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Wen Lin
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Geography
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Phone: 414-229-5818
Email: wenlin@uwm.edu
Curriculum vitae                                                                                                                                                                                    

Education Background:

·         2002-present: Ph.D. candidate, Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee, USA

·         1998-2002: B.S., Department of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, China

·         1999-2002: B.S.(minor), China Center for Economic Research, Peking University, China

Research Interests:

·         Geographic Information Science

·         GIS and Society

·         Urban Geography

Publications:

·         Lin, W., forthcoming, “GIS Development in China’s Urban Governance: A Case Study of Shenzhen.” Transactions in GIS

·         Lin, W. and R. Ghose. 2008. “Complexities in Sustainable Provision of GIS for Urban Grassroots Organizations.” Cartographica, Vol. 43(1), 31-44

·         Book Review of Remaking Chinese Urban Form: Modernity, Scarcity and Space, 1949-2005 by Duanfang Lu. Urban Geography, Vol. 29(2), 2008, 187-188

Work In Progress:

·         Lin, W. and R. Ghose, “Social Constructions of GIS in China’s Changing Urban Governance: The Case of Shenzhen”

·         Roy, P., Heynen, N., and W. Lin, “How the Politics of Private Property Produce Urban Forest Inequality: A Political Ecology Approach”

Conferences:

      Paper Presentations

·         Lin, W., 2008, “Digitizing the Dragonhead, Geo-coding the Urban Landscape: Investigating the Role of GIS in China’s Changing Urban Governance”, 104th AAG Annual Meeting of the AAG, Boston, MA, April 15-19.

·         Lin, W., 2007, “Constructing E-governance in Urban China: Strategies and Practices”, The Second Global Conference on Economic Geography, Beijing, June 25-28.

·         Lin, W., 2007, “Fieldwork: Exploring GIS Construction in a Non-Western World through Qualitative Methods”, 103rd Annual Meeting of the AAG, San Francisco, CA, April 17-21.

·         Lin, W., 2006, “GIS Construction in China’s Changing Urban Governance: The Case of Shenzhen”, 13th Annual Mini-Conference on Critical Human Geography, Columbus, OH, Ohio State University, October 13-14.

·         Lin, W. and Ghose, R., 2006, “Complexities in Spatial Knowledge Construction in Urban Community Organizations”, 102nd Annual Meeting of the AAG, Chicago, IL, March 7-11.

·         Lin, W. and Ghose, R., 2005, “Investigating GIS Provision for Urban Grassroots Community Organizations - the Role of Politics of Scale and Scaled Networks”, 101st Annual Meeting of the AAG, Denver, CO, April 5-9.

·         Lin, W. and Ghose, R., 2004, “Scale and Networks in Collaborative GIS Provision for Urban Grassroots Community Organizations - A Case Study in Milwaukee”, 11th Annual Mini-Conference on Critical Human Geography, Terre Haute, IN, Indiana State University, October 1-2.

·         Lin, W. and Heynen, N., 2004, “The Social Production of Urban Environmental Injustice: Thinking and Acting on the City”, 100th Annual meeting of the AAG, Philadelphia, PA, March 14-19. 

      Panel Presentations

·         “Expecting the Unexpected: Negotiating International Field Research in Graduate School”, 103rd Annual Meeting of the AAG, San Francisco, CA, April 17-21, 2007

·         “Preparing for Graduate School”, 102nd Annual Meeting of the AAG, Chicago, IL, March 7-11, 2006.

Assistantships:

·         08/06-05/07, Lecturer of GEOG 110 - The World: Peoples and Regions.

·         08/04-05/05, Teaching Assistant of GEOG 215 - Introduction to Geographic Information Science.

·         09/03-05/04, Project Assistant of Prof. M. Schwartz.

·         09/02-08/03, Project Assistant of Prof. N. Heynen.

Awards and Grants:

·         AAG Urban Geography Specialty Group Travel Award, 2008

·         Dissertation Fellowship, UWM Graduate School, 2007-2008

·         Outstanding Service Special Mention, UWM Geography, 2006-2007; 2007-2008

·         AAG Dissertation Grant, 2006

·         Graduate School Fellowship, UWM, 2005- 2006

·         Third Place, Student GIS Project Competition, UWM, 2005

·         Graduate School Travel Awards, UWM, 2005

·         Mary Jo Read Travel Fund, UWM, 2004-2008

·         Mary Jo Read Scholarship, UWM, 2002-2003, 2004-2005, 2006-2007

·         Xi Yue Scholarship, Peking University, 1998-1999

Service:

·         2008, Reviewed a research article for Built Environment

·         2008, Reviewed a research article for Eurasian Geography and Economics

·         2008, Member of Search Committee for Associate Dean of Students, UWM

·         2007, Co-organizer (with Falguni Mukherjee) of two paper sessions on “Critical GIS and Urban Governance” for the 2008 AAG annual meeting

·         2007, Volunteer for the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Annual Conference, Milwaukee

·         2007, Member of the Colloquium Committee, UWM Geography

·         2006, Workshop Assistant for the UWM GIS Day

·         2006-2007, Assistant Coordinator for the Common Ground Conference

·         2004-2005, Student Representative at the Graduate Student Travel Awards panel, Graduate School, UWM

·         2003-2007, Assistant for Geography Department Open House, UWM

·         2003-2004, Graduate Student Representative, UWM Geography

Internships:

·         March 2006-August 2006, Project Coordinator at the Shenzhen Planning and Land Resource Information Center, Shenzhen Planning Bureau, China

·         Summer 2004, GIS assistant (committed 200 hours) at the Nonprofit Center of Milwaukee - Neighborhood Data Center program

Class Projects:

·         Internet GIS: A Prototype American Geographical Society Library (AGSL) Orthoviewer, Spring 2005

·         Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis in the Study of Tuberculosit Incidences--A Case Study of Milwaukee County, Fall 2004

·         Collaborative GIS Provision for Urban Grassroots Community Organizations in Milwaukee (a report of GIS volunteer internship at the Data Center Program of Nonprofit Center in Milwaukee), Summer 2004

·         The Creative Class in Riverwest Neighborhood, Milwaukee--A Preliminary Exploration, Spring 2004

·         An Assessment of Transit System Efficiency Using The Location Set Covering Problem (LSCP)--A Case Study of Columbus, Ohio, Fall 2003

·         Identifying Optimal Locations for Community Based Environmental Education Centers (a group project with Peter Strand and Jayoung Cho), Fall 2003

·         Research proposal: Towards a place identity, a case study of Chinese overseas students in Milwaukee, Spring 2003

Professional Memberships:

·         2003-present, the Association of American Geographers (AAG)

·         2004-present, the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA)

Hobbies:

·         Music

·         Sports

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