UK Geography

[UK Geography @ukgeog]

🎉Huge congrats to Dr. Nari Senanayake on her promotion & tenure!

Her dedication to research, teaching, and mentorship has made @ukgeog shine brighter. 💙🎓

#AcademicChatter #HigherEd #FacultyLife #WomenInSTEM #CongratsDrNari #TenureTrack

[UK Geography @ukgeog]

For the last 2 years, Bethany has been the creative heart behind @UKYGeography’s socials.

From posts to stories, her work brought our community to life online—and we’re endlessly thankful. 💙

#ThankYou #UKYGeography #HigherEdSocial #SocialMediaManager #BehindTheScenes

[UK Geography @ukgeog]

Students in GEO485G presented the findings of their research project “Gentrification Indicators in Council District 1” to LFUCG Division of Planning staffers and Councilmember Tyler Morton, who represents the first council district!

[UK Geography @ukgeog]

Swipe to see more of the graduation fun! 🥳🎓 @UKarts_sciences @universityofky

[UK Geography @ukgeog]

🎓🌏Happy graduation day and congratulations to all of our @ukgeog graduates!🎓🌏 @universityofky @UKarts_sciences @theAAG

[UK Geography @ukgeog]

Purisch also received Honorable Mention in the competition for the 2025 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP). 🌟Congratulations, Hans!🌟

[UK Geography @ukgeog]

Hans Purisch, MA, successfully defended his thesis, “Epigenetic Clocks as Instruments of the Profitable Medicalization of Aging under Biocapitalism”, with an advisory committee chaired by Nari Senanayake and members, Nick Lally and Tad Mutersbaugh.

[UK Geography @ukgeog]

Sable Augustyn, MA, successfully defended his thesis, “Lust, Labor, and Legitimacy: Visibility and Precarity in Platformed Sex Work”, with an advisory committee chaired by Matt Wilson and members, Matt Zook and Sharon Yam (WRD). 🌟Congratulations, Sable!🌟

[UK Geography @ukgeog]

Sarah Fogel, MA, successfully defended her thesis, “Woke-lahoma: Anti-Trans Ideology on the Frontlines”, with an advisory committee chaired by Lydia Pelot-Hobbs and members, Tad Mutersbaugh and Carol Mason (GWS). Congratulations, Sarah!🌟

[UK Geography @ukgeog]

The PhD committee was chaired by Matt Wilson with committee members Nick Lally, Matt Zook, and Joshua Abboud (WRD), with external reviewer Jennifer Meakins (Interiors).

[UK Geography @ukgeog]

DR Jacob Saindon defended his dissertation titled “Commercial Attention Spaces: A Century of Discourses, Measurements, and Models of Attention in the Construction of U.S. Advertising Markets”. @theAAG @UKarts_sciences @universityofky
🌟Congratulations, Dr. Saindon!🌟

[UK Geography @ukgeog]

Want to take a geography course? Check out our fall 2025 class listings! 🌎🌍🌏 @ukartsci @universityofky @ukyens @ukgeog

[UK Geography @ukgeog]

At Kentucky geography’s annual GeoGuessr department tournament the graduate student team (Calvin Horning, MA student, and Isaac Oluwatimilehin, PhD student) took top prize, besting the faculty team (above top right photo with Boyd Shearer)!

[UK Geography @ukgeog]

🌟Mark your calendars🌟 and join the UK Department of Geography as we celebrate and welcome our one and only Dr. Richard Schein for the annual Geography in the Bluegrass Day Lecture! @UKarts_sciences

[UK Geography @ukgeog]

🌟Congratulations🌟 to PhD student Edgar Garcia-Velozo on being awarded the Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies Program (LACLS) Summer Research Grant! Edgar will use the grant for field research in the south of Brazil this summer. @edgrvlz @UKarts_sciences

[Camilo Rey @camilorey]

Quiero contarles que mi tesis para título de PhD en geografía en @ukgeog acaba de ganar el Premio Internacional a mejor Tesis de Investigación sobre Centros Históricos en categoría doctoral. Un premio otorgado por @UNAM_MX a través de su Programa Universitario de Estudios sobre la Ciudad @PUEC_UNAM .
Saludos y agradecimiento a mi directora: @roberts_sue

[UK Geography @ukgeog]

Reminiscing about @theaag today 🌎😍

[UK Geography @ukgeog]

As #aag2025 comes to its final day we wanted to send a giant🌟CONGRATULATIONS 🌟 to AAG President Professor Patricia Ehrkamp on a successful meeting on possibilities! @ukgeog is so proud of you!

[UK Geography @ukgeog]

🌎Midweek #AAG2025 photo dump!🌏
Check out all of the amazing things UK geographers have been up to so far at this year’s @theaag annual meeting!