In this guest blog, Dr. Dawn Bowen, Professor of Geography at the University of Mary Washington, writes about a journey she and UMW Geography major Colin Hess made to Haiti in April 2012. During the first week of April, Colin Hess and I undertook a truly transformational journey. We traveled to the island...
It’s now 6.15 am on Monday February 27, and I am sipping a cup of coffee in Suvarnabhumi Airport, Bangkok’s new, gleaming and vast international air gateway. I arrived here late last night on a journey that began on Saturday in Richmond, Virginia, when I boarded 7.40am flight for Chicago. There I connected to a 16-hour...
Cambodia is best known for Angkor Wat, the vast temple built in the first half of the 12th century by King Suryavarman II to honor the Hindu goddess Vishnu (and, more than incidentally, himself too.) Angkor Wat, though, is by no means the only temple dating back to the days of the Angkor empire....
Guest post by Dr. Dawn Bowen, Professor of Geography at the University of Mary Washington. Young women in a tree nursery in Guatemala, part of a development project run by Community Cloud Forest Conservation In January, I traveled to Guatemala to interview young Maya women who had received scholarships so continue their secondary education. ...
Part One: The Arab Spring in Bahrain is posted separately. Part Two: The American Fall in Richmond Coming to America In October 2011, explicitly drawing on the methods of Arab Spring protests, the Occupy Wall Street movement began. As in Bahrain (see Part One of this blog), a continuous presence in a public place of...
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