- Faculty: Baynard Bailey
- Faculty: Eliana Borba
- Faculty: Mary Ellen Czesak
- Faculty: Lioba Gerhardi
- Faculty: Tracey Holland
- Faculty: Candy Martinez
- Instructor: Nicole Beveridge
- Instructor: Henry Bulley
- Instructor: Charlotte Gullick
- Instructor: Heather Ostman
- Instructor: Sarah Pearlman
- Instructor: Mariam Rashid
This course engages with topics on spatial thinking, resource extraction, conflict,
climate disasters, forced displacement, and migration within the context of
Africa and the continent's relationship with the rest of the world. Through
social, political, and geographic analysis, the course examines and
interrogates forces of displacement and migration within Africa, and how they are reproduced by
global forces of neoliberalism, colonialism, and racialization, as well as
climate change-related disasters. The course draws on interdisciplinary
scholarship including films, interactive online maps, creative literature, and
guest speakers, as well as more traditional academic mediums to explore the
intricacies and intimacies of forced displacement and migration. In addition,
the course introduces students to geospatial reasoning and mapping with ArcGIS
StoryMaps. Through data visualization techniques, students will learn to map
out geographies and stories of displacement as well as the resettlement of
displaced communities.
- Instructor: Henry Bulley
- Instructor: Mariam Rashid
- Instructor: Heather Ostman
- Instructor: Sarah Pearlman
- Director: Eliana Borba
- Director: Mary Ellen Czesak
- Director: Lioba Gerhardi
- Director: Luis Inoa
- Director: Wendy Maragh Taylor
- Director: Christine Stuart