GIS in the Social Sciences
This page highlights a few of the GIS in the social sciences and/or GIS/spatial analysis initiatives on campuses across the U.S.
A short and quite general review of the "Growth of Spatial Social Science 2005-2055" can be found at http://humanitieslab.stanford.edu/2/186.
Among the best university-based spatial social science initiatives one would include those found at UC Santa Barbara, Brown, and Harvard:
- Brown University: Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences
- University of California Santa Barbara: Center for Spatial Studies and Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science
- Harvard University: Center for Geographic Analysis
Other universities are much more varied and tend to focus on GIS technology in the sciences over the social sciences ... some exceptions are listed first:
- University of California Berkeley Geographic Information Science Center: Social Science in Place
- Columbia University: GIS Working Group
- University of Chicago: GIS
- University of Michigan: Spatial Analysis and GIS
- Ohio State University: Center for Mapping
- Ohio State University: Graduate Interdisciplinary Specialization (GIS) in Geospatial Data and Analysis (GSDA)
- University of Illinois: Applied Technologies for Learning in the Arts & Sciences (ATLAS) Statistical and GIS Workshops | Video Transcripts of 2006 Spatial Thinking in the Social Sciences and Humanities workshop
- University of Texas Dallas: Bruton Center
- Florida State University: College of Social Science GIS
There are many other universities - many of whom have a presence on the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) web page. Some of these include:
- University of Toledo: Doctoral Degree in Spatially Integrated Social Science
- University of Georgia: GIScience@UGA
- Hunter College: GIScience at Hunter
- University of Maryland: GIScience@Maryland
- Oregon State University: GIS@OSU
- Syracuse University: GIS@Syracuse
- Temple University: GIS@Temple
- University of Washington: Consortium for Geospatial Information
This page was prepared Feb 25, 2008 by Stephen A. Matthews, GIA Core, Social Science Research Institute, Penn State (matthews@pop.psu.edu)
Last modified: 02/27/08 | Contact Webmaster
