2017 AAG Awards — April 9, Boston

Each year, AAG recognizes students, faculty, and professionals for their accomplishments and contributions in conjunction with the annual meeting. We captured the awards presentations in the photos below at special sessions throughout the week and during the luncheon held on April 9, 2016, at the Sheraton Copley Place in Boston.

View and download from the AAG 2017 Boston photo album

David Robinson received the Lifetime Achievement Honors.

Ruth Fincher received the Lifetime Achievement Honors.

Michael Storper received the Distinguished Scholarship Honors.

Patrick Bartlein received the Distinguished Scholarship Honors.

Kent Mathewson received the 2017 Ronald F. Abler Distinguished Service Honors.

Julie Winkler received the 2017 Ronald F. Abler Distinguished Service Honors.

Michael Pretes received the AAG Distingiushed Teaching Honors.

Noam Chomsky received the AAG Atlas Award.

Roger Downs received the AAG Presidential Achievement Award during the AAG Past President's Address held Friday, April 7.

James Hansen received the Honorary Geographer Award.

David Harvey received the AAG Stanley Brunn Award for Creativity in Geography.

Hui Lin for the E. Willard and Ruby S. Miller Award.

Melissa Wright received the Harold Rose Award for Anti-Racism Research and Practice.

Leela Viswanathan received the Enhancing Diversity Award.

Sarah Hunt received the Glenda Laws Award.

Beverly Mullings received the Susan Hardwick Excellence in Mentoring Award.

Department of Geography and the Environment at the University of North Texas, housed in the College of Arts and Sciences was given the Program Excellence Award. AAG President Glen MacDonald with Department Chair Paul Hudak.

Geography Department at George Washington University received an honorable mention for the Program Excellence Award. Pictured left to right with AAG President Glen MacDonald are Department Chair Lisa Benton-Short with Marie Price.

Ronald Kalafsky received the Harm de Blij Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Geography Teaching.

"A Curriculum of Fear" by Niem Nguyen received the Globe Book Award.

"Limits to Globalization: Disruptive Geographies of Capitalist Development" by Eric Sheppard received the Meridian Book Award.

Geoffrey Martin’s monumental book, "American Geography and Geographers" is the inaugural recipient of the AAG Humboldt Book Award for Enduring Scholarship in Geography.

"The National Mall: No Ordinary Public Space," by Lisa Benton-Short, was awarded the Jackson Prize.

Sally Horn was honored with the Mel Marcus Fund for Physical Geography.

Sarah Blue, Texas State U. (not pictured); Shouraseni Roy, the U. of Miami; and Qiusheng Wu, SUNY-Binghamton received AAG Research Grants.

Mia Bennett, UCLA (not pictured); Eric Nost, U. of Wisconsin-Madison; Yoo-Min Park, U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Brian Williams, U. of Georgia; Sheridan Wright Kennedy, Rice U.; and Qunshan Zhao, Arizona State U. received AAG Dissertation Research Grants.

Case Watkins received the J. Warren Nystrom Dissertation Award for his dissertation "An Afro-Brazilian landscape: African oil palms and socioecological change in Bahia, Brazil," which was completed at Louisiana State U. in 2015.

Coty Welch received the Marble-Boyle Undergraduate Achievement Award in Geographic Science.

April Shirey, Grand Rapids Community College, received the Community College Travel Grant.

Amy Kennedy (not present), transferring from from Sinclair Community College in Dayton, Ohio, to Ohio State U. received the Darrel Hess Community College Geography Scholarship.

AAG President Glen MacDonald awarded the class of 1967 with mementos in recognition of their loyalty to the AAG. As a tangible token of appreciation, 50-year members also received lifetime remission of annual dues and annual meeting registration fees from the AAG. Although not all members could attend the awards luncheon, the full list of honorees are as follows: Charles Aiken*, James A. Baldwin, Klaus J. Bayr, Joseph Bencloski, Ronald Briggs, Anne Buttimer, Stephen S. Chang, Michael Conzen*, William J. Craig, Michael D. Cummins, Donald C. Dahmann*, Harvey K. Flad*, Colbert C. Held, Briavel Holcomb, Jerry L. Kaster*, Wiliam Keinath Jr., Victor F. Kelbaugh, Laurence J.C. Ma, Wayne L. McKim, John R. Moravek, Edward K. Muller, James L. Mulvihill, William A. Muraco, Paul E. Phillips, Arlene and George Rengert*, Gwyn Rowley, Gary W. Shannon, Richard M. Smith and Noel L. Stirrat (*members present in the photo).

At the beginning of the awards ceremony, attendees paused to remember AAG members, former members and other geographers of note who passed away in the year since the previous annual meeting. They are Samuel Attoh, Susan R. Brooker-Gross, Karl W. Butzer, Susan Christopherson, Bradley T. Cullen, David J. de Laubenfels, Randall A. Detro, Sally E. Eden, John A. Enman, Robert J. French, Robert E. Frenkel, Heidi G. Frontani, Lawerence S. Hamilton, John M. Hunter, Ary J. Lamme, Doreen Massey, Chris Mayda, Leland R. Pederson, Harold M. Rose, Glenn R. Sebastian, David Slater, Guido G. Weigend, Kenneth L. White, Thomas J. Wilbanks.