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Since 2009 the Executive Board of the Historical Geography Specialty Group has presented the annual Distinguished Historical Geographer Award to an individual whose careers and passions have guided and pushed the field of historical geography into the future. Centered around a lecture at the annual AAG and then printed in the following issue of Historical Geography, the award provides a glimpse into the history and diversity of HGSG and broader subdicipline of historical geography.
2024
DR. RDK Doug Herman
Pacific Worlds Institute
"From Classroom to Community: Three faces of being a Historical Geographer"
2023
Daniel D. Arreola
"The Mexican Restaurant in America, A Journey across Time and Place"
2022
Alan Lester
University of Sussex
"Space, Simultaneity and the Restructuring of the British Empire"
2019
Georgina Endfield
University of Liverpool
“Weather Heritage and Elemental Place Making”
2018
Craig Colten
Louisiana State University
“The Values of Practicing Historical Geography”
2017
Audrey Kobayashi
Queen's University
“Historical Geography in the Service of Social Justice”
2016
William Wyckoff
Montana State University
"Producing Public Geographies: Creating a Field Guide to the Western American Landscape"
2014
Anne Kelly Knowles
Middlebury College
“Why We Must Make Maps: Historical Geography as a Visual Craft"
2013
Karen M. Morin
Bucknell University
"Carceral Space and the Usable Past"
2012
Graeme Wynn
University of British Columbia
"‘Tracing One Warm Line Through a Land so Wide and Savage.’ Fifty Years of Historical Geography in Canada"
2011
Rich Schein
University of Kentucky
“Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of historical geography”
2010
Laura Cameron
Queen's University
Digging in the Dirt: Unnatural Histories and the “Art of Not Dividing”
2009
Miles Ogborn
Queen Mary University of London
Francis Williams’s Bad Language: Historical Geography in a World of Practice
1989
Bill Skinner and Leonard Hochberg
1988
Donald W. Meinig
The Historical Geography Imperative
While this was a "President's Plenary" organized by AAG President Terry Jordan, it was the spark that ignited the Distinguished Lecture Series.
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