Sharon Wilcox Adams
Doctoral Candidate
Doctoral Candidate
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Welcome!
Welcome to my homepage. I am a doctoral candidate in the Department of Geography at the University of Texas.
Recent News
12/15/2011
Making Animal Meaning has been published! This volume includes my chapter, "On the Trail of the Devil Cat: Hunting for the Jaguar in the United States and Mexico."
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12/1/2011
Wrapping up the fall semester, and looking forward to a productive winter break! AAG and four other conferences are looming on the horizon for me, as well as due dates on a book chapter and an article draft!
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9/1/2011
A new semester is upon us! I have my hands full this semester, teaching courses on two campuses, supervising an undergraduate independent study project, and participating in the Center for Teaching and Learning's Teaching Scholar Certificate Program.
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7/9/2011
Greetings from Flagstaff, AZ-- I have escaped the Texas heat to spend a month attending “Rethinking the Land Ethic,” a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute. This Institute represents a unqiue opportunity to work with other scholars to examine the ways in which environmental sustainability can be incorporated into both our research and teaching.
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4/18/2011
Another fantastic AAG in Seattle-- thank you to all who attended our sessions on Animal Geography.
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4/8/2011
Whew, we have just returned from a whirlwind month in Europe. I started the month attending the Spring Academy in American History, Culture & Politics hosted by the Heidelberg University Center for American Studies in Germany. From there, we traveled throughout Germany, Austria, Slovenia, and Croatia.
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1/21/11
Happy New Year! I am enjoying living in my hometown while working in the Special Collections at The Joseph F. Cullman 3rd Library of Natural History at the Smithsonian Institution. We are gearing up for a great deal of travel, conferences, research and writing this spring.
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12/10/10
The semester has flown by far too fast. I want to thank all of my wonderful students for a great semester. I am gearing up to start my tenure as a Baird Society Scholar in Residence at the Smithsonian in January.
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11/01/2010
I just returned from a great conference in Washington, DC, the Mid Atlantic Popular Culture/American Culture Association, where I breathed some new life into my Garifuna research.
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09/01/2010
A new semester has started, and I am excited to be teaching at the University of Texas- San Antonio as an Adjunct Lecturer. I will be teaching Human Geography and the Conservation of Natural Resources.
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6/10/2010
I recently returned from an enriching trip to Europe. I attended the Animal Movements * Moving Animals conference in Uppsala, Sweden, which provided the opportunity to network with professionals working in critical animal studies from across the globe.
Our trip also took us to Prague, Vienna, and Berlin. Berlin in particular had a lasting impression, and I think this will be the site of a future project...
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4/8/2010
I just received word that my chapter proposal was selected out of a field of more than 60 submissions the forthcoming edited volume Animals in Place.
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3/1/2010
I was recently awarded a Certificate in Teaching Research Skills by the Graduate Student Instructor Program of the Division of Instructional Innovation and Assessment here at UT. I highly recommend this program to graduate students at UT. (Update 7/09/2011: I have also completed certificates in five other concentrations.)
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2/10/2010
I am very honored to have been awarded the 2010 AAG (Association of American Geographers) Cultural Geography Specialty Group's Terry Jordan-Bychkov Award for best student paper at the doctoral level with an entry entitled "Spotted in the Wilderness: Documenting the Jaguar in the Nineteenth Century." This award holds special meaning for our Department at UT, as Professor Terry Jordan-Bychkov (1938-2003) was the Walter Prescott Webb Professor in the Department of Geography & the Environment.
Update 4/20/2010
This paper was also awarded Honorable Mention by the Communication Geography Specialty Group.
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1/15/2010
I am very excited to welcome our latest addition to the family, El Tigre. El Tigre is a Bengal cat (a hybrid of Asian Leopard Cat and domestic cat.) I am very much looking forward to his contributions and perspectives.
Photo by Helmi Flick
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1/1/2010
Wishing everyone a happy, healthy and productive New Year!
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12/1/2009
Thank you to everyone for their support and compassion following our car accident in Weatherford, TX this past September. I am happy to report that myself, Andy, Sarah, and Claire are on the long road to recovery.
