Ph.D Degree Graduate Students, 1972-Present. Click here for master's theses.
Dissertations available electronically 2002 to present (login may be required).
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| Year | Name | Dissertation title (advisor) | Current position |
| 2024 | Matthew John | Beauty and the Anthropocene: On the emancipatory potential of experiences of beautiful places in the natural world. (Schatzki and Wood) | Update pending. |
| 2024 | Jed DeBruin | From Past to Present: Black Farming in Appalachian. (McCutcheon and Mutersbaugh) | Assistant Professor, Jacksonville State University |
| 2024 | Weejun Park | State Governance and Less-Skilled Migrant Workers in South Korea. (Samers) | Lecturer, Department of Geography Education, Chonnam National University |
| 2024 | Jack Swab | Transgressed | Constructed | Solidified: Examining Boundaries in Public Health, Population, and Higher Education. (Wilson) | Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee |
| 2023 | Karen Kinslow | Re-storying Cane Run Creek: Encountering Representations, Affects, and Vegetal Geographies. (Stallins) | Assistant Professor, Longwood University |
| 2023 | Ian Spangler | Property Protocols and the Social Relations of Real Estate Technologies. (Wilson and Zook) | Assistant Curator of Digital & Participatory Geography, Leventhal Map & Education Center, Boston Public Library |
| 2023 | Jaeyeon Lee | The Psycho-(Geo)Political Driving Forces of Comfort Women Social Movements in South Korea. (Secor and Mutersbaugh) | Assistant Professor, Hollins University |
| 2023 | Jessica Breen | Picturing the Future City: Digital Mediation and Creative Placemaking. (Wilson and Zook) | Program Director, Geospatial Research Support, American University |
| 2022 | Jess Linz |
Affective Registers of Displacement: Eviction and Gentrification in Post-Earthquate Mexico City (Secor and Mutersbaugh)
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Post-Doc, University of Manchester (UK) |
| 2021 | Hugh Deaner | "It's not rainbows and unicorns": Regulated commodity and waste production in the Alberta oilsands (Wood) | Adjunct Professor of Geography, Arkansas State University (Jonesboro, AR) and Midlands Technical College (Columbia, SC) |
| 2021 | Araby Smyth | Managing Remittances within the Gendered Communal Reproduction of an Indigenous Community, Oaxaca. Mexico (Roberts & Mutersbaugh) | Post-Doc, The CITY Institute, York University, Toronto Canada |
| 2021 | Emily Kaufman | Bio-spatial policing in theory and practice: Examining impacts and resistance through mobilities and children’s everyday life. (Secor) | Assistant Professor, Department of Geography & Environmental Planning, Towson University. |
| 2021 | Camilo Rey Sabogal | Political economy of the production of heritage space in a Centro Historico: attracting real estate capital, expelling people (Roberts) | Associate Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Cartagena (Columbia), Director of the Master's program in Social Conflict and Peacebuilding. |
| 2021 | Leif Johnson | Building Quality? Migration, Suzhi, and Subaltern Masculinity in the Shanghai Construction Industry. (Ehrkamp) | Assistant Professor of China Studies at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University in Suzhou, China |
| 2020 | Anna Gatewood Sharpe | What Happened in Harris Neck? Racisim, Resistance, and Futures (Mutersbaugh) | Associate Dean for Student Success, Berry College |
| 2020 | Myung In Ji | Becoming (In)authentic: Fantasies, Simulacra, and Rhythms of Gentrification in Seoul, South Korea (Schein) | Assistant Professor at Chonnam National University (South Korea) |
| 2020 | Amber Bosse | Cartographic Efficacy: Histories of the Present, Participatory Futures (Wilson) | Cartography Coach, MapBosse Consulting |
| 2020 | Laçin Tutalar | Soundscapes of Youth and the State in Urban Public Spaces of Istanbul (Secor) | Instructor, TED University (Ankara, Turkey) |
| 2020 | Tasnuba Jerin | Biogeomorphology of Bedrock Fluvial Systems: Example from Shawnee Run, Kentucky, USA (J. Phillips) |
Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Geology, and Planning at Missouri State University
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| 2020 | Eric M. Robsky Huntley | Reserved for the Whole Earth: Forms of Evidence, Ought Anxiety, and the Futures of Geographic Inquiry (Wilson) | Lecturer of Urban Science and Planning, MIT |
| 2019 | Malene H. Jacobsen | Unsettling Refuge: Syrian Refugees' Account of Life in Denmark (Ehrkamp) | Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow, School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle University (UK) |
| 2019 | Li-Chih Hsu | Visualizing Barrier Dune Topographic State Space and Inference of Resilience Properties (Stallins) | Visiting Assistant Professor, Geography Dept, SUNY Binghamton |
| 2018 | Jessa Loomis | Financial Inclusion in the City: Examining the Democratization of Finance in Boston, Massachusetts (Roberts) | Lecturer in Economic Geography, School of Geography, Politics and Sociology at Newcastle University (UK) |
| 2018 | Michele Flippo Bolduc | Understanding Haitian Women's Health Care in Immokalee, Florida, USA (Shannon) | Epidemiologist, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
| 2018 | Brittany Cook Barrineau | Producing Tradition: International Standards and Development in Jordanian Olive Oil (Secor) | Assistant Professor, Department of History, Geography, and Philosophy, University of Louisiana |
| 2018 | Aretina Hamilton | "I Thought I Found Home" Locating the Hidden and Symbolic Spaces of African American Lesbian Belonging (Schein) | City of Raleigh, NC, Director of Equity and Inclusion |
| 2017 | Lindsay Shade | Politics below the Surface: A Political Ecology of Mineral Rights and Land Tenure Struggles in Appalachia and the Andes (Mutersbaugh) | Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Tennessee |
| 2016 | Mitchell Beam Snider | Socio-spatial Mobilities in an Immigrant Gateway City: Analyzing Latina\o Experiences in East Boston (Samers) | Manager of International Agreements, International Center, University of Kentucky |
| 2016 | Derek Ruez | Plural and Uneven Worlds: Queer Migrations and the Politics of Race and Sexuality in Sydney, Australia (Ehrkamp) | Academy Research Fellow, Tampere University, Finland |
| 2016 | Carrie Mott | Spaces of Solidarity: Negotiations of Difference and Whiteness among Activists in the Arizona/Sonora Borderlands (Secor) | Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of Louisville |
| 2016 | Nate Millington | Impermeable Assemblages: Flooding,Urban Infrastructure, and Stormwater Politics in São Paulo, Brazil (Schein) | Presidential Fellow in Urban Studies in the Geography Department and the Manchester Urban Institute at the University of Manchester |
| 2016 | Rebecca E. Lane | The Geopolitics of Reproductive Healthcare: Latina Immigrants' Experience as Non-citizens and Biological Citizena in Atlanta, GA (Ehrkamp) | Researcher, Marine Corps Center for Advanced Operational Culture Learning, Quantico |
| 2016 | Brian Grabbatin | The Political Ecology of Heirs' Property Loss and Preservation in the Gullah-Geechee Communities of the Southeastern United States (Schein) | Instructor, Social & Behavioral Sciences, Midlands Technical College (Columbia, SC) |
| 2016 | Dan Cockayne | The Working Lives and Spatial Practice of Digital Media Developers in San Francisco (Zook) | Associate Professor of Economic Geography, Department of Geography and Environmental Management, University of Waterloo |
| 2015 | Michael Walls | Rediscovery of a Native American Cultural Landscape: The Chickasaw Homeland at Removal (Schein) | Senior Data Architect, XOR Security, Inc. |
| 2015 | Candice Wallace | Firm Characteristics and Organizational Change: The Effects of Electronic Commerce in the U.S. Manufacturing Industry (Zook) | Senior Research Assistant at Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky (Lexington KY) |
