Faculty and Graduate Student News
Faculty News - Spring 2009
Anne Bonds
Published "Discipline and Devolution: Constructions of Poverty, Race, and Criminality in the Politics of Rural Prison Development," in Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 41(3), pp. 416-438.
Woonsup Choi
Selected for UWM Graduate School Research Fellowship and Graduate School Research Committee Award.
Published "Use of the North American Regional Reanalysis for hydrological modeling in Manitoba," in Canadian Water Resources Journal with S.J. Kim, P.F. Rasmussen, and A.R. Moore.
Mick Day
Reappointed to Steering Committee, International Geographical Union Karst Commission, 2008-2012.
Appointed Regional Vice-Chair for Central America and the Caribbean, WCPA Task Force on Caves and Karst, 2008-present.
Rina Ghose
Published "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 New Mexico Press, forthcoming.
Selected for UWM Graduate School Research Committee Award for research proposal "Investigating Citizen Participation in Privatized Collaborative Planning in Inner-City Milwaukee."
Linda McCarthy
Completed a research sabbatical (2007-2008) in Guangzhou, China.
Paper presentation at the International Symposium on Mega-City Regions: Innovations in Governance and Planning, which was held in Hong Kong in August 2008.
Chris de Sousa
Published "Assessing the Effect of Publicly Supported Brownfield Redevelopment on Surrounding Property Values, " in Economic Development Quarterly 23(2): 95-110, with Wu, C. and L. Westphal.
De Sousa, C. Invited to deliver the opening special presentation, "The Evolving Nature of Urban Brownfields Redevelopment: Where We Are, Where We Are Going and How We’re Getting There," Western Canada Contaminated Sites Conference, Calgary, Alberta, February 23, 2008.
Graduate Student News - Spring 2009
Falguni Mukerjee
Published (with R. Ghose) "Complexities in GIS Spatial Knowledge Production in Dane County, Wisconsin" in Cartography and Geographic Information Science, forthcoming.
Wen Lin
Wen Lin will join UW-La Crosse as an Assistant Professor in Geography.
Published (with R. Ghose) "Social Constructions of GIS in China's Changing Urban Governance: The Case of Shenzhen." Cartographica, forthcoming, with R. Ghose).
Published "GIS Development in China's Urban Governance: A Case Study of Shenzhen." Transactions in GIS, 12(4), 493-514.
Published (with R. Ghose) "Complexities in Sustainable Provision of GIS for Urban Grassroots Organizations." Cartographica, 43(1), 31-44.