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Amber S. McIlwain is a gerontology doctoral candidate in the Graduate Center for Gerontology at the University of Kentucky. She holds a BS (2004) and MS (2007) in geography from Texas State University-San Marcos. Her research and educational interests are primarily associated with geographical gerontology. She passed her qualifying exams in November 2009 in the areas of (1) home, (2) mobility, (3) and aging, artifacts, and artifacts of identity. Her dissertation will incorporate qualitative methods to examine the life course process of home among immigrant and non-immigrant Irish elders. Amber is a student member of the Gerontological Society of America, the Association of American Geographers, and Sigma Phi Omega, the gerontology honor society.