St. Paul, Minn. - Macalester College has granted tenure status to Laura Smith, associate professor of Geography in the Geography Department. Smith received her PhD and MA from the University of Minnesota and her BA from Macalester College. She joined the Macalester faculty in 2004 as an assistant professor.
Smith is an urban geographer whose recent research projects have focused on mortgage foreclosure patterns in the Twin Cities, transportation and development, and on issues of American Indian land ownership.
Smith teaches Metropolitan Analysis, Urban GIS, Transportation Geography, Regional Geography of the U.S. and Canada, and Statistical Research Methods in Geography.
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