Professor of Geography, University of Nebraska Omaha
My specialties include the various intersections of landscape (especially the Great Plains), media, and gender. I have published numerous articles on the Great Plains and its perception by humans (historically, also coverage by the media of the pipeline battles). I have worked on women's use of maps for their social activism during the Progressive Era (such as on the "suffrage map" used by suffragists as a propaganda tool during the suffrage movement) and I have published a book on the subject (Routledge).
I am currently a partner in the Omaha Spatial Justice Project which is examining the history of discriminatory housing practices (restrictive covenants, redlining, neighborhood erasure in the name of urban renewal) in Omaha Nebraska. This project is just beginning but I believe it has the most potential for articles of interest to The Conversation.