Saturday, March 29, 2025 at 2 PM
Drs. Daniel and Susan Arreola will be speaking about “The Geographer’s Eye: Sight and Insight.” They will explain, along with audience participation, how geographers view place and landscape. The audience will be asked to share their responses to a slide exercise so that we all learn how our views of places and landscapes have at least two dimensions, a “Sight” and an “Insight.”
Daniel Arreola is a cultural geographer who specializes in the study of the Mexican American borderlands and Hispanic/Latino/a populations in the United States. He is a Fellow of the American Association of Geographers (AAG), recipient of the Paul P. Vouras Medal from The American Geographical Society for his studies in regional geography, and the Carl O. Sauer Distinguished Scholarship Award and the Preston E. James Eminent Latin Americanist Career Award from the Conference of Latin American Geographers for his Mexican borderland studies. He is also the recipient of Ethnic Geography Distinguished Scholar from the Ethnic Geography Specialty Group of the AAG, and Distinguished Lecturer from the Historical Geography Specialty Group of the AAG. Daniel is the author of seven books including Tejano South Texas (2002) and Postcards from the Baja California Border (2021), both received awards from the American Association of Geographers. The latter book was selected by Smithsonian Magazine as one of the ten best books about travel in 2021.
Susan Arreola is a former research planner for the City of Phoenix who has a Ph.D. in urban geography from Arizona State University (2002). She taught for more than a decade as an adjunct faculty at ASU and Scottsdale Community College. Susan served as an officer and board member for Jardineros de Placitas and board member at Placitas Community Library.
For the past decade, Dan and Susan have been living up to their retirement motto, “See this world before the next,” traveling to places near and far courtesy of Viking Ocean and River Cruises and Road Scholar.