Gloria Howerton, PhD

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Education

BA: University of North Carolina - Greensboro

MA: University of Georgia (Geography)

PhD: University of Georgia (Geography)

Received graduate certificate in GIS from the University of Georgia

Teaching and Research Interests

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

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. “Rude and in Defiance of Authority”: Arizona Anti-Mexican American Studies Legislation and the Discursive Positioning of the “Rude” 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’s “In Lak’ech, the Chicano clap, and fear: A partial rhetorical autopsy of Tucson’s now-illegal ethnic studies classes.” College English. 80(6): 539-545.
Howerton, G. and Trauger, A. 2017. “Oh honey, don’t you know?” 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

Feminist Scholar Award Source: UWEC Department of Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (2024)
Feminist Service Award Source: UWEC Department of Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (2024)