Rebecca Lave

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Rebecca Lave
Citizenship United States of America
Alma mater University of California, Berkeley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Reed College,
Occupation Geographer

Rebecca Lave is a geographer, professor of geography at Indiana University Bloomington (IU), and the current president of the American Association of Geographers (AAG). [1] [2] [3] Her research focuses on critical geography, as it applies to physical geography, as part of the emerging field of critical physical geography. [4] [5] She has focused on bridging the gap between physical and human geography in her research, as a department chair at IU, and as the president of the AAG. [6] [7]

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Education and field

Lave earned their B.A. in Art history and Political science from Reed College in 1993. [4] She earned both her Master of City Planning and Certificate in Urban Design from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1997. In 2008, Lave earned her Ph.D. in geography from the University of California, Berkeley. When doing her Ph.D., Lave focused on the interface between human and physical geography, to the chagrin of their advisors. [2] This experience shaped Lave's career as a researcher and in her service at IU and the AAG. [2] [6]

Career

Industry

Lave's career began with their work as an Urban Planner at Goody, Clancy & Associates in Boston, MA, from 1996 to 1998. [4] Following this, they transitioned into a non-academic role as a Senior Associate in Design, Community & Environment in Berkeley, CA, a position they held from 1999 to 2005. [4]

Academic

After earning their Ph.D., Lave joined Indiana University's Geography Department as an assistant professor from 2008 to 2014. This marked a significant shift towards academia. Subsequently, they advanced to associate professor in the same department, a position they held from 2014 to 2020. In 2020, they achieved the highest academic rank of Full Professor in the Geography Department at Indiana University. At IU, Lave has served as department chair from 2019 to 2022. [4] [7] They have served on numerous graduate student committees and University positions. [4]

Lave is very involved in professional organizations, especially the American Association of Geographers. From 2022 to 2023, she served as the AAG vice president. [4] [8] In 2023, Lave became the AAG president. [2] [3] Lave has focused on expanding the interdisciplinary nature of geography, and emphasized links between physical and human geography. [2] [6]

Research and publications

Lave's research has focused on environmental restoration, watershed management, agriculture, the Anthropocene, and bridging the gap between human and physical geography. [4] [9] They are instrumental in establishing the discipline of critical physical geography. [5] In 2017, they advocated for the preservation and archiving of government data to prevent it from being lost or deleted. [10]

TitleAuthor(s) or volume editor(s)Year first publishedISBNRefs
Streams of Revenue: The Restoration Economy and the Ecosystems It CreatesRebecca Lave; Martin Doyle2021 ISBN   978-0262539197
The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Physical GeographyRebecca Lave; Christine Biermann; Stuart N. Lane2018 ISBN   978-3-319-71460-8 [11]
Doreen Massey: Critical DialoguesMarion Werner; Jamie Peck; Rebecca Lave; Brett Christophers2018 ISBN   978-1911116868
The Routledge Handbook of the Political Economy of ScienceDavid Tyfield; Rebecca Lave; Samuel Randalls; Charles Thorpe2017 ISBN   9781315685397
Fields and Streams: Stream Restoration, Neoliberalism, and the Future of Environmental Science (Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation Ser.)Rebecca Lave2012 ISBN   978-0820343921 [12]

Awards, recognition, and professional honors

Lave has received many awards and recognitions throughout her professional career, both for her research and teaching. [4] Notable among these awards is the G.K. Gilbert Award from the American Association of Geographers Geomorphology Specialty Group in 2018 for the paper "The morphology of streams restored for market and nonmarket purposes: Insights from a mixed natural-social science approach". [13] [14] [Note 1]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Award shared with coauthors on paper "The morphology of streams restored for market and nonmarket purposes: Insights from a mixed natural-social science approach"

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  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Raphael, Marilyn (June 1, 2023). "Welcoming a New President to AAG: Interview with Rebecca Lave". AAG President's Column. doi:10.14433/2017.0131. S2CID   259911273.
  3. 1 2 "Governance". Executive Committee. American Association of Geographers. Retrieved 4 November 2023.
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  5. 1 2 Lave, Rebecca; Wilson, Matthew W.; Barron, Elizabeth S.; Biermann, Christine; Carey, Mark A.; Duvall, Chris S. (2013). "Viewpoint Intervention: Critical physical geography". Canadian Geographies. 58 (1). doi:10.1111/cag.12061. S2CID   8753111.
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  7. 1 2 "Rebecca Lave". Books by the author. MIT Press. Retrieved 3 November 2023.
  8. ↑ "CALL FOR PAPERS & PRESENTATIONS". SWAAG. American Association of Geographers. Retrieved 4 November 2023.
  9. ↑ Lave, Rebecca; Doyle, Martin; Robertson, Morgan (2010). "Privatizing stream restoration in the US". Social Studies of Science. 40 (5): 677–703. doi:10.1177/0306312710379671. S2CID   109962634.
  10. ↑ Lave, Rebecca (16 February 2017). "It's vital for science that we cache US federal agency facts". Times Higher Education. Retrieved 4 November 2023.
  11. ↑ The AAG Review of Books (2019). "Review:The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Physical Geography". The AAG Review of Books. 7 (3): 203–213. doi:10.1080/2325548X.2019.1615327 . Retrieved 3 March 2024.
  12. ↑ Norman, Erica S. (2013). "Book Review: Fields and Streams: Stream Restoration, Neoliberalism, and the Future of Environmental Science". Social & Cultural Geography. 15 (5): 584–585. doi:10.1080/14649365.2013.858890 . Retrieved 3 March 2024.
  13. ↑ "G.K.Gilbert Award for Excellence in Geomorphological Research". Geomorphology Specialty Group. American Association of Geographers. 7 January 2019. Retrieved 3 November 2023.
  14. ↑ Doyle, Martin W.; Singh, Jai; Lave, Rebecca; Robertson, Morgan M. (2015). "The morphology of streams restored for market and nonmarket purposes: Insights from a mixed natural-social science approach". Water Resources Research. 51 (7): 5603–5622. Bibcode:2015WRR....51.5603D. doi: 10.1002/2015WR017030 .
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