Contact
Investigators
Sarah Elwood: Ph.D., Minnesota, 2000, Associate Professor
critical and participatory GIS; urban and political geography; qualitative and participatory research
Email: selwood@u.washington.edu
Website: http://faculty.washington.edu/selwood/
Sarah Elwood has conducted research, teaching, and community outreach projects on the societal and technological implications of geospatial technologies for over a decade. She recently completed a project which investigated the use and impacts of geospatial technologies by urban community development organizations, and developed curriculum for facilitating student-community collaboration in GIS education with the support of an NSF Career Award. Throughout her career, she has facilitated participatory research, and collaborative teaching and learning initiatives linking university students and community organizations. Elwood has published on strategies for using experiential learning to foster critical thinking, and for integrating participatory action research with classroom learning in higher education.
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Katharyne Mitchell: Ph.D., UC-Berkeley, 1993, Professor and Chair
cultural and economic geography; the urban environment; migration and capital flows between the Pacific Rim and the Pacific Northwest; social theory; philosophies of education
Email: kmitch@u.washington.edu
Website: http://faculty.washington.edu/kmitch/
Katharyne Mitchell’s research engages questions of transnational migration, urban development, and education. She recently completed a research and action project entitled ‘Reclaiming Childhood’, supported by a University of Washington Simpson Professorship in the Public Humanities (2004-2007). Mitchell has conducted prior research with immigrant youth, focusing on how different educational environments help them become ‘cultural citizens’. In 2000 she studied Muslim immigrants in London schools; a MacArthur grant in 2003 enabled her to conduct a year-long ethnography of North African immigrant youth in the inner-city high schools of Marseille. Mitchell has also published on political struggles over learning styles and curricula.
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The PIs have extensive experience with active and collaborative learning strategies and the implications of such pedagogies for changing modes of citizenship and civic engagement. The proposed project builds upon their shared expertise in educational philosophies, participatory research methods, experiential and collaborative modes of learning, and urban geography; and brings together their complementary expertise in children’s geographies and geospatial technologies. Their past research has been supported by the Spencer Foundation, the National Geographic Education Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, and the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis.
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Research Assistants
Ryan Burns: BA Geography, Eastern Kentucky University, 2006
MS Geography (GIScience), San Diego State University, 2009
Critical GIScience, Urban Geographies, geovisualization/information vis., critical social theory, science studies, public policy, and not getting into an ‘infinite loop’ dissertation.
Email: burnsr77@gmail.com; rlburns@uw.edu
Website: http://students.washington.edu/rlburns/
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Tricia Ruiz: BS Geography and International Studies, California State University-Hayward race, inequality and education; spatial demography, historical and political geography
Email: truiz@u.washington.edu
Website: http://students.washington.edu/truiz/