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Susan Hardwick, Mentor
Geography

Bryan Ellis, McNair Scholar

Susan Hardwick received her Ph.D. in 1986 from the University of California, Davis, and joined the UO faculty in 2000. Currently Professor of Geography, she also directs the Department of Geography’s summer program for educators and the Graduate Group on Migration and Ethnicity. Professor Hardwick has been awarded a National Science Foundation grant to support research on refugees and immigrants in Oregon. Her recent publications include Mythic Galveston: Re-Inventing America’s Third Coast, Johns Hopkins University Press (2002); Regional Geography of North America: Environment, Landscape, Political Economy, and Culture (with Fred Shelley and Andrew Marcus), under contract with Prentice-Hall; “Humanizing the Technology Landscape Through a Collaborative Pedagogy,” The Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 24 (2000); and “Migration, Embedded Networks, and Social Capital: Toward Theorizing North American Ethnic Geography,””International Journal of Population Geography (2003).