Brett Chloupek

Associate Professor

Education

• Ph.D. Geography; University of Kansas
• M.S. Geography, Certificate in GIS; Oklahoma State University
• B.S. Geography, Computer Information Systems; University of Nebraska-Kearney

Courses Taught

• Peoples and Cultures of the World
• Geopolitics
• Geographies of Europe, Asia, and Latin America
• Maps and Spatial Reasoning

• Web Mapping (Cartography)

Academic Interests

• Cultural, Political, Historical Geography
• Toponymy, Geographic Information Systems
• The Visegrád Four (Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland, and Hungary)

Scholarly Activity

Recent Publications

• Chloupek, Brett R. 2019. Public memory and political street names in Kosice, Slovakia’s multi-ethnic second city. The Journal of Historical Geography,  35 (2).
• Chloupek, Brett. R. 2019. Post-communist city text in Košice, Slovakia as a liminal landscape.  Miscellanea Geographica: History and space: challenges, methods, applications, 23 (2).  (Special thematic issue celebrating 100th anniversary of Geography at the University of Warsaw, Poland.)
• Chloupek, Brett R. 2019. Chapter: Refugees.  In: D. Jerome ed. Examining war and conflict around the world.  Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO (in print December 2019).
• Chloupek, Brett R.  2018.  A GIS approach to cultural and historical toponymic research in Nebraska.  Journal of Cultural Geography, 35 (2).

Recent Conference Papers

• Chloupek, Brett R.   Geographies of Opera in Communist Slovakia.  Great Plains/Rocky Mountains Regional Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS.  October 5-6.
• Chloupek, Brett R.  2018.  Historical and spatial patterns in Eastern European street names.  17th International Conference of Historical Geographers, Warsaw, Poland.  July 16. (Invited session:  Old and historical maps as a tool: challenges for mind, development of form.)
• Chloupek, Brett R.  2018.  Chernobyl as a prototype for geopolitical ecotourism.  Plains Safaris: A conference on tourism and conservation in the Great Plains.  University of Nebraska Center for Great Plains Studies, April 19, 2018.

Student Group Advisement

• Nepalese Student Association, Faculty Advisor

Other Professional Experiences

• Member, Missouri Board on Geographic Names (MOBGN)
• Fellow, Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (CREES) – University of Kansas (current)
• Associate Fellow, Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (current)
• Boren Fellowship, Dissertation Research Abroad in Slovakia, 2009-2010