Outstanding Service Award
Dr. Rachel Franklin is a Professor of Geographical Analysis in the Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies (CURDS) and the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology at Newcastle University, theme lead for Spatial Analytics at Newcastle Data, Co-I for the EPSRC-funded Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Geospatial Systems, and the University Lead for Newcastle for the Alan Turing Institute.
Dr. Franklin has a long and distinguished record of service to the American Association of Geographers, beginning as a student representative to SAM (1999-2002), then as Deputy Director (2007-2009), recently through the Population Specialty Group (2010-2017), and now as editor of Geographical Analysis (since 2017).
As editor of Geographical Analysis she has been most directly involved in SAM through the sponsorship of the annual SAM Plenary. She has elevated the significance of the Plenary by inviting speakers to formalize their talks as an invited review, subsequently published in Geographical Analysis. Beyond this, her efforts as editor have helped to increase the visibility of SAM through other actions as well, including developing important special issues and improving time-to-appear for papers. With this journal being the primary outlet of many SAM members, this is noteworthy and significant in many important ways.
Li An from from San Diego State University.
David Wong from George Mason University.
Janet Franklin from Arizona State University.
No Awardees for this year.
Mei-Po Kwan from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Sergio Rey from Arizona State University.
Daniel Griffith from the University of Texas at Dallas, and Alan Murray from Arizona State University.