Panther Geographer Spring/Summer 2009, Volume 5, Issue 2 http//:www.uwm.edu/Dept/Geography Inside this issue: Letter from the Chair Linda McCarthy 2 Professor Judith Kenny returns from No doubt, you have heard that we class of Geography majors – in Geog 600 China “live in interesting times.” As the financial – are preparing to present their semester Larry Knopp 3 crisis made daily news, we waited anx- research in a departmental colloquium on visits UWM iously at the beginning of the semester to their way to graduation. Julie Anderson hear what the Governor’s budget meant (MA ’96), director of planning for Racine for UWM and our own department. As County, joined the Geog 600 class re- Faculty News 4 that planning goes forward, Geography is cently to talk to these seniors about her relatively comfortable – or, at least as own progress through the UWM Geogra- comfortable as one might hope for when phy program. While acknowledging that Graduate Stu- 5 living “in interesting times.” Our enroll- the job market would be challenging, she dent News ments are strong and an expansion of our encouraged them to think of their educa- online course offerings provides us with tion as an investment that no one could funds to help offset the anticipated reduc- take away from them. –An investment that Alumni News 6 tions. they may very well decide to add to. While this signals a delay in our As the instructor for the capstone planned program expansion, UW- course, I enjoyed hearing Julie’s stories Alumni News, 7 Milwaukee is clearly viewed as an integral and cont. part of the southeastern Wisconsin econ- advice. ...and Poetry omy. The Governor’s budget includes It was funds for the new School of Freshwater particu- Farewell, Wen! 8 Sciences and the School of Public Health. larly Geographers are involved in the campus gratify-

planning for these important additions as ing be- befitting a department focused on issues cause Additional Info of the urban environment. How quickly we she was

• AAG Conference in Las will get there is not clear but there will be my first Vegas, NV (March 23- progress. gradu- Julie Anderson with students from 27, 2009) In the meantime, certain aspects of ate ad- Geography 600 • Sustainable Cities visee Conference will be the spring schedule continue. We are pre- held at UWM from paring for next year’s incoming graduate and I had watched her start her graduate April 17-18, 2009, students as recruitment/admissions are un- career, her planning career at Racine featuring UWM De- County, and her family. She is an inspiring partment of Geogra- derway. And leaving – thus far, two of phy’s Harold Mayer our doctoral students have accepted posi- balancing act as her daughters (Lauren 15, Lecture Series guest, tions for next year. Wen Lin joins the Ge- Rachel 13), husband Steve, and Racine Jennifer Wolch from County are well aware. the University of ography Department faculty at UW- Southern California LaCrosse in the fall and Deanna Schmidt We look forward to seeing her will be on her way to the University of again for additional mentoring sessions. – Houston-Clear Lake. Congratulations to We would appreciate hearing from you as them both! well. Best wishes. Members of the large (32 member) Page 2 Panther Geographer A New Research Agenda

Hard at work while on sabbatical, Professor Pearl River Delta that was organized by the Univer- Linda McCarthy returns to us with a new research sity of Hong Kong for the invitees. We visited many agenda on the mind. She shares some of her experi- major new urban developments like the Guangzhou ences from China. International Convention and Exhibition Center and During my 2007-08 sabbatical year, I spent had meetings with planners and economic develop- part of the time doing research in Guangzhou, China, ment officials at the Urban Planning Bureaus in and attending a symposium in Hong Kong. Having Shenzhen, Dongguan, and Guangzhou. done research on the automobile industry in the One of the most memorable experiences for United States, I was inter- me was sitting beside Peter Hall on the coach one ested in establishing a day as he told me the story of how he came up with research agenda for a the idea for Enterprise Zones (EZs) three decades study of the automobile earlier. He had been invited to give a talk to the industry in the Pearl River Royal Town Planning Institute and needed to come up Delta. Working with Pro- with a topic to present. Having just returned from a fessor Lachang Lu from trip to Hong Kong, he used his presentation to the Guangzhou University, planners to ponder the success of Hong Kong as a we undertook some pre- capitalist bastion in the otherwise centrally-planned liminary fieldwork and Chinese economic context. He concluded that the less interviews. Professor Lu’s restrictive regulation of business in Hong Kong was connections greatly facili- an important factor underlying its prosperity. He sug- tated getting interviews gested that the Hong Kong model of reduced taxes, with government officials, regulations, and red tape might work to promote Professor Linda McCarthy planners, and economic business enterprise and jobs in designated distressed development officers, as zones within cities in the U.K. He didn’t think much well as a guided tour of a new Toyota plant. One of more about it until he got a call from Michael He- the things I needed to learn more about is how the seltine, the U.K.’s Conservative government’s environ- political and economic context for automobile pro- ment secretary who asked to meet with him, and the duction in China is different from that in many other rest, as they say, is history. I thought that it was fan- parts of the world, including the United States. In tastic that Peter Hall was so down to earth and hon- China, for example, the U.S., European, and Japa- est about how the whole idea and implementation of nese automobile manufacturers are required to oper- EZs in the U.K. had come about! ate through joint ventures with a Chinese automaker. Following approval by the Chinese government, Toy- ota, for example, had entered into a joint venture with the Guangzhou Automobile Group in order to be able to manufacture cars in Guangzhou. I timed the research trip to coincide with the International Symposium on Mega-City Regions: Inno- vations in Governance and Planning, which was held in Hong Kong in early August 2008. The University of Hong Kong’s Centre of Urban Planning and Environ- mental Management invited a small number of inter- national experts who included Sir Peter Hall from University College London and Professor Saskia Sas- sen from Columbia University to present papers. In addition to presenting a paper at a really excellent Professor Linda McCarthy presenting at the International symposium, we all also enjoyed a fieldtrip into the Symposium on Mega-City Regions: Innovations in Governance and Planning Panther Geographer Spring/Summer 2009, Volume 5, Issue 2 Page 3 http//:www..uwm.edu/Dept/Geography

