Kristin Sziarto
Biographic Data
| ID | 2427804 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kristin Sziarto |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kristin |
| FAMILY NAME | Sziarto |
| SIGNATURE | SZIARTO K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 388 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Teaching Indigenous geographies
This article draws upon indigenous praxis to teach emplaced indigenous knowledges to non-indigenous students in a study abroad fieldwork course. We argue that employing Indigenous methodologies can help students engage in contemporary indigenous worlds, frame indigenous knowledges as generative and creative way of knowing the world and connect students more deeply to their study abroad sites. The course taught took students from Milwaukee, Wiscon…
Resignifying occupation
Occupation is a common strategy, including in anti-austerity movements. This paper examines the 2011 occupation at Seoul National University (SNU), which had an ambivalent position on anti-austerity activism, and mixed outcomes. The student occupiers held an occupied administrative building longer than previous student occupations, and their tactics were taken up by student activists around South Korea. However, the SNU occupation failed to influ…
When the illiberal and the neoliberal meet around infectious diseases
This paper investigates infectious disease mismanagement as a way of understanding the mixture of neoliberal and illiberal governance in public health. While acknowledging the significant role of neoliberalization in public health, we call for tracing geographies of illiberalism in relation to various actors, and through various scales and processes of governance, such as private power and state absence. Through a case study of the spread of Midd…
The American prophetic tradition and social justice activism among Muslims in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Whose reproductive futures? Race-biopolitics and resistance in the Black infant mortality reduction campaigns in Milwaukee
This paper contributes to Foucauldian population geographies by examining an infant mortality reduction campaign in Milwaukee. The infant mortality rate for Milwaukee's Black community is about three times that for whites and higher than rates for other racialized groups. This paper asks how Milwaukee's public health interventions came to focus on sleep deaths, when population data show that preterm birth and congenital abnormalities are the lead…
Zombies in the classroom
This paper reports on an introductory world regional geography course with a role-playing exercise. The goal was to situate students in a form of popular geopolitics that engaged them viscerally with positionality and othering. Students were assigned different positionalities in a liminal active learning environment within a context of fear of zombies; some actually engaged in othering or were othered; many vocally critiqued their own or others' …
Teaching critical thinking in world regional geography through stakeholder debate
Using a stakeholder debate based on a real-world case of regional construction – that of Turkey's application to join the European Union – improved students' critical thinking in an introductory world regional geography course. Such courses are a staple offering among US geography departments, and often the only exposure of non-majors to geographic thinking. A stakeholder debate highlighting regional construction, using structured learning activi…
Diverse Muslims in a Racialized Landscape
Studying the racially and ethnically diverse Muslim minority population in any US city must take into account the racialized landscape prevailing in the city. Milwaukee is a highly racially segregated city, where residential patterns have been shaped by decades of immigration by various ethnic and racial groups, and by restrictions on residential housing, as well as industrialization, deindustrialization and suburbanization. This paper presents f…
Researching within and against Islamophobia
This paper draws on an ongoing study, The Muslim Milwaukee Project, and examines the collaboration between three faculty members and Muslim leaders in Milwaukee to design and implement a demographic survey of the Muslim community in the city. By providing a case study from a mid-sized city in the USA, as well as examining the ethical and methodological questions that arise when studying Muslims, we intend to address an apparent breach in the lite…
Immigrants riding for justice
Placing Legitimacy
Religion‐labour alliances, like other faith‐based and religious organisations, raise questions about the invocation of religion to establish moral authority and political legitimacy in Western democracies. This paper argues that legitimacy should be understood as produced through spatio‐temporally contingent practices. The question of legitimacy is explored through a case study of the activities of a religion‐labour alliance in an urban hospital …
The spatialities of contentious politics
The question of how space matters to the mobilisation, practices and trajectories of contentious politics has frequently been represented as a politics of scale. Others have focused on place and networks as key spatialities of contentious politics. Yet there are multiple spatialities - scale, place, networks, positionality and mobility - that are implicated in and shape contentious politics. No one of these should be privileged: in practice, part…
The spatialities of contentious politics
The question of how space matters to the mobilisation, practices and trajectories of contentious politics has frequently been represented as a politics of scale. Others have focused on place and networks as key spatialities of contentious politics. Yet there are multiple spatialities - scale, place, networks, positionality and mobility - that are implicated in and shape contentious politics. No one of these should be privileged: in practice, part…
Researching within and against Islamophobia
This paper draws on an ongoing study, The Muslim Milwaukee Project, and examines the collaboration between three faculty members and Muslim leaders in Milwaukee to design and implement a demographic survey of the Muslim community in the city. By providing a case study from a mid-sized city in the USA, as well as examining the ethical and methodological questions that arise when studying Muslims, we intend to address an apparent breach in the lite…
Immigrants riding for justice
Whose reproductive futures? Race-biopolitics and resistance in the Black infant mortality reduction campaigns in Milwaukee
This paper contributes to Foucauldian population geographies by examining an infant mortality reduction campaign in Milwaukee. The infant mortality rate for Milwaukee's Black community is about three times that for whites and higher than rates for other racialized groups. This paper asks how Milwaukee's public health interventions came to focus on sleep deaths, when population data show that preterm birth and congenital abnormalities are the lead…
Diverse Muslims in a Racialized Landscape
Studying the racially and ethnically diverse Muslim minority population in any US city must take into account the racialized landscape prevailing in the city. Milwaukee is a highly racially segregated city, where residential patterns have been shaped by decades of immigration by various ethnic and racial groups, and by restrictions on residential housing, as well as industrialization, deindustrialization and suburbanization. This paper presents f…
Placing Legitimacy
