Rebecca Lave

Rebecca Lave is a geographer, professor of geography at Indiana University Bloomington (IU), and the current president of the American Association of Geographers (AAG).

Quotes

• I think that it’s very helpful that I was 30 when I started my PhD. I took time to do other things between high school and college, and college and my masters, and masters and my PhD. So it meant that when my initial committee said no, I thought, "Well, you’re not the boss of me. I’m here for my own intellectual path, and I’m going to figure out how to do what I want to do." I don’t think I would have had the confidence to do that at age 21—speaking just about myself at 21.
  • From Marilyn Raphael's June 1st, 2023 article in the AAG President's Column. "Welcoming a New President to AAG: Interview with Rebecca Lave"

• The first thing I tell students is that geography is the field that has the most intellectual freedom of any part of the academy. To me the beautiful part about geography is that you have no excuse for ever being bored. Every week, when you go into colloquium, you’re hearing about something totally different and outside of the normal academic arena that you’re used to, and I love that about geography.
  • From Marilyn Raphael's June 1st, 2023 article in the AAG President's Column. "Welcoming a New President to AAG: Interview with Rebecca Lave"

External links

• Indiana University Department Profile