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Graduate Degrees (Alumni) 1948-Present

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

2023 Karen Kinslow Re-storying Cane Run Creek: Encountering Representations, Affects, and Vegetal Geographies (Stallins) Update pending
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 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
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) Lecturer, Department of Community and Leadership Development, University of Kentucky
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)

Assistant 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)

Associate Professor, 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

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

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)
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]

Doctoral program (History) University of Washington; Faculty, La Grange College, GA

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