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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

2024 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers
Honolulu, HI (virtual)
Presentation: HyFlex in GIS Classes at the University of Illinois
Session Organizer / Chairperson: Foodscapes

2023 Annual Meeting of the West Lakes Division of the American Association of Geographers
DePaul University, Chicago, IL
Presentation: Chinese Restaurants and Neighborhood Change in New York City

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, IL
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

2010 17th Annual Mini-Conference on Critical Geography
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
UIUC GGIS 379: Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Fall 2023
UIUC GGIS 379 (online): Fall 2013, Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023
UIUC GGIS 403 (online): Spring 2021, Fall 2021
FSC GEO 221: Fall 2017, Spring 2018
FSC GIS 301: Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020
EWU GEOG 328: Winter 2017

Geographic Information Systems II
UIUC GGIS 380: Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024

Spatial Analysis / Geographic Statistics / R / Python
UIUC GGIS 371: Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Fall 2023
UIUC GGIS 224: Fall 2021
EWU GEOG 496: Fall 2016, Spring 2017
DU GEOG 2000: Fall 2015

Cartography
UIUC GEOG 473: Fall 2021
UIUC GEOG 473 (online): Fall 2020

The Digital Earth
FSC GEO 110: Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Fall 2019
DU GEOG 2010: Winter 2016
UIUC GEOG 105: Spring 2012 (TA for Julie Cidell)

Web Design / Web Mapping
EWU GEOG 427: Fall 2016
UIUC LAS 590: Summer 2012, Summer 2013, Summer 2014 (TA for Tim Offenstein)

Geography of Energy / Sustainability
FSC GEO 390: Fall 2017
EWU GEOG 317: Winter 2017
DU GEOG 2500: Fall 2015
DU GEOG 2700: Winter 2016

Introduction to Human Geography / World Geography
FSC GEO 211: Fall 2017
EWU GEOG 230: Fall 2016, Spring 2017
DU GEOG 2410: Spring 2016
UIUC GEOG 106: Spring 2013
UIUC GEOG 106: Fall 2011, Fall 2012 (TA for Ashwini Chhatre)
UIUC GEOG 101: Fall 2011, Spring 2012 (TA for Tom Bassett)

Physical Geography
DU GEOG 1266: 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)

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