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Rivera, Isaac Javier

Assistant Professor

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Research

keywords

  • Latinx & Indigenous Geographies; Digital Geographies; Environmental Justice; Geohumanities

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Teaching

courses taught

  • GEOG 3742 - Place, Power, and Contemporary Culture
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2025 / Spring 2026
    Examines the relationship between places, power, and the dynamics of culture. Explores how the globalization of economics, politics, and culture shapes cultural change. Looks at how place-based cultural politics both assist and resist processes of globalization. Recommended prerequisite: GEOG 1962 or GEOG 1982 or GEOG 1992 or GEOG 2092.
  • GEOG 3782 - Environmentalism, Race, and Justice
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2025
    Examines spatial inequalities in environmental problems and their relationships to environmentalism and racism. Examines the implications for human health, well-being, and sense of place. Identifies factors that contribute to environmental inequalities, with particular attention to environmentalism and racism. Explores efforts to reduce environmental inequality, including by social movements, researchers, students, journalists, political leaders, and government agencies. Introduces students to research methods for documenting and analyzing environmental inequality. Focuses geographically on the United States. Formerly offered as a special topics course. Recommended prerequisite: GEOG 1972.
  • GEOG 4002 - Topics in Human and Environment/Society Geography
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2025
    Examines various topics in human and environment / society geography that are not typically covered in the curriculum. Offered intermittently depending on student demand and availability of instructors.
  • GEOG 4990 - Senior Thesis
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2024 / Spring 2025
    Offers thesis research under faculty supervision. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Instructor consent required.
  • GEOG 5100 - Special Topics: Geography
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2026
    Covers various topics outside of the normal curriculum; offered intermittently depending on student demand and availability of faculty. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours.

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