Huge congratulations to Dr. Katrina Stack (PhD ‘26), who will be joining the University of South Florida this fall as Assistant Professor of U.S. Public History!
Katrina Stack
@katgeographic.bsky.social
cultural geographer. public historian. views my own. www.katrinastack.com
“‘A Place in This World’: Critical Placemaking and Identity Formation at Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour” was co-authored by Dr. Katrina Stack while she was completing her PhD in our department. The article is now published in GeoHumanities! Read it at the 🔗 here: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/FYJDV...
Officially a Swiftie Geographer ✨ read “‘A Place in This World’: Critical Placemaking and Identity Formation at Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour,” published now in GeoHumanities! www.tandfonline.com/eprint/FYJDV...
This fall, I’ll be joining the University of South Florida as Assistant Professor of U.S. Public History! Grateful, excited, and ready for this next era 💚🤘🏻
for creativity, community and a shared love of the weird and whimsical.
As renaissance fairs become big business, can they retain their counterculture roots?
To what extent has the line between playful community space and commercial spectacle been blurred?
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They may not be historically accurate, but cultural geographers Katrina Stack of the University of Tennessee and Reagan Yessler of Pellissippi State Community College explain why Renaissance fairs remain spaces...
Renaissance fairs began as a countercultural experiment in 1960s California. Today, you might see Vikings strolling alongside mermaids, elves and pirates — with tickets costing more than $50.
We 🫶 our grad students! Our master’s and doctoral students do it all—balancing coursework and thesis or dissertation research while showing up as incredible TAs, teaching associates, and research assistants.🧡🌎 #gpsaw #gradstudentappreciationweek
Where can you find UTK at #AAG2026 next week? Scroll this 🧵 or click the 🔗 below to check out some of the papers, posters, and panels we’re part of at the annual meeting in San Francisco starting March 17! www.canva.com/design/DAHCq...
Bad Bunny has a consulting historian. news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...
Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UW–Madison had just the one.
Bad Bunny collaborated with UW–Madison history professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo on Puerto Rican narratives that accompany the new album “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.”
news.wisc.edu
I love the Olympics because people in my life know that I’m the figure skater / judge who can answer their questions.
My love language: making baked goods for people I care about 🤍
Describing the “loan” of objects taken through colonial violence as “positive” or “very innovative” doesn’t hold up. It leaves the colonial system that put those objects there completely intact. news.artnet.com/art-world/br...
British Museum Launches Long-Term Loan Program to Former Colonies
The British Museum has launched a new scheme that will see it share artifacts in its collection with museums in former British colonies.
news.artnet.com
Because nothing says “one week till your dissertation defense!” like having a broken foot.
On this day 70 years ago, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus. On display at UT Libraries are these sketches done by Beauford Delaney, which precede his Rosa Parks series. They include phrases like "Ain't getting up" and "I will not be moved."
PhD Candidate Katrina Stack @katgeographic.bsky.social presented “Remapping Black Paris: Walking Tours as Embodied Archives and Cartographies” at the REP Conference last week in Albuquerque! Her collaborators are her advisor Derek Alderman @derekgeographer.bsky.social and Monique Y. Wells.
I just sent my dissertation to my committee and asked to schedule my defense.
Check out these call for papers and panelist for #AAG2026 ! If you have a CGSG sponsored session you’d would like us to share, please email the graphic to our grad rep at jlh7707@psu.edu
We are excited to invite you to a one-hour virtual Graduate Program Information Session for the Department of Geography & Sustainability at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville! 📅: Wednesday, October 29, 2025 ⏰: 12:00 PM-1:00 PM EDT Register to attend at this 🔗: tiny.utk.edu/UTKGeogInfo
📢 Call for Panelists | #AAG2026 “Ethics, Creativity, and Refusal in Storytelling and Scholarship” Interested in joining our panel? Email 📩 kstack@vols.utk.edu + EFrazier@MissouriState.edu Full panel description ⬇️ www.canva.com/design/DAG2h...
where was the section 106 review on this?
Olga Nesterova@onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 10mo agoPresident began demolishing the East Wing of the WH to build there his $200M+ ballroom. East Wing was built in 1942 during the presidency of FDR. It was constructed to cover the bunker that he used during WWII and the President's Emergency Operations Center.
recent baking: • dirty chai snickerdoodles • caramel apple macarons • dubai chocolate macarons • brown sugar poptart bars
I really mean it when I say that I hope I can be as good of an advisor and mentor to my future students as my advisors and mentors have been to me throughout the years.
yay field trips! 🧡 loved spending time in @greatsmokynps.bsky.social !
UTK Geography & Sustainability@utkgeography.bsky.social · 10mo agoStudents and instructors from GEOG 200: Environmental Issues in National Parks and GEOG 345: People and Environment spent the day at Look Rock along the Foothills Parkway in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Gave a tour of my exhibit and approved the page proofs of the exhibition album I wrote today!
I trial judged at my first figure skating competition! While it was challenging, I really loved being immersed in skating for a whole weekend ❤️⛸️
As the resident Swiftie and social media girlie of my department, you know I had to ❤️🔥
UTK Geography & Sustainability@utkgeography.bsky.social · 12mo agoReady for a new era 🌎🧡 Seriously, a new semester starts next week!
