Rate My Professor John Frazier

Frazier founded the Race, Ethnicity, and Place (REP) Conference in 2002, directing it until 2016 and rotating it across diverse U.S. locations, including Historically Black Colleges and Universities, with funding from the National Science Foundation for minority graduate students. He has led the American Association of Geographers’ Ethnic Geography Specialty Group and co-directs the Johnson City Revitalization Project, a story-mapping initiative documenting demographic, economic, and social changes in Johnson City, New York, driven by Binghamton University’s Health Sciences Campus development. As part-time Director of the GIS Core Facility, he integrates geospatial technology into research and teaching. His key publications, widely used as resources for researchers and instructors, include co-editing three editions of Race, Ethnicity and Place in a Changing America, The African Diaspora in the U.S. and Canada at the Dawn of the 21st Century, and Multicultural Geographies of the United States, as well as co-authoring Race and Place: Equity Issues in Urban America. Frazier’s honors include the 2021 AAG Harold M. Rose Award for Anti-Racism Research and Practice, 2018 Provost’s Award for Faculty Excellence in Undergraduate Research Mentoring, 2018 American Geographical Society Fellowship, 2016 AAG EGSG Scholar Award, 2015 AAG Ronald Abler Distinguished Service Award, 2009 AAG Enhancing Diversity Award, 1996 James Anderson Medal for Applied Geography, and the AAG Ethnic Geography Career Award.