Karen Culcasi, assistant professor of geography at West Virginia University, has been appointed to the editorial review board for Geographical Review.

The journal is one of the leading authoritative and scholarly periodicals devoted exclusively to geography. It is published quarterly by The American Geographical Society.

“I am pleased and honored to join the new editorial board of the Geographical Review, “Culcasi said. “I look forward to supporting the board’s endeavors to increase the intellectual and scholarly impacts of one of geography’s oldest and most well-established journals.”

Geographical Review’s board is made up of internationally known experts in geography and related fields from across the United States.

Culcasi’s research and teaching uses critical and feminist geopolitical frames to examine contested places and identities. Her work focuses on the Middle East and the Arab world.

She is currently examining how Palestinian refugees in Jordan and the United States map and imagine their homeland, and how Syrian refugee women in Jordan are negotiating their changing gender roles during this time of crisis.

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