Curriculum Vitae



Curriculum Vita Soren C. LarsenDepartment of Geography, University of Missouri MISSOURI, USA 65211-6170Phone: (573) 882-9613Email: larsens@missouri.eduWebpage: EDUCATION 1999-2002Ph.D. Geography, University of Kansas, Lawrence, May 2002Dissertation title: Modernization and Sense of Place in a Rural Region of Northern British ColumbiaDissertation advisor: James R. Shortridge1997-1999M.A. Anthropology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, May 1999Thesis title: The Future’s Past: Cheslatta T’en Self-Determination in North-Central British ColumbiaThesis advisor: Jane W. Gibson1993-1997B.A. Anthropology and English, Illinois State University, May 1997 EMPLOYMENT Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of Missouri, 2011—Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of Missouri, 2005—2011Lecturer, University of Kansas Geography Field Camp, Ca?on City, Colorado, summers 2005— Assistant Professor, Department of Geology and Geography, Georgia Southern University, 2002—2005 Graduate Instructor, Department of Geography, University of Kansas, 2000—2001Adjunct Instructor, Department of Human Services, Ottawa University (KS), Spring 1999Courses taught:Cultural GeographyRegions & NationsGeographic ThoughtHumanistic GeographyGeography of the US & CanadaIntroduction to ResearchEconomic GeographyGeography of Sub-Saharan AfricaPolitical EcologyIntroduction to Cultural AnthropologyIntro to the Humanized LandscapeWorld Regional Geography RESEARCH INTERESTS Topics:Cultural and Indigenous Geography: politics of place; sense of place; Indigenous, rural, and resource- dependent communitiesRegions:North America (Canada—British Columbia; western United States) Methods:Indigenous methodologies; ethnography and case study SCHOLARLY AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY PUBLICATIONSAll publications are single-authored unless otherwise noted.Book2017. Being Together in Place: Indigenous Coexistence in a More Than Human World (SC Larsen and JT Johnson). Under contract for publication by University of Minnesota Press in the Fall 2017 Catalog.Edited Book2013. A Deeper Sense of Place: Stories and Journeys of Collaboration in Indigenous Research (JT Johnson and SC Larsen, editors). Corvallis: Oregon State University Press.Contracted Special Issue2012. In Between Worlds: Place, Experience, and Research in Indigenous Geography (SC Larsen and JT Johnson, editors).Journal of Cultural Geography, volume 29, no. 1Journal Articles & Book Chapters2016. The agency of place: toward a more-than-human geographical self. GeoHumanities 2(1): 149-166.2015. Regions of care: a political ecology of reciprocal materialities. Journal of Political Ecology 23: 159-166. 2014. Ethnographic fiction in geographic writing and research (M Jacobson and SC Larsen). Journal of CulturalGeography 31(2): 179-193.2013. The micropolitics of storytelling in Indigenous research: reflections on a mapping project with the Cheslatta-Carrier Nation in British Columbia. In A Deeper Sense of Place: Stories and Journeys of Collaboration in Indigenous Research, ed. Jay T. Johnson and Soren C. Larsen. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press.2012a. Introduction to “In between worlds: place, experience, and research in Indigenous geography” (SC Larsen and JT Johnson). Journal of Cultural Geography 29(1): 1-13.2012b. Toward an open sense of place: phenomenology, affinity, and the question of being (SC Larsen and JT Johnson).Annals of the Association of American Geographers 102(3): 632-646.2012c. Community discourse and the emerging amenity landscapes of the rural American West (SC Larsen and CN Hutton). GeoJournal 77 (5): 651-665.2011. Environmental learning and the social construction of an exurban landscape in Fremont County, Colorado (SC Larsen, M Foulkes, C Sorenson, A Thompson). Geoforum 42(1): 83-93.2010. Aboriginality and the Arctic North in Canadian nationalist superhero comics, 1940-2004 (JN Dittmer and SC Larsen). Historical Geography 38: 52-69.2008a. Negril in the news: content analysis of a contested paradise. Caribbean Geography 15(1): 35-58.2008b. Place making in rural protest: an analysis of a grassroots social movement in Anahim Lake, British Columbia.Journal of Rural Studies 24(2): 172-181.2008c. Traditional knowledge regarding water among the Cheslatta-Carrier Nation in British Columbia: change and continuity in the use and valuation of a contested resource. In L’Eau Comme Patrimoine: de la Méditerranée au l’Amerique du Nord [Water as Heritage: From the Mediterranean to North America], ed. Ella Hermon. Québec City: Les Presses de l’Université Laval, pp. 