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Geography & Environmental Studies

Emily SkopEmily Skop

Assistant Professor
Columbine 2021
719.255.3789
eskop@uccs.edu
curriculum vitae

 

Education:

  • PhD, Geography, Arizona State University, 2002
  • MA, Geography, Arizona State University, 1997
  • BA, Geography, University of Miami, 1995
 

Research Interests:

  • Population
  • Place
  • Race
  • Urban Culture
 

Research Projects:

  • Immigration, Racialization and Suburbanization in the U.S.
 

Courses Taught:

  • GES 199 Intro to Human
  • GES 461 Urban Geography
  • GES 462 Race, Ethnicity and Place
  • GES 463 Boom and Bust in US West
  • GES 473/573 Population Geography
  • GES 474 American Demographics
  • GES 478 Global Migration
 

Awards and Honors:

  • Honoraria for various presentations
  • Faculty Service Award 2007
 

Selected Publications:

  • Skop, Emily. Forthcoming. Saffron Suburbs: Lessons Learned from an Indian American Community. The Center for American Places.
  • Paul C. Adams and Emily Skop. 2008. The Gendering of Asian Indian Transnationalism on the Internet. Journal of Cultural Geography 25(2):115-136.
  • Skop, Emily and Tara Buentello. 2008. Austin: The New 21st Century Immigrant Metropolis. Book Chapter in Immigrant Gateway Cities, edited by Audrey Singer, Caroline Brettell, and Susan Hardwick. Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institute. 255-278.
  • Li, Wei and Emily Skop. 2007. Enclaves, Ethnoburbs, and New Patterns of Settlement among Asian Immigrants. Book Chapter in Contemporary Asian America: A Multidisciplinary Reader, Second Edition, edited by Min Zhou and James V. Gatewood. New York: New York University Press, 222-239.
  • Brian Gratton, Myron P Gutmann and Emily Skop. 2007. Immigrants, their Children, and Theories of Assimilation: Family Structure in the United States, 1880 to 1970. History of the Family 12(3): 203-222.
 

Outreach and Service:

  • Chair, Ethnic Geography Specialty Group AAG
 

The Department of Geography and Environmental Studies is located in Columbine Hall. Phone: 719.255.3016 Fax: 719.255.4066