Kristin M. Sziarto

Assistant Professor

Office: NWQ B, Room 6489
Phone: 414-229-3941
Fax: 414-229-3981
e-mail: sziarto@uwm.edu

Mailing Address:

Professor Kristin M. Sziarto
Department of Geography
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
P.O. Box 413
Milwaukee, WI 53201

Education:

Ph.D., Geography, University of Minnesota, 2007
M.A., Geography, University of Georgia, 2001
B.A., Theater, Williams College, 1988

Courses Taught:

Geog 110: The World - Peoples and Regions - Syllabus (860kb)
Geog 309: Nationalities and Nations of the World - Syllabus (280kb)
Geog 400: Population Geography - Syllabus (213kb)
Geog 600: Perspectives on Geography
Geog 905: Seminar in Theories and Geographies of Social Movements (Spring 2012)

Office Hours:

T/R 3:30 - 4:30pm, or by appointment

Research and Teaching Interests:

Geographies of social movements: Labor-community coalitions; workers' centers; feminist coalition politics, hegemony theory, and democratic theory
Immigration policies and immigrant politics in the U.S.
The politics of health: migrants and health, urban public health, the health care industry and its role in urban economic development
Gender, sexuality and urban space
Qualitative methods

Representative Publications:

Sziarto, Kristin, and Helga Leitner. 2010. Immigrants Riding for Justice: Space-time and emotions in the construction of a counterpublic. Political Geography, 29(7), 381-391.

Sziarto, Kristin. 2008. Placing Legitimacy: Organizing religious support in a health care workers' contract campaign. Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie (Journal of Economic & Social Geography) 99 (4): 406-425.

Leitner, Helga, Eric Sheppard, and Kristin Sziarto. 2008. The spatialities of contentious politics. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers NS 33 (2): 157 - 287.