Sallie Ann Marston
Birthday: 1953
Regents' Professor Sallie Ann Marston is internationally renowned for her groundbreaking work on social theory, citizenship, and social reproduction. One of the world's leading feminist geographers, her research intersects political and urban geography as well as socio-spatial theory. Best known for her theoretical contributions to the concept of scale in geography and other social sciences, Marston was honored in 2012 with the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Association of Geographers – the most distinguished honor in her discipline. At the time of her retirement from the University of Arizona, she had published more than 80 peer reviewed articles and book chapters, was the editor of five scholarly books and had advised 40 graduate students. Her paper on "The Social Construction of Scale" has been cited 2,400 times and, along with a second co-authored piece, "Human Geography without Scale," resulted in a decade-long productive debate in the discipline about one of its central concepts. A prolific textbook writer, her co-authored books on human geography and world regional geography are used in more than 250 colleges and universities across the world. Marston is also noted for her commitment to the Tucson community. She founded and continues to co-direct the Community and School Garden Program, which promotes community engagement for UA students by training them to support teaching and learning in K-12 Title I schools. The program helps build and manage school gardens while supporting teachers in transforming the education and well-being of children, and is a national and international model for university community engagement.