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Dr. Michael Solem is Professor of Geography at Texas State University, San Marcos, USA. He also serves the American Association of Geographers as Senior Advisor for Geography Education and Co-Director of the National Center for Research in Geography Education. Michael has been principal investigator on several large-scale, federally funded projects spanning geography at all levels of education, focusing on professional development, international education, and teacher education. He currently serves as co-Chair of the International Geographical Union's Commission on Geographical Education. He is a member of the editorial board for the Journal of Geography in Higher Education and Review of International Geographical Education Online. Michael has twice received the Journal of Geography in Higher Education's award for promoting excellence in teaching and learning for his research on faculty development and graduate education in geography. He is the 2015 recipient of the AAG GilbertGrosvenor Honors in Geographic Education.






Dr. Richard G. Boehm is the director of the Gilbert M. Grosvenor Center for Geographic Education at Texas State University. He presently holds the Jesse H. Jones Distinguished Chair in Geographic Education and is co-director of the National Center for Research in Geography Education and director of the Texas Alliance for Geographic Education. He is one of the original authors of the Guidelines for Geographic Education, in which the Five Themes of Geography were first articulated. Dr. Boehm has received many honors, including Distinguished Geography Educator by National Geographic Society (1990), the George J. Miller Award from the National Council for Geographic Education (NCGE) for distinguished service to geographic education (1991), Gilbert Grosvenor Honors in geographic education from the American Association of Geographers (2002), and the NCGE's Distinguished Mentor Award (2010). In 2020, he was named a Fellow of the