Faculty Notes | Zoltán Grossman | 2024-2025

Zoltán Grossman’s spring 2024 class “Decolonizing Place Names” presented its Mountain Name Change Project report, on changing the name of Mount Rainier, to the Puyallup Tribe Heritage Division and Evergreen’s Equity Symposium. He presented on the name-change project to the 2025 American Association of Geographers (AAG) conference, and on “Tribal Disaster Resilience, Climate Change, and the Move to Higher Ground on the Washington Coast” to the 2024 conference. Zoltán’s students’ Olympia’s Hidden Histories walking tours won the 2024 Olympia Historical Society Heritage Award. He published “Tribal Collaborations in Developing Place-Based Pedagogies for Public-Facing Student Projects” (at Evergreen) in The Professional Geographer, contributed “Intercultural Alliances” to the Routledge edited volume Environmental Justice in North America, and co-authored an AAG Review of Books review of Struggles for Climate Justice: Uneven Geographies and the Politics of Connection. He published articles on “ When Disasters Create Unlikely Alliances” (Zócalo Public Square), “Lessons of Kristallnacht, ‘Civil War,’ and Mass Deportation” (Counterpunch), and “Protecting fish, building bridges,” with Debra McNutt (Capital Times). Zoltán was interviewed on the podcasts Coming from Left Field, Nerd Farmer, and Refuse Fascism. He presented on his book Unlikely Alliances as a conference panelist at Missouri State and UBC, and recently served on Ph.D. dissertation committees at Oxford University, University of Victoria, Concordia University of Montreal, and Columbia University.   https://sites.evergreen.edu/zoltan