Greetings from UWM Geography! The fall semester is well underway, and I’m pleased be writing this first Letter from the Chair since stepping into the position in August. Please join me in thanking Professor Ryan Holifield for his service and leadership in this role for the past four years. During …
New Graduate Students Profiles Jay Jensen (Master’s Student) Hello everyone, my name is Jay Jensen, and I am very excited to be a UWM graduate student pursuing my MS in Geography specifically through the GIS track. I received a BS in Conservation and Environmental …
Graduate Students News Thea Brenner (Master Student) I spent the summer interning for the Land Information Department in Columbia County, Wisconsin where I worked on a series of projects including archival work with highway right-of-way-maps, reviewing ortho imagery for emergency services, parcel …
Harold and Florence Mayer Lecture Spring 2025 The Department of Geography welcomed Dr. Sarah Elwood, professor of geography at the University of Washington, for this year’s Harold and Florence Mayer Lecture on April 11, 2025. In her talk, “Digital Geographies & The City: …
Dr. Anne Bonds (Professor of Geography) Dr. Anne Bonds recently delivered the Gould Memorial Lecture on “Mapping Racism and Resistance” at Colgate University on April 10 in 2025. Dr. Anne Bonds also published a co-authored article: Markley, S., & Bonds, A. (2025). Race and value in space …
Dr. Nick Schulke is a Great Lakes Social Scientist at the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation. I began my journey in geography during a year of post-baccalaureate studies at UWM. I was drawn to the field of geography due to the breadth of discipline across the physical and social sciences, and also because I’m a …
Dr. Rama Mohapatra is currently a professor in the Department of Anthropology and Geography at Minnesota State University, Mankato and serves as a Graduate Program Coordinator for the GIS Certificate Program. Being born and brought up in the flanks of Eastern Ghats (Hills) in India, since my childhood, …
My path to UWM was non-traditional. Nearing the end of a long career as a physical scientist at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, I started thinking about what I would enjoy doing when retired. I combined my love for science and research …
I recently started a new position as a Geospatial Analyst with the National Zoning Atlas (NZA), a nationwide initiative to compile, standardize, and map zoning codes across the United States, making this complex data more accessible to researchers, policymakers, and …
Graduate Students News Dulmini Jayawardana (Ph.D. student) We are proud to share that Dulmini Jayawardana, a PhD candidate, had her dissertation research on environmental stewardship and community empowerment featured in the Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service (NNS) in November 2024. The …
