Meredith is one of forty recipients of a 2017-2018 American Association of University Women (AAUW) American Dissertation Fellowship. Recipients are selected on the basis of scholarly excellence, quality and originality of project design, and active commitment to helping women and girls through service in their communities, professions, or fields of research. See more information about .

Meredith DeBoom’s research analyzes how rising Chinese investment influences the multiscalar politics of resource extraction, development, and state building in Namibia. Her investigation of how place-based identities and (geo)politics shape citizens’ perceptions of mining will help address mining-associated conflict and inequality. A first-generation college student, she also mentors students from historically underrepresented backgrounds.
 

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This course focuses on the international and cross-national perspectives of political geography.  It deals with political, economic and social aspects of international relations from a geographical perspective and examines the post Cold War and post 9-11 world.  As such, the course has an integrative character and requires basic knowledge about international affairs.  Frequent reading of a substantive newspaper or magazine, such as The New York Times, The Guardian, Christian Science Monitor, the Economist or the BBC News webpage (news.bbc.co.uk) would help significantly to acquire (or develop) knowledge of global locations and current events.

The course is designed for the upper-division level.  It surveys some important aspects of the discipline of political geography but does not engage in a systematic survey of regional issues and conflicts.  Instead, case studies of contemporary developments, including the role of nationalism in global South states, the geopolitics of rising powers like China and India, and the causes of environmental and natural resource conflicts in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, are used to illustrate key concepts from the lectures and readings.

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The Department of Geography is pleased to announce that Angela Cunningham and Meredith DeBoom have received the James A. and Jeanne B. DeSana Graduate Research Award for Spring 2017. This award assists Geography graduate students with funding for their research projects.

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The Department of Geography is pleased to announce that Angela Cunningham and Meredith DeBoom have received the James A. and Jeanne B. DeSana Graduate Research Award for Spring 2017. This award assists Geography graduate students with funding for their research projects.

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Meredith DeBoom has been selected to receive a 2017-2018 Graduate School Dissertation Completion Fellowship. This fellowship provides one semester of full support during the 2017-18 academic year

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Meredith was awarded a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement (DDRI) grant by the Geography and Spatial Sciences Program. The award will support her dissertation research project titled "Geopolitical Shifts in the Geographies of Extractive Economies."

For more information, see the 

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Meredith has been named a Philanthropic Education Organization (P.E.O.) Evelyn K. Aitken Named Scholar. The P.E.O. Scholar Awards (PSA) were established in 1991 to provide substantial merit-based awards for women pursuing doctoral degrees in the U.S. and Canada. Of the 85 doctoral students selected as P.E.O. Scholars in 2015, the 13 most outstanding scholars were chosen for named or endowed awards. The $15,000 Evelyn K. Aitken Named Scholar Award will support Meredith's dissertation research on the politics and geopolitics of natural resource extraction and governance in Namibia.

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The 2013-2014 recipients of Geography's Awards for Excellence in Graduate Teaching have been awarded to:

Meredith DeBoom for the Teaching Assistant Award

Julia Hicks for the Graduate Part Time Instructor (GPTI) Award

Both awards carry a $1,000 fellowship.

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The Africa Specialty Group notified Meredith that she is the winner of the 2014 Student Paper Competition. Her award will be presented at the upcoming AAG meeting in Tampa, Florida.

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Beverly Sears Graduate Student Research Grants for 2014-2015 have been awarded to Meredith DeBoom, Aaron Malone and Galen Murton. These grants are competitive awards sponsored by the Graduate School that support the research, scholarship and creative work of graduate students from all departments. All funding is provided by private donations.

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