Dr. Amara Osei

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Assistant Professor · Geography & GIS/Data

Geographer and GIS specialist researching spatial inequality, urban land use change, and the digital mapping of historical landscapes. Teaches WebGIS, Urban GIS & Analysis, and The Columbian World.

GEO-101 GEO-402

Contact & office

🏢 Online — office hours by video

Office hours: Tue 2:00 PM-4:00 PM · Ames Hall 112 | Thu 10:00 AM-12:00 PM · Ames Hall 112

College

Ph.D. Geography — Clark University (2018)

M.S. Geographic Information Science — Penn State (2014)

Family

Parents emigrated from Kumasi, Ghana; first geographer in the family.

★ Trail running

Teaching now — GEO-402

Last #4 · Lesson 4: Plantation Systems and Forced Migration ↗

Current #5 · Lesson 5: Territorial Control and Border Making ↗

Next #6 · Lesson 6: Missionary Geography and Cultural Encounter ↗

Recommends

OpenStreetMap ↗

Reading list

How to Lie with Maps ↗

Mark Monmonier · from the syllabus

The Power of Maps ↗

Denis Wood · from the syllabus

Americanah ↗

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie · fiction

Field

Spatial inequality, urban land use, historical GIS, cartographic history, remote sensing