S Spring/Summer 2009, Volume 5, Issue 2 Seminal research presented on venereal biopower in November By Chris Schroeder

Is sex a weapon? It was depicted as such dur- volvement in an Urban Land Market” in Political Ge- ing a World War II public service campaign in Seat- ography Quarterly; and “Exploiting the Rent-Gap: tle — and women were the enemy. The Theoretical Significance of Using Illegal Ap- Dr. Lawrence Knopp, associate dean for The praisal Schemes to Encourage Gentrification in New Graduate School and professor of geography at the Orleans” in Urban Geography—all from 1990. University of Minnesota, Duluth campus, used adver- More recently, Knopp has written about the tising and media from World War II as part of his theoretical connections be- analysis of women depicted as “pathogen” during tween feminist and queer war-time Seattle. geography as well as the Presented in November 2008, “Race, Gen- theory, politics, and practice der, and Venereal Biopower in Wartime Seattle” of mapping queer popula- drew on Michel Foucault, the influential French phi- tions and cultures. His 2007 losopher, to illustrate the biopower and self- “On the Relationship Be- regulation used to keep servicemen free of disease, tween Queer and Feminist namely STDs or the term at the time VDs. The cam- Geographies” finds conver- Professor Larry Knopp paign was used by the military and the local health gences and divergences in agency to stop the spread of STDs by depicting the two theoretical bodies. women as seductive agents and men as innocent His body of work also pro- dupes, with the dual goal of keeping men healthy for vides examples of queering Professor Larry Knopp the war effort and reduce work load on the health traditional geographic agency. tools/concepts such as his Much of Knopp’s research focuses on the spa- work on queer and queering the map. tiality of sexuality, gender, and class. He has ex- Knopp is also involved in an ongoing map- plored links in the U.S., U.K., and Australia between ping project in collaboration with Professor Michael urban land, housing and labor markets, regional eco- Brown of the University of Washington and a commu- nomic change, and the construction of place-based nity-based gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender gay identities, communities, and political movements. history organization in Seattle. He also has a long- He has also studied the cultural transformation and standing interest in U.S. electoral geography, which conflicts associated with these processes, such as the has led to separate collaborations with Professor spatiality of media representations of gay men and Brown and University of Washington Professor Emeri- the relationships between sexuality and nation- tus of Geography Richard Morrill. building projects. Knopp’s presentations include “Issues in Com- Starting in the late 1980’s, Knopp was munity-Based Archival Research,” “How Stable Are among a group of seminal researchers exploring Red and Blue America ?,” and “Places or Polygons? sexuality and space in geography. Some early arti- Governmentality, Sexuality and the Census,” in The cles include 1987’s “Social Theory, Social Movements Gay and Lesbian Atlas. and Public Policy: Recent Accomplishments of the Knopp received a bachelor’s of arts in 1983 Gay and Lesbian Movements in Minneapolis, Minne- from the University of Washington, a master’s of arts sota” in the International Journal of Urban and Re- in 1986, and Ph.D. in 1989, both from the University gional Research. Other early works include “Social of Iowa. Consequences of Homosexuality” in the Geographi- cal: The Monthly Magazine of the Royal Geographical Society; “Some Theoretical Implications of Gay In- Page 4 Panther Geographer Geography Faculty News

