Advisory Council

Nicholas Bauch

Former Postdoctoral Scholar

2013 - 2015

Ph.D., UCLA, 2010, Geography
M.S., University of Wisconsin, 2005, Geography
B.S., University of Wisconsin, 2001, Geography

Biography
Courses
Publications
Links

Nicholas Bauch is a Post-Doctoral Scholar at the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis and the Bill Lane Center for the American West at Stanford University. He received a Ph.D. in Geography from UCLA, where he specialized in spatial and environmental theory. Most broadly, his current research and writing revolve around the question of how people make places meaningful. More specifically, he is producing an online, interactive revival of a turn-of-the-century photographic slideshow of the Grand Canyon.

Courses

Metropolitan Los Angeles: Nature in the City
The Urban Environment: History, Thought, and Practice
Geography of Food and Agriculture
Environment and Development in the Third World
Urban Geography
Cultural Geography

Publications

Bauch, Nicholas. 2013. Field Manual for Enchanting the Desert. Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis: Stanford, Calif.

Bauch, Nicholas. 2013. Extensible, Not Relational: Finding bodies in the landscape of electronic information with wireless body area networks. GeoJournal: DOI: 10.1007/s10708-013-9487-9.

Bauch, Nicholas, and Emily Eliza Scott. 2012. The Los Angeles Urban Rangers: Actualizing geographic thought. Cultural Geographies 19 (3):401-409.

Bauch, Nicholas. 2011. The Extensible Digestive System: Biotechnology at the Battle Creek Sanitarium, 1890-1900. Cultural Geographies 18 (2):209-229.

Bauch, Nicholas. 2010. The Academic Geography Video Genre: A methodological examination. Geography Compass 4 (5):475-484.

Upcoming Events

Eccles Family Rural West Conference

Fourth Annual Conference – University of Montana in Missoula

This year’s conference will be focused on defining people and place in the rural American West, through panels addressing public health and access, housing and homelessness, natural resource use and allocation, and Indian policy.

The California Local Governance Summer Institute @ Stanford

Professional Seminar for Western Local Government Officials

This week-long summer institute at Stanford University is open to city managers, county executives, regional directors, and other senior local government officials from throughout the West. They will have the opportunity to exchange and acquire tools for improving local government performance and ways of enhancing prospective analytical capacity to innovate and anticipate societal change.