Education

Ph.D., Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin–Madison

GIS Certificate Program, University of Wisconsin–Madison

M.S., Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin–Madison

B.A., Department of Anthropology, Beloit College

Research Areas

Landscape and Material Culture Studies; Political, Cultural, and Historical Ecology; Geoarchaeology; History of Cartography; Cartography & GIS.

Current Research Project

Advancing Sustainable Menominee Food Systems (2022–2024). This multi-year project, awarded through the College of the Menominee Nation from the USDA NIFA program (UW–Madison sub-award MSN235467), features a collaborative outreach program for Menominee Nation high school and college students. Three UW–Madison undergraduate geography students are also serving as field and/or laboratory technicians on this grant. The research concerns the history of agriculture and land-use on the Menominee Reservation.

Courses Taught (Selected)

Geog 578: GIS Applications

Geog 565: Geography Undergraduate Colloquium

Geog 370: Introduction to Cartography

Geog 345: Caring for Nature in Native North America

Geog 342: Geography of Wisconsin

Geog 339: Environmental Conservation

Geog 170: Our Digital Globe

Geog 139: Global Environmental Issues

Geog 127: Physical Systems of the Environment

Geog 101: Introduction to Human Geography

Teaching Awards

2020 UW Office of the Provost Mentor Award for Undergraduate Research, Scholarly and Creative Activities

2019 (Fall) Award Recipient from the Honored Instructors Program, University Housing Academic Initiatives

2018 (Fall) Award Recipient from the Honored Instructors Program, University Housing Academic Initiatives

2018 (Spring) Award Recipient from the Honored Instructors Program, University Housing Academic Initiatives

2017 (Spring) Award Recipient from the Honored Instructors Program, University Housing Academic Initiatives

2017 (Fall) Award Recipient from the Honored Instructors Program, University Housing Academic Initiatives

2015 (Spring) Award Recipient from the Honored Instructors Program, University Housing Academic Initiatives

2005–2006 Commendation Letter for Meritorious Teaching, Department of Geography and Geology, University of Wisconsin System

2004–2005 Commendation Letter for Meritorious Teaching, Department of Geography and Geology, University of Wisconsin System

Publications (Selected)

Gartner, W. G., Arzigian, C., & Picard, J. (In press). Agricultural origins, dispersals, and landscapes in woodland period Wisconsin (ca 500 BC – AD 1300). The Woodland tradition in Wisconsin, a special issue of The Wisconsin Archeologist.

Gartner, W. G. (2019). The cartographic impulse in 19th century Kiowa art. In C. Yinong (Ed.), Proceedings of Frontier Forum on Cartographic History & International Seminar on The History of Cartography Translation Project. Vol. 1, pp. 423–451. Yunnan University for the Institute for History, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

Gartner, W. G. (2011).  An image to carry the world within it: Performance cartography and the Skidi star chart. In M. Brückner (Ed.), Early American cartographies. University of North Carolina Press and Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, pp. 169–246.

Holliday, V. T., & Gartner, W. G. (2007). Methods of soil P analysis in archaeology. Journal of Archaeological Science, 34, 301–333.

Gartner, W. G. (2000). The Gottschall strata. In R. J. Salzer & G. Rajnovich, The Gottschall Rockshelter: An archaeological mystery. Prairie Smoke Press, pp. 73–77.

Gartner, W. G. (1999). Late Woodland landscapes of Wisconsin: Ridged fields, effigy mounds, and territoriality. Antiquity, 73(281), 671–683.

Gartner, W. G. (1998). Mapmaking in the Central Andes. In D. Woodward & G.M. Lewis (Eds.), The history of cartography: Cartography in the traditional African, American, Arctic, Australian, and Pacific societies, 2(3). University of Chicago Press, pp. 257–300.

Gartner, W. G. (1997). Four worlds without an Eden: Pre-Columbian peoples and the Wisconsin landscape. In R. Ostergren & T. Vale (Eds.), Wisconsin land and life. University of Wisconsin Press, pp. 331–352.

Gartner, W. G. (1997). Pre-Columbian metallurgy in the Colca Valley of Peru. In D. E. Shea (Ed.), Achoma archaeology: A study of terrace irrigation in Peru. Museums of Beloit College, Vol. 1(1), pp. 75–90.