Workshop: Ethical Spatial Analytics

Luis F. Alvarez Leon – Dartmouth College

Luis F. Alvarez Leon is an assistant professor of geography at Dartmouth College. He is a political economic geographer with substantive interests in geospatial data, media, and technologies. His work integrates the geographic, political, and regulatory dimensions of digital economies under capitalism with an emphasis on technologies that manage, represent, navigate, and commodify space. Ongoing research projects examine the geographic transformations surrounding the emergence of autonomous vehicles and the industrial and geopolitical reconfigurations resulting from the proliferation of small satellites.

Mia Bennett – University of Hong Kong

Mia M. Bennett is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Hong Kong. Through fieldwork and remote sensing, she researches the geopolitics of development in frontier spaces, namely the Arctic and along the more remote corridors of China’s Belt and Road Initiative. Current research projects include examining Indigenous attitudes to development in Alaska and Malaysia and conceptualizing an agenda for critical remote sensing. Mia also edits a long-running blog on the Arctic at cryopolitics.com.

Peter Rogerson – State University of New York at Buffalo

Peter A. Rogerson is SUNY Distinguished Professor in the Department of Geography at the University at Buffalo.  His interests are in the areas of population geography, demography, spatial analysis, and spatial statistics.  He also holds an adjunct appointment in the Department of Biostatistics. He is the author of Statistical Methods for Geography, now in its 5th edition.  He is also author of Spatial Statistical Methods for Geography, forthcoming from Sage Publications.

Renee Sieber – McGill University

Renée Sieber is a professor, jointly appointed between the Geography Department and the Bieler School of Environment at McGill University, in Montréal, Canada. She is also affiliated with McGill’s School of Computer Science and McGill’s Digital Humanities Working Group. Sieber works at the intersection of social theory and software architectures. She is best known for her research on Public Participation GIS/ Participatory GIS. Her varied research interests also include public engagement in climate modelling and weather-related citizen science, geospatial ontologies among Indigenous and First Nations Peoples and the adoption of new computational technologies in cities. She is a fellow of the American Association of Geographers and recipient of the lifetime achievement award in GIScience from the Canadian Association of Geographers. She recently concluded a $6.7 million CAN pan-Canadian project, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and partners, called Geothink, to investigate how citizens and cities interact via the geospatial web 2.0, crowdsourcing and open government data. She is currently researching the role of artificial intelligence in civic governance.

Jacqueline Vadjunec – Oklahoma State University 

Jacqueline Vadjunec is a professor in the Geography Department at Oklahoma State University.  Her research interests include the human dimensions of global environmental change, land system science, common property theory, natural resource management, cultural and political ecology, and mixed and participatory research methods. Her research centers on the adaptation and resilience of small farmer and extractivist households in the Americas, and has been funded by NSF, the USDA, and Fulbright. Jacqueline served as an NSF program officer from 2018-2020 for Geography and Spatial Sciences (GSS)/Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences (HEGs) as well as a variety of transdisplinary programs such as Navigating the New Arctic (NNA), Dynamics of Integrated Socio-Environmental Systems (CNH2/DISES), Innovations at the Nexus of Food, Energy, and Water (INFEWS), Coastlines and People (CoPe), and Signals in the Soil (SiTs).