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AAG Globe Book Award for Public Understanding of Geography

Deadline: December 31, 2023

A committee awards the annual prize for a book that conveys most powerfully the nature and importance of geography to the non-academic world. An award of $1,000 will be made to the author(s). In any given cycle, the Globe Book Award Committee may also select a second title from the  pool of nominations to be recognized with an Honorable Mention.

Eligibility

Books must be written or co-authored by a geographer. Books published for the first time in English, in any country, in calendar year 2022 or in the period Oct. 1 – Dec. 31, 2021, are now eligible for the awards. Please submit your title for consideration  for only one of the three AAG book awards (i.e., J.B. Jackson Prize, Globe Book Award  or Meridian Book Award).

As with all other AAG awards, eligibility also rests on the candidate being in compliance with the AAG Professional Conduct Policy. Nominations may be rescinded, and the award may also be revoked for any candidate or awardee who is found in violation of the AAG’s Professional Conduct Policy.

Submissions

Nomination statements (two page maximum length) should provide full contact information for the author(s) and the nominator(s), including email addresses, and should document the ways the nominated work conveys the nature and importance of geography to the non-academic world.  Please email nomination statements to grantsawards@aag.org, indicating “Globe Book Award” in the subject line. Please ship four copies of each nominated book to: Association of American Geographers, attn: Globe Book Award, 2000 14th Street, NW, Ste 104, #73158 Washington DC 20056.

AAG Globe Book Award for Public Understanding of Geography Recipients

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2021

James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti

James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti for Atlas of the Invisible (W.W. Norton & Company, 2021) for creating a stunning collection of maps and visualizations that tells the stories of our past, present, and future – turning massive datasets into inviting, intriguing, and sometimes disturbing presentations for both geographers and a broader audience.

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2021 AAG Globe Book Award for Public Understanding of Geography

James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti

2021 AAG Globe Book Award for Public Understanding of Geography

James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti for Atlas of the Invisible (W.W. Norton & Company, 2021) for creating a stunning collection of maps and visualizations that tells the stories of our past, present, and future – turning massive datasets into inviting, intriguing, and sometimes disturbing presentations for both geographers and a broader audience.

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2020

Alison Mountz

2020 Alison Mountz, The Death of Asylum: Hidden Geographies of the Enforcement Archipelago, University of Minnesota Press, 2020

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2020 AAG Globe Book Award for Public Understanding of Geography

Alison Mountz

2020 AAG Globe Book Award for Public Understanding of Geography

2020 Alison Mountz, The Death of Asylum: Hidden Geographies of the Enforcement Archipelago, University of Minnesota Press, 2020

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2019

Adam Moore

2019 Adam Moore, Empire’s Labor: The Global Army that Supports U.S. Wars, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019

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2019 AAG Globe Book Award for Public Understanding of Geography

Adam Moore

2019 AAG Globe Book Award for Public Understanding of Geography

2019 Adam Moore, Empire’s Labor: The Global Army that Supports U.S. Wars, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019

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2018

Tara Patricia Cookson

2018 Tara Patricia Cookson, Unjust Conditions: Women’s Work and the Hidden Cost of Cash Transfer Programs, University of California Press, 2018

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2018 AAG Globe Book Award for Public Understanding of Geography

Tara Patricia Cookson

2018 AAG Globe Book Award for Public Understanding of Geography

2018 Tara Patricia Cookson, Unjust Conditions: Women’s Work and the Hidden Cost of Cash Transfer Programs, University of California Press, 2018

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2017

Clyde Woods

The late Clyde Woods for developing a one-of-a-kind research program engaging social and public policy issues by examining the cultural practices of those oppressed by such policies. His book, Development Arrested, was highly acclaimed and a model of interdisciplinary research. Woods will be remembered as an important mentor to many, and as a public intellectual challenging how we understand race and human geographic knowledge production.

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2017 AAG Globe Book Award for Public Understanding of Geography

Clyde Woods

2017 AAG Globe Book Award for Public Understanding of Geography

The late Clyde Woods for developing a one-of-a-kind research program engaging social and public policy issues by examining the cultural practices of those oppressed by such policies. His book, Development Arrested, was highly acclaimed and a model of interdisciplinary research. Woods will be remembered as an important mentor to many, and as a public intellectual challenging how we understand race and human geographic knowledge production.

