Human Geography

Faculty teaching and/or performing research in human geography

	Joe Bryan	Indigenous Politics in the Americas; Human Rights; and Critical Cartography.	Human
	Elizabeth Dunn	Post Socialism; Industrial Management; Development; Cultural Anthropology; Eastern Europe	Human
	Kenneth Foote	American & European Landscape History; GIScience & Internet Techniques; Geography in Higher Educ,	Human GIScience
	Mara Goldman	Political Ecology;  Science and Technology Studies;  indigenous knowledge;  Nature-Society Relations	Human Env-Society
	Najeeb Jan	Political Islam, South Asia; Poststructural & Postcolonial Theory; Biopolitics, Critical Ontology	Human
	John O'Loughlin	Political; Former Soviet Union; Post Communist Societies; Nationalism	Human
	Timothy Oakes	Cultural Politics;  Economic and Social Change; China	Human
	Fernando Riosmena	International migration, informal economy, and population dynamics; social demography, Latin America	Human
	Elisabeth Root	Medical Geography, Spatial Epidemiology, Quantitative Methods	Human
	Seth Spielman	Urban Geography, Medical Geography, Spatial Statistics, GIScience	Human GIScience
	William Travis	Natural Resource Conservation; Environment & Society	Human Env-Society
	Emily Yeh	Nature/society geography; political ecology; cultural politics; development; Tibet; China	Human Env-Society

Graduate Students in human geography

37 students total. TIP: To sort by more than one column, hold down the shift key while clicking an additional column header.

Name	Degree	Specialties	Advisor
Akeson, Cole	M.A.	Political and economic geography; energy resources and geopolitics; Ukraine & Russia; volunteerism	Dunn
Auger, Mason	Ph.D.	Native American Culture; Symbolic Land Use	Bryan
Bartmess, Jennifer	M.A.	Terrorism, Migration and the Middle East	O'Loughlin
Bredemeyer, William	Ph.D.	spatial analysis, human environment	Spielman
Clarke-Sather, Afton	Ph.D.	China; development, human-environment interactions	Oakes
Cowley, Austin	M.A.	Forced migration in the South Caucasus	Dunn
DeBoom, Meredith	M.A.	political geography, natural resources	O'Loughlin
Dickinson, Tom	M.A.	Land use change, western U.S., environment-society, GIS	Travis
Ga, er rang	Ph.D.	Pastoral development	Yeh
Gifford, Lauren	Ph.D.	global climate policy, justice, land use, Latin America	Bryan
Gustafson, Andrew	Ph.D.	political geography, former USSR	O'Loughlin
Hamm, Kathryn	Ph.D.	Migration; West Africa/Senegal	Riosmena
Hickcox, Abby	Ph.D.	Cultural Geography, Political Ecology, Environmental Justice, Race	Yeh
Holland, Edward	Ph.D.	Political Geography; Nationalism; Former Soviet Union	O'Loughlin
Huenchunir, Sigrid	Ph.D.	Territory and identity; sustainable development; Latin America	Bryan
Humphrey, Jamie	Ph.D.	health/medical geography, GIS, spatial epidemiology, health disparities, built environment	Root
Jochem, Warren	M.A.	GIS; disease ecology & spatial epidemiology	Root
Jones, Bryan	Ph.D.	Human Migration, Rural Development, Health	Riosmena
Kass, Amanda	M.A.	Conflict; Political Ecology; Politics of Development	Bryan
Klingberg, Travis	Ph.D.	cultural geography, China, critical tourism studies	Oakes
Koch, Natalie	Ph.D.	political geography, urban geography, former Soviet Union, qualitative methods	O'Loughlin
Levy, Adam	Ph.D.	Globalization; Social change; Migration	O'Loughlin
Linke, Andrew	Ph.D.	Political Geography; Political Violence	O'Loughlin
Palmer, Joni	Ph.D.	Public art, creative economies, post industrial city, post war suburbs, visual representation	Oakes
Roberts, Tyler	Ph.D.	Political ecology, risk, economic geography	Foote
Rodd, Joshua	Ph.D.	Political violence and conflict; infectious disease	Root
Rowen, Ian	M.A.	Tourism, China, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, cultural politics	Oakes
Ryan, Caitlin	Ph.D.	international and economic development	Dunn
Schubert, Amelia	Ph.D.	Cultural geography of northeast Asia; China, Korea, migration	Oakes
Sheehan, Connor	M.A.	Migration; Informal Economics; Development	Riosmena
Shen, Ling	Ph.D.	Social inequality
Smith, Samuel		Historic/Urban Geog-links between historic mining settlements & current tourist areas	Foote
Stewart, Michelle	Ph.D.	Environmental Conservation and Economic Development in China; Sustainable Management	Yeh
Todd, Meagan	Ph.D.	Political & cultural geography in post-Soviet space	O'Loughlin
Wade, Kendle	M.A.	Envir/Society Relations, ecotourism, research and policy development, DART	Goldman
Williams, Adam	Ph.D.	China; Scrap Recycling; Migration; GIS	Oakes
YundanNima, YundanNima	Ph.D.	Development studies in Tibet	Yeh

