Geography

Publications

Minn, Michael, Sylvia Brady, Julie Cidell, Keith Ratner, and Andrew Goetz. 2021.
Shared-use rail corridors: A comparison of institutional perspectives in the United States and the European Union.
Transport Reviews.
DOI: 10.1080/01441647.2021.2003473

Minn, Michael. 2019.
Contested power: American long-distance passenger rail and the ambiguities of energy intensity analysis.
Sustainability 11 (4).
DOI: 10.3390/su11041200

Cutts, Bethany B. and Michael Minn. 2018.
Dead grass: Foreclosure and the production of space in Maricopa County, Arizona.
Urban Planning 3 (3).
DOI: 10.17645/up.v3i3.1352

Minn, Michael. 2016.
American long-distance locomobility and the spaces of actor-network theory.
Social Sciences 5 (1), 14.
DOI: 10.3390/socsci5010014

Minn, Michael. 2016.
Amtrak and Carmelit. In Minicars, Maglevs, and Mopeds: Modern Modes of Transportation Around the World, ed. Selima Sultana and Joe Weber, 12 - 14 and 73 - 75. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO

Minn, Michael, Bethany B. Cutts, Jonathan A. Greenberg, Nathan Pavlovic, Jennifer M. Fraterrigo, and V. Kelly Turner. 2015.
Detection of foreclosure-related landscape management changes using Landsat.
Applied Geography 62, 217 - 224.
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2015.04.023

Daniel C. Miller, Michael Minn and Brice Sinsin. 2015.
The importance of national political context to the impacts of international conservation aid: evidence from the W National Parks of Benin and Niger.
Environmental Research Letters 10 (11), 115001.
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/10/11/115001

Minn, Michael. 2015.
Review: The New York Nobody Knows: Walking 6,000 Miles in the City.
Geographical Review 105 (1), 120 - 123.
DOI: 10.1111/j.1931-0846.2014.12057.x

Minn, Michael. 2013.
The political economy of high speed rail in the United States.
Mobilities 8 (2), 185 - 200.
DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2012.655973

Minn, Michael. 2012.
The 1967 Midwest High Speed Rail Transit Conference: Lessons for 2012.
The Journal of Transport Geography 22, 297 - 299.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2012.01.027

van de Leur, Walter (photography only). 2023.
Nine naked muses: Memoralizing Ellington.
in Jazz and Death, Routledge.
DOI 10.4324/9781315148540

Wellman, Barry (photography only). 2004.
Connecting communities: On and offline.
Contexts 3 (4), 22 - 28.
DOI: 10.1525/ctx.2004.3.4.22

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Conference Presentations

2023 Illinois GIS Association Regional Meeting
DePaul University, Chicago, IL
Organizer and Moderator: GIS Workforce Development Panel: Challenges, Trends, and Opportunities

2023 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers
Denver, CO (virtual)
Presentation: HyFlex in GIS Classes at the University of Illinois
Session Organizer / Chairperson: Transit Landscapes

2022 Annual Meeting of the West Lakes Division of the American Association of Geographers
Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville
Presentation: HyFlex in GIS Classes at the University of Illinois

2022 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers
Virtual meeting due to COVID-19
Session Organizer / Chairperson: Energy Transitions (two sessions), Food and the City
Session Organizer / Panelist: High-Speed Rail: Promise and Peril, Ten Years Later

2021 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers
Virtual meeting due to COVID-19
Presentation: Training Geospatial Application Developers: Gaps and Questions (co-authored with Xu Zhang)
Session Organizer / Chairperson: Spaces of Education (two sessions), Transit Landscapes, Energy Transitions

2020 Annual Meeting of the West Lakes Division of the American Association of Geographers
Virtual meeting due to COVID-19
Presentation: Training Geospatial Application Developers: Gaps and Questions (co-authored with Xu Zhang)

2020 QGIS North America
Virtual conference due to COVID-19
Presentation: Advancements in Geocoding: Integrating the MMQGIS plugin with New York State’s Authoritative Address Data
Co-presented with Scott Geis, NYS GIS Program Office