Dr. Mick Day has been appointed to a Dr. Rina Ghose has been working on a number of number of posts recently. He is now the things recently as well. In 2008, she traveled to Park Associate Editor for Journal of Karst City, UT, to present her pa- Development, the Regional Vice-Chair for Central per “Politics of Scale and America and the Caribbean, World Council on Pro- Networks of Association in tected Areas (IUCN) Tack PPGIS” at the 5th Interna- on Caves and Karsts, tional Conference on Geo- the North American Repre- graphic Information Science. sentative for the Central More recently in 2009, she American Institute of Karst & has been invited to present Speleological Studies, and her research paper titled reappointed to his third con- “Public Participation GIS in secutive term on the Steering the Context of Inner-City Re- Committee for the Interna- vitalization” at Newberry tional Geographical Union Library. Also, she presented Karst Commission. Along “Power to the people? Politics of power in Public Par- with these achievements, his ticipation GIS” at UC-Berkeley and closer to home, recent publications include:1) Day, M.J. Salvadoran “Complexities in citizen participation and spatial lime kiln establishment in the Hummingbird karst, Be- knowledge production in inner-city neighborhoods of lize, 1979-1988. Caribbean Geography 14(2), 133- Milwaukee” as part of UW-Madison, Department of 144.; 2) Day, M.J. and Urich, P.B. Military cam- Geography’s Yi-Fu Tuan Lecture Series. Her forth- paigns in tropical karst: Bohol, the Philippines. In: coming articles include: Military Geology and Geography: History and Tech- 1) 2009 Mukherjee, F. and Ghose, R. “Complexities nology, eds. P. Nathanail, R. Bradshaw and R.J. in GIS Spatial Knowledge Production in Dane Abrahart, Land Quality Press, Nottingham, 145- County, Wisconsin.” Cartography and Geographic In- 158.; and 3) Urich, P.B. and Day, M.J. Potential im- formation Science, forthcoming; and pacts of sea-level rise on Belize. Caribbean Geogra- 2) Ghose, R. “Investigating Middle Class Migration phy 14(2), 73-90. and Rural Gentrification in Western Montana,” book chapter submitted to Country Dreams and City Dr. Woonsup Choi is the lead author of an article Schemes: Utopian Visions of the Twentieth Century entitled “Use of the North American Regional Re- American West, edited by analysis for hydrologi- Kathleen Brosnan and Amy cal modeling in Mani- Scott, University of New Mex- toba” published in Ca- ico Press, accepted. nadian Water Resources Journal in 2009. It was Dr. Chris DeSousa delivered coauthored by S.J. the opening Special Presen- Kim, P. Rasmussen, tation at the Western Can- and A. Moore, all at the ada Contaminated Sites Con- University of Manitoba. ference in Calgary, Al- During the AAG meet- berta. Professors De Sousa ing in Las Vegas, he co- and Wu, along with Dr. Lynne organized three con- Westphal from the USDA secutive sessions on cli- Forest Service, have a paper forthcoming in Economic mate change and water resources with Professor Development Quarterly entitled “Assessing the Effect Heejun Chang at Portland State University. of Publicly Supported Brownfield Redevelopment on Surrounding Property Values.”

