UTK Geography & Sustainability

Geography and Sustainability Department at @utknoxville. A student-centered department where one can VOLUNTEER to explore, study, and make a better world 🌎

[UTK Geography & Sustainability @UTKGeography]

Meet our 2025-2026 graduate students! 🧡🌎 Got our traditional picture outside of BGB just in time for #GeographyAwarenessWeek!

[Geographical Review @Geog_Review]

A recent article in the GR by Jack Swab explores #Northwestern University as a preeminent center for geographic thought in the U.S. Read it here: https://t.co/9LWrm3CXaT

@UTKGeography @AmericanGeo

[UTK Geography & Sustainability @UTKGeography]

Dr. Derek Alderman (@MLKStreet) was quoted in this recent @nytimes article, offering insight into Nauru’s decision to officially adopt the name “Naoero” — a change that better reflects what the island’s people have long called it.
https://t.co/dFHzmMJUXa

[UTK Geography & Sustainability @UTKGeography]

Congratulations to Ian Scott, who received an Achievement Award in Natural Sciences 2026 Exhibit of Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement (EURECA). Ian worked with Professor Sally Horn to develop a long-term fire history from a lake sediment core. • • 📸: Sally Horn

[UTK Geography & Sustainability @UTKGeography]

🚀 Above and Beyond the Call of Duty (ABCD): Michael Camponovo

[UTK Geography & Sustainability @UTKGeography]

Congratulations to everyone recognized at this year’s department awards ceremony! ✨🌎🧡 Scroll this 🧵 to see this year’s graduate, undergraduate and faculty awards recipients!

[UTK Geography & Sustainability @UTKGeography]

🎓 Outstanding Graduate Advocate: LaToya Eaves

🍎 Outstanding Faculty Teaching (Undergraduate): Jack Swab

[The Conversation U.S. @ConversationUS]

Renaissance fairs began as a refuge for artists blacklisted during the Red Scare. Now they're a multimillion-dollar industry grappling with their countercultural origins. Cultural geographers explore how the spirit of the fairs has changed:
https://t.co/nV2UtXrrNj

[Derek Alderman @MLKStreet]

Hurricanes devastated Florida’s East Coast, then seagrass made an unexpected comeback. Another great contribution to @ConversationUS from @UTKGeography @ArtsSciencesUT. Well done, Drs. Hannah Herrero @hvherrero & Stephanie Insalaco-Wyner @SouthwesternU https://t.co/YGFjWhkxyj

[UTK Geography & Sustainability @UTKGeography]

Join us for our Lunch & Learn with our Earth Day speaker, National Geographic Photographer and BBC Cinematographer Martin Gregus!

📅 Thursday, April 23
🕦 11:30AM-1:00PM
📍 Frieson Black Cultural Center 102/103
🍛 Catered by Tarik's North African

[UTK Geography & Sustainability @UTKGeography]

Join us on Thursday for our Earth Day Speaker, National Geographic Photographer and BBC Cinematographer Martin Gregus!

📅Thursday, April 23
🕞 Reception at 3:30pm with seminar to follow at 4:00pm
📍 SU 262 B/C

[Derek Alderman @MLKStreet]

As renaissance fairs become big business, can they retain their counterculture roots? Cultural geographers Katrina Stack & Reagan Yessler @theAAG @UTKGeography contribute to the public's understanding of these fairs as spaces of escape and comfort https://t.co/mobxx0yuCz

[UTK Geography & Sustainability @UTKGeography]

Huzzah! Drs. Katrina Stack and Reagan Yessler (PhD ‘25) just published a new article for @ConversationUS, “As renaissance fairs become big business, can they retain their counterculture roots?”

Read it now at the 🔗 below! https://t.co/wKfcPaWuZx