Dr. Ibipo Johnston-Anumonwo

SUNY College at Cortland

Ibipo Johnston-Anumonwo is Professor of Geography at State University of New York at Cortland, and a 2018-19 Carnegie African Diaspora Fellow. She is a recipient of the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship, and the American Association of Geographers Distinguished Teaching Honors. She has been part of the AP Human Geography leadership team and serves on the editorial boards of African Geographical Review, Journal of Geography, The Geography Teacher and WAGADU: Journal of Transnational Women's and Gender Studies. She has authored numerous refereed journal articles and book chapters, co-edited four books on issues of social justice and African studies and is co-editor of Global Perspectives on Gender and Space (Routledge). Ibipo earned her bachelor's degree in Education from the University of Ibadan in Nigeria, master's degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and PhD in Geography from Clark University. Apart from her extensively cited research on employment accessibility constraints for women of color in US cities, her chapter on Gender and Development in the widely read Geography of Africa textbook is one of her most influential contributions.