Degrees Awarded
2000 | 2001 | 2002
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2007
Victoria S. Downey, B.A., 2005, University of Kansas
Title: Representations of Waikiki: An Analysis of Hawaiian Tourism
Through Hotel Brochures and Websites
Advisor: Garth Myers
Stephan R. Fuchs, B.A., 2004, FAU Erlagen-Nuremberg
Title: Migration Routes and Settlement Patterns of German Immigrants in
Douglas County, Kansas, 1860-1880
Advisor: James Shortridge
Jakob A. Goldman, B.A., 1997, Syracuse University
Non-thesis option
Advisor: George McCleary
Hilary B. Hungerford, B.A., 2001, University of Northern Colorado
Title: Onitsha Market Literature and Negotiations of Modernity in Nigeria
Advisor: Garth Myers
Trisha L. Jackson, B.S., 2004, Texas State University
Title: Developing a Dataset for Simulating Urban Climate Impacts
on a Global Scale
Advisor: Johannes Feddema
R. Ryan Lash, B.A., 2003, University of Kansas
Title: Managing Malaria: Selected Maps of the 20th Century
Advisor: Garth Myers
Heather R. Putnam, B.A., 2002, University of California, Los Angeles
Title: Meaning and Progress in the Fair Trade Movement
Advisor: J. Christopher Brown
Simeon Kohlman Rabbani, B.S., 1997, Graceland College
Title: Counting Populations-at-Risk: Co-Verification of Landscan
Database and Building Occupance Coefficients
Advisor: Jerome Dobson
PhD
Jared M. Beeton
B.S., 2000, Kansas State University
M.A., 2003, University of Northern Colorado
Title: Late-Quaternary Landscape Evolution and Geoarchaeology
of the Cottonwood River Basin, Flint Hills, Kansas
Advisor: Curtis Sorenson/Rolfe Mandel
Lucius F. Hallett, IV
B.A., 1999, University of New Hampshire
M.A., 2001, University of Kansas
Title: Kansas City, Modernity, and the Geographies of Food
Advisor: James Shortridge
Sarah L. Smiley
B.A., 2000, University of Cincinnati
M.A., 2003, University of Kansas
Title: Patterns of Urban Life and Urban Segregation in
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Advisor: Garth Myers
MA
Mohammad Alsahli, B.A., 2003, Kuwait University
Title: Estimating Chlorophyll Concentrations of Kuwait's Coastal Environment Using Sea WiFS and MODIS Satellite Data
Advisor: Kevin Price
Nathan W. Brinson, B.A., 2000, University of Kansas
Title: Political, Economic, and Cultural Revival in Kansas City, Kansas
Advisor: James Shortridge
Timothy J. Brock, B.A., 2004, Georgia Southern University
Title: The Brazilian Demarcation Movement: Examining the Assumptions of Indigeneity and Scale
Advisor: J. Christopher Brown
Cristin A. Burke, G.S., 2003, Bridgewater State College
Title: Territorial Cohesion in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan
Advisor: Leslie Dienes
Joshua S. Campbell, B.G.S., 1999, University of Kansas
Title: Archaeological Predictive Model of Southwestern Kansas
Advisor: William C. Johnson
Amy E. Potter, B.S., 2004, University of Kansas
Title: Haiti's Identity Crisis: Representation in U.S. Newspaper Coverage
Advisor: Garth Myers
Jason M. Woods, B.A., 2004, Oklahoma State University
Title: A Historical Geography of Kansas City's Jazz District
Advisor: James Shortridge
PhD
John Thomas Bauer
B.S., 1998, Southwest Missouri State University
M.A., 2001, University of Kansas (Geography)
Title: Stability and Change in United States Religious Regions, 1980-2000
Advisor: James Shortridge
John C. Kostelnick
B.A., 1998, Iowa State University
M.A., 2000, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Title: An Interactive Mapping System for Exploring the Geography of American Religion
Advisor: Terry Slocum
Christopher W. Post
B.S., 2000, University of Oklahoma-Norman
M.A., 2003, University of Kansas (Geography)
Title: In Memory: Landscape Memorialization of the Guerilla Warfare on the Kansas-Missouri Frontier
