Pruitt Lecture Series
Evelyn Pruitt was born in 1918 in San Francisco. She received degrees in geography
from UCLA in 1940 and 1943. Evelyn moved to Washington, D.C. in 1942 where she worked
as a cartographic editor with the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. In 1948 Evelyn moved
to the Office of Naval Research (ONR) where she remained until retirement 25 years
later. During her years with ONR she was a prime mover in the development of coastal
science including the foundation of the internationally famous Coastal Studies Institute
at LSU. After retirement she served as a consultant for several organizations including
the Army Corps of Engineers. She sponsored the research of many members of the LSU
geography department including R. J. Russell, F. B. Kniffen, W. G. Haag, R. C. West,
W. G. McIntire and H. J. Walker. Her generous last contribution to LSU geography was
in the form of an endowment to assist women graduate students.
2003
Prof. Anne Buttimer
President, International Geographical Union
Professor, University College, Dublin, Ireland
Landscape, Life and the Heart of Geography:
Pioneering Ideas of Alexander von Humbolt, 1769-1859
2004
Dr. Risa Palm
Executive Vice-Chancellor & Provost
Louisiana State University
Look Who's Talking! The Geography
of International Telecommunication
2005
Dr. Irasema Alcántara-Ayala
Institute of Geography, National Autonomous University
of Mexico (UNAM) and President-Sociedad Mexicana de Geomorfologia
Geomorphology, Natural Hazards, Vulnerability,
and Prevention of Natural Disasters in Developing Countries
2006
Prof. Susan Hanson
Landry University Professor and
Professor of Geography, Clark University
Member, National Academy of Sciences
Geography, Gender, and Entrepreneurship
2007
Dr. Nancy Lewis
Director, Research Program East-West Center, Honolulu
Is Globalization Good for Your Health?
2008
Dr. Judith Carney
Department of Geography
University of California, Los Angeles
African Rice in Atlantic Worlds:
Diasporics of a Crop and its Cuisine
2009
Prof. Sally Horn
Department of Geography
University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Pre-Columbian Agriculture, Forest Disturbance,
and Holocene Climate Variability in the Circum-Caribbean REgion:
Evidence from Sediments and Soils
2010
Dr. Sallie Marston
School of Geography and Development
University of Arizona
Of Eagles and Flies: Orientations to the Site
and Cases of Radical Politics
2011
Dr. Kathleen O'Reilly
Department of Geography
Texas A&M University
Under an Open Sky: Sanitation and the Re-ordering of Spaces in India
2012
Dr. Patricia Gober
Decision Center for a Desert City
Decision Making for Water Security: Reflections
from the USA and Canada
2013
Dr. Sheryl Beach
Geography and Geoinformational Science
George Mason University
A Mirror for the Maya: Using Geoarchaeology
to Understand Ancient Maya Wetland Interactions
2014
Dr. Janice Monk
Geography/Research Social Scientist Emerita, Southwest Institute
for Research on Women
University of Arizona
Washington Women: Practicing Geography in the U.S Government
2015
Dr. Sara McLafferty
Department of Geography and
Geographic Information Science
Centralization and Spatial Transformation of Primary
Health Care Access: Trends in Metropolitan Chicago
2016
Dr. Diane Horn
Department of Geography,
Environment & Development Studies
University of London
Coasts: The Front Line of Climate Change
2017
Dr. Mei-Po Kwan
Geography and Geography
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Uncertain Geographic Context Problem: Implications
for Geographic and Health Research
2018
Dr. Dawn Wright
Chief Scientist Environmental Systems
Research Institute (ESRI)
Swells, Soundings, and Sustainability
in the Ocean
2019
Dr. Antoinetter WinklerPrins
Program Director, Geography and Spatial Sciences, National Science Foundation
Adjunct Professor, Environmental Sciences and Policy Program, John Hopkins University
Global Urban Agriculture: Convergence of Theory and Practice
2021
Dr. Katharine Hayhoe
Climate Scientist
Department of Political Science and Director of Climate Center, Texas Tech University
CEO and Founder of ATMOS Research
Resolving the Added Value of High Resolution Modeling for Climate Extremes
2022
Dr. Emily Yeh
Professor of Geography at University of Colorado Boulder
President, American Association of Geographers (2021-22)
Pests, keystone species and hungry ghosts: Human-pika relations on the Tiberian
Plateau
2023
Dr. Abigail Neely
Associate Professor of Geography at Dartmouth College
Affiliated with African and African-American Studies (AAAS) and the Graduate Program
in
Ecology, Evolution, Environment and Society (EEES) Faculty Fellow, Society of
Fellows
Social Medicine from the South: Lessons for the Age of Global Health
2024
Diana K. Davis
Chair of the Geography Graduate Group and Professor of History at the University
of California
Decolonial Historical Geography? Recovering the Story of the First South African
Veterinarian
2025
Dr. Marilyn Raphael
Professor at UCLA Institute of Environment and Sustainability.
The Recent Extreme Variation in Antarctic Sea ice - a Signal of Structural Change
in the Antarctic Sea
ice System