Sallie A. Marston (born 1953) is an American social geographer and Regents Professor in the University of Arizona School of Geography, Development and Environment located in Tucson, Arizona. [1]
Martson is recipient of the American Association of Geographers Lifetime Achievement Award (with Edward W. Soja) in 2013. [2]
Marston's noted work on "the social constriction of scale" has been published in the journal Progress in Human Geography and cited over 2600 times. [3]
As a feminist scholar of "space and place," Marston has authored and co-authored several textbooks including World Regions in Global Context: Peoples, Places, and Environments in its 6th edition, [4] The Sage Handbook of Social Geographies, [5] and Human Geography: Places and Regions in Global Context. [6]
Marston's collaborators include Rachel Pain, [7] Diana Liverman, [8] Cindi Katz, [9] and Eric Sheppard with whom she writes about Neil Smith. [10]
Sallie A. Marston is the founding director of the Community and School Garden Program in Tucson, Arizona. [11]
In 2022, Dr. Marston was recipient of the Ray Davies Lifetime Humanitarian Achievement Award. [12]