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2016

Nicole Nguyen

2016 Nicole Nguyen, A Curriculum of Fear, University of Minnesota Press

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2016 AAG Globe Book Award for Public Understanding of Geography

Nicole Nguyen

2016 AAG Globe Book Award for Public Understanding of Geography

2016 Nicole Nguyen, A Curriculum of Fear, University of Minnesota Press

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2015

Stephen J. Hornsby and Richard W. Judd, Eds

2015 Stephen J. Hornsby and Richard W. Judd, Eds; Michael J. Hermann (Cartographic Designer), Historical Atlas of Maine, University of Maine Press

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2015 AAG Globe Book Award for Public Understanding of Geography

Stephen J. Hornsby and Richard W. Judd, Eds

2015 AAG Globe Book Award for Public Understanding of Geography

2015 Stephen J. Hornsby and Richard W. Judd, Eds; Michael J. Hermann (Cartographic Designer), Historical Atlas of Maine, University of Maine Press

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2014

Paul Knox

2014 Paul Knox, Atlas of Cities, Princeton University Press

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2014 AAG Globe Book Award for Public Understanding of Geography

Paul Knox

2014 AAG Globe Book Award for Public Understanding of Geography

2014 Paul Knox, Atlas of Cities, Princeton University Press

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2013

Michael Dear

2013 Michael Dear, Why Walls Won’t Work: Repairing the US-Mexico Divide, Oxford University Press

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2013 AAG Globe Book Award for Public Understanding of Geography

Michael Dear

2013 AAG Globe Book Award for Public Understanding of Geography

2013 Michael Dear, Why Walls Won’t Work: Repairing the US-Mexico Divide, Oxford University Press

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2012

Laura Pulido

2012 Laura Pulido, Laura Barraclough and Wendy Cheng, A People’s Guide to Los Angeles, University of California Press.

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2012 AAG Globe Book Award for Public Understanding of Geography

Laura Pulido

2012 AAG Globe Book Award for Public Understanding of Geography

2012 Laura Pulido, Laura Barraclough and Wendy Cheng, A People’s Guide to Los Angeles, University of California Press.

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2011

Jim Kimmel and Jerry Touchstone Kimmel

2011 Jim Kimmel and Jerry Touchstone Kimmel (photographs), Exloring the Brazos River from Beginning to End, Texas A&M University.

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2011 AAG Globe Book Award for Public Understanding of Geography

Jim Kimmel and Jerry Touchstone Kimmel

2011 AAG Globe Book Award for Public Understanding of Geography

2011 Jim Kimmel and Jerry Touchstone Kimmel (photographs), Exloring the Brazos River from Beginning to End, Texas A&M University.

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2010

Esther Jacobson-Tepfer and James E. Meacham

2010 Esther Jacobson-Tepfer and James E. Meacham, Archeology and Landscape in the Mongolian Altai (Gary Tepfer, Photography), Esri Press

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2010 AAG Globe Book Award for Public Understanding of Geography

Esther Jacobson-Tepfer and James E. Meacham

2010 AAG Globe Book Award for Public Understanding of Geography

2010 Esther Jacobson-Tepfer and James E. Meacham, Archeology and Landscape in the Mongolian Altai (Gary Tepfer, Photography), Esri Press

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2009

Stuart Elden

2009 Stuart Elden, Terror and Territory, The Spatial Extent of Sovereignty, University of Minnesota Press.

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2009 AAG Globe Book Award for Public Understanding of Geography

Stuart Elden

2009 AAG Globe Book Award for Public Understanding of Geography

2009 Stuart Elden, Terror and Territory, The Spatial Extent of Sovereignty, University of Minnesota Press.

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2008

Owen J. Dwyer and Derek H. Alderman

2008 Owen J. Dwyer and Derek H. Alderman, Civil Rights Memorials and the Geography of Memory, Center for American Places.

