Patricia L. Price is an associate professor of geography at Florida International University . She earned her Ph.D. at the University of Washington. Trained as a development and urban geographer, she has inexorably gravitated to the field of cultural geography and incorporated all three approaches into her scholarship. She is fascinated by the landscapes and how they provide an understanding of ways that humans form attachments to place. The scale of the very local – minds, bodies, and neighborhoods – has provided a key focus of her work. Connecting the longstanding theme of humanistic scholarship in cultural geography to more recent critical approaches best describes her ongoing project. From her initial field research in urban Mexico, she has extended her focus to the border between Mexico and the United States, and most recently to South Florida as a borderland of sorts.

Patricia Price is the author of Dry Place: Landscapes of Belonging and Exclusion (2004), which centralizes the role of narrative in historic claims to the U.S. Southwest and Northern Mexico, the role of the border, and contemporary imaginations of identity, faith, and nation in the borderlands. One of her most recent projects include a study of social banditry and popular religiosity in Northern Mexico, which she would like to extend to a book-length project. She is also co-authoring, with Mona Domosh (Dartmouth ) and Rod Neumann (FIU) a textbook, titled The Human Mosaic: A Thematic Introduction to Human Geography, which is scheduled to come out in its 10 th edition in August of 2005. Price and Neumann were added to the author team upon the passing of lead author, Terry Jordan-Bychkov.

Beginning in January of 2005, Patricia Price began a 2-year field research project in the East Little Havana neighborhood of Miami . This project, sponsored by the National Science Foundation, brings together a total of six researchers and many more graduate and undergraduate research assistants in Miami, Phoenix, and Chicago. Together, we will explore how established Latina/o residents of inner-ring ethnic enclave neighborhoods deal with changes arising from gentrification and ongoing immigration.