Leiha Edmonds

Leiha Edmonds

Assistant Professor, Geography

Education

  • Ph.D., Geography and Environment, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
  • M.A., Urban Planning and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago
  • B.A., Sustainable Development, American University

Research

  • Geographies of Aging
  • Urban Geographies
  • Health Geographies
  • Care Economies
  • Affordable Housing
  • Community Development Policy
  • Spatialized Structural Inequities
  • Multi-method
  • Community Engaged Methodologies
  • Creative Mapping

Teaching

  • Urban Geography
  • Qualitative Methods

About Leiha Edmonds

Publications

  • Edmonds, L., & Delamater, P. (2025). Evaluating spatial access to hospitals for aging populations in legacy cities: a case study of Baltimore, Maryland. GeoJournal, 90(3), 1-11.
  • Edmonds, L., & Olson, E. (2025). ‘I care for my grandma because she's one of my best friends': Intergenerational caregiving and the everyday geographies of aging in Palm Beach County, Florida. Health & Place, 93, 103464.
  • Edmonds, L., & Olson, E. A. (2024). Researching everyday geographies of caregiving youth: Versatile Everyday Emotion Mapping (VEEMethod). Qualitative Research, 14687941241297297.
  • Martin, N., Edmonds, L.,  and Poulus, D. (2024). Inplacement, not just displacement: Urban assemblages and neighborhood stability in the face of gentrification, Journal of Urban Affairs, DOI: 10.1080/07352166.2024.2396372
  • Olson, E., & Edmonds, L. (2023). “Caregiving Youth” and the Patchwork History of Recognition in the United States. International Journal Of Environmental Research And Public Health, 20(20), 6920.