Kendra McSweeney, professor in the Department of Geography and CLAS faculty affiliate, has been awarded the Distinguished Career Award by the Cultural and Political Ecology (CAPE) Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers. She was recognized for her incredible breadth of scholarship and inspiring intellectual agility.

A rare three-degree geographer, she has published on ethnobotany, forest dependency, the dugout canoe trade, demography, post-hurricane coping strategies, biodiversity conservation, topographic maps, urbanization of indigenous populations, rural households' livelihoods, plantation agriculture among smallholders, forest recovery, climate disaster and opportunity, health surveys, economic geography for land change science, vaccines, fertility and power in indigenous health, conditional cash transfers, the illicit geography of cocaine, sexual harassment in academia, neocolonialism in corporate social responsibility, drivers of land-climate dynamics, and the military agro-industrial complex. Congratulations Dr. McSweeney - your intellectual agility and commitment to diverse publics is inspiring!