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Gloria Howerton
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Gloria Howerton, PhD

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Assistant Professor

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Education

Education

BA: University of North Carolina - Greensboro

  • Major: Geography
  • Minor: Environmental Studies

MA: University of Georgia (Geography)

PhD: University of Georgia (Geography)

Received graduate certificate in GIS from the University of Georgia

Teaching and Research Interests

Teaching and Research Interests

Political geography, geographies of race, geographies of education, youth geographies, environmental justice

Published Research

Published Research

Books

  • Howerton, G. and L. Purdum [Editors]. 2023. Critical Geographies of Youth: Law, Policy, and Power. West Virginia University Press.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

  • Howerton, G. 2024. Denying racial animus: Political discourse in Arizona anti-ethnic studies legislation. Discourse & Society, 0(0).
  • Howerton, G. 2022. 鈥淩ude and in Defiance of Authority鈥: Arizona Anti-Mexican American Studies Legislation and the Discursive Positioning of the 鈥淩ude鈥 Student of Color. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 40(8): 1609-1626.
  • Martinez, A, C.N. Medina, and G. Howerton. 2018. A response to Kim Hensley Owens鈥檚 鈥淚n Lak鈥檈ch, the Chicano clap, and fear: A partial rhetorical autopsy of Tucson鈥檚 now-illegal ethnic studies classes.鈥 College English. 80(6): 539-545.
  • Howerton, G. and Trauger, A. 2017.Oh honey, don鈥檛 you know?鈥 The social construction of food access in a food desert. ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies. 16(4): 740-760.

Research Assistance Provided on Public Reports

  • The Center for Popular Democracy. 2016. Whose Opportunity? Profiting off of School Turnaround and Takeover in Atlanta. The Center for Popular Democracy and RiseUp.
Honors And Recognition

Honors And Recognition

  • Feminist Scholar Award Source: 天美传媒 Department of Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (2024)
  • Feminist Service Award Source: 天美传媒 Department of Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (2024)