Associate Professor
Office Location: UH 113
Phone Number: (262) 472-1087
Email Address: kleinfem@uww.edu

INTERESTS Nationalism and Territorial Contest in South Asia Political-Economy and Gender in the Global South Human Trafficking in American Cities Human Rights Discourse and Place Humanitarian Space Feminist Geographies COURSES Geography and Gender Geography of East Asia Geography of South and Southeast Asia Global Perspectives Human Geography Political Geography World Regional Geography Asian Studies Minor

• Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin - Whitewater, 2009-present
• Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin - Whitewater, 2003-2009
• Instructor, University of Kentucky, 2000-2003.
• Reference Editor, History of Cartography Project, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1995-1998.
• Business Development, Eureka Cartography, Berkeley, CA, 1994-1995.

• Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant, National Science Foundation, BCS-0117822, 2001.
• Dissertation Research Grant, Association of American Geographers, 2001.
• Dissertation Year Fellowship, University of Kentucky, 2001-2002.
• Summer Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, University of Michigan, 2001.
• Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Grant in Children's Health, 2001.
• Haggin Fellow, University of Kentucky, 1998-1999.

• "The Political Unity of the Nonpolitical Child in Sri Lanka’s Armed Conflict,” Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Special Fifth Issue on Geographies of Peace and Armed Conflict (December 2009 forthcoming)
• "Misreading the Post-tsunami Political Landscape in Sri Lanka: The Myth of Humanitarian Space," Space and Polity,Vol. 11, No. 2 (August 2007), pp. 169 84.  
• "Destabilizing the Identity-Territory Nexus: Rights-Based Discourse in Sri Lanka's New Political Geography," GeoJournal, Vol. 64, No. 4 (December 2005), pp. 287-95.
• "Strategic Troping in Sri Lanka: September Eleventh and the Consolidation of Political Position," Geopolitics, Vol. 8, No. 3 (Autumn 2003), pp. 105-26.
• With Joe Sutliff-Sanders. "Childhood and Child Life: An Interview with Jo Boyden, Refugee Studies Programme, Oxford University." In DisClosure: A Journal of Social Theory 10 (2001), pp. 103-20.

• “Who are the Victims of Human Trafficking in Wisconsin?: A Geographic Analysis,” Wisconsin Statewide Refugee Conference, Appleton, Wisconsin, September 2008.
• “Multi-sited Practices of State and the Case of Human Trafficking,” Association of American Geographers, Boston, April 2008.
• "Institutionalizing Caringscapes in the City: Identifying Victims of Human Trafficking in Milwaukee," Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, April 2007.
• "Disaster Geopolitics in Sri Lanka: Failing to Separate Humanitarian Space from Political Space in the Joint Relief Mechanism (PTOMS)," Association of American Geographers, Chicago, March 2006.
• "Destabilizing the Identity-Territory Nexus: Discourses of Shame and Moral Fitness in Sri Lanka's New Political Geography," Association of American Geographers, Philadelphia, Denver, April 2005.
• "Visibility, Vilification, and Accumulation: The Discursive Utility of the Child in Sri Lanka's Reconstruction Politics," Association of American Geographers, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March; also presented at the AAG West Lakes Conference, Oshkosh, October 2004.
• Panelist, "Children's Geographies Beyond the Academy," Association of American Geographers, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 2004.
• "Scaling Up or Scaling Back? Negotiating Assistance for War-Affected Children in Sri Lanka," Association of American Geographers, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 2003.
• "The Child as Spatial Strategy: Spaces of Engagement and the Production of Humanitarian Space," Association of American Geographers, New York, New York, February 2001.
• Panelist, "Social Theory Roundtable: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Working with Children in the New Millennium," Children and Families 2000: Bridging Research and Practice, Lexington, Kentucky, December 2000.

• Ethnographic techniques; Michael Burowoy's Extended Case Method.
• Spatial analysis using geographic information systems and computer cartography.
• Archival research.

• President, Wisconsin Geographical Society, 2006 - present.
• Member, Human Trafficking Subcommittee, an advisory committee to the State of Wisconsin, October 2007 – present; Member of a working group developing a human trafficking core protocol for the state of Wisconsin, September 2008 – present.
• "Gender and Export-Processing Zones in China," Fairhaven Lecture Series Exploring China: Faculty Insights, Whitewater, Wisconsin, April 2006.
• Discussion Leader on "Global Poverty" for the Great Decisions Discussion Series, Fairhaven Retirement Community, May 2005.
• "Contextualizing the War on Terror," Presentation for University of Wisconsin- Whitewater International Education Week, Whitewater, Wisconsin, November 2004.
• "Humanitarian Spaces for Children During Times of War," Fairhaven Lecture Series: Exploring New UW-W Faculty Talent, Whitewater, Wisconsin, February 2004.

• Association of American Geographers.
• International Studies Association.
• National Council for Geographic Education.