Holly Barcus is a broadly trained population geographer teaching introductory and
advanced GIS (Geographic Information System) classes as well as a population geography
course. 

Her research interests fall at the intersection of population and GIS. Barcus is
specifically interested in the patterns and processes of change occurring in rural
communities and the resulting migration, service provision, and housing dilemmas. 

Her recent research projects focus on the changing racial and ethnic composition of rural
places and the implications for rural population growth, planning and development. 

EDUCATION: B.A., University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 1995; M.A., University of
North Carolina at Charlotte, 1997; Ph.D., Kansas State University, 2001. 

Holly Barcus has been teaching at Macalester College since 2005.

Journal Articles

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Place elasticity: Exploring a new conceptualization of mobility and place attachment in rural America (with Stanley D. Brunn), Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography (2010)
 

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The Kazakhs of Western Mongolia: Transnational Migration from 1990-2008 (with Cynthia Werner), Asian Ethnicity (2010)
 

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Bridging the Academic-Public Divide in GIS and Cartography: A Framework for Integrating Community Partnerships in the Classroom (with Birgit Muehlenhaus), Journal of Geography in Higher Education (2010)
 

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Mobility and Immobility in a Transnational Context: Changing Views of Migration Among the Kazakh Diaspora in Mongolia, Migration Letters (2009)
 

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Towards a typology of mobility and place attachment in rural America (with Stanley D. Brunn), Journal of Appalachian Studies (2009)
 

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Contributions to Books

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Heterogeneity of Rural Housing Markets, Rural Housing, Exurbanization, and Amenity Driven Development: Contrasting the "Haves" and the "Have Nots" (2011)
 

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New Destinations for Hispanic Migrants: An Analysis of Rural Kentucky, Latinos in the New South : Transformations of Place (2006)
 

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Wal-Mart-scapes in Rural and Small Town America, Wal-Mart World : The World's Biggest Corporation in the Global Economy (2006)
 

Book Reviews

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Review of 'Immigration, incorporation and transnationalism,' edited by Elliot R. Barkan, Population Space and Place (2008)