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2008 AAG Globe Book Award for Public Understanding of Geography

Owen J. Dwyer and Derek H. Alderman

2008 AAG Globe Book Award for Public Understanding of Geography

2008 Owen J. Dwyer and Derek H. Alderman, Civil Rights Memorials and the Geography of Memory, Center for American Places.

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2007

Trudy A. Suchan, Marc J. Perry, James D. Fitzsimmons, Anika E. Juhn, Alexander M. Tait and Cynthia A. Brewer

2007 Trudy A. Suchan, Marc J. Perry, James D. Fitzsimmons, Anika E. Juhn, Alexander M. Tait and Cynthia A. Brewer, Census Atlas of the United States, Washington, DC: US Census Bureau Press.

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2007 AAG Globe Book Award for Public Understanding of Geography

Trudy A. Suchan, Marc J. Perry, James D. Fitzsimmons, Anika E. Juhn, Alexander M. Tait and Cynthia A. Brewer

2007 AAG Globe Book Award for Public Understanding of Geography

2007 Trudy A. Suchan, Marc J. Perry, James D. Fitzsimmons, Anika E. Juhn, Alexander M. Tait and Cynthia A. Brewer, Census Atlas of the United States, Washington, DC: US Census Bureau Press.

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2006

Bruce D'Arcus

2006 Bruce D’Arcus, Boudaries of Dissent: Protest and State Power in the Media Age, New York, NY. Routledge Taylor and Francis Group, LLC.

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2006 AAG Globe Book Award for Public Understanding of Geography

Bruce D'Arcus

2006 AAG Globe Book Award for Public Understanding of Geography

2006 Bruce D’Arcus, Boudaries of Dissent: Protest and State Power in the Media Age, New York, NY. Routledge Taylor and Francis Group, LLC.

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2005

Dydia DeLyser

2005 Dydia DeLyser, Ramona Memories: Tourism and the Shaping of Southern California, University of Minnesota Press.

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2005 AAG Globe Book Award for Public Understanding of Geography

Dydia DeLyser

2005 AAG Globe Book Award for Public Understanding of Geography

2005 Dydia DeLyser, Ramona Memories: Tourism and the Shaping of Southern California, University of Minnesota Press.

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2004

James R. "Pete" Shortridge

2004 James R. “Pete” Shortridge, Cities on the Plains: The Evolution of Urban Kansas, University of Kansas Press.

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2004 AAG Globe Book Award for Public Understanding of Geography

James R. "Pete" Shortridge

2004 AAG Globe Book Award for Public Understanding of Geography

2004 James R. “Pete” Shortridge, Cities on the Plains: The Evolution of Urban Kansas, University of Kansas Press.

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2003

Neil Smith, American Empire

2003 Neil Smith, American Empire, Roosevelt’s Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization, University of California Press.

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2003 AAG Globe Book Award for Public Understanding of Geography

Neil Smith, American Empire

2003 AAG Globe Book Award for Public Understanding of Geography

2003 Neil Smith, American Empire, Roosevelt’s Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization, University of California Press.

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2002

Mark Monmonier

2002 Mark Monmonier, Spying with Maps: Surveillance Technologies and Future of Privacy, University of Chicago Press.

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2002 AAG Globe Book Award for Public Understanding of Geography

Mark Monmonier

2002 AAG Globe Book Award for Public Understanding of Geography

2002 Mark Monmonier, Spying with Maps: Surveillance Technologies and Future of Privacy, University of Chicago Press.

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2001

William G. Loy

2001 William G. Loy, Atlas of Oregon, University of Oregon Press

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2001 AAG Globe Book Award for Public Understanding of Geography

William G. Loy

2001 AAG Globe Book Award for Public Understanding of Geography

2001 William G. Loy, Atlas of Oregon, University of Oregon Press

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2000

James R. "Pete" Shortridge

2004 James R. “Pete” Shortridge, Cities on the Plains: The Evolution of Urban Kansas, University of Kansas Press.

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2000 AAG Globe Book Award for Public Understanding of Geography

James R. "Pete" Shortridge

2000 AAG Globe Book Award for Public Understanding of Geography

2004 James R. “Pete” Shortridge, Cities on the Plains: The Evolution of Urban Kansas, University of Kansas Press.

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