“Historical-Geographical Materialism”

Posted by on Dec 19, 2019 in Uncategorized | No Comments

My piece on “Historical–Geographical Materialism” for the new edition of the International Encyclopedia of Human Geography is available here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780081022955104706 Or for those without library access, here: https://www.academia.edu/41340401/Historical-Geographical_Materialism_2020_ From Kirsch, S., 2020. Historical–Geographical Materialism. In: Kobayashi, A. (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, 2nd edition. vol. 7, Elsevier, pp. 31–36. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-102295-5.10470-6 ISBN: 9780081022955

traces of spaces: a cabinet of curiosities exhibit

Posted by on Aug 14, 2019 in Uncategorized | No Comments
traces of spaces: a cabinet of curiosities exhibit

Traces of Spaces is an experiment in research and pedagogy produced by graduate students in Geography, Romance Studies, City and Regional Planning, Communication, and Design as part of my Fall 2018 Geographical Materialisms seminar @ UNC-Chapel Hill’s Geography Department.  It is organized in three exhibition pages: material in motion, object ecologies, and materializing visions, which allow viewers to […]

Undergraduate Research in Political Geography

Posted by on Jun 18, 2019 in Uncategorized | No Comments
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”

Posted by on Jul 23, 2018 in Uncategorized | One Comment
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

Posted by on Jul 17, 2018 in Uncategorized | No Comments
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

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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

Posted by on Jan 10, 2018 in Uncategorized | No Comments

My first time teaching historical geography! Here’s the syllabus: Geog454.Syllabus.2018

CFP AAG 2018 – Contemporary U.S. colonialisms: Crises and Politics

Posted by on Oct 4, 2017 in Uncategorized | No Comments

  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”

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“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)

Posted by on Jan 20, 2017 in Uncategorized | No Comments

Syllabus (pdf) for my Spring 2017 Technology & Democracy Research (GEOG 650) course