Gabi Kirk, PhD Candidate, Receives Awards and Tenure-Track Position

Gabi Kirk received the UC Davis Graduate Studies Travel Award to present at the Association of American Geographers in Denver March 23-27, 2023. Her paper, "The University of California as Settler Colonial Model: Ideologies of Yield and Cultivation from California to Palestine-Israel, 1917-1967," received the Rural Geography Specialty Group Student Presentation Award, the Middle East Specialty Group Student Paper Award, and an Honorable Mention for Student Paper Award from the Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group. She will be starting a new job as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Analysis at Cal Poly Humboldt in Arcata, California in January 2024.