499-512.2007a. Place perception and social interaction on an exurban landscape in central Colorado (SC Larsen, C Sorenson, D McDermott, J Long, and CW Post). The Professional Geographer 59(4): 421-433.2007b. Captain Canuck, audience response, and the project of Canadian nationalism (JN Dittmer and SC Larsen). Social and Cultural Geography 8(5): 737-755.2006. The future’s past: politics of time and territory among Dakelh First Nations of British Columbia. Geografiska Annaler 88B(3): 311-321.2005. Great Basin imagery in newspaper coverage of Yucca Mountain (SC Larsen and TJ Brock). Geographical Review95(4): 517-536.2004a. Place identity in a resource-dependent area of northern British Columbia. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 94(4): 944-960.2004b. Place, activism, and development politics in the Southwest Georgia United Empowerment Zone. Journal of Cultural Geography 22(1): 27-49.2004c. Old West and New West in Garden Park, Colorado (S Schnell, C Sorensen, SC Larsen, M Dunbar, and E McGrogan). Montana: The Magazine of Western History 54(4): 32-47.2003a. Collaboration geographies: Native-White partnerships during the re-settlement of Ootsa Lake, British Columbia, 1900-52. BC Studies: The British Columbia Quarterly 138: 87-114.2003b. Promoting aboriginal territoriality through interethnic alliances: the case of the Cheslatta T’en. Human Organization: Journal of the Society for Applied Anthropology 62(1): 74 - 84.2002a. The ferry and the mill: imagining regional identity in Southside, a rural region of northern British Columbia.Cottonwood Review 59/60: 103-121.2002b. Mapping home: cognitive maps and the politics of place. Cottonwood Review 59/60: 209-212.1999. The Cheslatta Redevelopment Project: economic development and the cultural landscape of the Cheslatta T'en.Research in Economic Anthropology 20: 49-78.1997. Divergent views of the landscape in the settlement of Illinois. Bulletin of the Illinois Geographical Society 39: 20-31.Reviews, Commentaries, & Encyclopedias2012. Rural Geography. In Oxford Bibliographies in Geography, ed. Barney Warf. New York: Oxford University Press. 2010a. Introduction (to Bret Wallach’s CGSG Marquee Address). Journal of Cultural Geography 27(2): 109.2010b. Heidegger’s Hut, by Adam Sharr. Material Culture 42(1): 117-119.2010c. Literal charges of uncertainty (Book review forum on Kathleen Stewart’s Ordinary Affects). Social & Cultural Geography 11(8): 925-926.2010d. Rural Development. In The Encyclopedia of Geography, ed. Barney Warf, pp. 2487-2491. Thousand Oaks: Sage. 2009a. Introduction (to Donald Worster’s CGSG Marquee Address). Journal of Cultural Geography 26(2): 111.2009b. Collaborative Land-Use Management: The Quieter Revolution in Place-Based Management, by Robert J. Mason.Professional Geographer 61(1): 128-129.2008. Critical modifications: adapting Mitchell’s Cultural Geography for the classroom. Human Geography 1(2): 115-116. 2007. I Have Lived Here Since the World Began, by Arthur Ray. Journal of Historical Geography 33(3): 725-727.2006a. An Industrial Geography of Cocaine, by Christian M. Allen. Southeastern Geographer 46(2): 334-336.2006b. The young adult symbol. In Encyclopedia of the Midwest, ed. A. Clayton, R. Sisson, and C. Zacher, pp. 88-90.Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.2005. Putting Science in its Place: Geographies of Scientific Knowledge, by David Livingstone. Cultural Geographies12(1): 115-116.1999. Ways of Knowing, by John-Guy A. Goulet. Cultural Survival Quarterly 23: 17-18.RESEARCH FUNDING Grants2014-2015. American Council of Learned Societies, Collaborative Research Fellowship, “Being-together-in-place: A geohumanistic exploration of place-based politics in postcolonial settler states.” With Jay T. Johnson (U. of Kansas) [$139,933]2013. University of Missouri, Summer Research Fellowship, “Journey to a Native land: Collaborative ethnography with the Cheslatta Carrier First Nation in British Columbia.” [$7,000]2012. National Science Foundation, Social, Behavioral, & Economic Sciences (Proposal No. 071612), “Imaging and imagining climate change in mid-Missouri.” Co-Investigator with Principal Investigator Rebecca Scott and Co- Investigator Neil Fox [$191,642] NOT FUNDED.2008-2010. National Science Foundation, Geography & Regional Science (Grant No. 0752183), “Environmental knowledge transfers in the exurban transition, Fremont County, Colorado.” Principal Investigator with co- investigators Matt Foulkes, Ann Bettencourt, and Curt Sorenson (U. of Kansas) [$156,371]2006a. Government of Canada, Research Grant, “Ethnography of community forest stakeholders in British