Faculty

Urban, Regional & Global Studies

Mathew Coleman
Address: 1156 Derby Hall
Phone: 292-9686
Email: coleman.373@osu.edu
Geography Major: URG
Interests: Critical geopolitics, undocumented immigration, localization of immigration enforcement, immigration law, geographies of law and lawlessness, biopolitics/ biopower/sovereignty, US-Mexico border, border studies, regionalization

Kevin R. Cox
Address: 1106 Derby Hall
Phone: 292-7948
Email: cox.13@osu.edu
Geography Major: URG

Nancy Ettlinger
Address: 1144 Derby Hall
Phone: 292-2573
Email: ettlinger.1@osu.edu
Geography Major: URG
Interests: As a critical human geographer I ask: how can critiques of our social, political, economic, and cultural environment offer insights into how to produce change? From the vantage point of economic geography, what are the geographies of competitiveness? What are the social, political, and cultural dimensions of production and consumption, and how and why does the 'non-economic' figure in competitive dis/advantage? Under what conditions might competitiveness and social well being converge? From the vantage point of urban-social geography, how does the everyday economy figure in the urban landscape of uneven development, and how can we draw insight from, and reconfigure economic theory so that goals merge with social and political goals? From the vantage point of political geography, what are the implications of different interpretations of 'democracy'? How do democracy/ies dis/connect with the everyday economy? How are everyday citizens governed and enrolled in societal projects (e.g. neoliberalism) and what are the possibilities for resistance? What is the relation between subjectivity and change? Underscoring all these questions is a concern with the relation between individuals and larger-scale phenomena (firms, institutions, societal projects), as well as an interconnected view of social, political, economic, and cultural processes.

Mei-Po Kwan
Address: 1054 Derby Hall
Phone: 292-9465
Email: kwan.8@osu.edu
Geography Major: GIS, URG
Interests: Geographic information systems and science (GIS); urban and transportation geography; geographic analysis of accessibility; geographies of health; information and communication technologies (ICT); geographies of crime and drug use/abuse; research method; 3D GIS; critical GIS; and geographies of gender, race and religion.

Ed Malecki
Address: 1056 Derby Hall
Phone: 688-5688
Email: malecki.4@osu.edu
Geography Major: URG
Interests: Urban and regional economic development, technological change, regional policy, research and development, telecommunications and the Internet, technology policy, corporate location, entrepreneurship, rural development

Becky Mansfield
Address: 1160 Derby Hall
Phone: 247-7264
Email: mansfield.32@osu.edu
Geography Major: ES, URG
Interests: Political Economy of the Environment; Neoliberalism, Globalization, Scale, and the State; Nature-Society Relations; and Health as a Nature-Society Question

Yuri V. Medvedkov
Address: 1049A Derby Hall
Phone: 292-0584
Email: medvedkov.1@osu.edu
Geography Major: URG
Interests: Studies of current trends in urban networks and in the geo-demography - mainly in the developed countries - as they are forced to deploy the modern economic growth to counter population contraction that occurs on the fourth stage of the Demographic Transition. This is coupled to adjustments made in urban networks under the influence of the Globalization Revolution.

Darla Munroe
Address: 1123 Derby Hall
Phone: 247-8382
Email: munroe.9@osu.edu
Geography Major: GIS, URG, ES

Morton O'Kelly
Address: 1036B Derby Hall
Phone: 292-8744
Email: okelly.1@osu.edu
Geography Major: GIS, URG
Interests: Network Analysis, especially applied to logistics and transportation. Location Theory, especially for hubs in networks. Spatial Interaction Models, especially as applied to retail and service location.

Daniel Sui
Address: 1110 Derby Hall
Phone: 688-5441
Email: sui.10@osu.edu
Geography Major: GIS, URG
Interests: Director of Center for Urban and Regional Analysis, CURA

Mary Thomas
Address: 1124 Derby Hall
Phone: 247-8222
Email: thomas.1672@osu.edu
Geography Major: URG
Interests: Feminist geography and theory; urban social geography; youth and girls; race and racism in the US; sexual practice; space and identity.

Joel Wainwright
Address: 1189 Derby Hall
Phone: 247-8746
Email: wainwright.11@osu.edu
Geography Major: URG, ES
Interests: Political economy of development; environmental and agrarian change; social theory

Ningchuan Xiao
Address: 1132 Derby Hall
Phone: 292-4072
Email: xiao.37@osu.edu
Geography Major: GIS, URG, ES