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Dr. Marie Daly Price is a geographer and specialist in international affairs. Price has been president of the American Geographical Society since 2016, the first female to hold the role. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-14/why-equitable-maps-are-more-accurate-and-humane). She is co-author of two textbooks on World Geography which appear on hundreds of college syllabi around the country,(https://opensyllabus.org/result/title?id=32504312499233, https://opensyllabus.org/result/title?id=33071248181304) as well as over sixty articles in peer reviewed journals, twelve chapters in anthologies, and two other books.

Education
A native Californian, Price is the daughter of Ted G. Price and Mrs. Eugene G. Dowd. (https://www.nytimes.com/1987/07/27/style/marie-daly-price-wed-to-robert-crandall-jr.html) She graduated from Thousand Oaks High School and then graduated Phi Betta Kappa from University of California, Berkeley, with an undergraduate degree in Geography. In 1990,Price earned her Ph.D. in Geography from Syracuse University.

Career
The same year as she completed her doctoral work, Price took a faculty position at George Washington University, where she is now a Professor of Geography and International Affairs. A recipient of the 2005 Trachtenberg Prize for Teaching, Price has held various leadership roles while at George Washington University, including Director of Latin American studies from 1999-2001, and chair of the Geography department. When GW wanted to take a critical look at campus culture, she was appointed to the culture-leadership team.

Price's research centers around human migration, natural resource use, environmental conservation, and regional development. In partnership with Lisa Benton-Short, Price works on "GUM: Globalization, Urbanization, and Migration," a project that charts immigration patterns by city. She is also focused on attracting and training young geographers (https://www.gwhatchet.com/2016/03/27/geography-professor-voted-first-female-president-of-national-society/)

Price took a year as a visiting scholar at the Migration Policy Institute in 2006, and she continues as a non-resident scholar.

The American Geographic Society allowed women members since its founding in 1851, and saw significant uptick in women's' membership and publishing starting in 1915, Price was the Society's first female president when she took on the role in 2016. (https://www.jstor.org/stable/215960) Even that presidency came after Price had been active in the Society for over two decades. (https://www.jstor.org/stable/215960

Board Member and Chair of the Selection Committee

Dream Project - VA

Jan 2013 – Present

Arlington, VA

I am a Board Member with the Dream Project-VA. The Dream Project is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization registered in the state of Virginia.

Publications

Personal life
In 1987 Price married Robert Wilson Crandall Jr. (https://www.nytimes.com/1987/07/27/style/marie-daly-price-wed-to-robert-crandall-jr.html)

https://www.gwhatchet.com/2016/03/27/geography-professor-voted-first-female-president-of-national-society/

Marie Price, a professor of geography and international affairs, will become the first female president in the history of the AGS this June. Price said she hopes to focus on increasing the diversity of the society’s members and including more young people.

Price said she hopes that her tenure as president will reshape the demographics of people interested and engaged with geography, which has historically been made up of men.

“I’d like to see the membership grow. I’d like to have more college students involved in the organization. I’d like to see it more diverse, more men, women, more ethnic minorities,” Price said.

She said has seen young people take greater interest in geography recently because of advancements with geography technology, and she wants to capitalize on that momentum in her role.

“I think there are not just people studying geography, but there is a passionate public out there that really likes geographic information. Whether it’s taking quizzes or seeing really cool maps, anything that generates that excitement,” Price said.

She said she plans to generate maps, raise awareness of what geospatial technology can do and sponsor “mapathons” – events during which people analyze satellite photos of unmapped areas and create maps of them.

Price, who has worked at GW for 25 years, previously had stints as the director of Latin American studies and served as the chair of the geography department. In 2005, she received the Trachtenberg Prize for Teaching.

Price said she will also fundraise for AGS scholarships and will oversee the process of reviewing and awarding grants.

Price said she will remain in her position as a professor at GW, but her new job will require many late nights traveling back and forth to the society’s headquarters in New York City.

The council voted her president-elect after former president Jerome E. Dobson announced his retirement from the post. He will remain on the council when his presidential term ends in the summer.

Price said she has enjoyed being involved with the AGS because it is another outlet for her interests in the field.

“At the core, I am very passionate about geography,” Price said. “I’m happy to be part of an organization that is trying to talk to people in meaningful ways.”

Pettit, Emma. "A University Wanted to Improve its Culture. so it Called Disney." The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2019''. ProQuest'', http://ezproxy.castilleja.org/trade-journals/university-wanted-improve-culture-so-called/docview/2328945200/se-2?accountid=601.

Marie Price, a member of the culture-leadership team and a geography professor, said the fact that the Disney Institute was involved turned off some faculty members from the start. “I get that,” she said. “I would say I was skeptical as well. But I also wanted to be open minded about it, and also to see what we could get from their experience.”

The workshops, she added, are supposed to be the beginning of the process, not the end.