GEOG courses related to human geography.

Caution: These lists are incomplete.

Summer 2012

Num	Num	Sect	Title	Hrs	Instructor
1982		001	World Regional Geography	3	Gifford
1982		200	World Regional Geography	3	Norlund
2002		100	Geographies of Global Change	3	Todd
3682			Geography of International Development	3	Skog
4501	5501	100	Wtr Resources/Mgmt in the US West	3	Lander
4742		001	Environments and Peoples: Landscape, Society & Meaning	3	Foote
4742		002	Environments and Peoples:Place, Power, Culture	3	Jan

 

Spring 2012

Num	Num	Sect	Title	Hrs	Instructor
1992			Introduction to Human Geographies	3	Spielman
2002			Geographies of Global Change	3	O'Loughlin
3402			Natural Hazards	3	Travis
3742			Place, Power, Culture	3	Jan
3862			Geography of Africa	3	Goldman
4023	5023		Quantitative Methods	3	Root
4501	5501		Wtr Resources/Mgmt in the US West	3	Lander
4632	5632		Development Geography	3	Oakes
4712			Political Geography	3	Levy
4742			Environments and Peoples	3	Jan
4852	5852		Health / Medical Geography	3	Root
5100		001	Special Topics: Climate System Modeling	3	Chase
5161		001	Research Design in Human Geog	3	Foote

 

Fall 2011

Num	Num	Sect	Title	Hrs	Instructor
1992			Human Geographies	3	Dunn
2412		100	Environment and Culture	3	Goldman
3682			Geography of International Development	3	Clarke-Sather
3822			Geography of China	3	Oakes
3930	5930		Internship	3	Pitlick
4173			Research Seminar	3	Travis
4292	5292		Migration, Immigrant Adaptation,and Development	3	Riosmena
4712	5712		Political Geography	3	O'Loughlin
5100		001	Special Topic	3	Root
5100		003	Special Topic	3	Jan
5152			History and Theory of Geography	3	Bryan

 

Undergrad Courses Applicable to a Concentration in Human Geography

One of the following four courses are prerequisites to all upper division courses listed further below.  

GEOG 1982  World Regional Geography 
GEOG 1992  Human Geographies 
GEOG 2002  Geographies of Global Change 
GEOG 2412  Environment and Culture

Upper Division Courses. Additional prerequisites are listed. 

GEOG 3672  Gender and Global Economy** 
GEOG 3682  Geography of International Development   
GEOG 3742  Place, Power, and Contemporary Culture**  
GEOG 3812  Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean  
GEOG 3822  Geography of China** 
GEOG 3862  Geography of Africa 
GEOG 4023  Introduction to Quantitative Methods in Human Geography (Prereq: GEOG 3023) 
GEOG 4292  Migration, Urbanization, and Development  
GEOG 4622  City Life** 
GEOG 4712  Political Geography 
GEOG 4722  Field Methods in Human Geography***  (Prereq. 15 credit hours in human geography) 
GEOG 4732  Population Geography  
GEOG 4742  Environment and Peoples** 
GEOG 4812  Environment and Development in South America**   *** (Recommended Prereq: GEOG 3812 or 3422) 
GEOG 4822  Environment & Development in China** 
GEOG 4892  Geography of Western Europe** 

**core curriculum course 

 

Undergrad Courses in other Departments Related to Human Geography

Caution:  These courses do not count as hours in the Geography Major. 
Check with the appropriate department for the prerequisites for these courses.