| 2015 | Christopher Van Dyke | Changing States: Using State-and-Transition Models to Evaulate Channel Evolution Following Dam Removal Along the Clark Fork River, Montana (J. Phillips) | Senior Research Scientist at Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky (Lexington, KY) |
| 2015 | Christine Smith | State Violence, Mobility and Everyday Life in Cairo, Egypt (Secor) | Executive Director, Seedleaf (Lexington, KY) |
| 2015 | Ate Poorthuis | Analyzing Public Space in New York City: Methodological Opportunities of Big Data (Zook) | Assistant Professor of Big Data and Human-Environment Systems in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at KU Leuven |
| 2015 | Kelsey B. Hanrahan | Living Care-fully: Labor, Love and Suffering and the Geographies of Intergenerational Care in Northern Ghana (Roberts) | Assistant Professor, Geography & Environmental Planning, Towson University |
| 2015 | Benjamin L. Blandford | Carnival, Protest, and Community Identity: West Louisville and the Kentucky Derby Festival (Schein) | Research Investigator at Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky (Lexington, KY) |
| 2015 | Patrick M. Bigger | Environmental Governance in the Carbon Economy: Regulating Greenhouse Gas Emissions in California's Cap-and-Trade Program (Roberts) | Marie Curie Research Fellowship at the University of Manchester |
| 2014 | Michael Shouse | Biomechanical Effects of Trees and Soil Thickness in the Cumberland Plateau (Phillips) | Assistant Professor ,Department of Geography, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville |
| 2014 | Jonathan Otto | Carbon Development: Pursuing Climate Change Mitigation and Poverty Alleviation Through Market-Based Forest Carbon Schemes in Chiapas, Mexico (Mutersbaugh) | Arts Studies in Research and Writing, University of British Columbia |
| 2014 | Valerie Keathley | Life on the Big Slab: Identity and Mobility in the United States Trucking Industry (Secor) | Kentucky Refugee Ministries |
| 2014 | Priyanka Ghosh | Subsistence and Biodiversity Conservation in the Sundarban Biosphere Reserve, West Bengal, India (Karan) | Assistant Professor of Geography and Environmental Science at Era University, Lucknow, India |
| 2014 | Abigail Foulds | Buying a Colonial Dream: The Role of Lifestyle Migrants in the Gentrification of the Historic Center of Granada, Nicaragua (Roberts) | Project Coordinator, Department of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences, University of Pittsburgh |
| 2014 | Amanda Fickey | Redefining Development: Exploring Alternative Economic Practices in Appalachia (Samers) | Assistant Professor, Union College, Barbourville, KY |
| 2014 | Timothy J. Brock | Entrepreneurial Planning and Urban Economic Development: The Case of Establishing Commuter Rail in Orlando, Florida (Wood) | Senior Research Scholar Institute for Transportation Research and Education (ITRE) NC State University |
| 2014 | Christopher L. Blackden | Transnational Policy Articulations: India, Agriculture, and the WTO (Roberts) | Research Associate, Kentucky Transportation Center (Lexington, KY) |
| 2013 | Jairus Rossi | Ecological Restoration's Genetic Culture: Participation and Technology in the Making of Landscapes (Schein) | Assistant Research Professor, Community & Economic Development Initiative of Kentucky (CEDIK), University of Kentucky |
| 2013 | David J. Marshall | A Children's Geography of Occupation: Imaginary, Emotional, and Everyday Spaces of Palestinian Childhood (Secor) | Post-doctoral Research Associate, Department of Geography, Durham University (Britain) |
| 2013 | Priyanka Jain | Neoliberalizing the Streets of Urban India: Engagements of a Free Market Think Tank In the Politics of Street Hawking (Secor) | Update pending |
| 2013 | Warren J. Christian | Using Geospatial Technologies to Characterize Relationships between Travel Behavior, Food Availability, and Health (Shannon) | Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology, College of Public Health, University of Kentucky |
| 2013 | Andrew Boulton | Locative Media, Augmented Realities and the Ordinary American Landscape (Zook) | Technology Consultant, Humana, Louisville |
| 2012 | Deborah Thompson | Performing Community: The Place of Music, Race and Gender in Producing Appalachian Space (Schein) | Impact Director for Livelihoods Knowledge Exchange Network (LiKEN) |
| 2011 | Lauren Martin | Immigrant Family Detention: The Family, Security, and Space in U.S. Immigration Policy and Practice (Secor) | Associate Professor in the Department of Geography, Durham University (UK) |
| 2011 | Sya Kedzior | Pollution Knowledge and Urban Water Politics in the Ganges River Basin (India) (Karan) | Assistant Professor, Department of Geography & Environmental Planning, Towson University |
| 2011 | T. Garrett Graddy | Situating in Situ: Seed Saving in Appalachia and Peru (Roberts/ Mutersbaugh) | Provost Assoc Professor, School for International Service, American University |
| 2011 | Lisa Brownell | Values in Place: Rails to Trails Projects in Kentucky and Minnesota (Raitz) | Program Manager - Ohio Historic Preservation Tax Credit at Ohio Development Services Agency |
| 2010 | Stephanie Simon | Securing a Space of the Future: Pre and Post 9/11 Threat Imaginaries and Prosaic Geographies of Security in Boston and New York City (Schein) | Marriage and Family Therapist |
| 2010 | Jacqueline Salmond | The Social Relations of Tourism on the Perhentian Islands (Roberts) | Academic Advisor, College of Arts & Sciences, Florida Gulf Coast University |
| 2010 | Julianne Hazlewood | Geographies of Colonialism and Hope in the Northwest Pacific Frontier Territory-Region of Ecuador (Roberts) | Academic Coordinator, Trent in Ecuador Program, Trent University (Canada) |
| 2010 | Mathias Detamore | Queer Appalachia: Towards Geographies of Possibility (Secor) | Update pending |
| 2009 | Maggie Walker | La frontera esta de moda: cultural production, national identity and urban change on the U.S.-Mexico border (Roberts) | Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Geosciences, University of Louisville |
| 2008 | Jeff West | We Are Obligated To Think That the State Is Just:' The AKP's Geographies of Islam and the State In Turkey (Secor) | Update pending |
| 2008 | David Walker | Gentrification moves to the Global South: An Analysis of the Programa De Rescate, A Neoliberal Urban Policy in Mexico City's Centro Historico (Schein) | Associate Professor, Department of Geology and Geography, Ohio Wesleyan University |
| 2008 | Ben Smith | Dubai, Landscape and the Production of Attractive Markets (Schein) | Assistant Professor, Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies, Florida International University |
| 2008 | Ellen Hostetter | The Emotions of Public Housing Policy: A Critical Humanist Exploration of HOPE VI (Schein) | Assistant Professor, Honors College and Geography, University of Central Arkansas |
| 2008 | James Hanlon | Distressed Public Housing and HOPEVI Revitalization: An Analysis of Park DuValle in Louisville, Kentucky (Schein) | Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville |
| 2008 | Mark Graham | New Silks Roads: Promises and Perils of the Internet in the Thai Silk Industry (Zook) | Senior Research Fellow and Associate Professor, Oxford Internet Institute (Britain) |
| 2008 | Taro Futamura | Toward the Construction of "Kentucky Food" in the Twenty-First Century: Food Localism and Commodification of Place Identity Under Post-Tobacco Agricultural Restructuring, 1990-2006 (Raitz) | Associate Professor, Faculty of Global and Regional Studies, Doshisha University (Japan) |
| 2008 | John Davenport | Ecosystem Restoration in the Ouachita National Forest: Evaluating the Pragmatism of Pre-European Settlement Benchmarks (Phillips) | Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Oklahoma State University |
| 2007 | Michael Begin | "Virtual" brides in the post-Soviet context (Natter) | Visiting Professor, Collegium Civitas, Warsaw (Poland) |
