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Christy Hyman is the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow for Freedom on the Move at Cornell University's Department of History and an Assistant Professor of Human Geography (on leave) at Mississippi State University. Her research focuses on using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to explore critical geography, human/interspecies experiences, and oppressive systems' impacts. She is based in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York.
Her research includes two major book projects: The Cultural Heritage Resilience of the Great Dismal Swamp, under contract with Hamilton Books, and The Jerusalem Oak: Mapping the Counter-Cartographies of Freedom and Struggle, which examines enslaved peoples' spatial conceptions and their influence on post-Emancipation surveillance. She collaborates on a co-edited book on human-environmental dimensions of the Bobolink with ornithologist Frederic Beaudry.
Her awards include the prestigious Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship. While no specific grants or advising roles are detailed, her work intersects with the Public History Initiative and interdisciplinary environmental studies at Cornell.