ANTH  1030  Principles of Anthropology 1  
ANTH  1040  Principles of Anthropology 2 
ANTH  2100  Frontiers of Cultural Anthropology 
ANTH  4510  Applied Cultural Anthropology  
ANTH  4520  Symbolic Anthropology** 
ECON  4514  Economic History of Europe**   
ECON  4524  Economic History of the United States** 
HIST  ****  Any course related to a geographic area 
PSCI  2012   Intro.  to Comparative Politics ** 
PSCI 3143  Problems in International Relations 
PSCI 3163  American Foreign Policy**   
PSCI  4183   International Law 
PSCI  4703   Alternative World Futures** 
PSCI  4272   Capitalist Democracies in a Global World Economy** 
PSYC  2606   Social Psychology ** 
SOCY  2001   Introduction to Sociological Theory 
SOCY  3002   Population and Society 
SOCY  4022   Population Studies: Fertility & Mortality 

Selected Publications by Faculty and Graduate Students associated with human geography

Faculty

 Maxwell Boykoff

Bottrill, C., Liverman, D., and Boykoff, M. (2010). Carbon soundings: greenhouse gas emissions of the UK music industry. Environmental Research Letters, Vol. 5.

Boykoff, M. (2010). Turning down the heat: the politics of climate policy in affluent democracies. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 28 567-570 .

Boykoff, M.T. (2010). Climate quarrels: ‘It’s not you, it’s me .. well it’s us’. Forum review for "Why We Disagree About Climate Change. Understanding Controversy, Inaction and Opportunity" by M. Hulme, The Geographical Journal, Vol. 176, No. 3, September 2010, pp. 267–269. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4959.2010.00371.x

Boykoff, M.T., and J. Smith. (2010). Media Presentations of Climate Change. Routledge Handbook of Climate Change and Society 210-218, Routledge.

O'Neill, S.J. and M. Boykoff. (2010). Climate denier, skeptic, or contrarian?. PNAS. doi:10.1073/pnas.1010507107

 Joe Bryan

Bryan, J. (2009). Where would we be without them? Knowledge, space and power in indigenous politics. Futures, 41: 24-32. doi:10.1016/j.futures.2008.07.005

Wainwright, J., and Bryan, J. (2009). Cartography, territory, property: postcolonial reflections on indigenous counter-mapping in Nicaragua and Belize. Cultural Geographies, Vol. 16, No. 2, 153-178. DOI:10.1177/1474474008101515

 Elizabeth Dunn

Dunn, E.C. (2008). Postsocialist Spores: Disease, Bodies and the State in the Republic of Georgia. American Ethnologist 35 (2): 243:258.

Dunn, E. (2007). Escherichia coli,Corporate Discipline, and the Failure of Audit. Space and Polity 11:35-53.

Dunn, E. (2004). Privatizing Poland: Baby Food, Big Business, and the Remaking of Labor. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.(Polish edition, 2008, Warsaw: Krytyka Polityczna).

Dunn, E. (2003). Trojan Pig: Paradoxes of Food Safety Regulation.""Environment and Planning. A35: 1493-151.

 Mara Goldman

Goldman, M.J. (2011). Strangers in their own land: Maasai and wildlife conservation in northern Tanzania. Conservation and Society 9(1):65-79.

Goldman, M.J., P. Nadasdy, and M.D. Turner, eds. (2011). Knowing Nature: Conversations at the intersection of political ecology and science studies. Chicago: University of Chicago University Press .

Goldman, M.J., J. Roque de Pinho and J. Perry. (2010). Maintaining complex relations with large cats: Maasai and Lions in Kenya and Tanzania. Human Dimensions of Wildlife 15 (5), 332-246 .

