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• Department: Geography
• Advisor: Chris Fowler
• Title: Criteria, Computation, and the Construction of Technical Expertise in School Attendance Zone Redistricting

• Department: Geography
• Advisor: Chris Fowler
• Title: Segregation, Scale, and Student Assignment Policies in Boston

• Major: Geography
• Minor: Data Science

• Grad RA (Louisa Holmes & Emily Rosenman)

  Aug 2023—Present
• Grad RA (Anthony Robinson)

  Jan 2024—May 2024
• Grad RA (Chris Fowler)

  Aug 2020—May 2022; May—Aug 2023
• Grad Assistant (Emily Rosenman)

  Dec 2022—Jan 2023
• Grad Assistant (Chris Fowler)

  May—Aug 2022

• Geographer

  Sept 2018—July 2020

• Summer Fellow

  June—Aug 2018

• Summer Fellow at UGA Node

  June—Aug 2017

• Intro to GIS (GEOG 260), Penn State

  FA22, SP23
• Intro to the Theory and Tech. of Mapping (STS 150), Tufts

  SP20
• Stat. Research Methods in Geog. (GEOG 378), Macalester

  FA16

• Geodata Bootcamp

  June 2020

• Voting Rights Data Institute

  June—July 2019

• Asson, S., Buck, R.K., Bodenschatz, H., Frankenberg, E., & Fowler, C.S. (2024). The role of noncontiguous attendance zones in shaping school populations: A case study of Tucson, Arizona and Fort Bend, Texas. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 32. https://doi.org/10.14507/epaa.32.8302
• Frankenberg, E., Fowler, C.S., Asson, S., & Buck, R.K. (2023). Demographic Change and School Attendance Zone Boundary Changes: Montgomery County, Maryland, and Fairfax County, Virginia, Between 1990 and 2010. RSF: The Russel Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 9(2), 75-103. https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2023.9.2.04
• Asson, S., Frankenberg, E., Fowler, C.S., & Buck, R.K. (2023). Attendance zones in the suburbs. Phi Delta Kappan, 104(5), 11-17. https://doi.org/10.1177/00317217231156224
• Asson, S., Frankenberg, E., Maselli, A., Burfoot-Rochford, I., Fowler, C.S., & Buck, R.K. (2023). Data Access and the Study of Educational Equity: Implications from a National School Boundary Collection Effort. Education Finance and Policy, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1162/edfp_a_00388

• Hachadoorian, L. and Buck, R. (2022). Geography as Data. In Duchin, M. & Walch, O. (Eds.). Political Geometry. Birkhauser Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69161-9_13

• “The Future is Proportional: Improving Minority Representation through New Electoral Systems” for New America Foundation-Electoral Reform Research Group, 2020.
• “Analysis of county commission elections in Yakima County, ” racially polarized voting analysis for voting rights legal organization, 2020.
• “Community-Centered Redistricting in Lowell, Massachusetts, ” technical and public-facing analyses of remedial election systems for voting rights legal organization, 2019.
• “Study of Reform Proposals for the Chicago City Council, ” analysis of alternative election systems for voting rights legal organization, 2019.
• “Using NASA Earth Observations to Monitor Vulnerability, Wildfire Damage, and Recovery in the Appalachian Forest, ” report for USFS Southern Research Station, 2017.
• “Mapping the Community Context of the Northside Achievement Zone, ” report for Northside Achievement Zone, 2017.

• “Segregation, Scale, and Student Assignment Policies in Boston” poster presentation at the Population Association of America Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, April 13, 2023.
• “Making Compactness Matter: Evaluating a Multiscalar, Population-Based Compactness Metric in Pennsylvania” at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Denver, CO, March 24, 2023.
• “Career Pathways in Geography” invited talk in GEOG 301 at Penn State on April 15, 2022.
• “Troubling the Tract: Measuring Neighborhood Effects on Airborne Lead Exposure Using School Attendance Zone Boundaries” poster presentation at the Population Association of America Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, April 8, 2022.
• “Segregation, Scale, and Student Assignment Policies in Boston” at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, New York City (remote), February 28, 2022.
• “Democracy Talks: Beyond the ‘Eyeball Test’ for Political Gerrymandering” at the Watertown Free Public Library Democracy Talks speaker series, Watertown, MA, September 17, 2019.
• “Methods and techniques in redistricting” at the 2019 Center for Geographic Analysis Conference: Geography of Redistricting, Cambridge, MA, May 3, 2019.
• “Redistricting, Geography, and Democracy” at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Washington, DC, April 5, 2019.
• “The Feminization of Circular Labor Migration in Post-Apartheid South Africa” at the Midwestern Undergraduate Geography Symposium, River Falls, WI, April 21, 2018.

• Willard S. Miller Graduate Student Fellowship

  2024
• William and Mary Easterling Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant Award in Geography

  2024
• Nancy Brown Department of Geography Service Award

  2024
• PAA Poster Winner at 2023 PAA Annual Meeting

  2023
• Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award in the Department of Geography

  2023
• Academic Enrichment Award from Alber Award Fund in Geography

  2023
• Ruby S. Miller Endowment for Geographic Excellence

  2022
• NSF GRFP Honorable Mention

  2022
• David A. Lanegran (Merit) Award in Geography

  2018
• Gamma Theta Upsilon Geography Honors Society

  2016
• DeWitt Distinguished Scholar

  2014
• Smith College Book Award

  2013

• American Association of Geographers (AAG)
• Modern Language Association (MLA)
• Population Association of America (PAA)

• UROC, Co-Coordinator

  2023—Present
• Human Geography Working Group, Coordinator

  2022—Present
• Speakers Committee, Grad Student Rep

  2022—2024
• GENIUS, Grad Student Mentor

  2023, 2024
• UROC, Mentor

  2022—2023
• Graduate Student Representative, Head Officer

  2021—2022

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