Rina Ghose
Associate Professor
Office: Bolton 450
Phone: 414-229-4797
Fax: 414-229-3981
e-mail: rghose@uwm.edu
Web Site: www.uwm.edu/~rghose
Curriculum Vitae: pdf (46kb)
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:
On Sabbatical
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:
By appointment
Research Interests:
Public Participation GIS, Role of GIS in local government, GIS and critical theory, neoliberalism and its impacts on urban governance, politics of scale, urban and rural gentrification.
Teaching Interests:
GIS, South Asia, Urban Geography, World Regional Geography
Representative Publications:
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 (with S. Elwood), Cartographica, 38 (3&4), Fall/Winter, 2001 (actual publication year 2004), pp.19-33.
India.com: Construction of a Space Between (with P. Adams), Progress in Human Geography, 27, 2003, pp. 414-437.
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 (with W. E. Huxhold), URISA Journal, 14 (2), 2002, pp. 5-17.
Use of Information Technology for Community Empowerment: Transforming Geographic Information System into Community Information Systems, Transactions in GIS, 5 (2), 2001, pp.141-163.