Goldman, M. (2009). Constructing Connectivity? Conservation corridors and conservation politics in East African rangelands. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 99 (2):335-359 .

Goldman, M. (2007). Tracking wildebeest, locating knowledge: Maasai and conservation biology understandings of wildebeest behavior in Northern Tanzania. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 25: 307-331.

 John O'Loughlin

J. O’Loughlin, V. Kolossov and G. Toal (G. Ó Tuathail) . (2011). Inside Abkhazia: A survey of attitudes in a de facto state. Post-Soviet Affairs 27,1 1-23.

O’Loughlin, J. and Witmer, F. (2011). The Localized Geographies of Violence in the North Caucasus of Russia, 1999-2007. Annals. Association of American Geographers. 101,1 178-201.

J. O’Loughlin, F. Witmer and A. Linke . (2010). The Afghanistan-Pakistan wars, 2008-2009: Micro-geographies, conflict diffusion and clusters of violence. Eurasian Geography and Economics 51,4 437-471.

Bakke, K., O’Loughlin, J., and Ward, M.D. (2009). Reconciliation in Conflict-Affected Societies:Multilevel Modeling of Individual and Contextual Factors in the North Caucasus of Russia. Annals, Association of American Geographers 99, no. 5, 1012-1021.

G. Ó Tuathail (G. Toal) and J. O’Loughlin. (2009). After Ethnic Cleansing: The Returns Process in Bosnia-Herzegovina a Decade beyond War. Annals. Association of American Geographers 99, 1045-1053.

 Timothy Oakes

Minca, C. and T. Oakes. (2011). Real Tourism: Practice, Care, and Politics in Contemporary Travel Culture. London & New York: Routledge.

Oakes, T. and D. Sutton. (2010). Faiths on Display: Religion, Tourism, and the State in China. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

Oakes, T. (2009). Resourcing culture: Is a prosaic ‘third space’ possible in rural China?. Environment and Planning D; Society and Space 27(6): 1074-1090.

Oakes, T. and P. Price. (2008). The Cultural Geography Reader. London and New York: Routledge.

Oakes, T. and X. Wu. (2007). 屯堡重塑：贵州的文化旅游与社会变迁 [Reinventing Tunpu: Cultural Tourism and Social Change in Guizhou. Guiyang: Guizhou Minzu Chubanshe.

 Fernando Riosmena

Massey, DS. and Riosmena, F. (2010). Undocumented Entry and Exit from Latin America in an Era of Rising Enforcement. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 630(1):294-321.

Riosmena, F. (2010). On the Legal Auspices of Latin America – U.S. Migration. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 630(1):270-293.

Riosmena, F. (2009). Socioeconomic Context and the Association between Marriage and Mexico-U.S. Migration. Social Science Research 38:324-337.

Feichtinger, G., M. Winkler-Dworak, I. Freund, A. Prskawetz., and Riosmena, F. (2007). On the Age Dynamics of Learned Societies—Taking the Example of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Vienna Yearbook of Population Research. Pp. 107-132.

Massey, D.S., J. Durand, and Riosmena, f. (2006). Social Capital, Social Policy, and Migration from Traditional and New Sending Communities in Mexico. Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas 116:97-121.

 Elisabeth Root

Emch, M. and E.D. Root. (2009). Emerging and Remerging Diseases. in A Companion to Health & Medical Geography. T. Brown, S. Curtis and G. Moon (eds). Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.

Emch, M., M. Ali, E.D. Root and M. Yunus. (2009). Spatial and Environmental Connectivity Analysis in a Cholera Vaccine Trial. Social Science and Medicine, 68(4): 631-637.

Root, E.D., R. Meyer and M. Emch. (2009). Evidence of Localized Clustering of Gastroschisis in North Carolina, 1999-2004. Social Science and Medicine, 68(8): 1361-1367.

Mobley, L.R., E.D. Root, E.A. Finkelstein, O.A. Khavjou, R. Farris, and J. Will. (2006). The Built Environment, Obesity, and Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Low-Income Women. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 30(4): 327-332.

