Category: Publications
Professor Jack Williams Supports Synthesis Center for Paleoenvironmental Records of Extreme Events
In April 2026, Professor Jack Williams joined forces with scientists and academics from across the country to present an important new report from the National…
Jude Leimer Talks Legacy & the History of Cartography
The multi-volume History of Cartography series attempts a unique approach on maps, examining how their production and consumption reflects society and cultural values through the…
Cartography Lab Design Challenge Goes Worldwide
For over a decade, the UW Cartography Lab has planned and hosted a yearly Design Challenge. Always a highlight of the department’s year, the Design…
A productive spring & summer for Geography’s graduate students
Graduate students in the UW Geography Department have been busier than ever with field research, writing publications, obtaining exciting new positions, giving presentations, and winning…
2018-19 Graduate Student Publications
Geography graduate students publish in a wide range of academic and non-academic venues from Transactions in GIS to GeoHumanities. To celebrate the diversity of the discipline…
PhD Student Meghan Kelly Publishes in Rolling Stone Magazine
It’s been an eventful summer in the UW–Madison Cartography Lab! On top of our usual summer contract work, a Cart Lab alumnus put us in…
2017 Graduate Student Publications
Geography graduate students publish in a wide range of academic and non-academic venues from Computational Culture: A Journal of Software Studies to Ephemera: Theory and…
Doeppers publishes new book
Congratulations to Dr. Dan Doeppers (Emeritus Professor of Geography and Southeast Asian Studies) for the publication of his landmark book, Feeding Manila in Peace and War, 1850–1945, now…
Denevan co-authors biography of Carl Sauer
Professor emeritus Bill Denevan recently co-authored a biography of Carl O. Sauer. This is the first book-length biography of the famous geographer and influential scholar. To Pass on a Good Earth: The…
As the river rises: Cahokia’s emergence and decline linked to Mississippi River flooding
by Kelly Tyrell, UW Communications As with rivers, civilizations across the world rise and fall. Sometimes, the rise and fall of rivers has something to…