| 2006 | Viva Nordberg Reynolds | Life Cycles, Systems, and Chaos: the Adoption and Application of Metaphors in Geomorphology (Phillips) | Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, East Carolina University |
| 2006 | Zachary Musselman | Tributary Response to the Lake Livingston Impoundment - Lower Trinity River, Texas (Phillips) | Executive Director of the Mississippi State Board of Registered Professional Geologists |
| 2006 | Sarah Moore | The Politics of Garbage: Municipal Solid Waste in Oaxaca, Mexico (Jones, Roberts) | Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| 2006 | Maureen McDorman | Constructing Landscapes of Unfair Trade: An Examination of Section 301 (Jones) | Contracts Administrator, Product Development, Lexmark International, Lexington, KY |
| 2006 | Linda Martin | Fluvikarst Landscape Whole-System Sensitivity to Land Use Changes, Kentucky River, Kentucky (Phillips) | |
| 2006 | Marcia England | Citizens on Patrol: Community Policing and the Territorialization of Public Space in Seattle, Washington (Secor) | Professor and Chair, Department of Geography, Miami University (OH) |
| 2006 | David Correia | Land Grants and Lumber Barons: A Political Ecology of Rural Restructuring in Northern New Mexico (Mutersbaugh) | Associate Professor, Department of American Studies, University of New Mexico |
| 2005 | Laurel Smith | Mediating Indigenous Identity: Video, Advocacy, and Knowledge in Oaxaca, Mexico (Jones) | Associate Professor, Honors College and Department of Geography, University of Oklahoma |
| 2005 | Kyonghwan "Kenny" Park | Transnational Urbanism in Diaspora Space: Multi-Scaled Urban Redevelopment of Los Angeles Koreatown (Roberts) | Professor, Department of Geography, Chon-Nam National University (South Korea) |
| 2005 | Esther Long | Identity in Evangelical Ukraine: Negotiating Regionalism, Nationalism, and Transnationalism (Jones) | |
| 2005 | Josh Lepawsky | Digital Aspirations: The Multimedia Super Corridor and Malaysian National Development (Roberts) | Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Memorial University of Newfoundland (Canada) |
| 2005 | Matthew Kurtz | Inscribing a Rural Economy in Alaska, 1938-1972 (Roberts) | Adjunct Research Professor, Geography and Environmental Studies, Carleton University (Canada) |
| 2005 | Jennifer Kopf | Spatial Strategies of Resistance to Anti-Islamic Animus in German East African Transportation, Labor, Education, and Social Policies (Pickles) | |
| 2005 | Margo Kleinfeld | Depoliticizing Space in Sri Lanka: The Discursive Utility of the Child During Times of War (Roberts) | Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Geology, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater |
| 2005 | John Hintz | Pragmatism and the Politics of Rewilding Nature: The Case of Grizzly Bear Reintroduction in Idaho (Roberts) | Associate Professor, Department of Environmental, Geographical, and Geological Sciences, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania |
| 2004 | Jamie Winders | (Re) working the US South: Latino Migration and the Politics of Race and Work in Nashville, Tennessee (Schein) | Associate Professor & Chair, Department of Geography, Syracuse University |
| 2004 | Matt McCourt | From a Place of Problems to a Place of Possibilities: Community Work and Collaboration in a Coalfield Community (Jones/Natter) | Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of Maine, Farmington |
| 2004 | Rebecca Glasscock | The Long Road to Kentucky: A Geography of Fresh Vegetable Production and Consumption (Raitz) | Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Bluegrass Community and Technical College |
| 2003 | Gary O'Dell | Eco-efficiency and Lean Production: Environmental Performance of Japanese Transplants in the United States (Pickles) | Professor of Geography, International and Interdisciplinary Studies, Morehead State University, KY |
| 2003 | Jean Lavigne | Constructing Yellowstone: Nature and Environmental Politics in the Rocky Mountain West (Jones) | Associate Professor, Environmental Studies Program, College of Saint Benedict/ Saint John's University, Minnesota |
| 2003 | Paul Kingsbury | Transforming Corporate Mass Tourism: Sandals Resorts International in Jamaica and the Politics of Enjoyment (Jones) | Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Simon Fraser University, (Canada) |
| 2003 | Katherine Jones | Envisioning the East End: Planning, Representation, and the Production of Urban Space in Lexington, Kentucky (Jones) | Social Research Specialist, Center for Health Systems Research & Development, East Carolina University |
| 2003 | Gareth John | Yellowstone and the 'National Park Idea': Tracing the Contours of a Landscape Idea (Schein) | Associate Professor, Department of Geography, St. Cloud State University, Minnesota |
| 2003 | Michael Dorn | Climate, Alcohol and the American Body Politic: The Medical and Moral Geographies of Daniel Drake (1785-1852) (Pickles) | Project Staff Associate, Department of Preventative Medicine, Stony Brook University, New York |
| 2002 | Edward Carr | Human Ecological Security in Coastal Ghana, West Africa: The Social Implications of Economic and Environmental Change in Development Contexts (Schein) | Professor and Director, IDCE, Clark University |
| 2002 | Keiron Bailey | Living in the Eikaiwa Wonderland: English Language Learning, Socioeconomic Transformation, and Gender Alterities in Modern Japan (Pickles) | Associate Professor, School of Geography and Development, University of Arizona |
| 2002 | Mary Curran | Pigs in Space: Ghosts, Gender and Sexuality in a Debate About Regulating Industrial Hog Farms in Kentucky (Roberts) | Associate Professor, Department of History, Political Science, Philosophy, and Geography Eastern Connecticut State University |
| 2001 | Carl Thor Dahlman | Iraqi Kurdish Refugee Migration to Britain and the United States: Globalization, Governance, and Geopolitics (Roberts) | Professor of Geography and Director of International Studies, Miami University (OH) |
| 2001 | Jeff Jones | Hidden Histories, Proud Communities: Multiple Narratives in the Queer Geographies of Lexington, Kentucky, 1930-1999 (Raitz) | Assistant Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management, Georgia Southern University |
| 2001 | Jonathan Taylor | Environmental Change in Okinawa: A Geographic Assessment of the Role of the US Military (Karan) | Professor, Department of Geography, California State University Fullerton |
| 2001 | Mary Gilmartin | Education and Change in South Africa and Northern Ireland (Jones) | Senior Lecturer, Department of Geography, National University of Ireland-Maynooth |
| 2000 | Owen Dwyer | Memorial Landscapes dedicated to the Civil Rights Movement (Jones) | Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Indiana University - Purdue University, Indianapolis |
| 2000 | Raymond Baruffalo | Local Politics/Outside Interests: An Analysis of Gambling Proposals, Referendums, and Economic Development in Three Mississippi Counties (Jones) | |
| 2000 | Susan Mains | Contested Spaces: Representing Borders and Immigrant Identities between the U. S. And Mexico (Jones) | Lecturer, School of the Environment, University of Dundee, Scotland |
| 2000 | Vincent Del Casino, Jr. | HIV/AIDS and the Spaces of Health Care in Thailand (Jones) | Vice Provost and Associate Vice President, University of Arizona |
| 1999 | Jeff Popke | Deconstructing Apartheid Space: Negotiating Alterity and History in Durban's Cato Manor (Pickles) | Professor, Department of Geography, East Carolina University |
| 1999 | Martin Bosman | Space, Power and Representation Of Economic Change: The Case Of "Team Toyota" And The State Of Kentucky (Pickles) | Associate Professor, School of Geoscience, University of South Florida |
| 1999 | Theodore H. Grossardt | Harvesting Hoboes: The 800 Mile Picket Line (Raitz) | Program Manager, Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky |
