Sarah Blue
Jones Professor of Southwestern Studies
sblue@txstate.edu
Sarah Blue is the Jones Professor of Southwestern Studies and an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at Texas State University. She has maintained an ongoing interest in the political geography of migration, gender, and development studies, even as the place, location and focus of the projects have changed. Dr. Blue graduated from the University of Denver with undergraduate majors in geography and philosophy. She completed her master’s degree at the University of Minnesota, focusing the mobilization of Guatemalan refugee women. Her dissertation from the University of California, Los Angeles emphasized the shaping of socio-economic inequality in Cuba.
Dr. Blue’s later work in Cuba focused on Cuban medical internationalism and Cuban agroecology. Dr. Blue has also completed work on Latino migration to New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the effects of U.S. policies on unaccompanied Central American migrant youth, and the process of inclusion and exclusion in migration and asylum-seeking practices in the United States. Her scholarly trajectory demonstrates the importance of interdisciplinary scholarship and the broad place of the Southwest in the larger context of the Americas.
During her three-year appointment, Dr. Blue will focus on strengthening the scholarly, educational, and academic infrastructure for understanding migration and immigration in the Southwest. Building off several externally funded grants, Dr. Blue’s project will help develop student research initiatives, translate research into manuscripts, research presentations, symposia and policy briefs, and increase connections with universities, organizations and scholars working on related projects.
