Faculty Profile for Dr. Sarah A Blue

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Dr. Sarah A Blue
Associate Professor — Dept of Geography & Environmntl Studies
ELA 332
phone: (512) 245-2170
Scholarly/Creative Work
Awards
Grants
Service

Selected Scholarly/Creative Work

  • Armina, E., & Blue, S. A. (2024). Evaluating the Use of Humanitarian Parole as a Border Management Strategy in the United States. Migration and Diversity, 3(4), 319–334. https://doi.org/doi.org/10.33182/md.v3i4.3438
  • Jokisch, B., & Blue, S. A. (2024). Increased Family and Child Migration to the United States from Latin America and the Caribbean: the Paradox of Protecting Children’s Rights. Journal of Latin American Geography, 23(1), 100–129. https://doi.org/10.1353/lag.2024.a929689
  • Hartsell, A., & Blue, S. A. (2023). Legal Bordering of Asylum through Liminality. Political Geography, 106, 102958. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2023.102958
  • Blue, S. A., & Hartsell, A. R. (2023). Producing ‘Illegality’: The Racialization of Mexican and Central American Asylum Seekers in the United States. Geographical Review, 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1080/00167428.2023.2226174
  • Blue, S. A., Amy, T., Hilda, K., & Jason, D. (2022). Food Sovereignty and Property in Cuba and the United States. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 49(5), 1019–1036. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2021.1912026

Selected Awards

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Jones Professor of Southwestern Studies, Texas State University. August 2024 - June 2027
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Outstanding Professor Award, Graduate Student Forum. 2021
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Alpha Chi Favorite Professor. 2015
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Alpha Chi Favorite Professor. 2014
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Alpha Chi Favorite Professor. 2013

Selected Grants

  • Blue, Sarah A. US-Mexico Immigration Policy: Effects and Effectiveness, Verena and Kenneth J. Wilson Latin American Research Award, Texas State University, $500. (Submitted: 2024, Funded: January 2025 - March 2025). Grant.
  • Blue, Sarah A (Principal). Conference: Mapping and Empowerment: The Role of Geography in promoting diversity in an increasingly divided society, National Science Foundation, Federal, $49811. (Submitted: December 24, 2022, Funded: May 2023 - March 2024). Grant.
  • Blue, Sarah A (Principal), Devine, Jennifer A (Co-Principal). Build and Broaden: Geographies of Migration and (In)Security, National Science Foundation, Federal, $500155. (Submitted: March 1, 2022, Funded: September 1, 2022 - August 30, 2025). Grant.
  • Blue, Sarah A (Principal), Barnes, Mark (Co-Principal). NSF Grant “Build and Broaden: Positioning Geography at Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority-Serving Institutions”, National Science Foundation, Federal, $76323. (Submitted: September 5, 2019, Funded: July 15, 2020 - December 31, 2022). Grant.
  • Blue, Sarah A. The U.S.-Cuban Rapprochement and its Implications for the Cuban Food System, AAG Research Grant, $500. (Funded: 2017). Grant.

Selected Service Activities

President
Conference of Latin American Geographers
July 1, 2024-June 30, 2026
Vice President
Race, Ethnicity, and Place Organization
2023-2025
Officer
American Association of Geographers Nominating Committee
July 2022-July 2023
Volunteer
Catholic Charities
2022-Present
Volunteer
Team Brownsville
2016-Present