Chris Lukinbeal

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Technical Associate Professor and MAS-GIS Program Director

COOR 5642
(480) 727-8198

Additional
Affiliation(s):

Affiliate Faculty: School of Justice and Social Inquiry, Environmental Social Sciences
Graduate Faculty: School of Sustainability, Women and Gender Studies

Education:

2000 - Ph.D. (Geography) San Diego State University/University of California
1995 - M.A. (Geography) California State University
1992 - B.S. (Geography) California State University

Research Interests:

Urban cultural, media, GIScience

Research Activities:

Aether: The Journal of Media Geography (Co-Editor and Founder) www.aetherjournal.org

Media Geography @ Mainz Book Series with Franz Stiener Verlag (Series Editor)

Comparative Civic and Place Engagement in Three Latino Enclave Neighborhoods in Transition [an interdisciplinary research project focused on inner-city neighborhoods in Chicago, Miami and Phoenix, NSF Human and Social Dynamics; Co-PI; $600,000]

Awards and Honors:

2006 - Arizona Board of Regents, Learner Centered Education Grant; PI; $96,569. Tri-University grant, Mediated Geographies: Critical Pedagogy and Geographic Education .

2006 - National Endowment for the Humanities: Interpreting America’s Historic Places Planning Grant; Co-PI; $44,775. Interpreting America’s Historic Places: Nature, Culture, and History at the Grand Canyon

2006 - Arizona Humanities Council; Co-PI; $3,025. Garfield Neighbors

2006 - Southwest Consortium for Environmental Research and Policy; Co-PI; $79,468. The First Step Towards an Integrated Arizona/Sonora Transborder GIS: Land Use and Land Cover Data Development

2005 - RBF Consulting (www.rbf.com), GIS Contract; PI; $34,834. GIS-GPS database collection, formation and inventory for water infrastructure in the city of Phoenix.

2002 - Journal of Geography Award for Best Content Article. "Teaching Historical Geographies of American Film Production" 101(6): 250-260, Nov/Dec 2002.

2003 - Above and Beyond Award. Sponsored Programs and Research, Southern Connecticut State University. Award given for the planning, implementation and creation of SCSU’s first Geospatial Technology Laboratory. Only one award given out per year to faculty.

2000 - California Geographical Society's Certificate of Appreciation.

Selected Publications:

Note: For PDFs of all publications, see Dr. Lukinbeal's personal web page

Book

Lukinbeal, C. and S. Zimmermann, eds. 2008. The Geography of Cinema – a Cinematic World. Stuttgart: Franz Stiener Verlag.

Journal Articles

Lukinbeal, C., J. Craine, and J. Dittmer. 2007. Aether: A Prospectus. Aether: The Journal of Media Geography, 1(1): 1-3.

Lukinbeal, C. and C. Allen. 2007. Virtual Egalitarianism, Critical Pedagogy, and Geographic Education. Journal of Geography, 106(5): 199 - 205.

Lukinbeal, C., C. B. Kennedy, J. P. Jones III, J. Finn, K. A. Woodward, D. Nelson, Z. A. Grant, N. Antonopolis, A. Palos, and C. Atkinson-Palombo. 2007. Mediated Geographies: Critical Pedagogy and Geographic Education. Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers, 69:31-44.

Lukinbeal, C. and S. Zimmermann. 2006. Film Geography: A new subfield. Erdkunde, 60(4): 315-326.

Lukinbeal, C. 2006. Runaway Hollywood: Cold Mountain Romania. Erdkunde, 60(4): 337-345, 2006.

Lukinbeal, C. 2005. Cinematic Landscapes. Journal of Cultural Geography, 23(1): 3-22.

Book Chapters

Lukinbeal, C., R. Kitchin, and N. Thrift, N., eds. 2008. Film. International Encyclopaedia of Human Geography. Elsevier Press: Oxford.

Finn, J., C. Lukinbeal, and T. Bell, eds. (In press). Musical Cartographies: Ritmos de los Barrios de la Habana. Turn Up the Volume: New Essays in Music Geography.

Courses Taught:

GCU361 - Urban Geography
GCU591 - Landscape
GPH601 - Introduction to GIS Theory and Practice
GPH602 - Intermediate GIS Theory and Practice
GPH606 - GIS Project Presentation