S Freeman & Troy Brundidge Receive Political Geography Awards at AAG 2026

S Freeman, Geography Postdoctoral Fellow, and Troy Brundidge, GEOG's incoming Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows, both won awards from the Political Geography Specialty Group at the 2026 AAG Conference in San Francisco. 

S Freeman received the Virginie Mamadouh Outstanding Research Award.

This award is given to the author of a journal article or book chapter published in the previous three (3) calendar years that makes an innovative, original contribution to the conceptual and/or methodological embrace of political geography. S's winning paper is titled “Making the ‘Beneficiary’: Humanitarian Biometrics and the Politics of Place” published in EPD: Society and Space (2025).

Troy Brundidge received the Political Geography Specialty Group Best Graduate Student Paper Award. 

Troy's winning paper is titled Fix the cops? The social production of scale, jurisdiction and the contemporary legal geography of qualified immunity, and is currently under review at Political Geography.

 

Read about all of the Political Geography Specialty Group Awards here

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