In July 2018, he found himself in the cab of another U-Haul truck with two cats and his partner driving cross-country to Gainesville, Florida to begin a position as tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Center for Latin American Studies at University of Florida. Since arriving at UF, Correia has been conducting research on mega-infrastructure projects and environmental change in the South American Gran Chaco with field research in Paraguay, Bolivia, and Argentina. With support of a Fulbright Flex Scholar award, he is preparing the next phase of this research on a multi-year field analysis of road construction and plantation geographies in Paraguay’s Chaco during 2021-2022. Additionally, Correia coordinates the Center’s Indigenous Studies specialization and is core faculty in the Tropical Conservation and Development program as well as the Masters in Sustainable Development Practice Program. He teaches graduate and undergraduate seminars on environmental justice, political ecologies of development, and human rights in Latin America.

In addition to this work, he collaborates with colleagues at UA to facilitate a multi-year interdisciplinary working group with Indigenous and Afro-descendant activist intellectuals from across Latin America. To date, the project that has resulted in four conferences and will inform an edited volume written with and by workshop participants. As a 2021 American Council of Learned Societies Fellow, Correia is currently completing his first book Disrupting the Patrón: Unsettling Racial Geographies in Pursuit of Indigenous Environmental Justice. The training in political ecology, critical development geographies, science studies, proposal writing, and teaching that Correia received during his studies at CU were instrumental in preparing him for a career in academia. 

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The Department of Geography is pleased to announce the Excellence in Graduate Teaching Awards for Spring 2017. These awards recognize excellent teaching practices from our Department's graduate students while teaching or assisting with undergraduate classes or working with undergraduate students in a research setting. Joel Correia has been awarded the Excellence in Graduate Teaching-Graduate Part-Time Instructor (GPTI) award. Robert Andrus has been awarded the Excellence in Graduate Teaching-Teaching Assistant (TA) award. Adam Mahood has been awarded the Excellence in Graduate Teaching-Graduate Student Mentoring Award.

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Robert Andrus, Joel Correia, Angela Cunningham, Zhaxi Duojie, Mehran Ghandehari, Eric Lovell and Kyle Rodman have each received a Beverly Sears Research Grant. These grants provide funds to assist the student with their PhD research.

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Joel Correia has been selected to receive a Graduate School International Travel Award. This award assists students with travel costs to an international conference to present their research.

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This fellowship is used to support research work during Summer 2017.

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The Department of Geography Annual Awards for Excellence in Graduate Teaching have been awarded to Joel Correia (GPTI award), Robert Andrus (TA award), and Adam Mahood (Mentoring Award).

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Joel was awarded a DDRI grant by the Geography and Spatial Sciences Program of the . The award will support his dissertation research on indigenous rights, law, and territory in Paraguay. See the  for more information.

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The Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship will support Joel's dissertation fieldwork in Paraguay from February 2014 to January 2015. Joel's research comprises a comparative case study of three Inter-American Court of Human Rights cases in favor of indigenous territorial claims in the Paraguayan Chaco. Using a variety of qualitative methods he will investigate how international indigenous rights law intersects with domestic politics to create new indigenous subjectivities and governable spaces. Joel's study draws from political ecology, legal geography, and cultural geography to question how the process of making territorial claims before the Court renders identity and territory governable by the state in new ways. Joel will work closely with local partners from the Universidad Colombia del Paraguay Faculty of Human Rights and Law, the Universidad Catolica de Asunción Center for Anthropological Studies, Tierraviva, and each of the three communities that his research focuses on--Sawhoyamaxa, Yakye Axa, and Xákmok Kásek. Joel's research will advance debates on the "territorial turn", indigenous rights and the role of the Court, and cultural politics.

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The Best Should Teach Initiative strives to acknowledge excellence in teaching and academic leadership.

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Joel ill serve as the Lead Graduate Teacher for the Department of Geography for the 2014-15 academic year.

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