Jerry Shannon

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Associate Professor
Undergraduate Coordinator

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Email:
jshannon@uga.edu
Office Hours:
Schedule a time at https://calendly.com/jshannon75
Phone Number:
706-542-1656
Research Interests:

Community engaged research, Food security/Food access, Housing, Urban development, Critical GIS

Web site
Google Scholar profile
CV:
Shannon CV.pdf (218.49 KB)

I'm a geographer studying how to make urban neighborhoods and food systems healthier and more equitable. My broad interests are in urban development and inequality, geographic information systems, political geography, and place effects on health. More specifically, my research focuses on the role of maps and spatial analysis in shaping our understanding of hunger, housing, poverty, and neighborhood development and enabling community organization around these issues.

I am an associate professor in the Department of Geography and the Department of Financial Planning, Housing, and Consumer Economics at the University of Georgia. I also direct the Community Mapping Lab in the Department of Geography, which is part of the Georgia Community Geography Collective. I am also an assistant director of the Center for Housing and Community Research on campus. You can find more information on my specific research projects on my website. 

I am currently recruiting graduate students interested in studying disparities in access to food and housing, participatory and engaged research, and open source GIS tools. As a member of the Community Mapping Lab, students will gain experience with community engaged research as well as supervising and mentoring undergraduates. I am an active member of the Community Geographies Collaborative, which is also a specialty group in the AAG.

Education:
  • Ph.D. (2013), University of Minnesota, Geography
  • M.A.T. (1999), University of Iowa, Secondary English Education
  • B.A. (1997), University of Iowa, English
Selected Publications:

Shannon, J., Reese, A., Ghosh, D., Widener, M. J., & Block, D. R. (2021). More Than Mapping : Improving Methods for Studying the Geographies of Food Access. American Journal of Public Health. 111(8): 1418-1422. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2021.306339

Shannon, J. (2021). Dollar stores, retailer redlining, and the geographies of precarious consumption. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 111(4): 1200-1218. doi: 10.1080/24694452.2020.1775544

Shannon, J., Hankins, K., Shelton, T., Bosse, A., Scott, D., Block, D., Fischer, H., Eaves, L., Jung, J.K., Robinson, J., Solis, P., Pearsall, H., Rees, A., Nicolas, A. (2020). Community Geography: Toward a Disciplinary Framework. Progress in Human Geography. doi: 10.1177/0309132520961468

Shannon, J., Hauer, M., Weaver, A., and Shannon, S. (2018). The Suburbanization of Poverty: An Analysis of Projected Trends in the Atlanta Metropolitan Area. Professional Geographer. 70:1, 84-93.

Shannon, J., Shannon, S., Bagwell, G., and Lee, J.S. (2016.) Changing SNAP enrollment and benefits increased the number of small SNAP retailers in Georgia during the Great Recession. Health Affairs. 35:11, 2100-2108.

Shannon, J. (2015). Beyond the supermarket solution: Linking food deserts, neighborhood context, and everyday mobility. Annals of the Association of American Geographers.

Widener, M. and Shannon, J. (2014). When are food deserts? Health and Place, 30, 1-3.

Shannon, J. (2014). What does SNAP benefit usage tell us about food access in low-income neighborhoods? Social Science and Medicine, 107, 89-99.

Shannon, J. (2014). Food deserts: governing obesity in the neoliberal city. Progress in Human Geography, 38 (2), 248-266.

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