Race, Ethnicity, and Place Conference and Pre-Conference Workshop: Mapping and Empowerment

该奖项支持2023年种族、民族和地方会议（REP）及其会前研讨会。两年一次的REP会议汇集了不同群体的学者，以鼓励和促进地理学和相关科学学科的研究。2023年REP会前研讨会将重点关注地图作为一种赋权工具，特别是在种族、民族和其他少数群体中，探讨该学科内的正义和公平问题。除了社会科学研究和教学之外，会议和研讨会还寻求促进地理学科中历史上代表性不足的群体的更多参与，并通过指导，网络和项目开发支持少数民族研究生以及早期和中期职业教师的专业发展。REP 2023会议通过从广泛的机构（社区学院、文理学院和研究型大学）招募一批新的学者——地理学研究生和职业生涯早期和中期的教师——来推进地图视角的研究和教学。会议特别关注地图在课堂、研究工作和公共教育学中代表和促进不同声音、经验和知识的作用。会议与会者将探讨如何在课程、研究和公共领域中使用地图学，作为从传统边缘化群体中招募学生、未来学者和其他专业人员的重要工具，并推动地理学作为一门包容性学科，寻求促进公平。会议和讲习班是加强和传播关于替代研究方法的知识，增加和加强代表不足的学者可获得的资源，支持研究生和帮助教师成为更好的导师的工具。会议通过积极的招聘和参与，通过设计战略小组和主题演讲来吸引更多的观众，通过为早期职业教师和高级研究生，特别是来自代表性不足的群体提供会前指导和专业发展研讨会，来整合新的参与者。为响应国家劳动力需求，会议推进了培养早期职业学者的制图技能和地理空间分析的目标。会议和研讨会还促进了教育机构、政府和民间社会组织之间的新型合作关系和可持续网络。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award supports the 2023 Race, Ethnicity, and Place Conference (REP) and its pre-conference workshop. The biennial REP meetings bring together diverse groups of scholars to encourage and facilitate research in geography and related scientific disciplines. Through a focus on mapping as a tool for empowerment, especially among racial, ethnic, and other minorities, the 2023 REP pre-conference workshop examines justice and equity issues within the discipline. In addition to social science research and teaching, the conference and workshop seek to promote greater participation of historically underrepresented groups within the discipline of geography and to support the professional development of minority graduate students as well as early and mid-career faculty through mentoring, networking and program development.The REP 2023 conference advances research and teaching of mapping perspectives by recruiting a cadre of new scholars—geography graduate students and early and mid-career faculty—from a broad range of institutions (community colleges, liberal arts colleges, and research universities). The conference focuses especially on the role of mapping in representing and promoting diverse voices, experiences, and knowledge within the classroom, in research endeavors and through public pedagogy. Conference participants examine how cartography may be used in curricula, research and in the public realm as an important tool in recruiting students, future scholars, and other professionals from traditionally marginalized groups and to advance geography as an inclusive discipline that seeks to advance equity. The conference and workshop are vehicles for strengthening and disseminating knowledge regarding alternative research methods, to increase and strengthen resources available to underrepresented scholars, to support graduate students and to aid faculty to be better mentors. The conference integrates new participants through active recruitment and engagement, by designing strategic panels and keynotes to attract a broader audience, and by offering a pre-conference mentoring and professional-development workshop for early-career faculty and advanced graduate students, especially from underrepresented groups. Responding to national workforce needs, the conferences advances goals of training early-career scholars in cartographic skills and geospatial analysis. The conference and workshop also facilitate new collaborative relationships and sustainable networks across educational institutions, governments, and civil society organizations.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.