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Nadia Bogue first step in the prevention of invasive species move- This semester I have been working on continu- ment and establishment. I will outline which zip ing to narrow my research focus. Through my intern- codes, (in my study) needed more invasive species ship this summer with the Milwaukee Riverkeeper I publication. will be researching environmental justice and the role non-profit organizations play in addressing these Nick Gates questions in Milwaukee. My internship will serve as I am in my sec- my case study and I am excited to integrate my class ond semester in the Ge- knowledge into this opportunity. I look forward to ography program, after working with the graduate students and faculty as earning my BA in Ger- the new graduate representative as well. man from Arizona State in 2004. My interests Andrea Hall are in social justice and I am a first year (second semester) graduate industrial redevelopment student in the Geography department. I have contin- in Milwaukee. I hail ued my Teaching Assistant from Waukesha, but like appointment for Geography living in Riverwest much 120 (Our Physical Environ- better. I cannot live without my Mac. ment). I will conduct field- work for my Master’s thesis Brendan Vierk Rivera for two weeks in April of The stillness of the forest refreshes the soul, 2009 in Puerto Rico. The but the necessity of clearing the path with a machete research will focus on tourism enlivens the heart. I would feel this way while travers- and ecotourism within the ing the karst forests in Puerto Rico. During the winter karst landscape of Puerto interim period, I attempted to find NW and SE fac- Rico. Upon return, I will fin- ing slopes as these are the least and most exposed ish up my semester and be- to solar gin to organize the data insulation collected during fieldwork. and the desiccat- Aswin Subanthore ing effect I have published: Brenda Phillips, Dave Neal, of the Thomas Wikle, Aswin Subanthore and Shireen Hy- trade rapiet. 2008. "Mass Fatality Management after the winds. I Indian Ocean Tsunami,” Disaster Prevention and Man- hope to agement: An International Journal, Vol. 17, No. 5, pp. determine 681-691, along with two soon to be published ency- if this as- clopedic entries titled “Indian Ocean” and “Tea pect influences the growth of trees as these areas Trade” In Maritimea: The Illustrated Guide to the Mari- underwent the “spontaneous abandonment” by farm- time World (Sydney, Australia: Millennium House), ers who tried to make a living in this beautiful yet forthcoming 2009. remote corner of Puerto Rico. I wish to thank the de- partment for the travel funding provided by the MJR Ashley Adair and CE grants which covered the majority of my ex- Over summer 2008 I collected data from penses. 315 campsites that checked into the Kettle Moraine State Forest - Southern Unit. Over the fall/winter I have been mapping and analyzing this data. My thesis will argue that education and awareness is the Page 6 Panther Geographer Alumni News

Derek Robinson, BA 2001 Prof. Norm Stewart once told me that geographers Currently I’m working for Pasco County Flor- had a tendency to be “jacks of all trades and mas- ida in the Stormwater Management Division as a GIS ters of none,” and I applied that to my graduate Analyst. I am responsible for the SDE Geodatabase work and career (and I'm happy I've done so). I'm that will house all of the collected data and all re- now the Transportation Manager for the consoli- lated aspects to the collection, such as routing, man- dated City and County of Carson City. I work for the agement of survey crews, and QA/QC of all the City's Public Works Department, but I get to run the data. What also makes this collection effort unique local Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO), be is that we are not only getting Latitude and Longi- the transit director for the local transit system, and tude per structure (feature), but Elevation as well. plan and build roads and bicycle/pedestrian facili- This will give us the ability to start modeling our ties. The transportation field is a wonderful thing - it's stormwater system accurately. It is quite a challeng- very diverse and there's rarely a shortage of money ing position, as I have had to learn survey terminol- and/or work. ogy and techniques, GPS collection, and water re- lated GIS software like ArcHydro. As we move for- Robert Ramraj, PhD 1990 ward, the county plans on implementing a CMMS I completed my PhD in May under Dr. Mick (Computerized Maintenance Management System) to Day's advisorship. My dissertation focused on the help reorganize data, update, and track mainte- geomorphological/climatological/economic/ nance of all our assets from storm water, Utilities, environmental aspects of beach nourishment, dredg- and Public Works. I will be involved with that imple- ing, and dredge disposal at Keewanee, WI in par- mentation as well. Finally, on the weekends you can ticular and the Great Lakes in general. After several find me floating in my pool enjoying a cold bever- one-year appointments at Millersville U and Kutz- age. town U in PA, I eventually accepted a tenure-track position at Winston-Salem State U (WSSU) in NC. I Mark Francek, PhD 1988 often taught at UNC-Greensboro at both the gradu- I am a professor of geography at Central ate and undergraduate levels while at WSSU, and Michigan University. My research and teaching inter- also at Elon U. WSSU has also awarded me the Bill ests are in earth science education and I am the re- Sheppard Teaching Excellence Award in 2002. Sub- cipient of several NSF CCLI – A&E grants. In 2001 I sequently, WSSU's Social Sciences gave me an won the University Distinguished Teaching Award, in award for “dedication and excellent service to stu- 2002, Michigan Professor of the Year, in 2007, the dents, department and university.” UWM's rigorous Presidents’ Council for State Universities in Michigan's interdisciplinary training permitted me to success- Distinguished Professor of the Year, and in 2008 the fully conduct research and effectively teach a wide National Council for Geographic Education Distin- range of courses. guished Teaching Award. I have researched and published on such top- ics as dredging, disposal, environmental perception, See http://www.news.cmich.edu/2008/11/cmu- and Guyana in journals including Journal of Coastal professors-take-top-nation/ Research, Caribbean Geography and Guyana Journal. Ten years of library and field work in Guyana culmi- Patrick Pittenger, BA 1994 nated in 2003 in the publication of my book Guyana: I found my way to geography at UWM after Population, Environments, Economic Activities. deciding to pursue urban planning instead of social Now semi-retired, I currently teach World studies teaching, and it has worked out for the best. Regional and Cultural Geog. every semester at For- After getting my undergraduate degree from UWM syth Technical College, two miles from my house in in 1994, I earned an MS in Transportation Planning Winston-Salem NC. My interests include inte- at Iowa State University in 1995. It was an interdisci- grating folklore into scholarly works of nonfiction. plinary program, with course work in planning, engi- neering, and logistics. Page 7 Spring/Summer 2009, Volume 5, Issue 2 Alumni News, (cont’d..)

