My Son David

I am just like every other mom in that I am very proud of my children and their accomplishments. Even if they hadn't accomplished anything that the world deems as great or special, I would be proud of them just because they are a part of me and God's gift to me.  My children are all very special to me and I love each one because of their uniqueness and the love they give back to me.  That being said, I wish to focus on my son, David who recently was announced the winner of the Ashby Prize given by the Editors of Environment and Planning A.  The Ashby Prize is for the most innovative paper published in their journal for the year 2012. It is quite an honor just to be published in a premier geography journal not alone win their award of the year. David's paper is titled "Performing carbon's materiality: the production of carbon offsets and the framing of exchange."  They award two prizes and the other one was awarded to Jessica Dubow for her paper titled "A therapeutics of exile: Isaiah Berlin, liberal pluralism and the psyche of assimilation".
My son David, is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Systems at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. He received his PhD from the Ohio State University's Geography Department and the fieldwork for this particular paper was done in Costa Rica.  He received a Fulbright scholarship and funding from the Social Science Research Council and also Ohio State's Climate, Water, Carbon program. I wish to take this opportunity to publicly thank my son for all of his hard work and to congratulate him on a job well done! I know it sounds like I am bragging and I am! That is what mothers do!