Rina Ghose
Associate Professor
Office: NWQ B, Room 6479
Phone: 414-229-4797
Fax: 414-229-3981
e-mail: rghose@uwm.edu
Web Site: www.uwm.edu/~rghose
Curriculum Vitae: pdf (126kb)
Mailing Address:
Professor Rina Ghose
Department of Geography
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
P.O. Box 413
Milwaukee, WI 53201
Education:
Ph.D., Geography, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1998
M.A., Geography, University of Montana, 1993
B.A., Geography Honors, University of Calcutta, India, 1988
Courses Taught:
Geog 110: The World - Peoples and Regions - Syllabus (19kb)
Geog 215: Introduction to Geographic Information Science - Syllabus (16kb)
Geog 470: Geography of South Asia - Syllabus (22kb)
Geog 525: Geographic Information Science - Syllabus (79kb)
Geog 734: GIS and Society - Syllabus (26kb)
Geog 934: Seminar in Urban Geography - Syllabus (22kb)
Office Hours:
Wed, 3:00-4:00pm or by appointment
Research Interests:
GIScience: Critical GIS, Public Participation GIS, GIS in Local Government, Digital Technology and Society Urban Geography: Citizen Participation in Inner-City Planning, Neoliberalism and the Shadow-State Thesis in Inner-City Governance, Urban Agriculture, Rural and Urban Gentrification
Teaching Interests:
GIS, South Asia, Urban Geography, World Regional Geography
Representative Publications:
Politics and power in the use of GIS for community decision making, book chapter in Handbook of GIS and Society Research, edited by Timothy Nyerges, Helen Couclelis, Robert McMaster, (SAGE publications), 2011, p.423-438.
Elwood, S. and Ghose, R. 2011. Reflection Essay: PPGIS, in Community Development Planning. Book chapter in Classics in Cartography: Reflections on Influential Articles from Cartographica, edited by Martin Dodge (John Wiley & Sons, UK), p. 107-118.
Investigating Middle Class Migration and Rural Gentrification in Western Montana, book chapter in Country Dreams and City Schemes: Utopian Visions of the Twentieth Century American West, edited by Kathleen Brosnan and Amy Scott (University of Nevada Press), 2011, p. 109-130.
Social Construction of GIS in China’s Changing Urban Governance: The Case of Shenzhen, Cartographica, vol. 45, no. 2, 2010, pp. 89-102. (with W. Lin)
Complexities in GIS Spatial Knowledge Production in Dane County, Wisconsin. Cartography and Geographic Information Science, vol. 36, no. 4, 2009, pp. 299-314. (with F. Mukherjee)
Lin, W. and Ghose, R. Complexities in Sustainable Provision of GIS for Urban Grassroots Organizations. Cartographica, vol.43, no.1, 2008.
Politics of Scale and Networks of Association in PPGIS, Environment and Planning A, 39, 2007, pp. 1961-1980.
The complexities of citizen participation through collaborative governance, Space and Policy, 9(1), 2005, pp. 61-75.
Big Sky or Big Sprawl? Rural Gentrification and the Changing Cultural Landscape of Missoula, Montana. Urban Geography, 25 (6), 2004, pp. 528-549.
PPGIS in Community Development Planning: Framing the Organizational Context, Cartographica, 38 (3&4), Fall/Winter, 2001 (actual publication year 2004), pp.19-33. (with S. Elwood)
India.com: Construction of a Space Between , Progress in Human Geography, 27, 2003, pp. 414-437. (with P. Adams)
Investigating Community Participation, Spatial Knowledge Production and GIS Use in Inner City Revitalization, Journal of Urban Technology, 10 (1), 2003, pp. 39-60.
Role of Multi-Scalar GIS-based Indicators Studies in Formulating Neighborhood Planning Policies , URISA Journal, 14 (2), 2002, pp. 5-17. (with W.E. Huxhold)
Use of Information Technology for Community Empowerment: Transforming Geographic Information System into Community Information Systems, Transactions in GIS, 5 (2), 2001, pp.141-163.
