Susan M. Walcott

Associate Professor

Education:
Ph.D. Geography, Indiana University, Bloomington, 1995

Research Interests: Urban, Economic, East Asia

Susan Walcott grew up in southern California, but lived in many regions of the United States as well as Taiwan. She received a bachelor's degree in history from Swarthmore College, including a year in the Critical Languages Program at Princeton University, a Master's in history from Rutgers University, a Ph.D. in geography at Indiana University, and a post-doc at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis' urban research institute.

Her academic interests focus on regional economic development based on high technology industrial clusters such as the life science industry, and urban growth coalitions. Regional study areas have been the American Midwest, Southern California, Atlanta MSA, China and India. She has published articles in The Professional Geographer, Urban Geography, Environment & Planning, Growth & Change, Asian Geographer, Southeastern Geographer, and Journal of Cultural Geography on the pharmaceutical industry, high tech clusters in Atlanta & Georgia, the tea industry, privatization of a high tech military base, Buford Highway, land use change in Shanghai, and numerous articles and a book on science parks in China, as well as several book chapters. She offers courses in economic geography, the geography of East Asia, location analysis, and a seminar on globalization. She is the Director of the Asian Studies Center at Georgia State University.

Courses Taught (click for sample syllabi) :

• G1101: Intro to Human Geography/World Regional
• G4404/6606: Advanced Regional Geography: Geography of East Asia
• G4762/6762 Economic Geography
• G4764/6764: Urban Geography
• G4780/6780: Geography of China
• G8010: Seminar in Urban-Economic Geography
• G8001 Methods of Geographic Research
  

Recent publications:

Book:

• "Globalizing Georgia: Atlanta Ethnicity Atlas and Multicultural Directory of Georgia 2003-2004" (with D. Duchon, E. Hallisey Hendrix, J. Kart). 2003. CARA Publications.
  
  

• Chinese Science and Industrial Technology Parks. September 2003. Aldershot, England: Ashgate Publishing Limited.

• Book Chapters:

• "The Urban South Through Geographer's Eyes, 1970-2000". In S. Brunn and J.O. Wheeler, eds., Contributions of the South to American Geography. Bellwether Press, (forthcoming 2004).

• "Modeling Space for Regional Regeneration: High-tech Districts in China". In D. Jannell, B. Warf, and K. Hansen, eds., WorldMinds: Geographical Perspectives on 100 Problems. Association of American Geographers (forthcoming 2004).

• "Science Parks as Magnets for Global Capital: Locating High-Tech Growth Engines in Metropolitan Shanghai", for edited volume, Globalization and Third World Development. Routledge Press.

• "Birthing Biotech: Agglomerations in San Diego and Atlanta", 2002. In R. McNaughton and M. Green, eds., Global Competition and Local Networks, pp. 148-70, Aldershot, UK, Ashgate Press.
  

• Articles in Refereed Journals:

• "Xi'an as an Inner China Development Model", 2003. Eurasian Geography and Economics, 44(8): 623-640.

• "Land Use Change in Metropolitan Shanghai, 1970-2000". Asian Geographer (forthcoming 2003).

• "Overlapping Ethnicities and Negotiated Space: Atlanta's Buford Highway".2003.
  Journal of Cultural Geography Fall-Winter 2002 20:51-75.
• "Human-Environment Patterns of Metropolitan Spatial Restructuring: Atlanta, Georgia and Shanghai, PRC, 1950-2000". 2002. World Regional Studies 11: 27-33. (East China Normal University, Shanghai, PRC)
• "Chinese Industrial and Science Parks: Bridging the Gap". 2002. Professional Geographer 54:349-364.
  
• "Analyzing an Innovative Environment: San Diego as a Bioscience Beachhead". 2002.
  Economic Development Quarterly 16:99-114.
• "Growing Global: Life Cycle of a Life Science Cluster". 2001. Growth and Change 32:511-32.
• Walcott, S. and Wheeler, J.O., "Atlanta in the Telecommunications Age: The Fiber-Optics Information Network". 2001. Urban Geography 22:316-39.
• "Corporate Headquarters in Metropolitan Atlanta, 1960-1997: A Region Comes of Age". 2000. Southeastern Geographer 41:193-208.
• Walcott, S. and Xiao, W. 2000. "High-tech Parks and Development Zones in
  Metropolitan Shanghai: From the Industrial to the Information Age". Asian
  Geographer 19:157-179.
• Hartshorn, T. and Walcott, S. 2000."The Three Georgias: Emerging Realignments
  at the Dawn of the New Millennium". Southeastern Geographer 41:127-150.
  
• "Bustbelt to Boomtown: Regime Succession and the Transformation of Downtown Indianapolis" Urban Geography, Vol. 7, 1999
• "Gendered Caribbean and Latin American Immigrant Employment Experiences in New York City", WADABAGEI, Winter/Spring 1999
• "Fieldwork in an Urban Setting: Structuring a Human Geography Learning Exercise" published in Journal of Geography September/October 1999
• "Tea Production in South Carolina", Southeastern Geographer, May 1999
• "High Tech in the Deep South: Biomedical Firm Clusters in Metropolitan Atlanta", Growth and Change, Winter 1999
• "Eli Lilly and Company: Medical Roots of Regional Renaissance", Environment and Planning-A , Vol. 30, 1998
• "Dynamic Agglomerations and Regional Growth Strategies: Targeting Biotech Clusters" Papers and Proceedings: Conference on Applied Geography
• "The Naval Air Warfare Center, Indianapolis: A Case Study in Privatization", The Hudson Institute.
• "Historical Development of Urban and Food Issues in China and Hong Kong", Professional Publication, Indiana State University, Department of Geography

Conference Presentations:

• "High-Tech Parks in Metro Shanghai: From the Industrial to the Information Age" panel, Annual Meeting AAG, Pittsburgh, April 2000.
• "Locating Global Capital: Life Science Industry Clusters from the Heartland to Shanghai" SEDAAG, Nov. 1999.
• "Science Park Hope or Hype: A Comparison of Research Triangle Park and Shanghai, PRC", Applied Geography Conference, Charlotte, Nov. 1999.
• "Corporate Headquarters in Metropolitan Atlanta, 1960-1997" SEDAAG Memphis, Nov. 1998.
• "Dynamic Agglomerations and Regional Growth Strategies: Targeting Biotech Clusters" Conference on Applied Geography, Albuquerque, Nov. 1997.
• "High Tech in the Deep South: Health Complex Clusters and the Economic Development of Metropolitan Atlanta" SEDAAG, Birmingham, AL, Nov.1997.
• "Privatizing the Military-Industrial Complex" "New Voices in Industrial Geography" panel, Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, Fort Worth, April 1997.
• "Rebuilding Neighborhoods: Secular Investments and the Role of Religious Organizations," East Lakes-West Lakes Regional, Valparaiso, IN, Oct. 1996.
• "The Indianapolis (Fortune) 500: Lilly and Regional Renaissance" panel on "Doing Drugs," Annual Meeting, AAG, Charlotte 1996.
• "The Transformation of the Indianapolis Metropolitan Region: An Alternative Theory of Urban Political Economy" Regional Science Association International Conference, Cincinnati, November 1995

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