Faculty
Full Time Faculty
Carolyn Cartier, Associate Professor
Carolyn Cartier teaches about globalization and cultural and economic geographies in Asian cities, and currently conducts research on the space economy of Chinese urbanism and gender and development concerning transnational migration and tourism.
Selected Publications
- C. Cartier, Laurence J.C. Ma (eds.) The Chinese Diaspora: Space, Place, Mobility, and Identity, Lanham, MD: Roman & Littlefield, edited with Laurence J.C. Ma, 2003.
- C. Cartier, Globalizing South China, Oxford: Blackwell, 2001.
- C. Cartier, Symbolic City-regions and Gendered Identity Formation, Provincial China, 8(2), 2003, 60-77.
- C. Cartier, Transnational Urbanism in the Reform Era Chinese City: Landscapes from Shenzhen, Urban Studies, 39(9), 2002, 1513-1532.
- C. Cartier, Origins and Evolution of a Geographical Idea: The Macroregion in China," Modern China, 28(1), 2002, 79-143.
Andrew Curtis, Associate Professor
Educational Background
Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo, 1995.
Research Interests
Spatial analysis and GIS in Medical Geography, rabies surveillance, spatial distribution of anthrax, ecology of Chagas disease in Mexico, reducing infant mortality, GIS and epidemics in history, GIS in bioterrorism response, emergency response mapping
Selected Publications
- Curtis, A. Mills J.W., Kennedy B., Fotheringham S. and T. McCarthy. (2007) Incorporating a Spatial Video Acquisition System into Disaster Response and Recovery: A Case Study of the Lower 9th Ward Journal of Contingencies & Crisis Management 15(4)
- Curtis, A., Mills, J.W., and J. Blackburn. (2007) The Calculation of a Spatial Basic Reproduction Number for Yellow Fever in 1878 New Orleans, The Professional Geographer 59(4)
- Curtis, A., Mills J.W., and M. Leitner (2007) Katrina and Vulnerability: The Geography of Stress, Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved 18(2) 315—330
- Curtis, A, Blackburn, J.K., and Y. Sansyzbayev. (2007) Using a Geographic Information System to Spatially Investigate Infectious Disease, in Tibayrenc, M Encyclopedia of Infectious Diseases: Modern Methodologies, Wiley & Sons, pp. 405-422
- Curtis, A., Mills J.W., and M. Leitner (2006), Re-engineering Confidential Information from Maps about Hurricane Katrina, International Journal of Health Geographics 5:44
- Curtis A., and M. Leitner (2006) Geographical Information Systems and Public Health: Eliminating Perinatal Disparity IGP/INFOSCI/IRM Press Hershey-London-Melbourne-Singapore-Beijing
- Curtis, A., Heath, S., and M. Hugh-Jones. (2005). GIS Investigations of Epizootics: The Limitations of Surveillance Data In Majumdar, S.K, Huffman, J., Brenner, F., and I.A. Panah (eds) Wildlife Diseases: Landscape Epidemiology. Spatial Distribution and Utilization of Remote Sensing Technology, The Pennsylvania Academy of Science, Easton, PA, pp. 459-474
Michael J. Dear, Professor
Dr. Dear conducts research on Los Angeles, post modern urbanism, and political and social geography. He is among the most-cited authorities in geography.
Selected Publications
- M. Dear, S. Flusty (eds.) The Spaces of Postmodernity: A Reader in Human Geography. Blackwell, 2002.
- M. Dear (ed.) From Chicago to LA: Making Sense of Urban Theory. Sage Publications, 2002.
- M. Dear, The Postmodern Urban Condition. Blackwell, 2000.
- M. Dear, The Los Angeles School of Urbanism: An intellectual history. Urban Geography, 24(6), 2003, 493-509.
- M. Dear, Los Angeles and the Chicago School: invitation to a debate. City and Community 1 (1) 2002, 5-32.
Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Associate Professor
Ruth Wilson Gilmore is Director of the Program in American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California where she is an Associate Professor of ASE and Geography. Previously she taught in the Departments of Geography and African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Gilmore has researched the California Department of Corrections for more than ten years. Golden Gulag, her book on the state’s prison expansion in political and economic contexts, is forthcoming in June from the University of California Press. Author of many articles, Dr. Gilmore has provided expert witness testimony on behalf of rural communities seeking alternatives to prison for local economic development. Her research, and that of her colleagues around the United States, shows that prisons do not “save” economically distressed rural communities. She also has done work on environmental justice, and directed an annotated bibliography published in 2003. Dr. Gilmore’s new projects include a study of World War II anti-racist organizing in the context of the wartime economy; she is also doing preliminary research into the historical and economic geography of development patterns, and urban-rural linkages, and racialization in contemporary Portugal. In 2002-2003 Dr. Gilmore was a Senior Justice Fellow at the Open Society Institute. She has received numerous honors and awards, including the Ralph Santiago Abascal Award for Environmental and Economic Justice from the Center on Race, Poverty and the Environment. In 2006 she was named the first winner of the James Blaut Memorial Award. She is a founding collective member of the California Prison Moratorium Project,and of Critical Resistance, and is past president of Central California Environmental Justice Network.
Selected Publications
- Golden Gulag.
- “Scholar-Activists in the Mix.” Progress in Human Geography, 29(2) 177-182. 2005.
- “Pierce the Future for Hope.” In Global Lockdown ed. Julia Sudbury.
- "The Other California." with Craig Gilmore. In Globalize Liberation ed. David Solnit.
Roderick C. McKenzie, Assistant Professor
Dr. McKenzie's research interests include zoological gardens as well as linear landscapes as elements of urban secondary land uses.
Laura Pulido, Professor
Dr. Pulido's primary research interests center on race, political activism, ethnic studies, and Los Angeles.
Selected Publications
- Pulido, Laura. Black, Brown, Yellow, and Left. University of California Press, 2006.
- Pulido, Laura. The Interior Life of Politics. Ethics, Place and Environment 6(1): 46-52, 2003.
- Houston, Donna and Laura Pulido. The Work of Performativity: Staging Social Justice at the University of Southern California. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 20: 401-424, 2002.
- Pulido, Laura. Reflections on a White Discipline. Professional Geographer 54(1): 42-49, 2002.
- Pulido, Laura. Rethinking Environmental Racism: White Privilege and Urban Development in Southern California. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 90(1): 12-40, 2000.
- Pulido, Laura. Environmentalism and Economic Justice: Two Chicano Struggles in the Southwest, University of Arizona Press, 1996.
Manuel Pastor, Professor
Dr. Manuel Pastor is Professor of Geography and American Studies & Ethnicity at the University of Southern California and Director of the Program for Environmental and Regional Equity (PERE) at USC's Center for Sustainable Cities. Founding director of the Center for Justice, Tolerance, and Community at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Pastor holds an economics Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and has received fellowships from the Danforth, Guggenheim, and Kellogg foundations and grants from the Irvine Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the Hewlett Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, the California Environmental Protection Agency, the California Wellness Foundation, and many others. His research on Latin American issues has been published in journals such as International Organization, World Development, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Latin American Studies, Latin American Research Review, and Foreign Affairs. His research on U.S. urban issues has been published in Economic Development Quarterly, Review of Regional Studies, Social Science Quarterly, Journal of Economic Issues, Journal of Urban Affairs, Urban Affairs Review, Urban Geography, and elsewhere and has generally focused on the labor market and social conditions facing low-income urban communities. His most recent book, co-authored with Chris Benner and Laura Leete, is Staircases or Treadmills: Labor Market Intermediaries and Economic Opportunity in a Changing Economy (Russell Sage, 2007). Prior volumes include Searching for the Uncommon Common Ground: New Dimensions on Race in America (W.W. Norton, 2002; co-authored with Angela Glover Blackwell and Stewart Kwoh) and Regions That Work: How Cities and Suburbs Can Grow Together (University of Minnesota Press, 2000; co-authored with Peter Dreier, Eugene Grigsby, and Marta Lopez-Garza). His research has generally focused on issues of environmental justice, regional inclusion, and the economic and social conditions facing low-income urban communities. Dr. Pastor speaks frequently on issues of demographic change, economic inequality, and community empowerment and has contributed opinion pieces to such outlets as the Los Angeles Times, the San Jose Mercury News, the Los Angeles Business Journal, and the Christian Science Monitor. He served as a member of the Commission on Regions appointed by California's Speaker of the State Assembly, and in January 2002 was awarded a Civic Entrepreneur of the Year award from the California Center for Regional Leadership.
