Complex and Shifting Landscape of Higher Education
Education
PhD, Geography, Arizona State University, 2002
MA, Geography, Arizona State University, 1997
BA, Geography, University of Miami, 1995
Courses Taught
GES 1980 World Regional Geography
GES 1990 Intro to Human Geography
GES 4630/5630 Inequality USA
GES 4640/5640 MegaCities
GES 4730/5730 Population Geography
GES 4780/5780 Global Migration
Professional Experience
PI, Collaborative Research: Conference: Strategies to Mitigate Implicit Bias and Promote an Ethos of Care in the Research Enterprise: A Convening. NSF GRANTED Program. NSF-2324402 with Risha Raquelle, AAG, January 2024-December 2024).
Co-PI, NSF Project CREST: Changing Research Experiences, Structures, and (in)Tolerance through the Adaptation of Promising Equity Practices, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, CO. July 2021-May 2025.
Chair, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, CO. July 2018-June 2021.
Founding Director of the UCCS Global Intercultural Research Center (GLINT).
Selected Publications
Mendez, Sylvia; Tygret, Jennifer; Smith, Jessi; Watson, Kathryn; Poe, Jennifer; McNear, Kelly; Song, Heather; Skop, Emily; & Daniels, Elizabeth. 2025. The Pathway to Full Professor: Associate professor women’s institutional concerns. Journal of Culture and Values in Education 8(1): 109-126.
Skop, Emily. 2024. Staying with the Trouble: Reflections on Knowledge Production in Migration Studies. Article in Special Issue “Navigating Research with Immigrant Institutions” in Geographical Review 114(5): 691–708.
Smith, J.L., Mendez, S.L., Poe, J., Johnson, C., Wilson, D.K., Daniels, E.A., Song, H, and Skop, Emily. 2024. From Mandate to Co-Create: Leading the Development of Inclusive Performance Evaluation Criteria. EDI: an International Journal 43(9): 88-102.
Skop, Emily. 2024. Graphic Novels: A Pedagogical Device for Understanding Core Concepts and Encouraging Empathy in Global Migration and the Experiences of Displaced Persons. The Geography Teacher 21(2): 72-78.
Skop, Emily and Stephen Suh. 2023. Ethnicity and Transnationalism. Chapter in A Companion to the North American Landscape, edited by Chris Post, Geoff Buckley and Alyson Grenier. London: Routledge Press, 101-110.
Gibbes, Cerian and Emily Skop. 2022. Disruption, Discovery, and Field Courses: A Case Study of Student Engagement during a Global Pandemic, The Professional Geographer. DOI: 10.1080/00330124.2021.1970593
Skop, Emily, Martina Angela Careta, Caroline Faria, and Jessi Smith. 2021. An Ethos of Care: Pledging to make research collaborations more equitable. Inside Higher Education. October 15, 2021.
Hunter, Lori, Stephanie Koning, Elizabeth Fussell, Brian King, Andrea Rishworth, Alexis Merdjanoff, Raya Muttarak, Fernando Riosmena, Daniel H Simon, Emily Skop, Jamon Van Den Hoek. 2021. Climate Change and Human Displacement: Futures for Human Health. Population and Environment. DOI: 10.1007/s11111-021-00377-7
Gibbes, Cerian and Emily Skop. 2020. The messiness of co-produced research with gatekeepers of resettled refugee communities. Journal of Cultural Geography.
Honors and Awards
Inaugural El Pomar C3 Innovation Fellow. University of Colorado Colorado Springs, Fall 2025 - present.
Visiting Fellow in AP Human Geography. The College Board. Summer 2025.
Colorado Capital Conference Invited Participant, U.S. Senator Michael Bennet and U.S. Senator John Hickenlooper, Colorado Mesa University and University of Colorado. June 2025 (rescheduled).
CU System 2025 Inclusive Excellence Award for Project CREST. University of Colorado, Spring 2025.
Million Dollar Club Inductee, Office of Research, University of Colorado Colorado Springs. 2024.
LAS Dean’s Scholar Award, College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, Fall 2024.
Excellence in Leadership Fellow, University of Colorado System, Fall 2019 - Spring 2020.
Distinguished Scholar Award in Ethnic Geography, Ethnic Geography Specialty Group, American Association of Geographers, April 2018.
UCCS Faculty Award for Outstanding Contribution to Diversity and Inclusiveness, Spring 2017.
