Professor Meghan Cope
Professor of Geography, University of Vermont, United States
Email: mcope@uvm.edu
Profile
I use critical social theory to examine processes of marginalization and oppression as they accrete in places and spaces, especially cities. I approach childhood -- and age in general -- as one of many intersecting dimensions of social difference that is implicated in everyday lives and experiences of places in uneven, and often unjust, ways. I'm currently working on a Digital Atlas project called Mapping American Childhoods, where I focus on combining quantitative and qualitative methods, as well as cartography, to explore early twentieth century constructions of childhood and children's daily geographies.