| 1998 | Carolyn Ann Gallaher | America's New Patriots: Livelihood and the Politics of Identity (Jones) | Associate Professor, School of International Service, American University |
| 1998 | Eugene McCann | Planning Futures: The Restructuring of Space, Economy, and Institutions in Lexington, Kentucky (Pickles) | Professor, Department of Geography, Simon Fraser University (Canada) |
| 1998 | Christopher Ralph Jasparro | Geopolitics and Environmental Security: A Case Study of Japanese Environmental Aid to Southeast Asia (Karan) | Associate Professor, US Naval War College, Newport RI |
| 1997 | Stephen P. Hanna | Representing Appalachia: Appalshop Films and the Politics of Regional Identity (Jones/Raitz) | Professor & Chair, Department of Geography, University of Mary Washington |
| 1996 | Caedmon Staddon | Democratization, Environmental Management and the Production of New Political Geographies in Bulgaria: A Case Study of the 1994-1995 Sofia Water Crisis (Pickles) | Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Management, University of the West of England |
| 1995 | Deborah P. Dixon | Political Economy, Poststructuralism and Urban Regeneration: The Fall and Rise of the 'Great North' (Jones) | Professor, School of Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow (Scotland) |
| 1995 | Mike Kukral | Prague 1989: Theater of Revolution, a Study in Humanistic Political Geography (Brunn) | Associate Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology |
| 1995 | Petr Pavlinek | Transition and the Environment in the Czech Republic: Democratization, Economic Restructuring and the Environmental Management in the Most District After the Collapse of State Socialism (Pickles) | Professor of Geography, Charles University, Prague and University of Nebraska at Omaha |
| 1995 | Mohameden Ould-Mey | Global Restructuring and Peripheral States: The Stick and the Carrot in Mauritania (Pickles) | Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Geology, and Anthropology, Indiana State University |
| 1994 | Roberta Haven Webster | Advertisements as mirrors of change: The delineation of America's post-industrial geographies [Brunn] | |
| 1993 | John Terrence Bowen, Jr | The global airline industry and economic development in Singapore [Leinbach] | Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Central Washington University |
| 1993 | Gerald Arthur Thomas | The Caribbean Urban Spectacle: Race, Class, and Representation in the Social Production of the Built Environment [Jones], | Associate Professor, Department of Biology and Geosciences, Clarion University, Pennsylvania |
| 1993 | Karen Frances Falconer | Space, gender, and work in the context of technological change: Telecommuting women [Jones], | Professor of Geography and Women's and Gender Studies. University of Nebraska, Omaha |
| 1992 | Shakib Mohammed AL-Khameri | Intraurban residential preferences in the city of Sana'a, the Republic of Yemen [Karan] | |
| 1992 | Karen Koegler | Building in stone in southwestern Pennsylvania [Raitz] | |
| 1992 | Patrick Hugh McHaffie | "Readin', writin', and regional context": Land ownership and education spending in central and southern Appalachia [Jones], | Associate professor, Department of Geography, De Paul University, Chicago |
| 1991 | Ruth Anderson Rowles | Regions and regional patterns on choropleth maps [Jones] | GIS Manager, Kentucky Public Services Commission, Frankfort KY |
| 1991 | Mark Thomas Williams | The impact of tourism development on the indigenous island economy of Minorca (Spain): 1965-1988 [Leinbach] | |
| 1990 | Jonathan David Goss | Production and reproduction among the urban poor of metro Manila: Relations of exploitation and conditions of existence [Leinbach] | Professor of Humanities & Social Sciences , Director of Clarkson School & Honors, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY |
| 1990 | James William Darlington | Down from the hills and into the nation: The migratory behavior of early nineteenth century New England college graduates [Raitz] | Lecturer, Department of Geography, SUNY – Cortland |
| 1989 | Dong Ok Lee | The socio-spatial incorporation of new immigrants in the postindustrial city: Korean immigrant entrepreneurs in Los Angeles [Brunn and Jones] | |
| 1989 | Christopher Anderson Airriess | A port system in a developing regional economy: Evolution and response in North Sumatra, Indonesia [Leinbach] | Professor, Department of Geography, Ball State University, Muncie, IN |
| 1989 | Meftah Ali Dakhil | Migration, development, and place preferences: The example of Libya [Raitz], | |
| 1989 | Zaki Yeldar Mashoka | Determinants of residential land values in Amman, Jordan (1967-1987) [Brunn] | Professor, Geography, Mu'tah University, Jordan |
| 1988 | Matrini (Ruktanonchai) Nathalang | Where Did the Doctors Go? Primary Physician Office Relocation: Detroit, 1950-1980 [Shannon] | Professor, Geography, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand |
| 1986 | Robert Craig Ham | Timing and Spacing Crime in the Urban Environment: Lexington-Fayette County, Kentucky [Brunn] | Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering, United States Military Academy, West Point, NY (Retired) |
| 1986 | Henry Edward Moon, Jr | Modeling Land-Use Change Around Interstate Highway Interchanges in Nonmetropolitan Areas: A Multivariate Statistical Analysis [Raitz] | |
| 1984 | Ellen Krajcovic Cromley | Activity Space as a Basis for Locating Health Care Facilities for the Elderly (Michigan) | Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Community Medicine and Health Care University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, CT |
| 1984 | Gerald Raymond Webster | The Spatial Reorganization of the Local State: The Case of County Boundaries in Kentucky [Brunn] | Professor and Chair, Department of Geography, University of Wyoming |
| 1983 | Mabrouk Mohamed Saber | Land Settlement in the Libyan Sahara: The Kufra Settlement Project [Bladen and Karan] | Professor, Geography, University of Tripoli, Libya |
| 1983 | Gyula Pauer | Residential developer's location behavior in Lexington, Kentucky [Field and Karan] | Director, UK Cartography Lab (Retired) |
| 1983 | Abdulrazak Suliam Abu-Dawood | Political Boundaries of Saudi Arabia: Their Evolution and Functions [Field and Karan] | |
| 1982 | Patricia Ruth Brown | The Relationship of Ethnic Status to Decisions of Residential Relocation by Older Citizens [Raitz] | |
| 1981 | Abdalla Salem Omer Misallati | Tripoli, Libya, Structure and Functions as an Arab-Islamic City [Karan and Withington], | |
| 1978 | Issa Musa Shair | Spatial Pattern of Muslim Pilgrim Circulation [Karan] | |
| 1977 | Dinker I. Patel | A Residential Frontier: Exurbs in Kentucky's Inner Bluegrass [Field] | Professor of Geography and Sociology, Kentucky State University, Frankfort, KY (Retired) |
| 1977 | Wilma J. Walker | A Geographical Analysis of Return Migration: An Eastern Kentucky Case Study [Karan and Bladen] | Professor of Geography and Aviation, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY (Retired) |
| 1977 | Macel Marteva Wheeler | Spatial Analysis of the Distribution of Visitors Among State Operated Recreational Sites in Kentucky [Bladen and Withington] | Professor, Department of Geography and History, Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, KY (Deceased 2004) |
| 1976 | Helen Edna Parson | Rural Land Use Change: A Study of the Gatineau Valley of Quebec [Raitz] | Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Wilfred Laurier University, Waterloo, ON, Canada (Retired) |
| 1975 | Janice Humble Averitt | The Role of Mass Media in National Integration in Kenya [Karan and Withington] | |
| 1975 | Ahmed A. Shamekh | Spatial Patterns of Bedouin Settlement in Al-Qasim Region, Saudi Arabia [Raitz and Field] | |
| 1975 | Thomas K. Chao | The Spatial Distribution of Urban Land Values in the City of Taipei, Taiwan, China, 1964-1975 [Withington and Bladen] | Dean of Studies, Taiwan Provincial College, Keelung, Taiwan |
