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Department of Geography

Recent Publications and Grants

A quick overview of recent publications and grant awards

Publications

2026  |  2025  |  2024

2026

Cutter, S. and C.T. Dahlman (accepted) “Insecurity and Impacts of Cascading and Compounding Climate-Sensitive Hazards,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Dahlman, C.T. (accepted, expected 2026). “Donorsheds: Individual Contributions to Harris and Trump,” in J. Heppen et al, Atlas of the 2024 Elections. Forthcoming.

Goel, V., Hassan, W., Murphy, C., Choloi, B. B., Ali, M., Mohamed, B., Zacharia, A., Dominick, M. C., Thwai, K., Mohammed, S., Shija, S. J., Bailey, J. A., Björkman, A., Ngasala, B. E., Rogier, E., Juliano, J. J., & Lin, J. T. 2026. Understanding the Epidemiology of Malaria in Zanzibar through Molecular and Serological analysis of samples collected during Reactive Case Detection. Open Forum Infectious Diseases, ofag051. https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofag051

Goel, V., Janko, M. M., Beach, K. Eb., Yunus, M., Ali, M. T., Al Fazal Khan, M., Alam, M. N., Faruque, A. S. G., Delamater, P. L., Serre, M. L., Sobsey, M. D., Islam, M. S., & Emch, M. 2026. Spatially heterogeneous and neighborhood impacts of deep tubewells on childhood diarrhea in rural Bangladesh. Social Science & Medicine, 393, 119043. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2026.119043

Goel, V., Ziade, M., Chan, B., Yunus, Md., Ali, Md. T., Khan, Md. A. F., Alam, Md. N., Faruque, A., Babu, S., Kabir, Md. M., Delamater, P. L., Serre, M. L., Sobsey, M. D., Islam, Md. S., & Emch, M. 2026. Deep Tubewell Use and Child Diarrhea in Rural Bangladesh: Results from a Prospective Community Surveillance Study. Environmental Health Perspectives, EHP.6c00045. https://doi.org/10.1021/EHP.6c00045 

Robertson, B. W., Dow, K., Cutter, S. L., Salinas, J., Carbone, G., Hiscox, A. (in press). Severe weather and infrastructure: A case study in communicating extreme heat risks with public health professionals. In K. K. Stephens & K. M. Faust (Eds.), Handbook of infrastructure communication. Wiley

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2025

Bednarz, S. and J.T. Mitchell. 2025. “Introduction to the Handbook of Geography Education.” In Handbook of Geography Education. Bednarz, S. and J.T. Mitchell, eds. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature Switzerland AG. 3-11.

Bendl, T., Storrøsæter, H., Madsen, L., Trokšiar, D., de la Martinière, R., Liu, S., Serame, S., Mitchell, J., Bagoly-Simó, P., Duan, Y., and G. Kidman. 2025. “An International Perspective on Geography Curriculums: Paving a Way Forward for Geographical Thinking.” International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education. 34(3): 294-317.

Connelly, S.V., Muller, J.G., Ali, M., Ngasala, B.E., Hassan, W., Mohamed, B., Thwai, K.L., Sadler, J.M., Marglous, J., Fola, A.A., Zacharia, A., Shija, S.J., Mohammed, S., Msolo, D.C., Said, H., Peter, E.E., Odas, M., Rutha, I.J., Nwange, M., Naire, K., Ruybal-Pesántez, S., Verity, R., Crudale, R., Goel, V., Choloi, B.B., Björkman, A., Bailey, J.A., Lin, J.T., Juliano, J.J. 2025. Artemisinin Partial Resistance Mutations in Zanzibar and Tanzania Suggest Regional Spread and African Origins, 2023. The Journal of Infectious Diseases jiaf431. https://doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jiaf431

Crane, A. 2025. “Humanitarian Geographies of Migrant Return: Assisted Voluntary Return and the European Migration Crisis.” Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 

Emch, M., Goel, V. 2025a. Disease ecology in health and medical geography: History, progress, and innovations. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 47, 7–32. https://doi.org/10.1111/sjtg.12581

Emch, M., Goel, V. 2025b. Expanding disease ecology even more: One Health, politics and place. Response to commentaries on Michael Emch and Varun Goel’s ‘Disease ecology in health and medical geography: History, progress, and innovations.’ Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 47, 51–55. https://doi.org/10.1111/sjtg.70046

Gaither, C., Morgan, C., Kirby, R., Karema, C., Gashema, P., Zuromski, J., White, S.J., Topazian, H.M., Giesbrecht, D., Thwai, K., Young, N.W., Goel, V., Boyter, K., Munyaneza, T., Muvunyi, C.M., Butera, J.D.D., Bailey, J.A., Mazarati, J.-B., Juliano, J.J. 2025. Prevalence of asymptomatic non-falciparum and falciparum malaria in the 2014-15 Rwanda Demographic Health Survey. PLoS One 20, e0330480. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0330480

Goel, V., Ding, J., Hatuwal, B., Giri, E., Deliberto, T.J., Lowe, J., Webby, R., Emch, M., Wan, X.-F. 2025. Ecological drivers of evolution of swine influenza in the United States: a review. Emerging Microbes & Infections 14, 2455598. https://doi.org/10.1080/22221751.2025.2455598

Harrison, C. 2025. Book review essay: Energy transitions, settler colonialism, and the politics of place. Political Geography 103409.