Religion‐labour alliances, like other faith‐based and religious organisations, raise questions about the invocation of religion to establish moral authority and political legitimacy in Western democracies. This paper argues that legitimacy should be understood as produced through spatio‐temporally contingent practices. The question of legitimacy is explored through a case study of the activities of a religion‐labour alliance in an urban hospital …
Resignifying occupation
Occupation is a common strategy, including in anti-austerity movements. This paper examines the 2011 occupation at Seoul National University (SNU), which had an ambivalent position on anti-austerity activism, and mixed outcomes. The student occupiers held an occupied administrative building longer than previous student occupations, and their tactics were taken up by student activists around South Korea. However, the SNU occupation failed to influ…
When the illiberal and the neoliberal meet around infectious diseases
This paper investigates infectious disease mismanagement as a way of understanding the mixture of neoliberal and illiberal governance in public health. While acknowledging the significant role of neoliberalization in public health, we call for tracing geographies of illiberalism in relation to various actors, and through various scales and processes of governance, such as private power and state absence. Through a case study of the spread of Midd…
The American prophetic tradition and social justice activism among Muslims in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Zombies in the classroom
This paper reports on an introductory world regional geography course with a role-playing exercise. The goal was to situate students in a form of popular geopolitics that engaged them viscerally with positionality and othering. Students were assigned different positionalities in a liminal active learning environment within a context of fear of zombies; some actually engaged in othering or were othered; many vocally critiqued their own or others' …
Teaching critical thinking in world regional geography through stakeholder debate
Using a stakeholder debate based on a real-world case of regional construction – that of Turkey's application to join the European Union – improved students' critical thinking in an introductory world regional geography course. Such courses are a staple offering among US geography departments, and often the only exposure of non-majors to geographic thinking. A stakeholder debate highlighting regional construction, using structured learning activi…
Placing Legitimacy
Religion‐labour alliances, like other faith‐based and religious organisations, raise questions about the invocation of religion to establish moral authority and political legitimacy in Western democracies. This paper argues that legitimacy should be understood as produced through spatio‐temporally contingent practices. The question of legitimacy is explored through a case study of the activities of a religion‐labour alliance in an urban hospital …
The spatialities of contentious politics
The question of how space matters to the mobilisation, practices and trajectories of contentious politics has frequently been represented as a politics of scale. Others have focused on place and networks as key spatialities of contentious politics. Yet there are multiple spatialities - scale, place, networks, positionality and mobility - that are implicated in and shape contentious politics. No one of these should be privileged: in practice, part…
Immigrants riding for justice
Researching within and against Islamophobia
This paper draws on an ongoing study, The Muslim Milwaukee Project, and examines the collaboration between three faculty members and Muslim leaders in Milwaukee to design and implement a demographic survey of the Muslim community in the city. By providing a case study from a mid-sized city in the USA, as well as examining the ethical and methodological questions that arise when studying Muslims, we intend to address an apparent breach in the lite…
Teaching critical thinking in world regional geography through stakeholder debate
Using a stakeholder debate based on a real-world case of regional construction – that of Turkey's application to join the European Union – improved students' critical thinking in an introductory world regional geography course. Such courses are a staple offering among US geography departments, and often the only exposure of non-majors to geographic thinking. A stakeholder debate highlighting regional construction, using structured learning activi…
Diverse Muslims in a Racialized Landscape
Studying the racially and ethnically diverse Muslim minority population in any US city must take into account the racialized landscape prevailing in the city. Milwaukee is a highly racially segregated city, where residential patterns have been shaped by decades of immigration by various ethnic and racial groups, and by restrictions on residential housing, as well as industrialization, deindustrialization and suburbanization. This paper presents f…
Zombies in the classroom
This paper reports on an introductory world regional geography course with a role-playing exercise. The goal was to situate students in a form of popular geopolitics that engaged them viscerally with positionality and othering. Students were assigned different positionalities in a liminal active learning environment within a context of fear of zombies; some actually engaged in othering or were othered; many vocally critiqued their own or others' …
Whose reproductive futures? Race-biopolitics and resistance in the Black infant mortality reduction campaigns in Milwaukee
This paper contributes to Foucauldian population geographies by examining an infant mortality reduction campaign in Milwaukee. The infant mortality rate for Milwaukee's Black community is about three times that for whites and higher than rates for other racialized groups. This paper asks how Milwaukee's public health interventions came to focus on sleep deaths, when population data show that preterm birth and congenital abnormalities are the lead…
The American prophetic tradition and social justice activism among Muslims in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Resignifying occupation
Occupation is a common strategy, including in anti-austerity movements. This paper examines the 2011 occupation at Seoul National University (SNU), which had an ambivalent position on anti-austerity activism, and mixed outcomes. The student occupiers held an occupied administrative building longer than previous student occupations, and their tactics were taken up by student activists around South Korea. However, the SNU occupation failed to influ…
When the illiberal and the neoliberal meet around infectious diseases
This paper investigates infectious disease mismanagement as a way of understanding the mixture of neoliberal and illiberal governance in public health. While acknowledging the significant role of neoliberalization in public health, we call for tracing geographies of illiberalism in relation to various actors, and through various scales and processes of governance, such as private power and state absence. Through a case study of the spread of Midd…
Teaching Indigenous geographies
This article draws upon indigenous praxis to teach emplaced indigenous knowledges to non-indigenous students in a study abroad fieldwork course. We argue that employing Indigenous methodologies can help students engage in contemporary indigenous worlds, frame indigenous knowledges as generative and creative way of knowing the world and connect students more deeply to their study abroad sites. The course taught took students from Milwaukee, Wiscon…
Political science (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Politics (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (4 works) · Criminology (3 works) · Geography (3 works)