2020 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers
Virtual meeting due to COVID-19
Paper: The Geography of Geography: Spatial Insights From the AAG Guide to Geography Programs In The Americas
Session Organizer / Chairperson: Spaces of Education

2019 Annual Meeting of the Middle States Division of the American Association of Geographers
Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA
Paper: The Geography of Geography: Spatial Insights From the AAG Guide to Geography Programs In The Americas

2019 American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting
Washington, DC
Paper: Absolute, Abstract, and Differential Space: A Lefebvrian Framework for Evaluating Praxis
Poster: Got GIS Skills? GIS and the Workforce Ready Student
Session Organizer / Chairperson: Energy Transitions (2 sessions), Rail Landscapes, Urban Futures

2018 Annual Meeting of the Middle States Division of the American Association of Geographers
Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ
Paper: Absolute, Abstract, and Differential Space: A Lefebvrian Framework for Evaluating Praxis

25th Annual Critical Geography Conference (2018)
Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
Paper: Absolute, Abstract, and Differential Space: A Lefebvrian Framework for Evaluating Praxis

2018 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers
New Orleans, LA
Poster: Mortgages and Maintenance: Characteristics of Greenness Change in an Urban Desert Landscape
Session Organizer / Chairperson: Energy Transitions (2 sessions), Transit Landscapes (2 sessions)

2017 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers
Boston, MA
Paper / Session Organizer / Chairperson: Case Studies in Passenger Rail and Freight Rail Partnerships (Final Report)
Session Organizer / Chairperson: Energy Transitions (2 sessions), Hydroscapes (2 sessions)

2016 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers
San Francisco, CA
Paper: Case Studies in Passenger Rail and Freight Rail Partnerships (Preliminary Report)
Session Organizer / Chairperson: Energy Transitions (3 sessions), Rail Landscapes (2 sessions)
Coordinator: High Speed Rail in California: Progress and Prospect

2015 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers
Chicago Illinois
Paper: Residential Foreclosure and the Production of Space in Phoenix
Session Organizer / Chairperson: Energy Transitions (4 sessions), Transit Landscapes (2 sessions), Rail Landscapes

21st Annual Critical Geography Conference (2014)
Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
Paper: Residential Foreclosure and the Production of Space in Phoenix

2014 Joint Meeting of the West and East Lakes Divisions of the Association of American Geographers
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, 2014
Paper: Detection of Foreclosure-related Landscape Management Changes Using Landsat

2014 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers
Tampa, FL
Paper: Contested Power: American Long-Distance Passenger Rail and the Ambiguities of Energy Intensity Analysis
Session Organizer / Chairperson: Rail Landscapes, Energy Transitions (4 sessions)

2013 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers
Los Angeles, CA
Paper: American Passenger Rail Network Durability and the Spaces of Actor-Network Theory
Session Organizer / Chairperson: High-Speed Rail - Development, Integration and Crisis, Rail Landscapes (3 sessions), Models of Online Learning: What's Old, What's New?

2012 Joint Meeting of the West and East Lakes Divisions of the Association of American Geographers
Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL
Paper: American Passenger Rail Network Durability and the Spaces of Actor-Network Theory

2012 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers
New York, NY
Paper: Why Doesn't It Work Here? Geographic Questions about Passenger Rail in the United States
Session Organizer: High Speed Rail in America: Promise and Peril

2011 Annual Meeting of the West Lakes Division of the Association of American Geographers
DePaul University, Chicago, IL
Paper: The 1967 Midwest High Speed Rail Transit Conference: Lessons for 2012

2011 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers
Seattle, WA
Paper: The Geography of Chinese Restaurants in New York City

17th Annual Mini-Conference on Critical Geography (2010)
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
Paper: Theoretical Perspectives on High Speed Rail in the United States

Employment

The University of Illinois
Urbana, IL
Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science
Teaching Assistant Professor
9/2020 to Present

Farmingdale State College
Farmingdale, NY
Department of History, Politics, and Geography
Assistant Professor
9/2017 to 9/2020