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Curtis C. Roseman, Professor Emeritus
Curtis C. Roseman is Professor Emeritus of Geography, having retired from USC in 2004. Since retiring from teaching, his research career has mainly focused on central Los Angeles and on the Upper Mississippi River Valley. He and his wife Libby live in Moline, Illinois, which facilitates the latter interest. But he also returns to Los Angeles on a regular basis to work on neighborhood projects with the USC Civic and Community Relations and to continue research on special Los Angeles topics. He also conducts downtown LA walking tours, which he has done since 1986, and continues as co-editor of PlacesOnLine.org. Current research projects include a pictorial history, The Historic Hotels of Los Angeles and Hollywood, and a book on the contracting business of Gustavus Adolphus Johnson, a Swedish Immigrant who built more than 75 homes in Moline during the first half of the twentieth century.
Selected Publications
- Curtis C. Roseman, Ruth Wallach, Dace Taube, Linda McCann, Claude Zachary, and Geoffrey DeVerteuil, A University and a Neighborhood: The University of Southern California in Los Angeles, 1880-1984. Los Angeles: Figueroa Press, 2006.
- Curtis C. Roseman, Ruth Wallach, Dace Taube, Linda McCann, and Geoffrey DeVerteuil, The Historic Core of Los Angeles. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publications, 2004.
- Curtis C. Roseman and Elizabeth M. Roseman (eds.), Grand Excursions on the Upper Mississippi River: Places, Landscapes, and Regional Identity after 1854. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2004.
John P. Wilson, Professor
Dr. Wilson's research program uses a variety of spatial analytic approaches to increase our understanding of process and form in environmental systems. This work strives to link theory and practice and typically incorporates one or more of the following components: spatial analysis, GIS, models, and collaborative teamwork.
Selected Publications
- Burrough P A, Wilson J P, van Gaans P F M, and Hansen A J 2001 Fuzzy k-means classification of digital elevation models as an aid to forest mapping in the Greater Yellowstone area, USA. Landscape Ecology 16: 523-46.
- Wilson J P and Gallant J C (eds) 2000 Terrain Analysis: Principles and Applications. New York, John Wiley and Sons.
- Wilson J P and Burrough P A 1999 Dynamic modeling, geostatistics and fuzzy classification: New sneakers for a new geography? Annals of the Association of American Geographers 89: 736-46.
- Wilson J P and Lorang M S 1999 Spatial models of soil erosion and GIS. In Fotheringham A S and Wegener M (eds) Spatial Models and GIS: New Potential and New Models. London, Taylor and Francis: 83-108.
- Custer S G, Farnes P, Wilson J P, and Snyder R D 1996 A comparison of hand- and spline-drawn precipitation maps for mountainous Montana. Water Resources Bulletin 32: 393-405.
Jennifer R. Wolch, Professor
Dr. Wolch's research has focused on problems of service-dependent and homeless people in American cities, social policy and human service delivery, and the role of the voluntary nonprofit sector in the American welfare state.
Selected Publications
- "Parks and Park Funding in Los Angeles: An Equity Mapping Analysis." Jennifer Wolch, John Wilson, and Jed Fehrenbach. Forthcoming, Urban Geography.
- "Beach Recreation, Cultural Diversity, and Attitudes Toward Nature." Jennifer Wolch and Jin Zhang. forthcoming, Journal of Leisure Research.
- "Fiscal Consequences of Concentrated Poverty in a Metropolitan Region." Pascale Joassart-Marcelli, Juliet Musso and Jennifer Wolch. forthcoming, Annals of the Association of American Geographers.
- "The Inrametropolitan Geography of Poverty and the Nonprofit Sector in Southern California." Pascale Joassart Marcelli and Jennifer Wolch, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 32: 70-96 (2003).
- "Animal Urbis." Jennifer Wolch. Progress in Human Geography. 26: 721-742 (2002).
Lecturers
Stephen R. Koletty
Dr. Koletty has a doctoral degree from USC, and his interests lie in demography and Hawaii.
BA Earth & Space Science/ Geography, California State University Dominguez Hills, MA Geography, University of Hawaii, Ph.D. Geography, University of Southern California, 05/2000
Selected Publications
Book Chapters
Koletty, S.R. (2002) "The Samoan Archipelago in Urban America" in Kate Berry & Martha Henderson (Eds.) Geographical Identities of Ethnic America: Race, Space and Place , Reno, Nevada: University of Nevada Press
Jennifer Swift
Dr. Jennifer Swift is a Research Assistant Professor in the department of Civil Engineering at the University of Southern California (USC), in
Selected Publications
- Swift, J.N., Ghaemi, P., Goldberg, D.W., and
- Swift, J. N., Bardet, J.P., Hu., J., and Nigbor R.L. (2005) An Integrated RDBMS-GIS-IMS System For Dissemination Of Information In Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering, submitted to Computers & Geosciences, manuscript #01-83.
