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Jennifer L. Fluri is Professor and Chair of the Department of Geography at the University of Colorado-Boulder. She is a political geographer interested in gender, geopolitics, international assistance, economic development, and conflict in Afghanistan. She has published over thirty peer reviewed journal articles and book chapters. Her publications also include three co-authored books and one co-edited book. She is the co-author of The Carpetbaggers of Kabul and other American-Afghan Entanglements, published in 2017 by University of Georgia Press as part of the Geographies of Social Justice series.  Her current research project examines gender, security, and development in Afghanistan with a focus on Afghan women’s leadership, which if funded by the National Science Foundation. She is the co-editor of the Gender, Feminisms and Geography book series at West Virginia University Press, and she serves of the editorial board for the journal of Political Geography and the journal of Cultural Geography. She received a Fulbright Fellowship in 2020 to examine the experiences of young Afghans seeking hired education in India and will begin this project in 2022. In Colorado, she co-directs the Boulder Affordable Housing Research Initiative, a community-based service-research project that provides information for individuals and organizations seeking, living in, or caring about affordable housing. More details about her research and teaching can be found at jenfluri.com.

The Department of Geography and Environmental Systems welcomes incoming graduate students in this orientation led by Graduate Program Director David Lansing and the Graduate School Associate Dean Jeffrey Halverson.

Join us for a "teach-in" on the recent standoff between the Standing Rock Sioux & the promoters of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). 

The students of GES 337 - Natural Resource Management - have put their energy into identifying the key themes that connect with this recent standoff and working to weave those themes together as a way to reach/teach a broader public audience.  If you have been curious about this controversy and would like to learn more about the background, the positions of those who have promoted the DAPL and those opposed, as well as ways to examine these issues critically, JOIN US! 

UMBC community = welcome! 
Please bring along a phone as we will be polling the audience with several questions throughout the teach-in session. 

Join us for an expert panel event facilitated by students in the GES graduate seminar Environmental Science - Policy Translations (GES 700).  The goal of this event is to provide a platform for experts working at the interface of environmental science & policy to share their perspectives with a broad audience.  Students, faculty, and staff are welcome! 

Panel experts:
Dr. Beth McGee - Chief Scientist, Chesapeake Bay Foundation
Dr. Angela Bednarek - Manager, Environmental Science, The Pew Charitable Trusts
Peter Claggett - Research Geographer, USGS, Chesapeake Bay Program

We will pose several questions to the panel, and incorporate audience participation.  If you plan on attending and have a smartphone, please bring it!