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Faculty
The Urban Studies Concentration is led by a steering committee that reflects the interdisciplinary nature of Urban Studies.
Ernesto Capello
ecapello@macalester.edu
Assistant Professor of History, teaches courses in Latin American
history, cultural history and urban history. His research focuses
on the cultural history of modern Latin America with a special emphasis
on the intersections between space and memory, especially in Quito,
Ecuador. He has authored several articles on this subject and is
at present completing a book manuscript concerning the role that
"History" played in crafting modern identities in Quito.
Frederik Green
fgreen@macalester.edu
Frederik Green, assistant professor in the department of Asian Languages and Cultures, teaches classes on Chinese literature and film, translation, and Chinese language. His research interests include urban modernism of the Republican period, post-war Hong Kong literature, and Sino-Japanese relations of the early 20th century. He is currently working on a book manuscript on modernist literature from Shanghai and Hong Kong in the context of literary Romanticism.
Casey Jarrin
cjarrin@macalester.edu
Assistant Professor of English, teaches courses in diasporic literary/visual
culture and contemporary urban transformations (Diasporic London;
Modernist Apocalypse), international film (Cinema of the City; Film
Noir; Gangster Cinema), working-class studies/subcultural theory
(British Youth Subcultures), the ethics and aesthetics of violence,
and cultural legacies of the Vietnam War. She co-organizes the Violence
Studies working group with Macalester colleague Olga Gonzalez and
is faculty advisor to the ACM London/Florence study abroad program.
She has published work in Eire-Ireland and Geographies and Genders
and is now completing a book on 20th-century Irish prison cultures:
Confessional Enactments: Penitents, Prisoners, and Embodiment in
Irish Literary and Visual Culture.
Ruthanne Kurth-Schai
kurthschai@macalester.edu
Ruthanne Kurth-Schai, professor and chair of Educational Studies,
teaches courses on social, philosophical, and political dimensions
of education. Her research interests include philosophical and policy
analyses centered on the role of public education in addressing
social justice, environmental, and spiritual issues as well as contemporary
reform efforts in the United States and abroad aimed at effective
response to the challenges posed by globalization. Her recent book,
Re-envisioning Education & Democracy, is co-authored with Charles
R. Green.
David Lanegran
lanegran@macalester.edu
David Lanegran, John S. Holl professor of Geography and department
chair, teaches courses in human and urban geography. His interests
have led to extensive studies and comparisons of urban planning
processes around the world. He has published several books, including
Minnesota on the Map, A Historical Atlas, and articles on urban
and cultural geography. He is a past president of the National Council
for Geographic Education (1998) and serves as a consultant to the
College Board for the advanced placement human geography test.
Molly Olsen
molsen@macalester.edu
Molly Olsen, associate professor of Hispanic and Latin American Studies, teaches courses on Latin American and Spanish literature and culture and also Spanish language. She specializes in Trans-Atlantic literatures of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, as well as Afro-Caribbean texts of the colonial and contemporary periods. She is currently working on street performance culture in New Orleans with special attention to matters of race, class and space in an increasingly neoliberal context
Laura Smith
smithl@macalester.edu
Laura Smith, assistant professor of Geography, teaches Metro Analysis,
Urban GIS, and a senior research seminar in Transportation Geography,
as well as Statistical Research Methods in Geography and Regional
Geography of the U.S. and Canada. Her most recent research projects
have focused on the patterns and characteristics of mortgage foreclosures
in the Twin Cities and on issues of American Indian land ownership
and development in Minnesota.
Daniel Trudeau, Director
trudeau@macalester.edu
Daniel Trudeau, assistant professor of Geography and director of
the Urban Studies concentration, teaches Urban Social Geography,
Qualitative Methods, Political Geography, Introduction to Urban
Studies and Cities of the 21st Century. His recent research projects
include analyzing the role of nonprofit organizations in immigrant
integration, the geographical implications of land-use politics
in urbanizing communities, and the geography of the New Urbanism.
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