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Historical Geography and Geographical Thought

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Juliana A Bol
Columbia University
2
Alex R. Mohr
University of Nebraska at Omaha
3
Steven Rogers
Keele University
4
Anna Guasco
Oregon State University
5
Tianna Bruno
University of Oregon
6
Sage Brice
Durham University
7
Emily Barrett
Vanderbilt University
8
Archie Davies
Queen Mary University of London
9
Alan P. Marcus
Towson University
10
Nina Williams
University of Canberra

Rising Stars Papers

1
“you just look at rocks, and have beards” Perceptions of Geology From the United Kingdom: A Qualitative Analysis From an Online Survey
Earth Science Systems and Society|2024
20 cit.
2
Black ecological relations and methodologies
Progress in Environmental Geography|2024
7 cit.
3
Reimagining the municipal economy: The emancipatory politics of the people’s budget movement
Urban Studies|2024
4 cit.
4
Violent intimacies: the trans everyday and the making of an urban world
Social & Cultural Geography|2025
4 cit.
5
Relations outside of injury: Black ecologies, Indigenous geographies, and repair
Political Geography|2024
3 cit.
6
When is translation geography?
Geography|2024
3 cit.
7
Race in the Metabolic Rift: The Metaphor and Materiality of Whiteness
Antipode|2025
3 cit.
8
Viral ecologies: Resurgent nature, COVID-19 and the discourse of transgender contagion
Environment and Planning E Nature and Space|2024
2 cit.
9
Mining Irish-American lives: western communities from 1849 to 1920
Journal of Cultural Geography|2024
0 cit.
10
Dandelion Roots
TSQ Transgender Studies Quarterly|2024
0 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Daniel Cockayne
University of Waterloo
2
Aileen Nicolas
University of Georgia
3
Jeremy W. Crampton
George Washington University
4
Lizzie Richardson
Goethe University Frankfurt
5
Ankita Meghani
Johns Hopkins University
6
Kelly Kay
University of California, Los Angeles
7
Nadja Imhof
University of Lausanne
8
Breno Viotto Pedrosa
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
9
Martina Angela Caretta
Lund University
10
Nari Senanayake
International Water Management Institute

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
How to address the geographical bias in academic publishing
BMJ Global Health|2023
63 cit.
2
GeoAI, counter-AI, and human geography: A conversation
Dialogues in Human Geography|2022
40 cit.
3
Examining water and gender narratives and realities
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water|2022
32 cit.
4
Connecting country and city: The multiple geographies of real property ownership in the US
Geography Compass|2023
32 cit.
5
How is the platform a workplace? Moving from sites to infrastructure
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers|2023
23 cit.
6
A feminist approach to fintech: exploring ‘buy now, pay later’ technologies and consumer fintech
Journal of Cultural Economy|2024
21 cit.
7
Public sector engagement of private healthcare providers during the COVID-19 pandemic in Uttar Pradesh, India
PLOS Global Public Health|2022
17 cit.
8
Optimizing the Health Management Information System in Uttar Pradesh, India: Implementation Insights and Key Learnings
Global Health Science and Practice|2022
17 cit.
9
“We are the living dead”, or, the Precarious Stabilisation of Liminal Life in the Presence of <scp>CKDu</scp>
Antipode|2022
15 cit.
10
Towards a feminist political ecology of health: Mystery kidney disease and the co-production of social, environmental, and bodily difference
Environment and Planning E Nature and Space|2022
14 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Gillian Rose
University of Salzburg
2
Keith Woodward
University of Arizona
3
Dan Swanton
University of Edinburgh
4
Martin Dodge
University of Manchester
5
Elizabeth Oughton
Newcastle University
6
Kye Askins
Northumbria University
7
Linda Peake
York University
8
Anna J. Secor
University of Kentucky
9
James D. Sidaway
National University of Singapore
10
Susan Hanson
University of East Anglia

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Situating knowledges: positionality, reflexivities and other tactics
Progress in Human Geography|1997
2.3k cit.
2
Visual methodologies: an introduction to the interpretation of visual materials
Choice Reviews Online|2002
2.2k cit.
3
Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism
Journal of Rural Studies|1995
2k cit.
4
Colonial desire: Hybridity in theory, culture and race
Journal of Rural Studies|1996
1.6k cit.
5
Human geography without scale
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers|2005
1.6k cit.
6
Feminism and Geography: The Limits of Geographical Knowledge
Geographical Journal|1994
1.1k cit.
7
Gender and mobility: new approaches for informing sustainability
Gender Place & Culture|2010
767 cit.
8
The condition of postmodernity: an enquiry into the origins of cultural change
Journal of Historical Geography|1991
741 cit.
9
On assemblages and geography
Dialogues in Human Geography|2012
649 cit.
10
Gender, Identity and Place: Understanding Feminist Geographies
Economic Geography|2001
642 cit.

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