Emily Skop, PhD

Emily Skop, PhD

Professor Geography and Environmental Studies

Areas of Interest

  • International Migration Patterns and Processes
  • Urbanization, Spatial Segregation, and Inequality
  • Race, Ethnicity, and Place
  • Broadening Participation in 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 Berry, AAG, January 2024-present.
  • 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-present.
  • 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

  • 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

  • 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. 

Curriculum Vitae