Mobley, L.R., E.D. Root, L. Anselin, N.L. Gracia, and J. Koschinsky. (2006). Spatial Analysis of Elderly Access to Primary Care Services. International Journal of Health Geographics, 5(19).

 Seth Spielman

Spielman, S.E. and Yoo, E-H. (2009). The Spatial Dimensions of Neighborhood Effects. Social Science and Medicine, 68(6).

Erdemir, E. T., Batta R., Spielman S. E., Rogerson P., et. al. (2008). Optimization of aeromedical base locations in New Mexico. Accident Analysis and Prevention, 40(3) .

Spielman, S.E. and Thill, J.C. (2008). Social Area Analysis, Data Mining, and GIS. Computers, Environment, and Urban Systems, 32(2) .

Spielman, S. E. (2006). Appropriate use of the K-function in Urban Environments (Letter). American Journal of Public Health, 96(2).

Spielman, S.E., Golembeski, C.A., Northridge, M.E., et al. (2006). Interdisciplinary Planning for Healthier Communities: Findings from the Harlem Children's Zone Asthma Initiative. Journal of the American Planning Association, 72(1). .

 Emily Yeh

Yeh, Emily T. (2009). From wasteland to wetland? nature and nation in China's Tibet. Environmental history 14(1): 32-66.

Yeh, Emily T. (2009). Tibet and the problem of radical reductionism. Antipode. 41(5): 983-1010.

Yeh, Emily T. (2009). Greening western China: A critical view. Geoforum. 40: 884-894.

Yeh, Emily T. (2007). Tibetan indigeneity: Tranlsations, resemblances and uptake. Indigenous Experience Today, Marisol de la Cadena and Orin Starn, eds. pp. 69-97.

Yeh, Emily T. (2007). Tropes of indolence and the cultural politics of development in Lhasa, Tibet. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 97(3): 593-612.

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Grad Students

Abby Hickcox

Abby Hickcox. (2009). Green Belt, White City: Race and the Natural Landscape in Boulder, Colorado. Discourse 29(2&3, Spring and Fall 2007): 236-259. .

Edward Holland

Holland, E.C. (2012). ‘To Think and Imagine and See Differently’: Popular Geopolitics, Graphic Narrative, and Joe Sacco’s ‘Chechen war, Chechen women’. Geopolitics, 17: 1, 105-129.

Holland, E.C. (2011). Guest editorial: Barack Obama’s foreign policy, just war, and the irony of political geography. Political Geography, 30: 2, 59-60.

O'Loughlin, J., E.C. Holland, and F.D.W. Witmer . (2011). The changing geography of violence in Russia’s North Caucasus: regional trends and local dynamics in Dagestan, Ingushetia and Kabardino- Balkaria, 1999-2011. Eurasian Geography and Economics, 52: 5, 596-630.

Holland, E.C. and J. O’Loughlin. (2010). Ethnic Competition, Radical Islam, and Challenges to Stability in the Republic of Dagestan. Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 43: 3, 297-308.

Eldarov, E., E.C. Holland, Z. Abdulagatov, S. Aliyev, and Z. Ataev. (2007). Resettlement and Migration in Dagestan. Eurasian Geography and Economics, 48: 2, 226-248.

Natalie Koch

Koch, N.R. (2011). Security and Gendered National Identity in Uzbekistan. Gender, Place, and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography 18(4): 499-518 .

Bond, A.R. and N.R. Koch. (2010). Kyrgyzstan, Interethnic Tensions, and Relations with Uzbekistan: A Political Geographic Perspective. Eurasian Geography and Economics 51(4): 531–562.

Koch, N.R. (2010). The Monumental and the Miniature: Imagining ‘Modernity’ in Astana. Social and Cultural Geography 11(8): 769-787.

Koch, N.R. (2009). Book Review: Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of Central Asia. Central Asian Survey 28 (3): 335-336.

Wright, R.A. and N.R. Koch. (2009). Geography in the Ivy Leagues. In R. Kitchen and N. Thrift (Eds.) International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. Oxford, Elsevier. Volume 5, pp. 616-621.

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