| 1974 | John Lynn Anderson | Spatial Patterns of Human Fertility in India: A Geographical Analysis [Karan] | Faculty Emeritus, Department of Geography, University of Louisville, KY |
| 1974 | Ernest Donald Metivier | Socioeconomic and Environmental Quality of Residential Areas in Lexington, Kentucky [Withington and Phillips] | |
| 1974 | Stephen Edward White | Migration Models: A Perceptual Approach [Karan and Wall] | Professor, Department of Geography, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS |
| 1973 | Peter C. Smith | Negro Hamlets and Gentleman Farms: A Dichotomous Rural Settlement Pattern in Kentucky’s Bluegrass Region [Raitz and Field] | Professor Emeritus, Department of Geography, Bemidji State University, MN (Deceased 2012) |
| 1973 | Jeffrey Edward Bassett | Regional Delineation of Poverty Levels in Appalachia [Karan] | Instructor, Geography, Samford University, Birmingham, AL |
| 1973 | Wilford Allen Bladen | Levels of Viability of Sovereign States [Karan] | Emeritus Professor of Geography, University of Kentucky |
| 1972 | Thomas P. Grimes | An Analysis of Poverty within the Spatial Sub-systems of India [Karan] | |
| 1972 | Robert Daniel Joseph | Transportation Network Structure and Economic Development: A Case Study of Andhra Pradesh, India [Karan] |
Master's Degree Graduate Students, 1948-Present Theses available electronically 2002 to present (login may be required)
| Year | Name | Thesis / Non-Thesis Paper title (advisor) | After MA/Current position |
| 2024 | Sid Feinberg | Crisis, Genre, and the Informatic Infrastructure of the Critical Path AIDS Project in Philadelphia's Early Epidemic. (Lally) | Update pending |
| 2024 | LJ McCallister | A Geography of Transgender Belonging in Louisville, Kentucky. (Lally) | Update pending |
| 2024 | Nethmi Bathige | Generating Climate Resilience or Intensifying Vulnerabilities? A Feminist Political Ecology Analysis of Climate Resilient Agriculture Projects in Sri Lanka's Dry Zone. (Senanayake) | Update pending |
| 2023 | Kenneth Stancil | Hoarding Lifesaving Knowledge While Millions Die: The Political Economy of Global Covid-19 Vaccine Apartheid. (Wilson) | Update pending |
| 2023 | RL Martens | Suburban Invasion: Landscaping Aesthetics, Racialized Property Value and the Rise and Fall of the Bradford Pear. (Stallins) | Update Pending |
| 2023 | Bea Abbott | Migrant-Activist Evidentiary Practices in the Aegean Sea. (Lally) | Update Pending |
| 2022 | Helen Richardson | Update Pending | |
| 2022 | Carly Baker | Doctoral Program: Cardiff University (U.K.) | |
| 2022 | Kate Feske-Kirby | Update Pending | |
| 2022 | Ivy Monroe | Update Pending | |
| 2022 | Chelsea Parise | Update Pending | |
| 2022 | Piotr Wojcik | Update Pending | |
| 2022 | Brenna Foley |
I Dreamt of Home: U.S. Iraq Veterans' Representations of Wartime Experiences (Ehrkamp)
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Update Pending |
| 2021 | Casey (Cee) Byrd | "Micromending the Metabolic Rift: An analysis of food waste composting systems in Lexington, Kentucky" (Mutersbaugh) | Update Pending |
| 2021 | Michael McCanless | "Debilitating debts and recapacitating loans in fintech consumer lending: Making markets for unsecured consumer debt through alternative data and machine learning" (Zook) | Doctoral Program, University of Kentucky |
| 2021 | Guetchine Gaspard | "Residual Spatial Autocorrelation in Macroecological and Biogeographical Modeling: A Review" (Stallins) | Update Pending |
| 2021 | Jordan McCray | “Gentrification and the Black Church: Mitigating Black Suburban Displacement in a Post COVID-19 World” (Ehrkamp) | Update Pending |
| 2021 | Olivia Meyer | "Countering 'Plastic Addicted Subjects': Power, Essentialized Identities, and Expertise in Thailand" (Beymer-Farris) | Doctoral Program, Geography and Environment at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
| 2021 | Jacob Saindon | "The Use of Distraction: Doomscrolling, Losing Time, and Digital Well-Being in Pandemic Space-Times" (Wilson) | Doctoral Program, University of Kentucky |
| 2021 | Corrin Turkowitch | “Uncovering Frontier Mythologies: Memorial Landscapes in Minneapolis, MN” (Ehrkamp) | Doctoral Program, University of Kentucky |
| 2020 | Jack Swab | Risky Business: Visualizing and Historicizing the Role of Geographic Representation and Thinking in American Business (Wilson) | Doctoral Program, University of Kentucky |
| 2020 | Emily Barrett | Shiny objects, hiding places: Examining community-engaged data practices in Lexington, KY (Wilson) | Doctoral Program, Vanderbilt University |
| 2019 | Elisa Sperandio | Setting the Stage: Resident Experiences with Enforcement, Rescue, and Spectacle in Lampedusa (Ehrkamp) | Doctoral Program, University of Arizona |
| 2019 | Marita C. Murphy | Open Secrets, Congressional Oversight, and the Geopolitics of the CIA Drone Program (Ehrkamp) | Update pending |
| 2019 | Erin Clancy | "Anorexic Affects: Abjecting and Transcending the Body-Space" | Doctoral Program, University of Wisconsin, Madison |
| 2018 | Ian Spangler | "One More Way to Sell New Orleans": Airbnb and the Commodification of Authenticity Through Local Emotional Labor (Wilson/Zook) | Doctoral Program, University of Kentucky |
| 2018 | Lorrayne Miralha | Accounting for Spatial Autocorrelation in Modeling the Distribution of Water Quality Variables (Phillips) | update pending |
| 2018 | Manon Lefèvre | "Beyond Sisterhood There is Still Racism, Colonialism, and Imperialism!" Negotiating Gender, Ethnicity, and Power in Madagascar Mangrove Conservation (Beymer-Farris) | Doctoral Program, Yale University |
| 2018 | Robby Hardesty | Catastrophic Futures (Wood) | Doctoral Program, University of Kentucky |
| 2017 | Thomas E. Grubbs | Entrepreneurialism Meets The Sustainable City: The Case Of Lexington’S Town Branch Commons (Wood) | update pending |
| 2017 | Osama A. Abdl-Haleem | No Such State as Palastine: Notions of Home and the State in Palestinian Relationships with Palestine (Crampton) | Doctoral Program, University of Kentucky |
| 2017 | Harrison Cole | Pigs, Pipelines, and Patients: Towards a Theory of Biologistics (Crampton) | Doctoral Program, Penn State University |
| 2016 | Jess Linz | Inhabiting the Impasse: Social Exclusion through Visible Assemblage in Neighborhood Gentrification (Secor) | Doctoral Program, University of Kentucky |
| 2016 | Christine L. Woodward | Straight Time and Scandal: Tranvesti Urban Politics in São Paulo, Brazil (Ehrkamp) | Doctoral Program, University of Kentucky |
| 2015 | Alex M. Rittle | Ecohydraulic Investigation of Diatoms in a Bedrock-Controlled Stream (Phillips) |
Update pending |
| 2015 | William Jordan Miller | A Model for Identifying Gentrification in East Nashville, Tennessee (Wood) |
Senior Planner, City of Frankfort, Kentucky |
| 2015 | Leif Johnson | Regulating Urban Belonging: China's Hukou System as Intra-national Bordering Process (Ehrkamp) |
Doctoral Program, University of Kentucky |
| 2015 | John Benitez | Hispanic Religious Outreach in the Upper U.S. South: Missionary Outreach, Strategies, and Institutional Praxis Among Mainstream Denominations (Schein) |
Update pending |
| 2015 | Andrew Robert Patrick Ashley | Should We Stay or Should We Go?: A Study of Indian IT Migrants in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina: Deciding to Stay in the United States or Return to India (Samers) |
Update pending |
| 2014 | Megan White | Association Severe Thunderstorm Warnings with Demographic and Land Cover Variables: A Geographically Weighted Regression-Based Mapping of Forecast Bias (Stallins) | GIS Research Assistant, Kentucky Transportation Center, Lexington, KY |
| 2014 | Sophia Strosberg | The Human-Hookworm Assemblage: Contingency and the Practice of Helminthic Therapy (Stallins) | Doctoral Program, University of Minnesota |
| 2014 | Sarah Soliman | Sacred Social Spaces: Finding community and Negotiating Identity for American-born Converts to Islam (Secor) | Update pending |
