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Christiane von Reichert
Professor of Geography
Office: Old Journalism Building 204
Office Phone: (406) 243-4784
Office Fax: (406) 243-4840
E-mail: Chris.vonReichert@mso.umt.edu
Education:
Ph.D., University of Idaho, 1992
Geography
M.S., University of Kiel, 1981
Regional Science
B.S., University of Wuerzburg, 1976
Economics
Areas of Specialization:
Migration
Economic Geography
Rural Areas
Socio-demographic and Regional Analysis
Transportation
Quantitative Methods
Europe
Current Course Offerings:
GEOG 101S - Introduction to Human Geography
GEOG 315S - Economic Geography of Rural Areas
GEOG 410 - Migration and Population Change
GEOG 468 - Community and Regional Analysis (Course Syllabus)
GEOG 471 - Workshop in Teaching
GEOG 495 - Planning and Analysis Lab
GEOG 489 - Cartography/GIS Lab
GEOG 495/483 - Transport, Planning, and GIS
GEOG 510 - Advanced Human Geography: Migration
GEOG 595/504 - Introduction to Geographical Research (Course Syllabus)
GEOG 595/505 - Research Design
Previous Course Offerings:
300-level - Geography of Europe
300-level - Economic Geography
300-level - Quantitative Methods in Geography
400-level - Models in Geography and Planning
500-level - Research Methods
500-level - Concepts and Purposes of Planning
500-level - Sem: Social Science Research and Writing
Course Web Pages are available on Blackboard
Professional Background Information:
Christiane von Reichert is an economic geographer with research interests in human migration, in particular amenity-driven migration and migration in the West, and migration movements into and out of the Northern Great Plains. She has published on individuals' willingness to give up income for amenities (Review of Regional Studies 1992) and on how amenities captured in (lower) wages and (higher) rents differently affect labor force and non-labor force migrants (Journal of Regional Science 1994). At professional meetings she presented her research findings on the simultaneous effects of migration and employment change-- for different educational groups, and on the effects of regional attributes on the decision to stay rather than move. She further examined socio-economic differences between residents and migrants in the Mountain West, and population dynamics in Montana (Montana Business Quarterly 1997, Greater Great Falls Business Journal 2000). Dr. von Reichert employed quantitative and qualitative methodologies to study return migration (Montana Business Quarterly 1998, Growth and Change 2002, The Rocky Mountain West's Changing Landscape 2000). Prof. von Reichert’s research on the Northern Great Plains and people’s propensities to stay or leave their communities appeared in Population Change and Rural Society (eds. Kandel&Brown 2006). Dr. von Reichert’s research in recent years includes migration histories and spatio-temporal GIS, and transportation geography and modeling.
Dr. von Reichert's research has long shown a concern for regional disparities and regional inequalities, for instance in access to infrastructure and services. She published on unequal access to health care in Montana (Geoforum 1995) and on regional disparities in North Germany (Kieler Geographishe Schriften 1984, Bremer Beiträge zur Geographie und Raumplanung 1987). Dr. von Reichert was awarded a research grant from USDA's Cooperative State Research, Education and Extensions Service CSREES to study (with co-investigators John Cromartie ad Robert Gibbs from the Economic Research Service) 'Return Migration to Geographically Disadvantaged Communities in the Rural United States'. Dr. von Reichert is being aided in the coordination of this study by Ryan Arthun, Research Assistant in the Department of Geography.
Dr. von Reichert was born and raised in Germany and has traveled extensively (Europe, Southeast Asia, the South Pacific/Oceania, Central and South America, and Turkey and its neighbors.). She spent Fall 2006 as a Visting Scholar in the Republic of Georgia to offer workshops on 'Teaching Geography'.
