Obituary: Julie A. Graham, professor and specialist in regional and economic geography
Julie A. Graham, 64, a professor and specialist in economic and regional geography in the Department of Geosciences, died April 4 in Nashville as she was returning from a three-month research sabbatical in Australia.
Born in 1945, she graduated with a B.A. in English from Smith College in 1968, and after completing her Ph.D. degree at Clark University in 1984, returned to the Pioneer Valley as an assistant professor of Geography. She became a professor of Geosciences in 1998.
Her specialties in economic geography included rethinking economy and economic dynamics; diverse economies and community economies; alternative economic development practice in the US, Australia and the Asia Pacific region; and economic subjectivity and politics.
The scope of her work led her to work closely with the economics faculty here and at other institutions.
Graham’s scholarship overlapped with that of an Australian colleague Katherine Gibson, so much that they began to publish under the pen name J. K. Gibson-Graham. Among other works, the two are authors of “A Postcapitalist Politics and the End of Capitalism (As We Knew It),” subtitled “A Feminist Critique of Political Economy,” both from the University of Minnesota Press.
Further information can be found on the Department of Geosciences website.
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Julie Graham (1945-2010)
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