| I am an assistant professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Kentucky. My research is at the intersection of urban political geography and information technology studies, with particular attention to the use of geographic information systems and location-based services. I received a PhD in Geography from the University of Washington, where I also completed my MA. My dissertation research, Coding Community, examined the use of handheld devices in the mapping of community quality-of-life in several neighborhoods of Seattle, Washington. Prior to my graduate training, I completed a BS degree in Geography, with a double-minor in Computer Science and GIS, at Northwest Missouri State University. Before joining the faculty at the University of Kentucky, I was an assistant professor in the Department of Geography at Ball State University.
From a small farming community in northwest Missouri, where my family has lived for over 150 years, I have grown to enjoy the human-environmental narratives of landscape, movement, and technology. I am the third generation to live in Pumpkin Center, Missouri -- a placename for travelers between Savannah and Maryville, Missouri. A fourth generation alumnus of the Barnard-Guilford public school system, I graduated in a class of 18 from South Nodaway High School, reorganized from the country school system in the 1950s.
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