Kate D. Derickson
She received her dual-title Ph.D. in Women’s Studies and Geography May of 2011. She is currently an associate professor in geography and gender, women, and sexuality studies at the University of Minnesota.
Professional Bio
Kate runs the Praxis Lab (z.umn.edu/praxislab) and is the co-director of the CREATE project, funded by the University of Minnesota’s Grand Challenges initiative to develop environmental research with communities. Her work has appeared in a range of journals, including Society & Space, The Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Progress in Human Geography, and Urban Studies. She is an editor of the journal Society & Space, an associate at the University of Minnesota’s Institute on the Environment and a 2015–2017 McKnight Land-Grant Professor.