- Swift, J., Ghaemi, P., Goldberg, D.W. and Wilson, J. (2005) Prototype Geographic Search and Query Tools for the USC Digital Archive.
- Swift, J., Futrelle, J., Ponti, D. Bobbitt, J., Real, C., Grimes, P., Devlin, S., Peters, A., Castro, J., Ninic,
Research Faculty
Hilary Bradbury
hilary.bradbury@usc.edu
Travis Longcore
Travis Longcore is Research Assistant Professor of Geography and Director of Urban Ecological Research at the USC Center for Sustainable Cities. He serves as Science Director of The Urban Wildlands Group, a Los Angeles-based conservation nonprofit, and lectures regularly for the UCLA Institute of the Environment.
His research interest is urban ecology and conservation, with emphasis on: 1) ecological restoration, especially for invertebrates, 2) monitoring and management of endangered species, particularly butterflies and moths, 3) multiple use and nature's services approaches to ecological restoration, 4) urban conservation planning, and 5) edge effects of development, especially artificial night lighting, noise, and fire management. He is co-editor of the book Ecological Consequences of Artificial Night Lighting (Island Press, 2006).
Jacqueline Mills
Dr. Jacqueline W. Mills is Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Southern California. Prior to her appointment at USC, Dr. Mills was on the faculty of the Disaster Science and Management Program at Louisiana State University where she also served as Coordinator for the LSU GIS Clearinghouse Cooperative in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina (www.katrina.lsu.edu). This work was recognized by the Association of American Geographers (AAG) through their selection of Dr. Mills and her collaborators as recipients of the 2007 Meredith F. Burrill Award.
She has consulted on a number of projects dealing with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in all phases of emergency management, as well as for specific government and non-profit applications in planning, land use, labor issues, and women’s health. Recently, through her work with Louisiana Sea Grant, she has been developing strategies for democratizing GIS and for engaging vulnerable communities in sustainable development through geospatial risk communication.
Dr. Mills also has interests in the spatial analysis of public policy, integration of historical data into a GIS environment, the American South, and regions of poverty within regions of wealth.
In 2005 she received her doctorate in geography from Louisiana State University. Since this time she has published several articles on the use of GIS in emergency management and is currently working on a book dealing with geospatial data issues in a disaster.
Josh Newell
Josh Newell is a Research Assistant Professor at University of Southern California. Educated at Brown University (History) and the University of Washington (Geography), Josh’s research areas include political ecology, industrial ecology, forestry, urban ecology/sustainable cities, environmental certification and corporate social responsibility, and supply chain and resource theory and modeling. From 1991–2000, Josh was a program director for Friends of the Earth-Japan, a large international environmental nongovernmental organization. His geographic areas of expertise include the Russian Far East, northeast China, and Japan. Josh has written journal articles for Landscape and Urban Planning and Ecological Economics, contributed chapters to edited book volumes, and has had two books published, including The Russian Far East: A Reference Guide for Conservation and Development (2004). Josh speaks Russian and Japanese.
Zaria Tatalovich
Dr. Zaria Tatalovich is Research Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Southern California where she collaborates on various research projects that incorporate geo-spatial technology in the investigation of health outcomes and risks associated with exposure to adverse environmental and social conditions. She earned PhD in Geography at the University of Southern California in 2006 and MA degree in Geography at California State University Los Angeles in 2002. Dr. Tatalovich received several honors for her research, most recent being the Winning Paper and Oral Presentation Award from the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (2005), and Best Paper Award from the Journal of Cartography and Geographic Information Science (2005).
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Affiliated Faculty
Genevieve Giuliano, Professor
Dr. Giuliano is Director of the METRANS Transporation Center with the School of Policy, Planning and Development. Click here for more information.
Greg G. Hise, Associate Professor
Dr. Hise is an Urban History Professor in the School of Policy, Planning and Development. Click here for more information.
Dowell Myers, Professor
Dr. Myers is Director of the Master of Planning Program in the School of Policy, Planning and Development. Click here for more information.