“Trying to change culture is not easy,” Price said. But, she said, this type of effort is a first for George Washington. “We are talking about things that we’ve never talked about before.”

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Locally, she serves on the Board of the Dream Project, a not-for-profit registered in Virginia that supports undocumented students to access and succeed in college through scholarships, mentoring, and advocacy. Her current research is on the spatial dynamics of immigrant inclusion and exclusion as well as innovations in geographic education. She is also interested in participatory mapping and open source platforms as a way to engage students in research, service, and analysis. She is co-author of the leading textbooks in world geography: Diversity Amid Globalization: World Regions, Environment and Development, 7th edition (2017, Pearson) and Globalization and Diversity: Geography of a Changing World, 5th edition (2016, Pearson). Her publications also include a co-authored report Migrants’ Inclusion in Cities: Innovative Urban Policies and Practices (2012, United Nations), co-edited book Migrants to the Metropolis: The Rise of Immigrant Gateway Cities (2008, Syracuse University Press) and over 50 refereed articles and book chapters.

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Dream Project - VA

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I am a Board Member with the Dream Project-VA. The Dream Project is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization registered in the state of Virginia.

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https://ubique.americangeo.org/society-news/get-to-know-dr-marie-d-price-new-president-of-ags/

Dr. Marie D. Price will soon add ‘President of AGS’ to her already long list of achievements in the field of geography. A Professor of Geography and International Affairs at the George Washington University for 26 years, Price will also be the first woman to hold the title of President for the society. Price earned a BA in Geography from Berkeley, and a PhD in Geography from Syracuse University, yet she says that prior to studying abroad in Ireland in college, she had no idea that the discipline of geography existed.

Price’s studies focus on human migration, natural resource use, environmental conservation, and regional development. Price’s work in human migration is particularly relevant today, as the world becomes increasingly globalized. “When people talk about ‘globalization’ they think of it as the flow of goods and capital, but a really important aspect of globalization is the movement of people,” says Price. She continues by asking the question, “what is the relationship between economic globalization and the more cosmopolitan diverse society we live in?”

Price calls the tone of today’s migration conversations, “disturbing…negative…hateful.”  She says that, “immigration always goes through these cycles, and right now the words ‘immigration and crisis’ are linked. It is not always that way.”

In the early 2000s, Price began to wonder which world cities had the largest immigrant populations. Price, along with colleague Lisa Benton-Short, began working on a project which they called, GUM: Globalization, Urbanization, and Migration ( http://gum.columbian.gwu.edu/ )  The two geographers decided to map the urban areas with the highest numbers of immigrants. The project was expected to take weeks, but quickly turned into a multi-year project. Price says that no one collects urban immigration data at a global scale. The United Nations collects country-level data on the foreign-born, but since most immigrants move to cities, collecting data at the urban scale reveals more nuanced patterns of settlement.

“When talking about immigration people will say, ‘why is it geographical?’ Well, because it’s extremely uneven,” Price points out. “There’s a real spikiness to it. It’s not like spreading margarine across toast-there are peaks and valleys. Some places get large numbers of immigrants, other don’t get any.”

New York City remains the metropolitan area with the largest population of foreign-born people in the world. But according to Price, there are other major immigrant destinations with over 1 million immigrants that are less studied such as Madrid, Moscow, and Riyadh.

“The consequences of large numbers of diverse peoples coming into an area is that it changes that place,” explains Price. But this is not always considered a negative shift. “When I talk to people in their twenties who grow up in big, metropolitan areas they just assume that diversity is the norm.”

Price also suggests that studying the places people are leaving is just as important as studying the places where newcomers settle. She feels that in America, we often only look at one side of the flow.

“I think human mobility is part of human nature, our innate curiosity. There have always been people who want to move. We wouldn’t be humans settled across the earth if that were not the case. But I think there’s a sedentary bias in how we think about migration” adds Price. “People become a part of a place and once their roots are there, they often don’t choose to leave. Today’s immigrants often feel that they have to leave for some kind of gain or benefit…Certainly there are economic reasons for people leaving, there are family reasons for people leaving, there are conflict reasons, and there is human curiosity, which are all drivers of migration.”

Price has been involved with the American Geographical Society Council for over two decades, and will soon become the Society’s president. “I believe there’s never been a better time to have a body in which people in government, business, and academia talk to one another. These three groups don’t often all sit together in the same room…I like the idea that the kind of skills and thinking that geographers have are being shared with people in government and business, and I think we in academia can learn from people in government and business as well.”

Price also mentions the importance of gaining the support of young geographers. Currently, over 200,000 high school students sit the Advanced Placement Human Geography exam each year. Price hopes to use AGS as a way to show students that geography is not just a subject to study in school, but a discipline that can lead to all kinds of career opportunities.

Price’s passion for geography is obvious when she concludes our interview by declaring, “I think it’s a great time to be a geographer!”