Derek H. Alderman is Chancellor's Professor of Geography at the University of Tennessee. He is a past President of the American Association of Geographers (AAG) (2017-18) and founder of Tourism RESET, an interdisciplinary and multi-university initiative devoted to analyzing and challenging historical and contemporary social injustices in travel, tourism, and mobility. HE is also a Fellow of the American Association of Geographers in recognition of significant contributions to his field. Dr. Alderman’s specialties include race, public memory, civil rights, heritage tourism, and critical place name study—all within the context of the African-American struggle for social and spatial justice. He is the author of over 180 articles, book chapters, and other essays along with the award-winning book (with Owen Dwyer), Civil Rights Memorials and the Geography of Memory. He is co-editor (with Reuben Rose-Redwood and Maoz Azaryahu) entitled The Political Life of Urban Streetscapes: Naming, Politics, and Place (Routledge) and co-author of Remembering Enslavement: Reassembling the Southern Plantation Museum (UGA Press). Most recently, his scholarship shifts to examine the "Living Black Atlas," the role of counter-mapping, restorative cartographies, naming activism, and other creative, embodied practices of data visualizing and storytelling in the Black livingness, civil rights struggles, and place-making.