Assistant Professor
Office Location: UH 112
Phone Number: (262) 472-1087
Email Address: kleinfem@uww.edu

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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

New Course: Geography of South and Southeast Asia (GEOGRPHY 361)

Asian Studies Minor

Asian Studies Courses for Fall

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
  • Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin - Whitewater, 2003-present.
  • 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.

SELECT AWARDS AND HONORS
  • 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.

PUBLICATIONS
  • "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.

SELECT PAPERS PRESENTED AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS
  • "Institutionalizing Caringscapes in the City: Identifying Victims of Human Trafficking in Milwaukee," to be presented at the 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.
METHODOLOGICAL TRAINING
  • Ethnographic techniques; Michael Burowoy's Extended Case Method.
  • Spatial analysis using geographic information systems and computer cartography.
  • Archival research.
COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES
  • "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.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION 
  • Association of American Geographers.
  • International Studies Association.
  • National Council for Geographic Education.