Advisor: James Shortridge
Matthew E. Ramspott
B.S., 1995, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
M.A., 2000, Southwest Texas State University
Title: Remote Sensing-Based Characterization of Land Management and Biophysical Factors in
Grassland: Implications for Understanding Carbon Stocks in the Plant/Soil Interface
Advisor: Kevin Price
MA
Naeema Al-Hosani, B.A., 2001, United Arab Emirates University
Title: Arab Wayfinding on Land and at Sea: An Historical Comparison of Traditional Navigation Techniques
Advisor: George McCleary
C. Drew Bednasek; B.S., 2002, Northwest Missouri State
Title: British Colonial Geographies of Africa in the Early Twentieth Century
Advisor: Garth Myers
Shawna Wright Brinson, B.A., 2000, University of Kansas
Title: The Development and Preservation of Character in Downtown Lawrence, Kansas
Advisor: James Shortridge
Benjamin Coles, B.S., 2002, University of Kansas
Title: (Re)placing the Alternative Coffee Commodity Chain
Advisor:
J. Christopher Brown
Matthew D. Dunbar; B.S., 2000, University of Kansas
Title: Mapping, Analyzing, and Visualizing 60 Years of Forest Cover Change
in
Northeast Kansas
Advisors: Mark Jakubauskas and Steven Egbert
Matthew S. Harman; B.S., 2002, Frostburg State University
Non-thesis option
Advisor: Xingong Li
David T. McDermott, B.A., 1979, Haverford College;
B.S., 1992, State University of New York at Albany
Title: Political Economics and the Location of Domestic Coal Mining
Advisor: J. Christopher Brown
Casey J. McLaughlin; B.S., 1999, Minnesota State University
Title: Up-scaling Local Nutrient Budgets Using Global Typology: Linking
Local
Budgets with Global Data Sets
Advisor: Robert McColl
Rex J. Rowley; B.S., 2002, Brigham Young University
Title: Insuring the Range: Toward a Crop Insurance Program for Rangeland
and
Pasture
Advisor: Kevin Price
Abigail R. Varner; B.S., 2000, Michigan State University
Title: Soil Signatures of the Santa Fe Trail in Douglas County and Morton
County,
Kansas
Advisor: Bill Johnson
Ph.D.
David M. Cochran, Jr.
B.A., 1990, University of Texas at Austin
M.A., 1995, George Washington University
Title: The Sustainability of Shifting Cultivation in Rain Forest Conservation: Participatory Mapping the Cultural Geography of Native Peoples in the Rio Plantano Biosphere Reserve, Honduras
Advisor: Peter Herlihy
Matthew T. Koeppe
B.A., 1998, University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
M.A., 2000, University of Kansas (Latin American Studies)
Title: Environment, Urbanization, and the Rise of Mechanized Agriculture in Southeastern Rondonia, Brazil
Ludmila Monika Moskal; B.S., 1996, University of Waterloo
M.S., 2000, University of Calgary
Title: Spatiotemporal Modeling of Post-Disturbance Forest Regeneration
in the Yellowstone National Park Region
Advisors: Mark Jakubauskas and Kevin Price
Brian D. Wardlow
B.S., 1994, Northwest Missouri State University
M.A., 1996, Kansas State University
Title: An Evaluation of Time-Series MODIS 250-Meter Vegetation Index Data for Crop Mapping in the U.S. Central Great Plains
Advisor: Stephen Egbert
(top)
2004
MA
Gabriella Noelle Blair
Title: Soil Erosion on Chained and Unchained
Slopes in the Garden Park Valley of South Central Colorado: A Comparative
Analysis
Committee: Curt Sorenson (Chair), Bill Johnson, Chris Brown
Jennifer Ann Claybrook
Title: Evolution of an Urban Fringe Landscape:
The Case of Piper, Kansas
Committee: Barbara Shortridge (Chair), Pete Shortridge, Garth Myers
Patrick C. Taylor
Non-thesis option
Committee: Steve Egbert (Chair), Xingong Li, Terry Slocum
Julie S. Morris
Title: Colonial Ambivalence and Women's Negotiated
Moralities on the Zambian Copperbelt
Committee: Garth Myers (Chair), Johan Feddema, Steve Egbert
Ph.D.