Columbia, Canada” [$6,000]2006b. University of Missouri, Research Council Grant, “Ethnographic assessment of social sustainability among community forest stakeholders in British Columbia, Canada” [$7,162]2006c. University of Missouri, Richard Wallace Grant, “Ethnographic assessment of social sustainability among community forest stakeholders in British Columbia, Canada” [$1,712]2004a. University System of the Georgia Board of Regents, Global Partnerships Grant, “Research development with the Gullah-Geechee community of Sapelo Island, Georgia” (with Jason Dittmer and Mark Welford) [$10,000]2004b. Government of Canada, Faculty Enrichment Grant, “Pedagogical enhancement of GEOG 5130: Geography of North America” [$4,712]2003. Georgia Southern University, Faculty Research Grant, “Stakeholder assessment of the Southwest Georgia United Empowerment Zone (USDA regional development program)” [$3,000]2001-2002. US Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, J. William Fulbright Award for study in Canada, “Sense of place in a rural region of north-central British Columbia” [$15,000] Host university representative: Dr. R. Cole Harris, University of British Columbia1999a. American Philosophical Society, Phillips Fund Grant for Native American Research, “Place-name lexicon for the Cheslatta-Carrier Nation” [$1,200]1999b. Whatcom Museum, Jacobs Fund Grant for Research, “Ethnography of the Cheslatta-Carrier Nation” [$1,200] 1999c. Arctic Institute of North America, Grant-in-Aid, “Ethnography of the Cheslatta-Carrier Nation” [$500]1998. University of Kansas, Carroll D. Clark Fund, “Exploratory work with the Cheslatta-Carrier Nation” [$500]Externally Funded Fieldwork2014-15Aotearoa/New Zealand, Waitangi Treaty Grounds and Wakarusa Wetlands, Lawrence, Kansas, USA (American Council of Learned Societies)1998-Cheslatta Carrier Traditional Territory, British Columbia, Canada (Fulbright; Government of Canada) 2005-2011Fremont County, Colorado, University of Kansas Field Camp, USA (National Science Foundation)2004-2005Gullah-Geechee community in Hog Hammock, Sapelo Island, Georgia, USA (Georgia Board of Regents)Honors & Awards2016. Purple Chalk Teaching Award, University of Missouri College of Arts & Science Student Council.2011. Commencement Speaker, University of Missouri College of Arts & Sciences December Graduation Ceremony 2009. Illinois State University, Distinguished Alumnus Award, Department of Sociology & Anthropology2007. University of Missouri, Center for Arts & Humanities Grant-Writing Fellow (fall semester course buyout)2001. University of Kansas, Marie Kabelitz Geography Field Camp Award for outstanding leadership at the University of Kansas Geography Field Camp in Garden Park, Colorado2001-2002. International Council for Canadian Studies, Graduate Student Fellowship (Dissertation research) 2001. University of Kansas, Supplemental Scholarship (Graduate studies)2000. Cultural Geography Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers, Best Student Paper Award1997. University of Kansas, Honors Fellowship (Graduate studies) 1997. Illinois State University, Bone Student Scholar1993-1997. Illinois State University, Presidential Scholar (Undergraduate studies)1996. Illinois State University, Watterson Undergraduate Essay Award in Geography-Geology1996. Illinois State University, Robert Brome Award in Creative WritingPRESENTATIONSSession Organizer2016. The Agency of Place (four sessions) co-organized with Jay T. Johnson (University of Kansas) for the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, April 1, San Francisco.2011. Cultural Geography Specialty Group Marquee Session: Richard Day, “The Spaces of Autonomy-Oriented Social Movements.” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, April 13, Seattle, Washington2010. Cultural Geography Specialty Group Marquee Session: Bret Wallach, “Just Look: A Paper Without a Subtitle.” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, April 16, Washington, DC2009. Cultural Geography Specialty Group Marquee Session: Donald Worster, “A River Running West: Don Worster on John Wesley Powell.” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, March 24, Las Vegas, Nevada2008. Cultural Geography Specialty Group Marquee Session: Joe Wood, “The New England Village, Cultural Geography, and a Liberal Education.” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, April 16, Boston, Massachusetts2008. New Stories for Old Places: Bridging Philosophy and Political Economy for Indigenous Geography (three sessions). Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, April 17, Boston, Massachusetts [with Jay Johnson, U. of Kansas]2007. Industrial Landscapes: Past and Present (two sessions). Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, April 20, San Francisco, California [with Dave Robertson, SUNY-Geneseo]2005. Resource Management in the Indigenous North. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado [with Mike Ripmeester, Brock U.]2004. Developing a Sense of Place: Identities, Economies, and Values. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, March 19, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania2003. Indigenous Visions of Land Management and Development in Canada and the Upper Midwest. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, March 7, New Orleans, LouisianaInvited Panelist/Speaker2015. “being-together-in-place: coexistence in a more-than-human world,” invited colloquium speaker for the University of Kansas Department of Geography, September 25, Lawrence, Kansas (with Jay T. Johnson)2014. Panelist, Reconsidering “Regional” Political Ecologies: Theory, Utility, and Applications, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, April 10, Tampa, Florida2011. “Amenity Development and Landscape Change in the American West,” invited colloquium speaker for the Western Michigan University Department of Geography, February 18, Kalamazoo, Michigan2010. “Amenity Development and Landscape Change in the American West,” invited colloquium speaker for the University of Kansas Department of Geography, November 29, Lawrence, Kansas2009. “Environmental Learning and the Prospects for Adaptive Co-management among Amenity Migrants to the American West,” Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series, Illinois State University Department of Sociology & Anthropology, October 16, Normal, Illinois2009. Panelist, Author Meets Critics: Kathleen Stewart’s Ordinary Affects, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, March 25, Las Vegas, Nevada2008. Panelist, Author Meets Critics: Don Mitchell’s Cultural Geography: A Critical Introduction, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, April 18, Boston, Massachusetts2007. Panelist, The State of Canadian Studies in Geography, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, April 20, San Francisco, California2006. Invited speaker for the UNESCO-sponsored conference entitled La Gestion Intégrée de l’Eau dans l’Histoire Environmentale: Savoirs Traditionnels et Pratiques Modernes [Integrated Water Management in Environmental History: Traditional Knowledge and Modern Practices], October 27-30, Laval University, Québec City, Canada2006. Panelist, Author Meets Critics: Stephen Birdsall’s Regional Landscapes of the US and Canada, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, March 10, Chicago, Illinois2005. Panelist, Author Meets Critics: John Hudson’s Across This Land, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, April 8, Denver, Colorado2005. Panelist, Teaching Canadian Studies in a North-American Context, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, April 8, Denver, Colorado2005. Panelist, Long Lost Topics in Cultural Geography, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, April 6, Denver, ColoradoConference Presentations2016. “A Ceremonial Intervention: Entanglements in the Ancestral Cemeteries of the Cheslatta-Carrier First Nation, British Columbia, Canada,” paper presented at the American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, April 1, San Francisco, California2014. “We Will Not Rest: The Political Ecology of Cemetery Desecration in the Traditional Territory of the Cheslatta- Carrier Nation, British Columbia,” paper presented at the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, April 10, Tampa, Florida2013. “Return to a Native Land: Place-Based Politics among the Cheslatta Carrier Nation in British Columbia,” paper presented in the Chancellor’s Diversity Initiative Series, October 9, Columbia, Missouri2011. “Ethics in the space between self and other: exploring the connections between affinity politics and existential phenomenology,” paper presented at the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, April 15, Seattle, Washington2010. “Placing the professional stranger: reflections on place, self, and fieldwork,” paper presented at the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, April 15, Washington, D.C.2009. “Environmental knowledge transfers in the exurban transition,” manuscript presented at the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, March 24, Las Vegas, Nevada2008. “Place, radical activism, and the phenomenology of affinity,” manuscript presented at the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, April 