Derek Alderman

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University of Tennessee

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Dr. Derek Alderman is a Professor at the University of Tennessee, USA. His research areas focus on urban renewal, racial dynamics in place naming, and the intersections of geography and African American history. Recent publications include works on restorative cartography, Black mobility, and the historical role of commemorative names in the southern United States.

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Transformation of American Southern Commemorative Landscapes

Open Date: 2014-07-01

Close Date: 2017-12-31

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Pamela Morris

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UNITED STATES

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Jenna Loyd

Associate Professor

University of Wisconsin-Madison

UNITED STATES

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Rodrigo Narro Pérez

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McMaster University

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Shaundra Cunningham

University of Tennessee

UNITED STATES

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Maria Lewicka

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Nicolaus Copernicus University

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Katrina Stack

University of Tennessee

UNITED STATES

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Amy Potter

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Georgia Southern University

UNITED STATES

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M. Beth Schlemper

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University of Toledo

UNITED STATES

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LaToya Eaves

Wesleyan University

UNITED STATES

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Debanuj DasGupta

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University of Connecticut

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Confederates in the Cul de Sac: exploring race and neighborhood names in the southern United States

NEH Institute on Black Geographies of Mobility: Toward New Frameworks for Teaching Movement

Visiting Contested Terrain: Archiving, Auditing, and Reforming Commemorative Place Names on US Marine Corps Bases

Mapping as Black Memory-Work: Toward a Restorative Cartography of Urban Renewal/Removal in Knoxville, Tennessee*

Taking a longer historical view of America’s renaming moment: The role of Black onomastic activism within the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

On Doing Justice to Black Mobility and Movement in the Classroom

The 1964 freedom schools as neglected chapter in Geography education

YI-FU TUAN’S LEGACY: IMPACTS ON THE GEOGRAPHICAL REVIEW, DISCIPLINES, SCHOLARSHIP, AND TEACHING

Affective Heritage and the Politics of Memory After 9/11: Curating Trauma at the Memorial Museum

On The Living Black Atlas: Learning Geospatial Ethics from the African American Freedom Struggle

Jim Crow journey stories: African American driving as emotional labor

On the Disciplinary Achievement Gap: Implications of Social Disparities in NAEP Student Outcomes for Diversity and Decolonization in Geography Education

Urban redevelopment as soft memory-work in Montgomery, Alabama

Reflections on operationalizing an anti-racism pedagogy: teaching as regional storytelling

Was Tulsa’s Brady Street really renamed? Racial (in)justice, memory-work and the neoliberal politics of practicality

The Local Role of Southern Tourism Plantations in Defining a Larger Southern Regional Identity as Reflected in Tourists’ Surveys*

Cancelling March Madness exposes opportunities for a more sustainable sports tourism economy

Collaborators (10)

Pamela Morris

Jenna Loyd

Rodrigo Narro Pérez

Shaundra Cunningham

Maria Lewicka

Katrina Stack

Amy Potter

M. Beth Schlemper

LaToya Eaves

Debanuj DasGupta

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