Pablo Bose

BIO

I am a migration scholar and an urban geographer who uses primarily qualitative, interdisciplinary and community-based approaches to conduct my research.  My key interests lie in exploring the complex relationships between people and place and especially in the ways that flows of capital, labour, bodies, and ideas may transform various landscapes.  I am currently Professor in the Department of Geography and Geosciences and Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Vermont.

My current research projects currently focus on:

• Community sponsorship of refugee resettlement in the US
• The environment-conflict-health nexus dynamics of migration
• Food security and transportation
• Social media narratives and forced migration

For more on my research, teaching, and community connections please see my blog.

For more on my specific project on refugee resettlement in new destinations, please visit here.

I have also been fortunate to work with some exceptionally talented students at UVM. The following are just a few of the theses I have had the opportunity to supervise at the undergraduate level in recent years:

• 2025, Annabelle Keimach, Geography, Promoting belonging, empowerment and community care for BIPOC students in the interdisciplinary environmental sciences at UVM
• 2024, Hanna Hartman, Geography, Becoming Burlington: An analysis of citizen engagement in waterfront revitalization
• 2024, Clara Feldman, Global Studies, Gemeinsam mit den bürger*innen
• 2022, Anitra Conover, Global Studies, Rethinking Burlington area food programming for New Americans
• 2021, Valentina Czochanski, Global Studies, Confinement during COVID-19: A case study of Vermont Prisons
• 2021, Sophia Knappertz, Global Studies, Comparative case studies of European crises: an analysis of the European project
• 2019, Gillian Tiley, Geography, Re-imagining Providence: The ‘Creative Capital’ Campaign and the Gentrification of Downcity
• 2019, Emily Klofft, Political Science, Non-Profits as Creators of Public Policy in Public-Private Partnerships
• 2019, Jen Mitchell, Geography, Defining rural education: exploring the relationship between place and public education outcomes in New Hampshire
• 2018, Tilden Remerleitch, Geography, Finding Home – Personal Stories of Refugee Resettlement in the U.S. with a Case Study in Chittenden County, VT
• 2015, Meraz Mostafa, Geography, Imaginative geographies of the Old North End

Courses

GEOG 3770 – Adv Top: Space, Power, Identity

• The focus in this class is on various forms of mobility – as embodied experience, as geopolitical and historical phenomenon, as constitutive of identity within and across borders, and as a central facet of a globalized world. Using the key geographical concepts of “mobility”, “migration”, and “transnationalism” we will explore the various ways in which people, capital, labour, ideas, and culture are in movement across the globe. Our examination will range from transport to tourism, from theories of stillness to ideas of nomadism, from understandings of nationalism to contestations over identity and much more besides. Using examples from different regions and disciplines we the course will look at how landscapes of memory, tradition, belonging, home and unfamiliarity construct and challenge the cultural politics of place.

Publications

Google Scholar Profile

Awards and Achievements

Teaching is an essential part of my work. In 2021 I was honored to receive both the Kroepsch-Maurice Excellence in Teaching Award and the George V. Kidder Outstanding Faculty Award at UVM. The following are some of my regularly taught courses.

• Geography of Race and Ethnicity in the US
• Lives of the Global City
• Geography of India
• Geography of Sports
• Migration, Mobility and Transnationalism