Eastern Washington University
Cheney, WA
Department of Geography and Anthropology
Assistant Professor
9/2016 to 6/2017

The University of Denver
Denver, CO
Department of Geography and the Environment
Visiting Assistant Professor
9/2015 - 6/2016

The University of Illinois
Urbana, IL
Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences
Postdoctoral Research Associate
8/2014 - 6/2015

The University of Illinois
Urbana, IL
Department of Geography and Geographic Information Systems
Teaching Assistant / Research Assistant
8/2010 - 8/2014

Classes Taught

Introduction to Geographic Information Systems
UofI Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023 (online);
FSC Spring 2018, Fall 2017; EWU Spring 2017; UofI Fall 2013

Geographic Information Systems II
UofI Fall 2022, Spring 2023

Spatial Analysis / Geographic Statistics / R
UofI Spring 2022, Fall 2022;
EWU Spring 2016; DU Fall 2015

Cartography
UofI Fall 2020, Fall 2021

GIScience
UofI Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Spring 2022
FSC Fall 2018 - Spring 2020

The Digital Earth
FSC Spring 2018, Fall 2017; DU Spring 2016; UofI Spring 2012 (Lab)

Web Design / Web Mapping
EWU Fall 2016; UofI (TA) Summer 2012, 2013, 2014

Geography of Energy / Sustainability
FSC Fall 2017; EWU Spring 2017; DU Spring 2016, Fall 2015

Introduction to Human Geography / World Geography
FSC Fall 2017; EWU Spring 2017, Fall 2016; DU Spring 2016;
UofI Spring 2013, Fall 2012 (TA), Spring 2012 (TA), Fall 2011 (TA)

Physical Geography
DU Spring 2016

Education

The University of Illinois, Urbana, IL
PhD in Geography (2014)
Dissertation: The Energy Futures of Long-Distance Intercity Passenger Rail in the United States
(Advisor: Julie Cidell)

Hunter College / CUNY, New York, NY
Master of Arts in Geography
Advanced Certificate - Geographic Information Systems (2010)
Thesis: TRAMM: Using Transit Feed Information To Visualize Transportation Poverty
(Advisor: Jochen Albrecht)

American Musical and Dramatic Academy, New York, NY
Integrated Program Certificate (1993)

North Texas State (UNT), Denton, TX
Master of Science in Computer Science (1987)
Graduate Project: SCORE - A Music Notation Editor
(Advisor: Denis Conrady)

North Texas State (UNT), Denton TX
Bachelor of Music in Music Education (1986)

Service

AAG Transportation Specialty Group webmaster and ex officio board member

Organizer and chair of numerous sessions at AAG regional and annual meetings

U of I GGIS Professional Science Masters degree advisor

U of I GGIS assistant undergraduate advisor

U of I GGIS Gamma Theta Upsilon faculty advisor

U of I SESE school curriculum committee

U of I Global Studies scholarship committee

Numerous faculty search committees at U of I, FSC, EWU, and DU

Chairperson of the FSC campus-wide curriculum committee

FSC Department of Science, Technology, and Society student advisor

FSC Department of History, Politics, and Geography tutor and tutoring coordinator

FSC Department of History, Politics, and Geography self-study committee

FSC Department of History, Politics, and Geography curriculum committee chairperson

Eastern Washington University course and program approval committee

Eastern Washington University sustainability degree focus group

U of I GIS Club graduate student advisor

U of I Geography Graduate Student Organization treasurer

Projects

Mapping New Philadelphia, IL (2020)

Passenger Rail and Freight Rail Partnerships (2016)

Foreclosure as an Intervention in Residential Landscape Management (2015)

Mapping the Outcomes of Urban Sustainability Policies to Determine Spatial Equity (2014)

The 1967 Midwest High Speed Rail Transit Conference (2012)

What if Abraham Lincoln Had Been A Critical Theorist? (2011)

The Geography of Chinese Restaurants in New York City (2010)

History and Future of the North Shore Rail Line on Staten Island (2009)

Energy Use in American Food Production (2009)

Fossil Fuel Energy Use for Meat in New York City (2009)