Priscilla McCutcheon

Dr. McCutcheon is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Associate Chair and Director of Undergraduate Studies for African American and Africana Studies at the University of Kentucky. Her scholarship in Black food geographies and land politics weaves together geographies of religious organizations, environmental justice, land/food access, and Black geographies to interrogate the structural inequalities and racial disparities in land ownership, particularly in the U.S. South. She has served on the editorial boards of Progress in Environmental Geography, Environment and Planning E, and Agricultural and Human Values, as well as serving as Chair of the Black Geographies Specialty Group and committee member on the American Association of Geographers (AAG) Finance Committee, Awards Committee, and Diversity Committee. She is the recipient of numerous awards including the inaugural Rickie Sanders Junior Faculty Award from the Feminist Geography Specialty Group, Emerging Diversity Scholar Citation from the National Center for Institutional Diversity, Diversity and Inclusion Fellow from the University of Kentucky, and Transdisciplinary Research Award from the University of Louisville. Dr. McCutcheon is also a 2023 AAG Fellow.