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EDUCATIONAL
BACKGROUND
University
of Minnesota (UMN)
Ph.D. Student in Geography,
start date September 2004
GPA (currently): 4.0/4.0
Research emphasis: Hungary; neoliberalism; nationalism;
political-economy of post-communist transition; US hegemony; and prime
modernity
Pennsylvania
State University at University Park (PSU)
Master of Science in Geography, August 2002
GPA: 3.9/4.0
Emphasis: Political geography; quantitative spatial
analysis; qualitative methodologies; advanced technical writing; copy
editing; GIS; interactive/online cartography; geographies of cyberspace;
and geographic theory
University
of Minnesota Duluth (UMD)
Bachelor of Arts, Cum Laude, May 1999
GPA (final two years): 3.9/4.00
International Studies:
3.9/4.0
Geography:
3.9/4.0
Emphasis: Resource planning; environmental geography;
outdoor recreation surveying; US/Canada public lands policy; cartographic
design; human geography; political science; economics and Central European
cultural studies
Janus Pannonius University (JPTE),
Pécs, Republic of Hungary
Self-Arranged Program with UMD Financial Assistance, 1997-1998
Emphasis: Hungarian language, literature, politics,
history, and economic reforms
PROFESSIONAL
POSITIONS
Assistant Program
Director, InformeDesign,
DHA, University of Minnesota, September 2003- August 2004
Duties: Chief editor and writer for design literature
clearinghouse; delegation of staff work; email response coordination;
and marketing communication
Planner, Arrowhead
Regional Development Commission, Duluth, MN,
1999-2000
Community Based Planning: Land
use, comprehensive, housing,
recreational, transportation, and environmental plans
Duties: Organizing, overseeing, and leading various
types of community plan projects; creating
maps (with Freehand and ArcView); data analysis (survey data, U.S.
Census data, and field data); securing funding through successful
grant proposals; organizing the acquisition of community data (i.e.,
creating, distributing, and collecting surveys); organizing community
meetings; leading focus groups; and writing final plan documents
INSTRUCTOR POSITIONS
Lecturer, Europe:
A Geographic Perspective (Geography of Europe), University of
Minnesota, Department of Geography, Fall 2006
Lecturer, Europe:
A Geographic Perspective (Geography of Europe), University of
Minnesota, Department of Geography, Summer Session 2006
Lecturer, Europe:
A Geographic Perspective (Geography of Europe), University of
Minnesota, Department of Geography, Fall 2005
Lecturer, Human
Geography, Penn State Continuing Education, May 2003
TEACHING ASSISTANT POSITIONS
Teaching Assistant, University
of Minnesota, Institute of Global Studies, Summer Workshop for K-12
Educators, July 10-14, 2006
Teaching Assistant, University
of Minnesota Department of Geography, 2004- present
Courses: Geography 1502, Maps, Visualization, and Geographical
Reasoning
Duties: preparing labs, teaching lab sections, tutoring,
grading homework and exams
Teaching Assistant, Penn
State Department of Geography, 2000-2003
Courses: Physical geography, introduction to cartography
and GIS, human geography, and geography of international affairs
Duties: Maintaining course web sites, teaching labs,
grading, and guest lecturing
PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
Muehlenhaus, I.A. (forthcoming).
Book Review: "American
Empire: Roosevelt's Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization," by
N. Smith. Arab World Geographer.
Oas, I.A. (2005). “Shifting
the Iron Curtain of Kantian Peace: NATO Expansion and the Magyars,” in
the Geography of War and Peace: From Death Camps to Diplomats (Colin
Flint, Ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Oas, I.A. (2003). Book review: “The
Atlas of Cyberspace,” by M. Dodge and R. Kitchin. Annals
of the Association of American Geographers, 93 (4),
946-947.
Oas, I.A. (2001). Book review: “Geopolitics
and Globalization in the Twentieth Century,” by B. Blouet. Political
Geography 21, p. 955-957.
Oas, I.A. (2000). Book review: “Nested
Identities,” G. Herb and D. Kaplan, Ed. Professional
Geographer 52(4), p. 764-65.
