Graduate Students

Jim Hanlon

M.A. Geography, Kentucky
B.A. Michigan State University

contact:

email: jahanl1@uky.edu

Profile

I entered the geography program at the University of Kentucky in 1995 after completing my B.A. in geography at Michigan State University. My research interests include: urban, cultural, and historical landscapes; urban socio-spatial transformations; federal housing policies; social, spatial, and historical constructions of 'race'; methodological aspects of urban historical geography; and the digital archivization of historical and geographical information. I am currently completing work on a dissertation that examines public housing policies, racial residential segregation, urban revitalization, and the New Urbanism planning and design paradigm. My case study is Park DuValle, a HOPE VI project in Louisville, Kentucky.

I begin a two-year appointment as visiting assistant professor of geography at Bowling Green State University in August 2004.