Clayton Friedrich Blodgett
Title: Geostatistical Modeling of Lodgepole
Pine Basal Area in Grand Teton National Park with Geostatistical Techniques
and Satellite Imagery
Committee: Kevin Price (Co-Chair), Chris Lauber (Co-Chair); Steve Egbert,
Terry Slocum, Doug Walker
Mark Daniel Lynn Carper
Title: Household Energy Management Strategies
in Bulgaria's Transitioning Energy Sector
Committee: Garth Myers (Chair), Leslie Dienes, Barbara Shortridge, Paul
D'Anieri, Eric Hanley
Cameron K. McCormick
Title: Geography of Rural Water Development
in Northern Cameroon
Committee: Garth Myers (Chair), Chris Brown, Johan Feddema, Curt Sorenson,
Peter Ukopokodu
Laura Moley McClain
Title: The Look of Overland Park: Landscape
Creation and Meaning in an American Suburban Environment
Committee: Pete Shortridge (Chair), Terry Slocum, Curt Sorenson, Barbara
Shortridge, Mike Swann
Roberto Castillo Vasquez
Title: An Ethnogeography of
the Maleku Indigenous Peoples in Northern Costa Rica
Committee: Peter Herlihy (Chair), Bob McColl, Bob Nunley, Charles Stansifer,
Anita Herzfeld
(top)
2003
MA
Kurt Davis
Title: Depletion of the Ogallala Aquifer Water Reserves in Western
Kansas
Committee: George McCleary (Chair), Bill Johnson, Bob Nunley
Angela M. Gray
Title: Critical Geopolitics of African Displacement
Committee: Garth Myers (Chair), Pete Shortridge, Chris Brown
Willem Hans Aemstel Helms
Title: Identification and Mapping of Senicea
Lespedeza (Lespedeza Cuenata) Using Spectral and Textural Analysis
Committee: Steve Egbert (Chair), Kevin Price, Mark Jakubauskas
Brianna N. (Mercier) Mosiman
Title: Exploring Multi-Temporal and Transformation
Methods for Improved Cropland Classification Using Landsat Thematic Mapper
Imagery
Committee: Steve Egbert (Chair), Kevin Price, Terry Slocum
Christopher W. Post
Title: Company Town on the Plains: Sunflower
Village, Kansas, from 1942 to 1959
Committee: Pete Shortridge (Chair), Garth Myers, Barbara Shortridge
Carleen A. Roberts
Non-thesis option
Committee: Steve Egbert (Chair), Terry Slocum, Garth Myers
Rachel M. Saifullah
Non-thesis option
Committee: Garth Myers (Chair), Johan Feddema, Bob McColl, Surendra Bhana
Peder Thomas Sandhei
Title: Effects of Land Use on the
Concentration of Dissolved Inorganic Nitrogen and Phosphorus in Global Stream
Systems
Committee: Steve Egbert (Chair), Bob Buddemeier, John Dunham
Sarah Leanne Smiley
Title: Differences Between International Financial
Institution, Non-Governmental Organization, and Ugandan Perspectives Toward
the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Debt Relief Initiative
Committee: Garth Myers (Chair), Chris Brown, Pete Shortridge
Min Yang Teh
Non-thesis option
Committee: George McCleary (Chair), Bob McColl, Bob Nunley
Ph.D.
Hugh H. Howard
Title: Development of an Expert System for Cartographic Design Education
Committee: Terry Slocum (Chair), Jerry Dobson, Johan Feddema, Curt Sorenson,
Jim Miller
Mohamed A. Mohamed
Title: Urban Growth Through
Time and Space: A Comparison Study of the Role of Planners in Dealing with
Sprawl in Lawrence, Kansas, and Zanzibar, Tanzania
Committee: Garth Myers (Chair), Terry Slocum, Pete Shortridge, Barbara Shortridge,
Peter Ukopokodu
Sun-Yurp Park
Title: Determination of
Modis Thermal Response Patterns from Land Surfaces and Their Relationship
with Climatic Factors for Drought Monitoring in the Central Great Plains
Committee: Steve Egbert (Co-Chair), Johan Feddema (Co-Chair), Kevin Price,
Mark Jakubauskas, Ed Martinko
Derek A. Smith
Title:
Hunting, Habitat, and Indigenous Settlement Patterns: A Geographic Analysis
of Bugle Wildlife Use in Western Panama
Committee: Peter Herlihy (Chair), Garth Myers, Bob Nunley, Bart Dean, Robert
Timm
(top)
2002
MA
Peter J. DeVincentis
Title: The Perception of Irregularly
Textured Patterns on Maps: Mezzotint
Committee: George McCleary (Chair), Terry Slocum, Bob McColl
Bruce C. Evans
Non-thesis option
Committee: Curt Sorenson (Chair), Bill Johnson, Rolfe Mandel
James A. Schneider, III
Non-thesis option
Committee: Curt Sorenson (Chair), Rolfe Mandel, Bill Johnson
Ph.D.