| 2014 | Jackie Ann Monge | Convergence of Dune Topography among Multiple Barrier Island Morphologies (Stallins) | PhotoScience, Lexington, KY |
| 2014 | Andrea Craft | Planning and Protest in Memphis: the Limist and Possibilities of Participatory Discourse (Wilson) | Doctoral Program, Urban Planning and Planning, University of Illinois, Chicago |
| 2013 | Eric Nost | Counting on the Environmental: Mearsuring and Marketing Ecosystem Services in Oregon (Robertson) | Doctoral Program, University of Wisconsin- Madison |
| 2013 | Jessa M. Loomis | Moveable Feasts: Locating Food Trucks in the Cultural Economy (Secor) | Doctoral Program, University of Kentucky |
| 2013 | Austin Crane | Security, Development, and (Im)mobility: The Uneven Geography of Migration and Border Management in Ukraine (Samers) | Instructor, Geography and Walker Institute, University of South Carolina (after earning PhD at the University of Washington) |
| 2013 | Laura L. Sharp | Audience Response to the Nature/Society Binary in Kursowa's Dersu Uzala: An Observational Online Ethnography (Brunn) | Doctoral Program, University of Arizona |
| 2013 | Malene H. Jacobson | The Everyday Spaces of Humanitarian Migrants in Denmark (Ehrkamp) | Doctoral Program, University of Kentucky |
| 2013 | Ryan M. Cooper | Re-placing Sprawl: Mapping Place in an American Suburb (Wilson) | |
| 2013 | Stephanie H. Mehlhope | Modeling Bedrock Mining Hotspots within the Ouachita National Forest, Arkansas (Turkington) | Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering, College of Agriculture, University of Kentucky |
| 2013 | Vanessa Marquez | The Inclusive Exculsion of Latino Immigrants in Lexington, Kentucky (Schein) | |
| 2012 | Samantha Herr | Biopolitics of Bike-Commuting: Bike Lanes, Safety, and Social Justice. (Secor) | Program Manager, Boston Bikes, City of Boston Bicycle Programs |
| 2012 | Sarah Watson | Civic ecology and environmental education: A case study from Appalachian Ohio (Secor) | Doctoral Program, University of Kentucky |
| 2012 | Thomas Loder | Utopian Dreams and Manure: Biogas and Dairy Livelihoods in Vermont (Mutersbaugh) | Doctoral Program, Texas A&M University |
| 2011 | Jessica Schmid | Nongovernmental Organizations and Sex Work in Cambodia: Development Perspectives and Feminist Agendas (Roberts) | Americorps, Pittsburgh |
| 2011 | Taylor Shelton | Constructing Coldstream: Sustainability and the politics of local economic development (Zook) | Doctoral Program, Clark University |
| 2010 | Christine Smith | Splendor in the Bluegrass: Policing Drug-Related Crime in Lexington, Kentucky (Secor) | Doctoral Program, University of Kentucky |
| 2010 | Jon Otto | Neoliberal Development, Governmentality, and Social Resisitance: The contstruction and contestation of the San Cristobal-Palengue Highway in Chaipas, Mexico (Mutersbaugh) | Doctoral Program, University of Kentucky |
| 2010 | Megan Todd | Critical Geopolitics of Islam in Astrakhan, Russia: Mosque Construction and Community Building (Ehrkamp) | Doctoral Program, University of Colorado |
| 2010 | Rebecca Lane | Discretion and Transgression in Performing Public Breastfeeding: The Case of Lexington, Kentucky (Ehrkamp) | Doctoral Program, University of Kentucky |
| 2009 | Andrew Boulton | Education for Development, CD for Peace: producing the “globally competitive” child (Roberts) | Doctoral Program, University of Kentucky |
| 2009 | Karen Kinslow | The Law vs. the Stranger: Language Interpretation and Legal Space in Lexington, Kentucky (Ehrkamp) | |
| 2009 | Patrick Bigger | Finding Neoliberalism in London, Kentucky (Mutersbaugh) | Doctoral Program, University of Kentucky |
| 2008 | Melissa Moorer | Re-conceiving Information Space: The Fix is In! (Zook) | Doctoral Program, University of Kentucky |
| 2008 | Mitch Snider | Being a Man in Kentucky: Perspectives of Rural Migrant Workers (Ehrkamp) | Doctoral Program, University of Kentucky |
| 2007 | Benjamin Blandford | "Push one for English, push two to get deported": Cardinal Valley and the 'Threat' of Illegal Immigration (Schein) | Doctoral Program, University of Kentucky |
| 2007 | Donna Gilbreath | "Protecting the results of state smoking ban initiatives using cartographic analysis" (Brunn) | Internal Medicine, University of Kentucky |
| 2007 | Jason Speck | "Flexible mormonism: Or the Post-Fordist Restructuring of Latter-Day Saint Religiousity" (Raitz) | Doctoral Program, University of Arizona |
| 2007 | Oliver Belcher | An Archaeology of the Exception: Executive Power, Sovereignty, and the Production of 'Enemy Combatants'(Secor) | Doctoral Program, University of British Columbia (Canada) |
| 2007 | Stephanie Blessing | "Appalachian Ingenuity" in Action: Activists Reach Beyond Traditional Economic Development in Kentucky (Roberts) | Staff, Rebuilding Together Central Ohio, Columbus, Ohio |
| 2007 | Tommy Wilson | "Making Mountains: Between Landscape, Law, and Power" (Schein) | Doctoral Program, University of Kentucky |
| 2006 | Kristin Seery | "Geographies of Learning in the Blackfeet Nation" (Secor) | |
| 2006 | Mike Walls | Trailing the Wilderness Trace: The Use of GIS Technology to Document Mutiple Representations of the History of a Transportation Corridor (Schein) | Doctoral Program, University of Kentucky |
| 2006 | Sya Kedzior | A Political Ecology of the Chipko Movement (Karan) | Doctoral Program, University of Kentucky |
| 2005 | Abigail Foulds | Harbingers of Modernization: Entrepreneurial Expatriates in (Tourism) Development in Granada, Nicaragua (Roberts) | Doctoral Program, University of Kentucky |
| 2005 | Ariel Terranova-Webb | "We're a small town that moves everyday": Performing the Nation in the American Circus (Secor) | Doctoral Program, The Open University (Great Britain) |
| 2005 | Chris Blackden | Cotton Nation: Scale, Sovereignty, and the World Trade Organization (WTO) (Roberts) | Doctoral Program, University of Kentucky |
| 2005 | Christine Metzo | Phenomenological Reflections on Spatiality and the Enterprise of Human Geography (Roberts | Doctoral Program, Philosophy, University of Kentucky |
| 2005 | Lauren Martin | Valuing the Family: The Spatiality of Security, Citizenship, Law, and Imprisonment in Family Detention Policy and Practice in the United States (Secor) | Doctoral Program, University of Kentucky |
| 2005 | Priyanka Jain | Challenging the 'Public' in Public Space: Encountering the State in Central Vista (Secor) | Doctoral Program, University of Kentucky |
| 2005 | Stephanie Simon | Public Space and the Place of the Crowd: The Possibilities of Disruption and Visibility (Schein) | Doctoral Program, University of Kentucky |
| 2004 | Ellen Hostetter | The Emotions of Landscape: Anxiety and Roadside Strips in Lexington, Kentucky (Secor) | Doctoral Program, University of Kentucky |
| 2004 | Kristin Adams | The Polygenetic Nature of Texture Contrast Soil Formation in the Ouachita National Forest, Arkansas (Philips) | Mississippi |
| 2004 | Shannon Hensley | Contesting the Public: Space and Art in Lexington, Kentucky (Schein) | Doctoral Program, The Open University (Great Britain); Department of Geography & Geology , Jefferson Community & Technical College, Louisville; Kentucky Refugee Ministries, Louisville |
| 2003 | Ben Smith | If There Were No Tourists in Oaxaca, Then We Could "Really" Learn on our Field Trips (Schein) | Doctoral Program, University of Kentucky |
| 2003 | Jamie Gillen | Selling Cincinnati: Tourism, Images, and Representation after the Riots (Schein) | Doctoral Program, University of Colorado; Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore |
| 2003 | Jason Strange | Garden Paths: Portrait of an Unseen Economy (Roberts) | Doctoral Program, UC-Berkeley |
| 2003 | Julien Mercille | Linking Representations and Destination Image: The Case of Tibet (Karan) | Doctoral Program, UCLA; Faculty, School of Geography, Planning & Environmental Policy, University College Dublin (Ireland) |
