Born and raised in Shanghai, China, Tianyang "Tracy" Wang came into Dartmouth knowing that she wanted to be a Geography major because of her passion for urban planning and traveling. She's fascinated by the inter-disciplinary nature of geography, especially urban geography, GIS, qualitative methods, and visual representations....

Lily Michelson ’15 spent her junior summer and senior fall traveling to the rural corners of Northern France and New England, interviewing dairy farmers and dairy industry representatives alike on their views of sustainability. This exciting global adventure, which spanned from standing atop a methane digester in Normandy, France to visiting the first organic dairy farm in the United States, is part of Lily’s senior honors thesis research, which examines understandings of sustainability along the supply chain of dairy and challenges how certain ideas of sustainability are either privileged or rejected along the supply chain. This research stems from the dairy industry’s recent global initiative to measure and reduce the carbon footprint of its products through the adoption of new tools and technologies that are supported by a scientific agenda. Drawing from theories of knowledge production, science, and technology, Lily’s thesis interrogates how different actors across the dairy supply chain—from multinational corporations to small family farmers—internalize sustainability vis-à-vis the growing industry pressure to reduce the overall carbon footprint of dairy....

Tish Lopez is a postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Geography. Her work emerges at the intersections of health and development, citizenship, and militarism. In particular, she investigates the ways in which citizenship, through health and development and military interventions, has been transnationalized, or, unmoored from its traditional framing through the state.

Rachel Gray is a Geography Major from Cabin John, MD (a suburb of Washington, D.C.) In addition to studying Geography, she is getting a minor in Hispanic Studies. Rachel decided to major in Geography after taking Introduction to International Development (Geog 6) with Professor Fox her freshman Spring.

In a new spring-term course, Dartmouth students will investigate questions of race, inequality, and violence that arose last summer following the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. The class, called “10 Weeks, 10+ Professors: #BlackLivesMatter,” will be taught by close to 20 faculty from about a dozen departments and could be a model for future cross-disciplinary courses.

Geography Department will offer a course this spring titled “10 Weeks, 10 Professors: #BlackLivesMatter,” examining structural violence against communities of color. The lessons in the pilot course will be split into 15 sections that span more than 10 academic departments, including — but not limited to — anthropology, history, women’s and gender studies, mathematics and English, according to The Dartmouth.

When Carley Carlin '15 first began taking dance lessons at five years old, she refused to take ballet classes because she "hated the color pink." Now, the 21-yearold co-president of Fusion Dance Ensemble has 14 years of clasical ballet training under her belt.

At the center of her work is the question of health: what it is, who it's for, and who decides. Working in a rural, Zulu-speaking area of South Africa, Abby understands health as always simultaneously material and symbolic; that is, she sees health as the interplay between physiological processes (bacteria interacting with cells), cultural contexts (the views and values of the community in which a person lives), social networks (family and friends on the one hand and health care on the other), and political-economic structures. To understand health, she takes an interdisciplinary approach that draws on the work of geographers, anthropologists, historians, epidemiologists, and medical scientists....

Gianna's personal interests are mostly in the intersection of human health and geography, and in particular communicable diseases. The spatial component of geography gives her a unique lens with which to see and interpret the world. She also been very excited by her opportunities to work with GIS and use it to answer questions to problems such as where one should locate a nuclear power plant in New Hampshire or Vermont, based on 5-6 factors....