Making Animal Meaning has been published! This volume includes my chapter, "On the Trail of the Devil Cat: Hunting for the Jaguar in the United States and Mexico."
***
12/1/2011
Wrapping up the fall semester, and looking forward to a productive winter break! AAG and four other conferences are looming on the horizon for me, as well as due dates on a book chapter and an article draft!
***
9/1/2011
A new semester is upon us! I have my hands full this semester, teaching courses on two campuses, supervising an undergraduate independent study project, and participating in the Center for Teaching and Learning's Teaching Scholar Certificate Program.
***
7/9/2011
Greetings from Flagstaff, AZ-- I have escaped the Texas heat to spend a month attending “Rethinking the Land Ethic,” a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute. This Institute represents a unqiue opportunity to work with other scholars to examine the ways in which environmental sustainability can be incorporated into both our research and teaching.
***
4/18/2011
Another fantastic AAG in Seattle-- thank you to all who attended our sessions on Animal Geography.
***
4/8/2011
Whew, we have just returned from a whirlwind month in Europe. I started the month attending the Spring Academy in American History, Culture & Politics hosted by the Heidelberg University Center for American Studies in Germany. From there, we traveled throughout Germany, Austria, Slovenia, and Croatia.
***
1/21/11
Happy New Year! I am enjoying living in my hometown while working in the Special Collections at The Joseph F. Cullman 3rd Library of Natural History at the Smithsonian Institution. We are gearing up for a great deal of travel, conferences, research and writing this spring.
***
12/10/10
The semester has flown by far too fast. I want to thank all of my wonderful students for a great semester. I am gearing up to start my tenure as a Baird Society Scholar in Residence at the Smithsonian in January.
***
11/01/2010
I just returned from a great conference in Washington, DC, the Mid Atlantic Popular Culture/American Culture Association, where I breathed some new life into my Garifuna research.
***
09/01/2010
A new semester has started, and I am excited to be teaching at the University of Texas- San Antonio as an Adjunct Lecturer. I will be teaching Human Geography and the Conservation of Natural Resources.
***
6/10/2010
I recently returned from an enriching trip to Europe. I attended the Animal Movements * Moving Animals conference in Uppsala, Sweden, which provided the opportunity to network with professionals working in critical animal studies from across the globe.
Our trip also took us to Prague, Vienna, and Berlin. Berlin in particular had a lasting impression, and I think this will be the site of a future project...
***
4/8/2010
I just received word that my chapter proposal was selected out of a field of more than 60 submissions the forthcoming edited volume Animals in Place.
***
3/1/2010
I was recently awarded a Certificate in Teaching Research Skills by the Graduate Student Instructor Program of the Division of Instructional Innovation and Assessment here at UT. I highly recommend this program to graduate students at UT. (Update 7/09/2011: I have also completed certificates in five other concentrations.)
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2/10/2010
I am very honored to have been awarded the 2010 AAG (Association of American Geographers) Cultural Geography Specialty Group's Terry Jordan-Bychkov Award for best student paper at the doctoral level with an entry entitled "Spotted in the Wilderness: Documenting the Jaguar in the Nineteenth Century." This award holds special meaning for our Department at UT, as Professor Terry Jordan-Bychkov (1938-2003) was the Walter Prescott Webb Professor in the Department of Geography & the Environment.
Update 4/20/2010
This paper was also awarded Honorable Mention by the Communication Geography Specialty Group.
***
1/15/2010
I am very excited to welcome our latest addition to the family, El Tigre. El Tigre is a Bengal cat (a hybrid of Asian Leopard Cat and domestic cat.) I am very much looking forward to his contributions and perspectives.
Photo by Helmi Flick
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1/1/2010
Wishing everyone a happy, healthy and productive New Year!
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12/1/2009
Thank you to everyone for their support and compassion following our car accident in Weatherford, TX this past September. I am happy to report that myself, Andy, Sarah, and Claire are on the long road to recovery.
Photo: Tammy Spratt
"The Gaze"
