Author: Scott Kirsch
Undergraduate Research in Political Geography
Recent undergraduate research projects in Political Geography have included: https://tarheels.live/gerrymandernc/ Gerrymandering in NC https://tarheels.live/urbanplanningbuckhornplan/buckhorn-area-plan/ Buckhorn Area Plan https://tarheels.live/geog453lpi/conclusions/ Landscape, Politics, Identity https://tarheels.live/bordersandborderlandsgeog453/ Borders and Borderlands https://tarheels.live/criticalgeopolitics/ China as a Rising Hegemon https://tarheels.live/bordersandborderlands453/bibliography/ North American Borders and Borderlands Inquiry-based learning in Political Geography (Geog 453) has been supported through the Graduate Research Consultant (GRC) Program […]
Undergraduate Research: “Geographies of the New Deal in North Carolina”
“Geographies of the New Deal in North Carolina” is a story map produced by students in my spring 2018 Historical Geography of the US course (Geog 454). Alongside archival research projects, students used ArcGIS story mapping to create geovisualizations of several New Deal projects that took shape in North Carolina, and to explore their legacies […]
Houghton Library fellowship
I’m delighted to join the 2018-2019 Houghton Library visiting fellows to work on my project “The 1921 Wood-Forbes Mission to the Philippines.” The award will support a month of archival work in the library’s special collections and contribute to my research on America’s insular empire during the early twentieth century. About the Wood-Forbes mission: Shortly after his […]
Fall 2018 Graduate Seminar: Geographical Materialisms
Fall 2018 Course Description: GEOGRAPHICAL MATERIALISMS GEOG 804 Seminar—Social Instructor: Scott Kirsch Tuesdays 3:30-6:30 ** As a philosophy that prioritizes the material conditions of existence over spiritual and metaphysical prime causes, materialism, in varied forms, has animated geographical inquiry for centuries. This graduate seminar joins the conversation on “how matter matters” by focusing on geographical […]
Course syllabus for Geog 454 Historical Geography of the United States
My first time teaching historical geography! Here’s the syllabus: Geog454.Syllabus.2018
CFP AAG 2018 – Contemporary U.S. colonialisms: Crises and Politics
Call for Papers for April 10-14 2018 AAG New Orleans conference: CfP AAG 2018 – Contemporary U.S. colonialisms: Crises and Politics. Recent hurricane disasters in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, as well as the targeting of Guam during disputes between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un, have highlighted the dangers and […]
“Aesthetic Regime Change: The Burnham Plans and US Landscape Imperialism in the Philippines”
My new article on Daniel Burnham, Cameron Forbes, and American “landscape imperialism” in Manila and Baguio in the early twentieth century has been published in the September 2017 issue of Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints, including eight historical photographs, sketches, and plans. A brief abstract and link below. Available via https://muse.jhu.edu/article/671009 or contact me for a copy. […]
Syllabus – Spring 2017 Technology & Democracy Research (GEOG 650)
Syllabus (pdf) for my Spring 2017 Technology & Democracy Research (GEOG 650) course
Fall 2016 landscape seminar: syllabus
A syllabus for my Fall 2016 graduate seminar on landscape: GEOG803.SYLLABUS-lANDSCAPE
Interview: “Vocabularies for Technology, Nature, and the Anthropocene”
I was interviewed by Eric Nost for Edge Effects, a digital magazine produced by graduate students at the Center for Culture, History and Environment (CHE) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison: “Vocabularies for Technology, Nature, and the Anthropocene: An Interview with Scott Kirsch” Edge Effects March 15, 2016
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