Andrew Herod Named Regents’ Professor by University System of Georgia

UGA Geography professor Andrew Herod has been named a 2025 Regents’ Professor by the University System of Georgia (USG). According to the USG, this honor is the “highest professorial recognition bestowed by the University System of Georgia Board of Regents.” The award is given to faculty “in recognition of their innovative and pace-setting research.”

Herod’s career, research, and honors were recently highlighted in a UGA Today article written by Mike Wooten, Director of Communications for Academic Affairs:

 Herod describes himself as a human geographer and political economist who’s interested in how economic landscapes are made. He is widely considered the world’s foremost expert in the field of labor geography, which he helped create in the 1990s.

 “It is no exaggeration to say that Dr. Herod has been one of the most important voices of his generation in the broad interdiscipline that is human geography,” said Jamie Peck, Distinguished University Scholar and professor of geography at the University of British Columbia. “There are not many who can lay claim to the formation and shaping of an entirely new subfield in their home discipline.” 

Herod has published 12 books and more than 100 refereed journal articles, several of which have won national and international awards. ScholarGPS, a leading online research information and analysis platform, lists Herod among the top 0.5% of scholars cited worldwide. 

“There’s been virtually no published research essay on questions of geography, employment and economic restructuring published by an Anglophone geographer over the last 20-plus years that does not cite or draw substantively upon his research,” said Noel Castree, a professor and associate dean for research at the University of Technology Sydney.