Rickie Sanders is Professor of Geography and Urban Studies at Temple University. Her interests are representations of the city, photography, and race/class/gender. She is currently working on a collaborative project, “Mapping Perceptions of Violence/Safety in the Lives of African American Women in Norristown, PA.” She was named a Fellow in the Center for the Humanities at Temple (2006) and served as Director of the Greater Philadelphia Women’s Studies Consortium. She was recently honored by the Association of American Geographers with an award for Enhancing Diversity in the field; prior to that she was awarded the Outstanding Teaching Award. She has published in numerous journals (Antipode, Revista Artemis XI, The Professional Geographer, Journal of Research and Didactics in Geography) and has had two exhibitions of her photos at Temple University.
Academic Center on Research in Diversity at Temple University