Jeremy S. Dillon
Title: Soils and Soil-Forming Processes in a Cool-Dry Environment: The Upper
Green River Basin, Western Wyoming, U.S.A.
Committee: Curt Sorenson (Chair), Rolfe Mandel, Terry Slocum, Michel Ransom,
Elizabeth McClellan
Soren C. Larsen
Title: Modernization
and Sense of Place in a Rural Region of Northern British Columbia
Committee: Pete Shortridge (Chair), Peter Herlihy, Garth Myers, Barbara
Shortridge, Rita Napier
Enrique Martinez-Meyer
Title:
Evolutionary Trends in Ecological Niches of Species
Committee: Kevin Price (Co-Chair), Town Peterson (Co-Chair), Steve Egbert,
Bob Timm, Leonard Krishtalka
Miguel A. Ortega-Huerta
Title: Analyzing Spatial Patterns of Biodiversity, Landscape Fragmentation,
and Land Ownership Regimes in Northeastern Mexico
Committee: Kevin Price (Co-Chair), Town Peterson (Co-Chair), Steve Egbert,
Bob Nunley, Ed Martinko
Peter A. Sam, Jr.
Title: Indoor
Air Pollution Assessment within Selected Residential Areas in the Great
Accra-Tema Metropolitan Region, Ghana, West Africa
Committee: Garth Myers (Chair), Terry Slocum, Johan Feddema, Val Smith,
Stacy Swearingen-White
David E. Schul
Title: Community
Pride in American Small Towns
Committee: Pete Shortridge (Chair), Barbara Shortridge, Garth Myers, Jim
Mayo, Mike Swann
Langdon Smith, Jr.
Title: The Democratization
of Nature: State Park Development During the New Deal
Committee: Pete Shortridge (Chair), Barbara Shortridge, Garth Myers, Peter
Herlihy, Don Worster
Fangfang Yu
Title: Climate-Ecosystem
Interactions on East-Asian Steppes: An Analysis of Vegetation Responses
to Climate Variability with Remote Sensing Data
Committee: Kevin Price (Chair), Steve Egbert, Mark Jakubauskas, Ed Martinko,
Hanqin Tian
(top)
2001
MA
Craig
A. Davis
Title: Export Processing Zones in the Dominican Republic and
Jamaica
Committee: Garth Myers (Chair), Pete Shortridge, Peter Herlihy
John T. Bauer
Title: Settlement of Illinois
Committee: Pete Shortridge (Chair), Terry Slocum, Johan Feddema
Ryan P. Boyce
Title: A Landscape Ecology Study of the Lesser Prairie-Chicken
(Tympanuchus Pallidicinctus) in Kansas Using Landsat Thematic Mapper Imagery
Committee: Kevin Price (Chair), Ed Martinko, Chris Lauver
David
A. Chipman
Nonthesis option
Committee: Bob Nunley (Chair), Bob McColl, George McCleary
Lucius F. Hallett, IV
Title: The Production of Jam in Southern Coastal
Maine: A Sense-of-Place Study
Committee: Pete Shortridge (Chair), Barbara Shortridge, Garth Myers
Blaine Ray
Title: Journey to Crime Analysis of Phoenix, Arizona
Committee: Dave Bennett (Chair), Terry Slocum, Barbara Shortridge
Jason P. Shields
Title: Simulating the Migration and Development
of the Monarch Butterfly (Danaus Plexippus)
Committee: Johan Feddema (Chair), Dave Bennett, Kevin Price
Ph.D.
Robert John (Jack)
Livingston
Title: Conservation and Deforestation in the British West
Indies: The Case of St. Vincent
Committee: Garth Myers (Chair), Curt Sorenson, Bill Johnson, Pete Shortridge,
Charles Stansifer
Richard O. Sleezer
Title: Groundwater
Vulnerability to Nitrate Pollution From Non-Point Sources in Harvey County,
Kansas
Committee: Curt Sorenson (Chair), Bill Johnson, Bob Buddemeier, Gerard Kluitenberg,
Ross Black, Marios Sophocleous
(top)
