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I am thrilled to share that I have joined the Soli*City Network as a collaborator! The sanctuary story map and archive that Anastasia and I created, which stems from my research on sanctuary, connected me with these folks and brought us together. The conversations I have had with colleagues who are in the network and […]

I am so grateful to Emilee Klein from the Daily Hampshire Gazette who wrote an excellent article about our sanctuary story map and archive. You can read the profile here. Anastasia Tucker and I thoroughly enjoyed our conversation with Emilee. We appreciated her keen understanding of the complexities of data visualizations and archiving! Anastasia and

Drum roll please!! After many years of dreaming about this project and months of collaboration, I am thrilled to announce that Anastasia Tucker and I are launching our story map of U.S. sanctuary policies and accompanying open-access policy archive!! Our story map spatially and temporally depicts immigration sanctuary policies that were passed at the city,

It is my great pleasure to share that Dan Trudeau and I recently published, “What cities can learn from Seattle’s racial and social justice law” in The Conversation. In this piece, we draw upon research from my book, Imagining Seattle: Social Values in Urban Governance, to discuss Seattle’s recent passage of a Race and Social Justice Initiative Ordinance. We

I am excited to share that “Rethinking Translation: Emergent, Geographic, and Transformative,” written by Dan Trudeau and myself, was just published in ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies! ACME is an open source journal so you can access the PDF of our article for *free* right here. Our reconceptualization of translation as emergent and geographic

One part of my fall 2022 course, ‘Global Movements: Migrations, Refugees, and Diasporas,’ was a visit to the Mount Holyoke College art museum to develop visual literacy skills through close observations of a range of visual representations of migration. After the dynamic and informative visit, I was thrilled when Charlotte Smith, a student in ‘Global

The paperback edition of Imagining Seattle: Social Values in Urban Governance is now out with a discounted price! As Paul Constant writes in the Seattle Review of Books, “Imagining Seattle is a book about the distance between the Seattle that we mythologize to ourselves and to others and the real Seattle that we actually live

The University of Nebraska Press (UNP) has decided to release a paperback edition of Imagining Seattle: Social Values in Urban Governance in the spring 2021 series! Citing the lasting contribution of Houston’s book and the importance of keeping Imagining Seattle in print, the UNP is pleased to release the book at a lower paperback price. Houston