17, Boston, Massachusetts2007. “Place-making in community forestry: report from ethnographic fieldwork in British Columbia,” paper presented at the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, April 20, San Francisco, California2006. “Landscapes of leisure among western Dakelh (Carrier) communities in British Columbia,” paper presented at the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, March 10, Chicago, Illinois2006. “Traditional knowledge regarding water among the Cheslatta-Carrier Nation in British Columbia: change and continuity in the use and valuation of a contested resource,” La Gestion Intégrée de l’Eau dans l’Histoire Environmentale: Savoirs Traditionnels et Pratiques Modernes, October 29, Laval University, Québec City, Canada2005. “Negril in the news: content analysis of a contested paradise,” manuscript presented at the Southeastern Division of the AAG Annual Meeting, November 21, West Palm Beach, Florida2005. “Local politics and indigenous resource-management programs,” paper presented at the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, April 8, Denver, Colorado2004. “Politics of place identity in a rural Georgia ‘empowerment’ zone,” manuscript presented at the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, March 18, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania2003. “Policies for place attachment: forestry initiatives and aboriginal communities in British Columbia,” paper presented at the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, March 6, New Orleans, Louisiana2002. “Political borders, ethnic relations, and regional identity in northern British Columbia,” paper presented at the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, March 22, Los Angeles, California2001. “The ferry and the mill: imagining regional identity in ‘Southside,’ a rural region in northern British Columbia,” manuscript presented at the Kansas Conference on Imagination and Place, October 20, Lawrence, Kansas2000. “The trips we take: exploration in Anthropology and Geography,” paper presented at the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, April 5, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania1999. “Making maps, making place: indigenous landscapes and land claims in British Columbia,” paper presented at the Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting, April 24, Tucson, Arizona1998. “Speaking of the Earth: Cheslatta T’en management, ethnoecology, and land claims in northern British Columbia,” paper presented at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, December 3, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania1998. “New nature: narratives, dams, and landscape transformation in Kansas,” paper presented at the Central States Anthropological Society Meeting, April 3, Kansas City, Missouri1995. “Buffalo Woman speaks: Native American tobacco pipes,” paper presented at the Society for Ethnobiology Annual Meeting, March 15, Tucson, ArizonaMedia Appearances2007. Finalist, Host of Terrain: Landscapes of the World’s Greatest Cities, a pilot show produced by Creative Differences (Los Angeles) for The History Channel [screen tested in Santa Monica, CA]2007. July Feature (video interview), Syndicate Mizzou, public relations outreach site for the University of Missouri 2005. Guest on Daybreak, morning show for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), April 25 SERVICE PROFESSIONAL SERVICENational Committees & Editorships2013—present. Book Review Editor, Social & Cultural Geography2009—present. Editorial Board, Southeastern Geographer.2006—present. Book Review Editor, Historical Geography: An Annual Journal of Research, Commentary, and Reviews(published in association with the Historical Geography Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers) 2007—2011. Chair, Cultural Geography Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers (two terms) 2004-2007. Awards Director, Cultural Geography Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers2004-2006. Vice President, Canadian Studies Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers 2003-2005. Awards Director, Canadian Studies Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers 2000. Member, Planning Committee, Kansas Conference on Imagination and Place1999-2002. Advisory Board, Canadian Studies Specialty Group of the Association of American GeographersJournal Manuscript Reviews (42)Aether: Journal of Media Geography (1); Annals of the Association of American Geographers (1); The Canadian Geographer (2); Geoforum (2); Geografiska Annaler B (3); The Geographical Bulletin (3); Geographical Review (2); GeoJournal (2); Great Plains Research (1); Human Organization: The Journal of the Society for Applied Anthropology (1); Journal of Applied Geography (1); Landscape & Urban Planning (2); Material Culture (1); Prairie Perspectives (1); Professional Geographer (4); Rangeland and Ecology Management (1); Review of Maritime Studies (1); Social & Cultural Geography (5); Sociological Perspectives (1); Southeastern Geographer (2); Space & Polity (1); Sustainability Science (1); Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers (2); Urban Ecologies (1)Other Reviews2014. External Reviewer, book manuscript, Oregon State University Press.2011. External Reviewer for the National Science Foundation, Geography and Spatial Sciences Program2010. External Reviewer for Cable, T. and M. Cadden (2010) Driving Across Missouri: A Guide to I-70 Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas2006. External Reviewer for the Government of Canada Research Grants Competition (administered by the Academic Affairs of the Canadian Embassy in the United States)2006. External Reviewer, Department of Geography Pre-Tenure Review, Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota 2004. Reviewer, World Regional Geography: Global Patterns, Local Lives by Lydia Pulsipher (W.H. Freeman Press)SERVICE TO HIGHER EDUCATIONAdvising—CompletedChair (8)2016. Lesley (Clark) Flaherty, Master of Arts in Geography. “Finding Their Place in Pictures: Reflecting on Images of International Women's Lives in State College, PA”2015. Jared Whear, Master of Arts in Geography. “Fountains in a desert: place-making and collective action against Southern Nevada Water Authority’s groundwater development project.” (Mr. Whear is a PhD student in Geography at Syracuse University)2013a. Matt Jacboson, Master of Arts in Geography. “Evoking landscape practices through ethnographic fiction.” (Mr. Jacobson is GIS Planning Analyst for the Upper Mississippi River Basin Association, St. Paul, MN)2013b. Beth Kelly, Master of Arts in Geography. “An Actor-Network Analysis of the Arizona Trail.” (Ms. Kelly is GIS I Specialist for the State of Missouri, Jefferson City, MO)2011. Amy Thompson, Master of Arts in Geography, “Gentrification through the eyes (and lenses) of Kansas City residents.” (Ms. Thompson is Coordinator with the New York City Food Bank, New York, NY)2010. Zach Rubin, Master of Arts in Geography, “Geography of protest in the School of Americas Watch (SOAW) annual vigil.” (Mr. Rubin is PhD student in Sociology at the University of Missouri)2009. Craig Hutton, Master of Arts in Geography, “From box suppers and card games to vineyards and viewscapes: community discourse in the exurban American West.” (Mr. Hutton is currently a Doctoral Trainee in Texas A&M University’s Applied Biodiversity Science NSF-IGERT Program)2008. Brent Alexander, Master of Arts in Geography, “Iron, wine, and a woman named Lucy: sense of place in St. James, Missouri.” (Mr. Alexander is Training Program Director for GeoEye Corporation in St. Louis, Missouri)Committee Member (25)2016a. Siyang (Sandy) Zhang, Master of Arts in Geography, “Using Soil Characteristics to Better Paramatrize Water Budget Calculations”2016b. Judd Slivka, Master of Arts in Geography, “Missiles in the White City: How Governments Creatively Destroyed Jackson Park, Chicago, IL”2015a. Chris Petruccelli, Master of Arts in Geography, “Climate and regeneration at upper treeline east and west of the Continental Divide in the Northern and Southern Rocky Mountains”2015b. Abel Gomez, Master of Arts in Religious Studies, “Beneath and above the worlds of spirit are alive: religion, place, and Ohlone cultural revival.”2015c. Allison Coffelt, Master of Arts in English, “Border crossings, identities, and creative nonfiction: Haitian travel guides and writing about Haiti.”2014a. Dave Knieter, Master of Arts in Geography, “Decolonizing Conservation? Co-management of natural resources in Bushbuckridge Nature Reserve, South Africa.”2014b. Aaron Groth, Master of Arts in Geography, “Social and Environmental Impacts of Big-Leaf Mahogany Logging on Peruvian Indigenous Communities.”2014c. Lebo Moore, Master of Arts in Geography, “Foods Eye View: Using participant-generated data to explore the extent and current scope of urban agriculture in Saint Paul, Minnesota.”2014d. Courtney Richter, “Visualizing Geographies of Perceived Safety: An Exploration of Muslim Women's Experiences in Public Space.”2014e. Beth Peterson, Doctor of Philosophy in English, “Glaciology.”2014f. Jeremy Brok, Master of Arts in English, “Katrina’s other disaster: conveying Katrina’s second disaster and placing post-Katrina New