Biography
Christy Hyman is a PhD student in the Program of Geography at the University of Nebraska Lincoln. Her research focuses on African American efforts toward cultural and political assertion in the Great Dismal Swamp region during the antebellum era. Hyman also examines the attendant social and environmental costs of human/landscape resource exploitation in the Great Dismal Swamp. Christyuses Critical GIS to observe to what extent digital mapping can inform us of the human experience while acknowledging phenomena deriving from oppressive systems in society threatening sustainable futures. Christy’s dissertation is tentatively titled, “Contested Space: Mobilities, Networks, and the Pursuit of Freedom in the Great Dismal Swamp.”