Education
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PhD Geography, University of Leeds, 2017
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MSc Sustainable Cities, Distinction, King’s College London, 2010
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BA Geography (Honours), 1:1, Durham University, 2009
Selected Awards and Distinctions
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Winner of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences (LAS) Excellence in Teaching Award for Contingent Faculty, DePaul University (2020).
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Vincentian Endowment Fund (VEF) for grant proposal titled ‘Protecting Religious Liberties? Security Concerns at Places of Worship in Chicago’, DePaul University (2019).
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Winner of inaugural Wilbur Zelinsky Paper Session Award at American Association of Geographers (AAG) (2018).
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Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)/Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) International Placement Scheme (IPS) Fellowship at the Kluge Center, Library of Congress (2016–2017).
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Full-time Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) White Rose Doctoral Training Centre (DTC) +3 Discipline Postgraduate Studentship (2014–2017).
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Christine Leigh Prize for Best Transfer Performance in Human Geography, School of Geography, University of Leeds (2015).
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W. A. Moyes Prize for Proficiency in Fieldwork, awarded for producing the best dissertation in the Geography Department, Durham University (2009).
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First-year undergraduate prize for highest overall grade in the Geography Department, Durham University (2007).
Publications
Samson, M.G.M. (2024). Learning for life: Schools as a proxy for religion’s place in society. In Kong, L., Woods, O., & Tse, J.K.H. (Eds.), Handbook of the Geographies of Religion (pp. 889–916). Springer Nature.
Reingold, M., & Samson, M.G.M. (2024). Jewish education and the arts. Journal of Jewish Education, 90(2), 89–92.
Samson, M.G.M. (2022). Accommodating King Saul: Jewish pupils and mental health. In Mahmud, A., & Satchell, L. (Eds.), Mental wellbeing in schools: What teachers need to know to support pupils from diverse backgrounds (pp. 151–164). Routledge.
Samson, M.G.M., & Leichty, J.G. (2022). Images of the urban religious landscape: Gen Z seek out the sacred in the city. Journal of Cultural Geography, 39(2), 225–250.
Samson, M.G.M., & Warganegara, A. (2021). A post-tsunami sea change? Towards post-secular disaster response in Indonesia. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 61, 102371.
Samson, M.G.M. (2021). White noise and unnecessary evil: Balancing security and community in synagogues. Contemporary Jewry, 41, 437–459.
Samson, M.G.M. (2020). Protecting religious liberties? Security concerns at places of worship in Chicago. Geoforum, 117, 144–153.
Warganegara, A., & Samson, M.G.M. (2020). Collaboration and disaster: Critical responses after tsunami events in Indonesia. Environmental Hazards, 20(4), 345–362.
Samson, M.G.M. (2020). Jewish schools rather than Jewish education? School choice and community dynamics in multicultural society. Social & Cultural Geography, 21(2), 222–244.
Samson, M.G.M. (2019). Spectacles against the swastika: Informal education through Meyer Weisgal’s 1930s theatrical productions. GeoHumanities, 6(1), 89–105.
Samson, M.G.M. (2019). ‘Marching at the speed of the slowest man’: The facilitation and regulation of student autonomy in a pluralist Jewish day school. Journal of Jewish Education, 85(3), 268–292.
Samson, M.G.M. (2019). Off-white, on-stage: Jewish self-representation at Chicago’s 1933–1934 world’s fair. Journal of Historical Geography, 65, 9–18.
Samson, M.G.M. (2019). Krav maga and chicken soup: Symbolic Jewish identities within and beyond the Jewish school. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 40(6), 742–758.
Samson, M.G.M. (2019). Jewish schools and the challenges of denominationalism in England. Contemporary Jewry, 39(2), 245–271.
Samson, M.G.M. (2018). Competition or cooperation? Jewish day schools, synagogues, and the (re)construction of young people’s Jewish identities in England. Children’s Geographies, 16(3), 225–238.
Samson, M.G.M., Vanderbeck, R.M., & Wood, N. (2018). Fixity and flux: A critique of competing approaches to researching contemporary Jewish identities. Social Compass, 65(1), 97–113.