Orleans.”2013a. Mahmood Tajbakhsh, Master of Arts in Geography, “Un-masking other economies: subsistence hunting and fishing in the contiguous United States.”2013b. Colin Suchland, Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology, “Inventing The Grove: community and commercial development in an urban neighborhood.”2012. Dustin Michael, Doctor of Philosophy in English (Creative Non-Fiction), “Triptych: Essays of Place and Travel.”2011. Alexis Miller, Master of Arts in History, “The making of a frontier society: northeastern Wales between the Norman and Edwardian Conquests.” (Ms. Miller is a doctoral student in History at the University of Missouri)2010a. Jack Hanney, Master of Arts in Geography, “An analysis of Chickasaw media discourse.”2010b. Aimee Wachtel, Master of Arts in Journalism, “Real life: frames of authenticity in travel and leisure magazines.”2010c. Na Yang, Master of Arts in Geography, “The impact of the Chinese Air Cargo Hub Project on the business climate of St. Louis, Missouri.”2009a. Nathan Bartlett, Master of Arts in Geography, “Bastions of turf: Frisians, terpen and the re-adoption of a working landscape.” (Mr. Bartlett is Instructor of Geography at Aurora Community and Metropolitan State College of Denver)2009b. Timothy Biello, Master of Science in Rural Sociology, “A case study on the use of focus groups as participatory research.” (Mr. Biello currently works for the Hawthorne Valley Farm near Ghent, New York)2008a. Robert Britten, Doctor of Philosophy in Journalism, “Place and the collective memory in times of trauma: the role of images in constructing the memory of 9/11.” (Dr. Britten is Assistant Professor of Journalism at West Virginia University)2008b. Evan Patton, Master of Arts in Geography, “Covering the bases: variations in the arguments to justify publicly funded baseball stadiums.” (Mr. Patton is GIS Analyst for SAIC in St. Louis, Missouri)2008c. Damian Whitney, Master of Arts in Geography, “Variation in the perception of urban canals in Fresno, California.” (Mr. Whitney is Instructor of Geography at Park University in Kansas City, Missouri)2008d. Laura (Bell) Steele, Master of Arts in Geography, “Castles in America: their diffusion into the northeastern United States during the Romantic Era (1870-1930).” (Mrs. Steele is GIS Analyst for SAIC in St. Louis, Missouri)2007. Kimberly Harris, Master of Arts in Geography, “National identity and nationalism in Osama bin Laden’s speeches.” (Ms. Harris is GIS Analyst for Science Applications International Corporation in Kansas City, Missouri)Advising—CurrentChair (1): Melissa HiggsCommittee Member (6): Robert Boon; Jackson Medel (English PhD); Corrina Cook (Creative Nonfiction PhD); Rachel Spillars (English PhD), Elizabeth Achuff (Rural Sociology PhD); Carli Sinclair (English PhD), Elizabeth Prentice (Rural Sociology PhD)Committees—University of Missouri2012—Steering Committee, University of Missouri Pride of Place Initiative 2012—Advisory Board, Honors College Behavioral and Social Sciences Track 2011-2013.Advisory Board, Defoe-Graham Residence Hall Pangea Community2007-2008.Collaborative Working Group Coordinator, Center for the Arts and Humanities 2006-2008.Advisory Board, Center for the Arts and Humanities2005-2006.Planning Committee for PhD Degree Program in Geography 2005.Search Committee for faculty position in Physical GeographyCommittees—Department of Geography2010—Director of Graduate Studies (three-year term)2013.Tenure and Promotion Review Committee for Dr. Tim Matisziw, MU Department of Geography 2013.Tenure and Promotion Review Committee for Dr. Mark Palmer, MU Department of Geography 2012.Chair, Search Committee for Assistant Teaching ProfessorService Highlights— Georgia Southern University2003. Principal Author, Proposal for Bachelor of Arts Degree with a Major in Geography (with Mark Welford and Dallas Rhodes)2003-2004. University Honors Program Planning Committee 2003-2004. Chair, Daniel Good Scholarship Committee 2002-2004. Workshop Leader, Academic Success Center2002-2003. Search Committee for faculty position in Human Geography 2002-2003. Peer Evaluation of Teaching Committee2002-2003. Co-editor, Department of Geology-Geography NewsletterService Highlights—University of Kansas1999-2002. Founder and Managing Editor, Luminary: The Undergraduate Research Journal of the University of Kansas1998-2000. University of Kansas Undergraduate Research Symposium Committee1998-2000. Assistant Curator, Women’s Works 2000: From Our Past To Our Future, an exhibit at the University of Kansas Spooner Museum of Anthropology ................
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