- GIS | Health & Hazards Lab
- City and Community Studies Initiative
- Center for Ecology and Natural Resource Sustainability
Research Groups:
- Current Students
- Future Students
- alumni and friends
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Jennifer Mapes
Assistant Professor
In addition to being an enthusiastic travel-the-world, explore-my-backyard geographer, I am also an avid photographer & cartographer, graphic designer, and former newspaper reporter. As such, my research and teaching work towards finding a balance between communication of scientific knowledge to students and the creation of useful end products for the communities where I work.
My dissertation (University of Southern California, May 2009) examined the effects of global contemporary change in small towns, connecting theoretical understandings of place and space to on-the-ground outcomes. I spent nine months in seven towns in the American West, interviewing local residents and key decision-makers to learn how their towns experience and react to socio-economic and environmental change.
I use these experiences to help students to better understand the connection between the global and the local, and how to discuss and describe these topics in a digital world.
Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities
Selected Publications
“Landscapes of nostalgia: Place marketing and the cultural economy in the American small town.” In Cultural Political Economy of Small Cities, A. Lorentzen and B. van Heur, eds. Routledge (Regions and Cities). August 2011.
Mapes, J. and J. Wolch, “‘Living green’: The promise and pitfalls of new sustainable communities,” Journal of Urban Design, 16(1): 105-126. February 2011.
Wolch, J., J. Newell, M. Seymour, H. Bradbury, K. Reynolds, J. Mapes. “The forgotten and the future: Reclaiming back alleys for a sustainable city.” Environment and Planning A, 42(12) 2874 – 2896. December 2010.
“Landscapes of nostalgia: Place marketing and the cultural economy in the American small town.” In Cultural Political Economy of Small Cities, A. Lorentzen and B. van Heur, eds. Routledge (Regions and Cities). August 2011.
Mapes, J. and J. Wolch, “‘Living green’: The promise and pitfalls of new sustainable communities,” Journal of Urban Design, 16(1): 105-126. February 2011.
Wolch, J., J. Newell, M. Seymour, H. Bradbury, K. Reynolds, J. Mapes. “The forgotten and the future: Reclaiming back alleys for a sustainable city.” Environment and Planning A, 42(12) 2874 – 2896. December 2010.
Research Areas
- Urban Geography
- Community Planning
- Economic Geography
- Sustainable Development
OFFICE
Department of GeographyOFFICE HOURS
Tuesday & Thursday 2-5 p.m.
Office: 439 McGilvrey Hall
CONTACT INFO
Phone: 330-672-2045jmapes@kent.edu
COURSES TEACHING
Spring 2013- GEOG 22061 - 001 Human Geography
- HONR 40096 - 049 Individual Honors Work
- GEOG 40195 - 011 St : Fld Exp : Los Angeles Ca
- GEOG 44010 - 001 Geography Of Global Economy
- GEOG 50195 - 011 St : Fld Exp : Los Angeles Ca
- GEOG 54010 - 001 Geography Of Global Economy
- GEOG 70195 - 011 St : Fld Exp : Exp Los Angeles
- GEOG 74010 - 001 Geography Of Global Economy
- GEOG 22061 - 003 Human Geography
- GEOG 46092 - 001 Internship Geography And Plan
- GEOG 22061 - 001 Human Geography
- GEOG 34070 - 001 Economic Geography
- HONR 40099 - 024 Senior Honors Thesis / Project
- GEOG 40195 - 001 Special Topics In Geography
- GEOG 46092 - 001 Internship Geography And Plan
- GEOG 50195 - 001 Special Topics In Geography
- HIED 66492 - 002 Internship Hied Admin
- GEOG 70195 - 001 St : Community Landscapes
EXPERTISE
- Urban Geography
- Community Planning
- Small Towns in the U.S.
- Sustainable Development
