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The study of geography as a discipline has often employed a top-down approach that examines the output of the field's most prominent members. In this paper, we provide a bottom-up approach by analyzing geography dissertations. We start by assembling a database that includes the title, author, date, and university for every geographic doctoral dissertation written in the United States over the last 120 years. The database allows us to track the rise and fall of regions of interest and specific topics. It gives a broad overview of the different schools in geography and their influence within separate historical periods. And it permits a more empirically based delineation of geographical 'eras' based on the commonality of words in dissertation titles. This work is at the convergence of the quantitative and qualitative; we quantify and visualize textual data to provide a more robust history of geography. The result is a new, more comprehensive way to look at the changing discipline of geography. Keywords: history of geography, textual analysis, dissertations, digital humanities., The essence of contemporary geography--its disciplinary DNA--is bound up in its connections to the past: rich branches of a growing family tree of Ph.D.s, advisors, and institutional homes. Many trace [...]

The Goutte d'Or neighborhood of Paris has long been seen as an impoverished yet colorful quarter of the city. In recent years, it has also developed a reputation as a center for immigrants. Three populations now share the neighborhood: the European French, the Maghrebi immigrant population and their children, and the newest population of migrants from former Francophone colonies. This paper examines how the Goutte d'Or's social and ethnic identity is revealed in the built environment and in its social and economic activity. This neighborhood demonstrates how different communities and place identities coexist. It also shows how global networks of migration, exchange, and visits infuse local places. The Goutte d'Or distills many aspects of French immigrant identities, providing an example for increasing numbers of immigrant neighborhoods in France and across the world. Keywords: place-making, place identity, Paris, ethnicity, landscape, immigration, We know that places develop distinct identities, even personalities that go beyond a simple accounting of their characteristics. How then are these places 'made' and how does population change--resulting from [...]

INTRODUCTION TO THE FORUM ON THE ROLE OF GMOS IN THE FUTURE OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE Food is a subject about which there will always be a great deal of [...]

GLOBALIZATION AND SOVEREIGNTY. By JOHN AGNEW. viii and 231 pp.; maps, diagrs., bibliog., index. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2009. $75.00 (cloth) ISBN 9780742556778; $26.95 (paper), ISBN 9780742556782. World [...]

In 2016, the Geographical Review initiated an annual lecture, to be given every year at the annual meeting of the American Association of Geographers. The purpose of this lecture was [...]

Exactly 100 years ago, the 'new' Geographical Review published its first issue. It succeeded another publication--entitled the Bulletin of the American Geographical Society--which had been published since 1859 and had [...]

The Geographical Review has a long tenure as a journal encompassing all geographical scholarship. In keeping true to this spirit, we are initiating a new feature--appearing once or twice a [...]

With this issue we are initiating a new Forum section of the Geographical Review. One or two times a year we will feature a debate on a topic that has [...]