Assistant Professor
B.A., Urban Engineering, 1999, Busan National University, South Korea
M.U.P, Urban Planning, 2001, State University of New York at Buffalo
Ph.D., Geography, 2007, State University of New York at Buffalo
Teaching
I still feel as much a student as a teacher, and I don’t think it will change at least soon. Being a teacher is a too big shoe to fill in for me as my other roles as a father of two, husband, son, friend and so on…However, one thing I believe important is to maintain a lively, engaging, and fairly challenging teaching atmosphere in the classroom. In order to carry out this goal, I have developed a few principles that guide my curriculum and classroom practices. First of all, students need solid foundation in both theoretical roots and practical methodologies to answer the questions related to the subject. Second, students need understanding rather than just memorizing, achieved by developing their own analytical thinking. Third, students’ participation and contribution should be essential part of learning process. Fourth, students’ knowledge they learn in the classroom can be most fruitful when it is connected to the real world example. Finally, and most importantly, both teachers and students should learn from each other, and they always need mutual respect.
Courses Teaching
BIS 293 Power of Maps
BIS 342 Geographic Information Systems
BIS 493 Urban Planning
BIS *** Mapping Communities
Research/Scholarship
I want to be an urban geographer/planner who has a theoretical and technical expertise in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and mixed-methods approach. On the one hand, I continuously explore the importance of politics and power as well as the complexities of race, class, and gender in cities and how the shaping of these categories effectively complicates urban geographical knowledge. On the other hand, I focus on discussing new ways to expand the qualitative capabilities of GIS. The charm of GIScience lies in its broad, flexible, modern, and interdisciplinary agenda of using geographic information. My current research is particularly focused on ‘Computer-Aided Qualitative GIS’ (CAQ-GIS), an approach for storing and analyzing qualitative, quantitative, and geovisual data in both GIS and computer-aided qualitative data analysis software. I see myself continuing to work with qualitative GIS as an analytical framework to study diverse urban issues. More accessible and user-friendly forms of qualitative GIS will allow us a more ‘popular’ engagement with analysis and representation of local places and people’s everyday life.
Recent Publications
Jung, J.-K. and S. Elwood. 2010. Extending the qualitative capabilities of GIS: Computer-Aided Qualitative GIS. Transactions in GIS 14(1): 63-87
Jung, J.-K. 2009. Computer-Aided Qualitative GIS: A Software level Integration of Qualitative Research and GIS. In Qualitative GIS: A Mixed Methods Approach, eds. M. Cope and S. Elwood: SAGE Publications: 115-135. ISBN: 978-1412945660