GSAG sponsored session: Fieldwork in an African Setting

[Nicholas Crane]

Dear GSAG members -

Please see below and our website (www.gsagaag.org) for GSAG sponsored sessions. Also, please let me know if you are doing a session for which you would like GSAG support. 

Best,

Nick

CALL FOR PANELISTS

Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Washington DC, 14-18 April 2010


Panel Series: Fieldwork in an African Setting


Organizers:

Ryan Z. Good, University of Florida (ryan...@ufl.edu)

Caroline Faria, Dartmouth College (carolin...@dartmouth.edu)


This panel explores the experience of conducting field-based geographic research in an African setting with an aim towards directing and assisting graduate students and early career faculty in conducting successful field work. As work on the continent has continued, the idea of ‘Africa’ in a scholarly setting has evolved, impacting and being impacted by the various sub-fields of geography. Panelists of varying topical, methodological, and regional expertise will discuss their struggles and successes in African research, the particular challenges of obtaining and disbursing funding for this work, and the ways in which this work is both similar to and different than work in other parts of the world. Sessions will be composed of both graduate students and recent PhDs and of tenured faculty.


Interested participants should send questions and/ or a brief description of your current research to Ryan Good (ryan...@ufl.edu) or Caroline Faria (carolin...@dartmouth.edu) by October 14, 2009. Contributors will have to register for the conference through the AAG website: http://www.aag.org/annualmeetings/2010/index.htm


If you know of someone whose work would fit very well in this session, please forward this message or send us her/his contact details – this would be very much appreciated!

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Nicholas Jon Crane, M.A.
PhD Student, Graduate Assistant
Department of Geography, The Ohio State University
1036 Derby Hall, 154 N. Oval Mall, Columbus OH, 43210-1361
cran...@osu.edu

[Aondover Tarhule]

How do I become a panelist? This sounds like an interesting topic and I could share a few ideas.

Aondover Tarhule, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Chair
Department of Geography
University of Oklahoma

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Aondover Tarhule
Department of Geography
University of Oklahoma
100 East Boyd Street, SEC 684
Norman, OK, 73019
Phone (405) 325-0540
Fax (405) 325-6090

[Nicholas Crane]

Hi Aondover -

I'm glad to hear that this post stimulated interest in the session. The organizers indicated the following: 

Interested participants should send questions and/ or a brief description of your current research to Ryan Good (ryan...@ufl.edu) or Caroline Faria (carolin...@dartmouth.edu) by October 14, 2009. Contributors will have to register for the conference through the AAG website:http://www.aag.org/annualmeetings/2010/index.htm

[Tometi Gbedema]

Dear Nicholas Crane,

 

I thank you for sending me this message. I am sincerely interested in the topic because these are some of the issues I have faced and been struggling with with my dissertation research work in Ghana, West Africa.   Thus I appreciate it if I could be one of your panel participants. I gave a presentation on a part of this work entitled "Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa - Role of Heritage Tourism Within Local Communities: The cases of Elmina and Keta in Ghana" during this past section but will make sure to send you a brief description of my current dissertation research work to Ryan Good (ryan...@ufl.edu) or Caroline Faria (carolin...@dartmouth.edu) by October 14, 2009.

 

I look forward to meeting you at the conference in Washington DC next year.

 

All the best and talk to you all later.

 

Tometi K. Gbedema

PhD Candidate, Geography Graduate Group (GGG)

Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Afr. Amer. & Afr. Studies (AAS)

University of California at Davis (UC Davis)

One Shields Ave.

Davis, CA 95618

President & Director

The Otwetiri Project (www.otwetiri.org)

Tel: 530-752-1548

Cell: 530-848-5282

[Nicholas Crane]

Dear Tometi -

I'm glad you are interested in this panel and I hope you find it gratifying. I want to clarify that I  am not one of the panel's organizers. I am only acting in my capacity as GSAG Chair to promote this session. I encourage you to direct your expression of interest to Ryan Good (ryan...@ufl.edu) or Caroline Faria (carolin...@dartmouth.edu).

Best,

Nick