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Geography Department Scholarly Awards George Perkins Marsh Award Marsh was a member of the U.S. Congress, an author and farmer, and was the U.S. Minister to Turkey and Italy. He was also a philologist of international reputation. To us his most important attributes are that he attended Dartmouth; however, briefly, he was a resident of Woodstock, VT; and is the author of a book The Earth as Modified by Human Activity. This volume helped to found the environmental movement in the United States and to place Geography in the forefront of that movement. 2011 Emily Broas '11 2010 Adam Bledsoe 10 2009 Laura Hester 09 2008 Linden Mallory 08 2007 Ocean Castaneda 07 Alexander von Humboldt Award Humboldt was a great savant of the late 18th and early 19th century who sought to understand the unity of nature and society. His landmark work Kosmos established him as the leader of scientific geography, who regarded generic studies the search for general principles that would lead to the understanding of the unity of all reality as the highest level of scientific analysis. 2011 Rose Brennon '11 2010 Yacoba Annobil 10 2009 Emily Eros 09 2008 Will McMahan 08 2007 Hongwei Chen 07 2006 Adeline Yong 06 National Council for Geographic Education The NCGE is a 3500 member organization whose objective is to foster and increase the effectiveness of geographic education in North America. Each year the Council presents an Excellence in Scholarship Award to an outstanding senior geography major at each of several American Colleges and Universities. 2011 Joel Butterly '11 2010 Sara Brown 10 2009 Laura Hester 09 2008 Caroline Burns 08 Amy Flaster 08 Dan Mahoney 08 2007 Benjamin Wilson 07 Jesse Tichenor 06 Adam N. Brown 97 The Adam N. Brown 97 Memorial Fund is an endowment established at Dartmouth College by the family and friends of Adam Brown, Class of 1997, to celebrate his life and perpetuate his energy, innovation, and enthusiasm. Adam was a prospective major in Geography when he died of cancer in 1994. The Adam N. Brown 97 Memorial Award in Geography is administered by the Department of Geography. The award is presented to recognize the best written work in Geography in an academic year. In accordance with the wishes of the family and the faculty, the student need not be a major in Geography. The names of the successive recipients of the award will be engraved on a plaque displayed in the Geography Department. 2011 Javed Jaghai '11 "A Progress Report on the Geography of Masculinities" 2010 Rigel Cable '10 & Jessica Montes '10 "Men and Kathoey Fight Against Harm (MAKFAH)" 2009 Rebecca Sacks '08 "Curry in Britain: Dishing out 'Britishness' in Postcolonial Britain" 2008 Mackenzie Knowles-Coursin 07 "Feeling the Funk in Brazil: the Geopolitical Story" 2007 Lucy Whidden 07 A Failed Celebration: Unmet Promises of Urban Justice in Disneys Celebration, FL 2006 Kristina Gebhard '09 Opposing neocolonialism in a repressive state: a geopolitical analysis of two forms of resistance in post-colonial Kenya Bob Huke Award Bob was a devoted and beloved Geographer, and a devoted and beloved friend of Dartmouth. From an academic standpoint, Bob enriched the lives of many through his teaching, his research, and his involvement with the Association of American Geographers (AAG). He had served on numerous AAG committees at both the national and regional level, and he was a focal component of the Asia Specialty Group. Bob's research interests focused primarily in SE Asia, and he was a specialist in agricultural and population geography. He was the Dartmouth class of '48. After getting his Ph.D. in Geography from Syracuse in 1953, he started teaching at Dartmouth immediately. Bob retired in 1990, and he was an active emeritus. Over his 30+ years teaching experience at Dartmouth he touched many lives, and he was one of Dartmouth's most appreciated and beloved professors. Since Bob was such an ardent field scholar and devoted to undergraduate teaching, the department established a research travel fund to memorialize him. We have numerous students doing Senior Honors Theses every year, with many of them traveling overseas (as Bob would love). 2011 Genevive O'Mara '11 2010 Eric Espinoza 10 Liza Bennett 10 2009 Hillary Wool 09 2008 Katie Moerlein 2007 Christine Terada Thesis: Experience all of Polynesia Tourist Performances and the Construction of Cultural Identities 2006 Adeline Yong Thesis: The Fashion of Clutering and Specialization in China's Apparel Industry: How Lone Threads can Weave into a Tapestry 2005 Kristine Belford Thesis: You Are Where You Live? Conceptions of Identity of Singaporean Public Housing Residents Class of 76 Award The Geography Stretch 76 Fund is a true endowment established to help support the study of Geography at Dartmouth College. The investment is intended to ensure that the College continues at the forefront of American higher education and that its students are prepared for the challenges and opportunities they will meet as they assume positions of leadership. 2011 George Thorman '11 2010 Rigel Cable 10 2009 Alexandra Prokhorova 09 2008 Amy Flaster 08 2007 Benjamin Wilson 07 The Guido R. Rahr 51 Award for Excellence in Geography Guido Rahr 51 came from a family of conservationist-philanthropists. His family owned Rahr Malting Co., which was founded by his great grandfather, William Rahr, in 1847. Joining the family business after graduation, he rose to become chairman of the board and chief executive officer as well as head up the Rahr Foundation. He supported Geography and Dartmouth from the year he graduated until his death in 2005. Guido Rahr loved maps and loved Geography. In the 1980s, the Rahr Foundation donated a tract of land in Oregon to the College with the intent of supporting the Geography Department. The land was eventually sold and the endowment, like Colleges, has grown from strength to strength, and now supports a range of activities in the department, the most obvious of which is the GIS lab. 2011 Christopher Han '11 Carla Costillo '11 2010 Liya Schuster '10 Corey Cunningham '10 2009 Dominic Winski '09 Leah Horowitz Award for Social Justice This award is given to that student who best exemplifies through course work, interships and/or volunteering President Dickey's charge that "the world's problems are your problems'" It honors Leah Horowitz, who died tragically in a road accident while working in Ghana. Leah was a student who taught and humbled us. She was great in the classroom but always had one foot outside of it. After graduation she got a Master's degree, got a development policy job in DC, but what she really wanted was to get back to Africa, where she'd spent time as an undergraduate and where she wanted to make a difference. Her own words, taken from a chronicle of her life in Ghana, best describe Leah's ever-questioning spirit: "I've been here for a bit of time now, and a bit of the newness has worn off and with it, I fear, some of the sharp curiosity. It seems possible to be lulled into a false sense of knowing something. But I know nothing!" Actually she knew a great deal-about the hard work that goes into building a better world and about how to make the most of life along the way. It is in her memory that we make this award. 2011 Phoebe Gardener '11 2010 Eric Schildge 10 2009 Ediz Tiyansan 09
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