Peter Urich, BA 1987 MA 1990 impact assessment tools and technologies to a diverse I am currently the Managing Director of array of end users. CLIMsystems Ltd, which provides marketing, training, I have recently implemented the development and data provision services for the International and delivery of customized climate change risk as- Global Change Institute of the University of Waikato, sessment tools for the Governments of Tonga and and provides high quality models, training, and re- Vanuatu in the South Pacific. I am the project leader lated services to assist individuals, communities, and for the Southeast Queensland Climate Change Map- societies to effectively and efficiently manage the ping Project. I am also an Adjunct Associate Professor impacts of, and adaptation to, climate change. I re- in the climate change program at the University of ceived my PhD in Human Geography from the Re- the Sunshine Coast located in Queensland, Australia. search School of Pacific and Asian Studies at the Aus- tralian National University in Canberra. I also hold a diploma in agriculture from Guelph University in . My work with rural economies and land managers across Asia and the Pacific and my publi- cation record and affiliations across government and non government organizations and private industry have positioned me well to bring climate risk and Poetry Corner Shared from a selection of poems by Stern stone face and the we-told- O riding a spotted Appaloosa Gerald A. Ney, BS 1967: you-so Tarrying along the Tallapoosa Nodding masts in clustered crowds Bending with the Black Warrior

Anchored in the mini fjord of a har- And canoeing the Coosa with you. A Late Afternoon in Door County bor. ~ #2 04/01/05 From Tamaqua to Tillamook,

Bluffs, Harbors, Islands and Open And to Inglenook, Water Wonowoc in Oconomo- Searchlight scanned to Daylight woc? 07/19 & 09/30/05 Pass; Little lances of light dancing on the Risking frying by Furnace Creek; waters, Did you carve our names ~ Adventure and the trailing Straw- Mid November In Marked Tree Let's settle our scores berries On a fall blushing sweet gum On Rabbit Hash's shores In relief against a sun spackled sea, Along the lazy looping river, Over a tumbler of Tennessee The slim green bar of Chambers at ~ Or Bourbon County distilled mid bay Or score a scrawled script Mash, mint and branch. Marking the horizon's margin, and Clear down the long length ~ closer Of Crowley's straightedge Ridge Would you really Wonowoc Inside Horseshoe's sheltering wings With a nod to Fortune and Joyland? With me in Oconomowoc Two crews brave its careless curves ~ And drink from each other's well To survive a poison ivy paradise; Let's hurry on down Hurricane Creek And be my Lac La Belle? To Ephraim's face of New England Scorch the path to Panther Burn scene Shaking Shivers to catch some Later returning under Eagle Bluff's corn shuckins in Hushpuckens. abrupt ~

Farewell Wen, and Good Luck! I have accepted a tenure- and other faculty members in pre- I look for- track position in the Geography paring for the job search and inter- ward to mov- and Earth Science Department at view. In particular, I found a dry run ing to La the University of Wisconsin-La of my job talk was very helpful. The Crosse, I will Crosse. I am very excited about this dry run not only provided a ‘real miss Milwau- position because it provides a sense’ of presenting my dissertation kee, including range of opportunities in teaching to a diverse audience, but also of- the hallway courses in GIS, environmental geog- fered a wonderful opportunity to chatting (on raphy and method. I look forward collect suggestions and comments on everything – Wen Lin very much to working with the fac- my presentation. I am grateful for from papers ulty and students at UWL. the kind and generous support from to pets!) and the international pot- I have gained tremendous the faculty and fellow students luck at the annual fall picnic. help and support from my advisor throughout my time at UWM. While

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