Department of Geography & Environment

Columbian College of Arts & Sciences

Street Smarts: Geography Class Maps D.C.’s Immigrant Identity

October 8, 2025

First-year students Jocelyn Graham and Bradley Fowler traveled to D.C.’s Chinatown during an assignment for Professor Elizabeth Chacko’s Migrants in the City Dean’s Seminar. First-year students Bradley Fowler and Jocelyn Graham traveled to D.C.’s Chinatown during an assignment for Professor Elizabeth Chacko’s Migrants in the City Dean’s Seminar.

In her Migrants in the City Dean’s Seminar, Geography’s Elizabeth Chacko turns the District into a classroom as students explore people and places shaping urban diversity.

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https://columbian.gwu.edu/street-smarts-geography