Harrison, C. 2026. Brokers of Power: The Financialization of the U.S. Electricity System. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, MN. ISBN: 9781517919016

Harrison, C. 2025. “Finance and the solar transition: Project finance and tax credits as drivers of the U.S. solar rollout.” pp. 23-34. (IN) Sareen, S. and A. Martin (eds.) Geographies of Solar Energy Transitions: Conflicts, Controversies and Cognate Aspects. UCL Press.

Harrison, C. 2025. Trump and U.S. energy transition. Geographical Journal 191:e70009.

Louder, E., C. Harrison, and K. Luke. 2025. Picking up the slack: Faith-based organizations, informal support networks, and energy insecurity, poverty, and vulnerability in the southeastern United States. Energy Research and Social Science 129: 104350.

Mitchell, J.T. 2025. “Ensinando o meio ambiente na geografia escolar: Uma visão dos Estados Unidos [Teaching the Environment in School Geography: A view from the United States.]” Revista Geousp: Espaço e tempo. 29(1): 1-11.

Mitchell, J.T. 2025. “Latitude Makes A Difference: North to South Across Chile’s Middle Regions.” FOCUS on Geography. Vol. 68. https://www.focusongeography.org/publications/photoessays/chile/index.html

Mitchell, J.T. 2025. “Representing Place in the Music Lyrics of Australia’s Midnight Oil.” Journal of Cultural Geography. 42(2): 202-223.

Mitchell, J.T. 2025. “Teaching about Human Rights with the Music of Midnight Oil.” The Geography Teacher. 22(4): 156-162.

Muller, J.G., Dewalt, K., Goel, V., Ali, M., Hassan, W., Mohamed, B., Choloi, B.B., Msolo, D., Zacharia, A., Nwange, M., Kane, R., Bisanzio, D., Emch, M., Björkman, A., Reithinger, R., Shija, S.J., Ngasala, B.E., Juliano, J.J., Lin, J.T. 2025. Integrating mobility, travel survey, and malaria case data to understand drivers of malaria importation to Zanzibar, 2022–2023. Malaria Journal 24, 373. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-025-05605-1

Sun, J., Bhimireddy, S. R., Kristovich, D. A. R., Wang, J., Hiscox, A. L., Mahrt, L., & Petty, G. W. (2025). Impacts of Terrain Slope and Surface Roughness Variations on Turbulence Generation in the Nighttime Stable Boundary Layer. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 130(6). https://doi.org/10.1029/2024jd041815

Welton, S. and C. Harrison. 2025. Lessons in Climate Derisking: The United States’ Failed Nuclear Renaissance. University of Pennsylvania Law Review 173: 705-788.

White, S.J., Tchuenkam, V.P.K., Mbouh, M., Gaither, C., Bouopda-Tuedom, A.G., Kiam, B.C., Popkin-Hall, Z.R., Sadler, J.M., Carey-Ewend, K., Hand, E., Ngum, M.N., Ngomsi, Y.N., Bailey, J.A., Kaunda, D.B., Mafo, L.K., Lemogo, G.N., Dinka, C.L., Nsani, C.A., Noubom, M., Goel, V., Ibrahima, I., Onguene, J.C., Lin, F.-C., Lin, J.T., Nsango, S.E., Dinglasan, R.R., Juliano, J.J., Ali, I.M., 2025. Epidemiology of ovale, vivax and falciparum malaria in the highlands of Cameroon: An integrated community survey of human infection and vector abundance. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 19, e0013549. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0013549

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2024

Dahlman, C.T. and C. Gallaher. 2024. “Of Chakras and Shock-troops: Insurrectionary affinities to alternative religious movements.” Antipode. https://antipodeonline.org/2024/12/12/new-spatialities-of-the-far-right/  

Dahlman, C.T. 2024. Geographical Imagination. In: Warf, B. (eds) The Encyclopedia of Human Geography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25900-5_270-1

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Grants

Goel, Varun: Importation and transmission of malaria in Zanzibar: A case study for elimination, National Institutes of Health (subcontract from UNC Chapel Hill), 2024–2025

Goel, Varun: Modeling Climate Impacts on Malaria in Tanzania and Mozambique, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (subcontract from Ifakara Health Institute), 2024–2028

Goel, Varun: Predicting the Spread of antimalarial drug resistance using deep learning surrogates, National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)/NIH (subcontract from UNC Chapel Hill), 2025–2030

Goel, Varun: SEC Visiting Faculty Travel Grant, University of Florida, 2025–2026.

Wang, Sicheng: Propel Research Mentorship Program, NSF CAREER Track, 2025–2026.


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