| 2003 | Rachel Titus | The Production of Reservation Spaces: Henri Lefebvre, Sherman Alexie, and 20th Century United States Reservation Policy (Jones) | |
| 2003 | William Jefferson West, II | Economic Disparity, Political Identity, and the Challenges of Democracy in Turkey: The 1999 National Elections (Secor) | Doctoral Program, University of Kentucky |
| 2002 | Frank Fillebeck, III | The Production of Seamless Space: A Case Study of the American Railroad Industry (Roberts) | Doctoral Program, Louisiana State University |
| 2002 | Jayme Walenta | The Concept And Materiality of Civil Society: Theorizing the Construction of the Third Sector in 'European' Expansion (Roberts) | Doctoral Program, University of British Columbia (Canada); Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Texas A&M |
| 2002 | Lisa Rainey Brownell | Community by Design: Spaces of Community in American Megachurches (Raitz) | Doctoral Program, University of Kentucky |
| 2001 | Marianne Brennan | Geographic Openings: Psychiatric Closings, Psychiatric Fixations, and the Identity Politics of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (Jones) | Doctoral Program, Center for Health Administration Studies, University of Chicago |
| 2001 | Sarah Moore | Non-Thesis Option (Pickles) | Doctoral Program, University of Kentucky |
| 2000 | Matt McCourt | Selling Subjects: The Retail Practices of J. Peterman Co. (Jones) | Doctoral Program, University of Kentucky |
| 2000 | Timothy J. Fargo | No thesis (Brunn) | Doctoral Program, UCLA |
| 1999 | Boyd Shearer | The Daily Aesthetic: A Multimedia Exploration of Leisure and Recreation In Lexington's Segregated Urban Park System (Jones/Schein) | CEO, OutrageGIS Mapping, Lexington, KY |
| 1999 | Esther Long | Religious Policy in Post-Soviet Russia: The Reconstruction of Russia's Geographical Imagination (Brunn) | Doctoral Program, University of Kentucky |
| 1999 | Jim Hanlon | An Invisible Landscape: Urban Reform and Racial Formation In Lexington, Kentucky (Schein) | Doctoral Program, University of Kentucky |
| 1999 | Maureen McDorman | The Institutional Structuring of International Trade Relations: A Case Study of Section 301 (Jones) | Doctoral Program, University of Kentucky |
| 1999 | Paul Kingsbury | The Aesthetics of Apollonian and Dionysian Space: Keeneland Race Course a Case Study (Jones) | Doctoral Program, University of Kentucky |
| 1998 | Lauri Jill Jones | Women's Status and Fertility: Experiences in Perry County, Kentucky (Watkins) | GIS Specialist, Glennallen Field Office, Bureau of Land Management |
| 1997 | Carla Mary Koford | No thesis (Karan) | Portland, Oregon |
| 1997 | Victoria Louise Liardet | The Recruitment and Intergration of Foreign Physicians in Eastern Kentucky: The Case of Filipino Doctors (Ulack) | |
| 1996 | Darren PURCELL | Regional Political Cultures, Congress, and the Persian Gulf War Vote [Brunn] | Doctoral Program, Florida State University; Faculty, Department of Geography, University of Oklahoma |
| 1995 | Rachel L. Beyerle | No thesis | Communications Director, Easter Seals Inc., Alexandria, VA |
| 1995 | Richard Allen Gilbreath | Director, Pauer Cartography Laboratory, University of Kentucky | |
| 1995 | Lee Lucas Berman | No thesis [Jones] | Instructor, Urban Studies, Southern Connecticut State University |
| 1995 | Mary Gilmartin | The Place of Narrative: Geographies and Identities in the Texts of Toni Morrison [Jones] | Doctoral Program, University of Kentucky |
| 1994 | Raymond Patrick Baruffalo | Geographic Strategy in Railroad Labor Disputes [Roberts] | Doctoral Program, University of Kentucky |
| 1994 | Paul Edward Belanger | No thesis | |
| 1994 | John Raymond Grimes | Military Spending and State Economic Growth, 1980-89: An Evaluation of the Gunbelt Thesis [Jones] | Doctoral Program, Florida State University |
| 1994 | Christopher Richard M. Hayward | No thesis | Adjunct Lecturer, Geography Department, SUNY Plattsburgh |
| 1994 | Katherine T. Jones | The impact of landbridge rail on US ports: the case of doublestack rail [Jones] | Doctoral Program, University of Kentucky |
| 1994 | Beth S. Pent | No thesis | |
| 1993 | Glenn Owen Humphress | Place Characterization and Appalachian Elderly Migration: 1975 - 1980 [Watkins] | Faculty at Southeast Community College in Lincoln Nebraska. PhD from University of Nebraska Lincoln |
| 1993 | Emil Jeffrey Popke | Recasting Geopolitics: The Discursive Scripting of the IMF [Roberts] | Doctoral Program, University of Kentucky |
| 1993 | Joshua John Van Lieu | Deindustrialization and the Discourse of Local Economic Development [Jones] | Masters Program (Korean Studies) and Doctoral Program (History) University of Washington; Associate Professor of History, Keiymung University, Daegu, South Korea |
| 1993 | Roger Lee Miller | The Social Spatiality of NIMBY: A Case Study of Citizen Opposition to an Army Nerve Gas Incinerator in Central Kentucky [Jones] | Senior Management Analyst, City of Berkeley, CA |
| 1992 | Malcolm Phillip Cutchin | The Evolution of Primary Physician Office Location in Munich, 1950 - 1990: A Contextual-Ecological Analysis [Shannon] | Doctoral Program, University of Kentucky; Professor/Chair, Department of Health Care Sciences, Wayne State University, MI |
| 1991 | Adrian Smith | Housing Policy, the State, and Regulation Theory: The Political Economy of Low-Income Housing in the United States [Jones] | Professor of Human Geography and Dean for Research (Humanities and Social Sciences), Queen Mary College, London |
| 1991 | Larry Francis Bohman | No thesis [Jones] | |
| 1991 | John T. Bowen | Airline Competitive Adaptation and Congestion in Major Hubs: the Case of Delta Airlines [Leinbach] | Doctoral Program, University of Kentucky |
| 1991 | Ian James Cook | Drowning in see world? Critical Ethnographies of Blindness [Rowles] | Doctoral Program, University of Bristol; Associate Professor, Geography, University of Exeter (Great Britain) |
| 1991 | Tsering Tsomo | The Impact of Socialism on the Urban Morphology of Lhasa, Tibet [Karan] | |
| 1991 | Ming Hung Ying | Modeling Spatial Variation in China's Rail Freight Generation [Leinbach] | |
| 1990 | Julsun Depuyart Pacheco | No thesis [Ulack and Watkins] | Director of Information Technology, City of Frankfort KY |
| 1990 | Maureen Ai Woon | Historical Patterns and Determinants of Fertility in Japan [Watkins] | |
| 1989 | Robert A. Morris | The National Pastime as Industry: Baseball, Stadiums, and the American City [Raitz] | |
| 1989 | Michael Joseph Pirani | The Internal Spatial and Temporal Arrangements of a University and the Patterns of Activity of Elderly Students [Rowles] | Adjunct Assistant Professor, Geography, Fayetteville State University, NC |
| 1989 | Maria Isabel Ramirez-Williams | Factors Affecting Primary Physician Practice Locations in Inner London, 1951-1971 [Rowles] | |
| 1989 | Andrea Schoninger | ||
| 1988 | Jessie Peck Hoon Poon | Singapore Bus Services and Mass Rapid Transit: Competition or Complementarity? [Leinbach] | Doctoral program, Ohio State University; Professor, Geography University at Buffalo - SUNY |
| 1988 | Dorn VAN Dommelen | The mobilization of place: an examination of the regional image of Kentucky's Bluegrass [Raitz] | Doctoral Program, University of Toronto (Canada); Professor, Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Alaska Anchorage |
| 1987/8? | James Douglas Eldridge | Spatial Variation in Distance Decay Parameters: An Evaluation of Spatial Interaction Models Using the Expansion Method [Jones] | |
| 1987 | Craig Steven Campbell | From Homeland to the Rio de la Plata: Sixteenth Century Cultural and Political Change in Basque Ethnic Regionalism [Raitz] | Doctoral Program, University of Kansas; Professor and Chair, Department of Geography, Youngstown State University, OH |
| 1986 | Jane E. Domier | Microcomputer-Assisted Cartography: Guidelines for Design and Evaluation of Mapping Software [Amrhein] | Map Standards Coordinator, Illinois State Geological Survey (Retired) |
