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Geography Alex Oberle Office: ITTC 207
Phone: 273-6332
Alex.Oberle@uni.edu
Area:
Urban Geography, GIS/Geospatial Technologies, Race/Ethnicity, Geography Education
Research Interests:
● Hispanic urban settlement in the United States
● Latino business landscapes
● Mexican-American and Mexican immigrant ethnic economies
● GIS/geospatial technologies in geography education
● Applications of GIS in urban ethnic research
Selected Publications:
Oberle, Alex. 2006. “Phoenix’s Hispanic business landscape: Latino outposts on the Anglo suburban frontier” In Landscapes of the Ethnic Economy, eds. David Kaplan and Wei Li. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.
Oberle, Alex, Wendy Bigler, and Timothy Hawkins. 2005. “The role of a Ph.D. field exam in assessing and developing geographic skills and preparing graduate students for academic careers”. The Professional Geographer. 57:3, 452-461.
Oberle, Alex and Daniel Arreola. 2004. “Mexican medical border towns: A case study of Algodones, Baja California”. Journal of Borderlands Studies. 19:2, 1-18.
Oberle, Alex. 2004. “Conservation, recreation, or resource extraction? Understanding public land management through role-playing”. Journal of Geography. 103:5, 199-210.
Oberle, Alex. 2004. “Se Venden Aquí: The Latino commercial landscape in Phoenix, Arizona” In Hispanic Spaces, Latino Places, ed. Daniel Arreola. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 240-251.
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