Kristin M. Sziarto
Assistant Professor
Office: Bolton 468
Phone: 414-229-3941
Fax: 414-229-3981
e-mail: sziarto@uwm.edu
Curriculum Vitae: pdf (109kb)
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 (370kb)
Geog 309: Nationalities and Nations of the World - Syllabus (253kb)
Geog 400: Population Geography - Syllabus (213kb)
Office Hours:
TR 3:30-4:30pm, also by appointment
Research and Teaching Interests:
Geographies of social movements: Labor-community coalitions; workers' centers; coalition politics, hegemony theory, and democratic theory
Immigration policies and immigrant politics in the US
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. 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.
Leitner, Helga, Eric Sheppard, Kristin Sziarto, and Anant Maringanti. 2006. "Contesting Neoliberal Urban Futures: Decentering Neoliberalism." In Contesting Neoliberalism: Urban Frontiers, eds. H. Leitner, J.S. Peck, and E.S. Sheppard. New York: The Guilford Press, pp. 1-25.
Under review
Sziarto, K. and H. Leitner. Immigrants Riding for Justice: Space-time and emotions in the construction of a counterpublic. Submitted to Political Geography May 2008.
In preparation
Sziarto, K. Spatial Negotiations: the politics of identity and location in (re)naming a religion-labor alliance.