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Rina Ghose

  • Professor, Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering
  • Affiliated Professor, Urban Studies
  • Director, Geospatial Data Science Lab

Education

  • PhD, Geography, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1998
  • MA, Geography, University of Montana, 1993
  • BA, Geography Honors, University of Calcutta, India, 1988

Office Hours

By appointment only

Research Interests

  • Geospatial technologies, Georeferenced Data, Cartography and GIScience, Science and Technology Studies
  • Public Participation GIS, Citizen Science, Volunteer Geographic Information
  • Human-Environmental Interactions
  • Population and Health
  • Urban Policy and Planning

Community Involvement

  • Social Development Commission
  • Project WisHope
  • Milwaukee Urban Gardens
  • Groundwork Milwaukee
  • Urban Ecology Center
  • Harambee Community
  • Metcalfe Park

Biographical Sketch

Dr. Ghose advances environmental and social equity and justice through geodata analytics and community engaged research.

Selected Publications

Pettygrove, M. , & Ghose, R. (2018) From “Rust Belt” to “Fresh Coast”: Remaking the City through Food Justice and Urban Agriculture. Annals of the American Association of Geographers , 108(2), 591-602.
Ghose, R. , & Pettygrove, M. (2018) Urban Community Gardens as Spaces of Living. Handbook on Spaces of Urban Politics, edited by Andrew Jonas, Byron Miller, Kevin Ward and David Wilson , 320-335. Routledge.
Ghose, R. , & Welcenbach, T. (2018) ‘Power to the People’ Contesting Urban Poverty through Open GIS. Canadian Geographer , 62(1), 67-80.
Ghose, R. (2017) Public Participation GIS. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, . (Ed). International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, Technology , x, pp. 5403-54013. . John Wiley.
Pettygrove, M. , & Ghose, R. (2016) Community Engaged GIS for Urban Food Justice Research. International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research , 7(1), 16-29.
Kar, B. , Sieber, R. , Haklay, M. , & Ghose, R. (2016) Public Participation GIS and Participatory GIS in the Era of GeoWeb. Cartographic Journal , 53(4), 296-299.
Ghose, R. , & Appel, S. (2016) Facilitating Spatial Data Sharing in PPGIS: The role of the University Library. Cartographic Journal , 53(4), 341-347.
Pettygrove, M. , & Ghose, R. (2016) A Synthesized Framework for Urban Geographies of Food and Dietary Health. Geography Compass , 10(6), 268-281.
Ghose, R. , & Pettygrove, M. (2014) Urban Community Gardens as Spaces of Citizenship. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, Wiley Blackwell , 46(4), 1092-1112.
Ghose, R. , & Pettygrove, M. (2014) Actors and Networks in Urban Community Garden Formation. Geoforum , 53, 93-103.
Ghose, R. (2007) Politics of scale and networks of association in public participation GIS. Environment and Planning A , 39(8), 1961-1980.
Ghose, R. (2005) The complexities of citizen participation through collaborative governance. Space and Polity , 9(1), 61-75.
Ghose, R. (2004) Big sky or big sprawl? Rural gentrification and the changing cultural landscape of Missoula, Montana. Urban Geography , 25(6), 528-549.
Elwood, S. , & Ghose, R. (2004) PPGIS in community development planning: Framing the organizational context. Cartographica , 38(3-4), 19-33.
Adams, P. C., & Ghose, R. (2003) India. com: the construction of a space between. Progress in Human Geography , 27(4), 414-437.

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