Oas, I.A. (2002). The Geopolitics
of Spatial Dementia: Online Agencies and U.S. Hegemonic Decline,
Master of Science Thesis, Department of Geography, The Pennsylvania State
University, 2002.
INVITED PUBLICATIONS
Muehlenhaus, I. (forthcoming). “World Systems Theory.” The
Encyclopedia of Environment and Society. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.
Muehlenhaus, I. (forthcoming). “Weapons of Mass Destruction.” The
Encyclopedia of Environment and Society. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.
Oas, I.A. (2004). Research,
Theory, and Why We Should Care? Implications 2(1), p.
3-4.
Oas, I.A. (2003). Creating
Spaces: Human Geography, Design, and Social Responsibility. Implications 1(7),
p. 1-3.
CREATIVE PUBLICATIONS
Oas, I.A. (1999). AbsurDitty. New
Authors Journal 6(2), Fall, p. 32.
Oas, I.A. (1996). "Surely But a Dream," in A Muse to
Follow. Watermark Press.
PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS & CONFERENCES
Presentation, Cartographic Principles
and the Elements of Graphic Design, Minnesota College
of Art and Design, 26 April 2006
Discussion Panel Organizer and Chair, Approaches
to Post-Socialist Research, Association of American Geographers
(AAG) Annual Conference, Chicago, Illinois, 10 March
2006
Paper Panel Organizer, Presenter, and Chair, Deterritorialized
Geopolitics: Networks and Diasporas. AAG Annual Conference. New
Orleans,
Louisiana, 5 March 2003
Paper Presentation, US Cyber-Defense Policy and
the Deterritorialization of Geopolitics. AAG Annual Conference.
Los Angeles,
California, 20 March 2002
Session Chair, AAG Political
Geography Specialty Group Pre-Conference, West
Point Military Academy, March 2001
GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS
& AWARDS
Zoltai Graduate
Fellowship,
Hungarian Research Fellowship, UMN Graduate School, 2005-2006
Ralph Hall Brown
Memorial Prize, Best Graduate Publication, UMN Department
of Geography 2005
Summer Research
Fellowship, UMN Department of Geography, May 2005
Matti E. Kaups Geography
Scholarship Award, May 2000
University of Minnesota
Undergraduate Research Grant (UROP), 1999
COMMITTEES & INTERNSHIPS
Peer Reviewer, Political Geography (Journal),
2005 - present
Vice President of UMD Geography Club, 1998 -1999
Student Representative at UMD geography faculty meetings
1998 -1999
Planning Internship, Arrowhead Regional Development
Commission, 1998 -1999
CERTIFICATES
Center for Spatially Integrated Social Sciences (CSISS) Certificate
of Completion, National
Population Science and GIS Workshop
University Park, Pennsylvania, May 2003
Certified in Hungarian Language 2005, Intermediate-Advanced,
University of Debrecen Language School
Certified in Hungarian Language 1998, Level
B out of D, European Consortium of Languages (ECL)
Certified Intermediate Level in Mandarin Chinese 1991,
Beijing, China
Intermediate German 2004, University of Minnesota
SOFTWARE
Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop; Macromedia Dreamweaver,
Flash, Fireworks, and Freehand; ESRI ArcView 3.x, 8.x,
9.x; SPSS; Microsoft Office; Endnote;
and ProCite
ODDS & ENDS
Overseas Study Experience
- Budapest, Hungary, May – August
2005, University of Debrecen Language School
- Pécs,
Hungary, 1997 – 1998, Janus Pannonius University
- Budaors and Miskolc, Hungary,
1993 – 1994, AFS Exchange Program
- Beijing, China, 1991, #55
International Middle School, 8th Grade
International Travel
Hungary, China, Israel, Palestine, Iceland, Norway, Denmark, France,
Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, former-Yugoslavia, Romania, Slovakia,
the Czech Republic, Mexico, and Brazil
Hobbies & Activities
Creative writing (short stories and poetry); web and map
design (President and Artistic Director of Mühlenhaus
Studios); photography; painting; traveling; recreational reading;
listening to music; hiking; and German board games
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