Maria Anne Fitzgerald

Maria Anne Fitzgerald is a feminist geographer. Coming from a culturally blended family provoked her to document the ‘in-between spaces’ and everyday experiences of young people from cross-cultural families in India for her doctoral study. Some of these stories are posted on her collaborative blog ‘makingspace’. Her writing is honed by personal identity experiences of growing up in small-town Thiruvalla, post-colonial Calcutta and metropole Delhi. She also pens thoughts on emotions, belongingness, liminality and place-making from a geographical perspective. Her research interests include: geographies of young people/youth, social geographies, feminist methodologies, creative visual methods, auto-ethnography, feminist interventions in academic spaces, DEIJ advocacy research and the Anglo-Indian community. She advocates for critical thinking and writing using a feminist lens. Maria received the 2022 Annual International Award for New and Emerging Scholars, from Gender, Place & Culture: A journal of Feminist Geography.