specialty Group @AAG_DGSG]

Please welcome the new board of the DGSG for 2023-25, who are keen to continue to serve our membership!

Chair: Jamey Essex (@JameyEssex)
Vice-Chair: Pronoy Rai (@PronoyRai)
Directors: Kwame A. Tsikudo (@ganorvi), Ryan Centner (@RyanCentner), & Paul O'Keefe (@pjmokeefe) (1/2)

[Pronoy Rai @PronoyRai]

fills my heart with gratitude than learning from the farmworkers and farmers in the district who are kind enough to make time for me. I look forward to analyzing and sharing my understanding of interlocking social, agrarian, and climate change in rural India.
@theAAG @PDXCLAS

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A geographer's home is in the field, and I was delighted to return to mine after four years interrupted by COVID, travel bans, visa backlogs, etc. I've been doing fieldwork in Yavatmal district in rural central India since 2012, & absolutely nothing gives me more joy and (1/2)