Isaac Rivera Joins Geography as a New Assistant Professor
My research program is collaborative, community oriented, and interdisciplinary. My research and teaching spans several intersecting fields in human geography, including digital geographies, Latinx & Indigenous geographies, the geohumanities, urban settler colonialism, and environmental justice. My research investigates the making and unmaking of settler imaginaries in Colorado and how Denver’s Indigenous communities refuse otherwise. I am currently working on a book project titled, Insurgent Cartographies & The Undoing of Settler Imaginaries. In addition to my book project, I am also exploring questions on matters of pedagogy in Latinx geographies, including the tensions, contradictions, and responsibilities of enacting Latinx geographies on Indigenous lands. As a Xicanx geographer, teacher, and organizer, I strive to be a good relative, colleague, and community member across the Latinx diaspora and beyond.
My latest paper, (Re)Mapping Native Denver & The Making of Native Assembled Counter-Cartographies is forthcoming in the journal, Geohumanities.