Naomi Hazarika AAG Council and Speciality Group Awards
Naomi Hazarika wins AAG Fellowship Award 2023
Naomi Hazarika, PhD student of Geography, has been awarded the AAG-Urban Geography Speciality Group Graduate Student Fellowship Award 2023. The Fellowship is intended to provide targeted support for original Master's research and for early-stage doctoral dissertation research 鈥 while also ensuring award recipients have well-developed research proposals. Naomi was awarded by the Urban Geography Speciality Group Board members in person at the AAG Annual Meeting 2023 held in Denver.
The Fellowship award will help Naomi with travel and living expenses as she travels to India for a year to do fieldwork for her dissertation tentatively titled 鈥楿rban 鈥楻e鈥-development: Financialization, Caste and Embodied Infrastructural Realities of Slum Redevelopment in Delhi, India鈥.
Naomi Hazarika wins AAG Council Award for Best Graduate Student Paper at the GPRM Regional Division meeting
Naomi Hazarika, PhD student of Geography, has been announced as the Great Plains-Rocky Mountain Division Annual Meeting winner of the Best Graduate Paper Award 2022. The title of her paper is 鈥淯rban 鈥楻e鈥-development: Geographies of Caste and the Embodied Infrastructural Realities of Slum Redevelopment in Delhi, India.鈥
This award is designed to encourage undergraduate and graduate student participation at AAG Regional Division meetings and support their attendance at AAG Annual Meetings. Naomi will receive $1,000 in funding for use towards the registration and travel costs to the AAG Annual Meeting where she will present her paper along with the awardees from all the other regions.