| 1986 | William Smith | No thesis | |
| 1985 | Joseph Michael Watts | Resident Attitudes Toward Neighborhood Revitalization: A Case Study of Lexington, Kentucky's Historic South Hill [Raitz] | |
| 1984 | Paul Ames Shoninger | Comparison of Public Transit Performance Standards for Selected Urbanized Areas in the United States [Ulack] | Analyst, Lexington Fayette Urban County Government |
| 1983 | Stanley S. Jaworowski | Locational Conflicts in Transportation Provision: An Assessment of Accessibility Demand for LEXTRAN [Leinbach] | |
| 1983 | Dorothy Vance | No thesis [Karan] | |
| 1982 | Kelley A. Crow | Factors Influencing the Use of Planned Parenthood Services: A Spatial Perspective [Shannon] | |
| 1982 | Roberta (Webster) Haven | Trends in Commuting and the Diffusion of Growth in the Intrametropolitan Periphery of Western Kentucky [Cromley] | Visiting Assistant Professor, Geography, University of Wyoming |
| 1982 | Paula Ann Pulaski | Solid Waste Management Approaches: A Delphi Study of Connecticut Policy Makers [Brunn] | |
| 1980 | Charles MYERS | No thesis | |
| 1980 | Linda Lou WEDDLE | An Analysis of Visitation Patterns and The Economic Impact of the Kentucky State Horse Park in Fayette County [Bladen] | |
| 1979/80? | Michael BAILEY | No thesis [Bladen] | |
| 1979 | Sharon HOLDREN | Arabic Mapping Techniques [Bladen and Ulack] | |
| 1979 | Victoria (King) JOHNSON | No thesis | |
| 1979 | Susan (Liz) THIENEMAN | No thesis [Bladen and Shannon] | |
| 1979 | William G. VAUGHAN | No thesis [Bladen] | |
| 1978 | Kenneth CLEVIDENCE | No thesis [Raitz] | |
| 1976 | Donald G. HUCKLE | No thesis | |
| 1976 | John KELLOGG | No thesis | |
| 1976 | Robert C. PEAK | No thesis | |
| 1976 | John STACHACZ | No thesis | |
| 1976 | Cynthia W. WRIGHT | The Geographic Diffusion of the Democratic Movement in the Soviet Union [Towber] | |
| 1975 | Mehmet ARITAN | No thesis | Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin La Crosse |
| 1975 | Doug BILLIPS | No thesis | |
| 1974 | Michael BARKER | No thesis | |
| 1974 | Patricia (Rymph) BROWN | Spatial Activity and Image in Relation to Wealth Status of Isthmus Zapotec Women in Oaxaca, Mexico [Raitz] | |
| 1974 | Nathaniel Brandon HAYNES | No thesis | |
| 1974 | Gyula PAUER | No thesis | Cartographer, University of Kentucky (Retired) |
| 1974 | Brantley SAMPLE | No thesis | |
| 1974 | John SHANK | No thesis | |
| 1974 | Donald SHEPHERD | No thesis | |
| 1973 | Daniel BABB | No thesis | |
| 1973 | Willis LITTLE | No thesis | |
| 1973 | David James MILLER | Public Response to Water Pollution: West Hickman Creek, Kentucky [Wall] | |
| 1972 | George P. BARTNIK | No thesis | |
| 1972 | Martin BIRKENTHAL | No thesis | |
| 1972 | Chris BOERNER | No thesis | |
| 1972 | Sang Chung PAK | No thesis | |
| 1972 | Greg RAWLINGS | No thesis | Planner, Federal Highways Administration, Frankfort, KY |
| 1972 | Mike SHEFFIELD | No thesis | |
| 1972 | Stephen Edward WHITE | Spatial Perception and Migration Potential [Wall] | Doctoral program, University of Kentucky |
| 1971 | George CINCALA | No thesis | |
| 1971 | Walter GLOWACKI | No thesis | |
| 1971 | Ernest METIVIER | No thesis | Doctoral program, University of Kentucky |
| 1971 | Vernon M. SMITH | No thesis | |
| 1970 | John ANDERSON | No thesis | Doctoral program, University of Kentucky |
| 1970 | Robert Daniel JOSEPH | A Programming Synthesis of Chayanov's Theory of Peasant Economy [Blome] | |
| 1970 | Dinker I. PATEL | An Inferential Method of Estimating Small Area Population Using Data from an Urban Information System [Field] | Doctoral program, University of Kentucky |
| 1970 | Elizabeth SUMNER | No thesis | |
| 1969 | Wilford A. BLADEN | Friction of Travel as a Geographic Factor in the Economic Development of Knox County, Kentucky [Field] | Doctoral program, University of Kentucky |
| 1969 | Jock D. GUM | No thesis | Head Teacher, Fayette County Public Schools (Retired) |
| 1968 | James Thomas ADDICOTT | A Locational Study of the Banks in Lexington, Kentucky [Grimes] | |
| 1968 | Gary McBEE | No thesis | |
| 1968 | George E. MOSELY | No thesis | |
| 1968 | Julia Daily STOSBERG | The Impact of Highway Improvements on Land Use: The Dynamics of Land Use Change along US 60 between the Bluegrass Parkway and I-64 [Withington] | |
| 1968 | Wilma J. WALKER | No thesis [Karan and Bladen] | Doctoral program, University of Kentucky |
| 1967 | Charles Mayer DUPIER Jr. | The Development and Application of a Horizontal Agricultural Land-Use Intensity Measuring Method [Field] | |
| 1967 | Thomas J. ETHIER | No thesis | |
| 1967 | Beverly FLEMING | No thesis | |
| 1967 | Jesse L. HILL | No thesis | |
| 1967 | Oscar RUCKER Jr. | A Geographic Study of Rural Settlement Clusters in Madison County, Kentucky [Schwendeman] | |
| 1967 | Carl W. SPURLOCK | No thesis | |
| 1967 | Duane E. WILLIAMSON | A Study of the Stone Fence as a Landscape Feature of Fayette County, Kentucky [Schwendeman] | |
| 1966 | William G. ADAMS | Slope and Rural Land Use Along a Traverse in Bourbon and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky [Field and Schwendeman] | |
| 1964 | Gerald J. SCHWENDEMAN | Some Geographical Aspects of Land Use in the City of Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky [Schwendeman] | |
| 1964 | Dietrich M. ZIMMER | The Current Manufacturing Industries of Metropolitan Lexington, Kentucky [Field] | |
| 1963 | Ralph R. TRIPLETTE Jr. | Land Use at the Walton, Crittenden and Dry Ridge Interchanges on Interstate 75 in North Central Kentucky [Withington] | |
| 1960 | Earl A. RUBLEY | A Study of the Sawmill Industry as an Example of Primary Wood Utilization of Buncombe County, North Carolina [Schwendeman] | |
| 1959 | Frederick G. COX | Caney Creek, A Geographic Study of a Small Valley in the Creek Bottom Settlement Area of Eastern Kentucky [Field] | |
| 1959 | Elsie Wettstein PILE | Expansion of the Lexington Urban Area into the Rural Area of the Inner Bluegrass, 1950-1958 [Schwendeman] | |
| 1958 | Clifton. C. CARPENTER | Barrett's Midway Inc., as a Small Town Clothing Industry [Schwendeman] | |
| 1957 | ? W. Russell HAMON | Characterization of Plant Growth and Development Under Natural Environmental Conditions [Fergus] | |
| 1957 | J. Alan RAYBURN | Settlement Geography of Orangeville, Ontario [Field and Schwendeman] | |
| 1957 | Joseph SCHWENDEMAN Jr. | A Study of the Woodworking Industry of the Eastern Mountains and Coal Field Region of Kentucky [Schwendeman] | |
| 1956 | Herschel C. REEVES | A Geographic Study of the Production and Marketing of Burley Tobacco in Kentucky [Shear] | |
| 1955 | William T. CLARK | A Geographical Study of the Upper Elk Fork Valley, Morgan County, Kentucky [Schwendeman] | |
| 1955 | Etim B. ITUEN | No thesis | |
| 1954 | Alfred J. DESCHAMPS | Land Use in Powell County, Kentucky [Schwendeman] | |
| 1952 | Robert L. ANKENBRANDT | The Land Use of Crawford County, Illinois [Schwendeman] | |
| 1952 | Terry E. EPPERSON Jr. | The Boones Creek Community: Some Geographical Aspects [Schwendeman] | |
| 1952 | Almon Lloyd MERTZ | Mean Monthly and Annual Temperature Variations in Kentucky as Shown by Isothermal Maps [Schwendeman] | |
| 1950 | R. Kenton WIBKING | Survey of Attractions in Kentucky State Parks [Schwendeman] | |
| 1949 | Arthur M. GROVE | Geography in the Place Names of China [Schwendeman] | |
| 1949 | Emmett Layton HARDY | An Introduction to the Study of the Geographic Nomenclature of Kentucky's Counties, Cities and Towns [Schwendeman] | |
| 1948 | Henry Wilton TUCKER | The Geography Program in the Senior High Schools of Lexington and Fayette County, Kentucky [Schwendeman] |
Politics below the Surface: A Political Ecology of Mineral Rights and Land Tenure Struggles in Appalachia and the AndesShould We Stay or Should We Go?: A Study of Indian IT Migrants in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina: Deciding to Stay in the United States or Return to India
Ecohydraulic Investigation of Diatoms in a Bedrock-Controlled Stream