PhD candidate 
Department of Geography
University of Washington

Lecturer
Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Program
University of Washington, Bothell

Box 353550, Seattle, WA 98195
kramsey@u.washington.edu
206-713-4977

curriculum vitae (pdf)

Teaching

• Contemporary Political Ideas and Ideologies: Democracy in Theory and Practice (BIS 362, Fall 2007)
• Institutions and Social Change: Making Environmental Citizens (BIS 304, Winter 2008)
• Topics in Geography: Community Mapping and GIS (BIS 314B Spring 2008; Winter 2009)
• Topics in Geography: The Seattle Region (BIS 314 Spring 2009)

Research interests

• The cultural and environmental politics of urban development
• The tensions between planning, expertise, and democracy
• The use of information and communication technologies, including geographic information systems (GIS), in participatory research and activism
• Web mapping and web tools for facilitating online deliberative democracy

Current and recent research efforts

• The cultural politics of urban mobility: On democracy and contested visions for the Seattle waterfront 
  (link to dissertation proposal)

• Participatory Geographic Information Systems for Transportation (PGIST)
  (Outreach Coordinator / Research Assistant, 9/03 - 12/07)
  See also our demonstration website: www.LetsImproveTransportation.org


• Here's what I'm up to at the 2008 Association of American Geographers (AAG) conference

Recent and forthcoming publications

• Ramsey, K. (forthcoming). A Call for Agonism: GIS and the Politics of Collaboration Environment and Planning A.
  
  
• Ramsey, K. (forthcoming). GIS, Modeling, and Politics: On the Tensions of Collaborative Decision Support. Journal of Environmental Management Special Issue on "Collaborative GIS: Perspectives on decision support and visualization"
  
  
• Ramsey, K. S., & Wilson, M. W. (forthcoming). Rethinking the 'informed' participant: Precautions and recommendations for the design of online deliberation. In T. Davies & B. Noveck (Eds.), Online Deliberation: Design, Research, and Practice. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications.
  
  
• Wilson, M. W. and Ramsey, K. (2008). Integrating online deliberation into transportation investment decision-making: Preliminary reflections on a field experiment. In Proceeding of Tools for Participation, DIAC / Online Deliberation 2008.
  
  
• Nyerges, T., Ramsey, K., & Wilson, M. W. (2006). Design considerations for an internet portal to support public participation in transportation improvement decision making. In S. Dragicevic & S. Balram (Eds.), Collaborative GIS. Hershey, PA: Idea Group, Inc.
  
  
• Nyerges, T., Jankowski, P., Tuthill, D., & Ramsey, K., ( 2006). Collaborative water resource decision support: results of a field experiment. Annals of the American Association of Geographers
  
  
• Jankowski, P., Robischon, S., Tuthill, D., Nyerges, T., & Ramsey, K. (2006) Design considerations and evaluation of a collaborative, spatio-temporal decision support system. Transactions in GIS
  
  
• Ramsey, K. (2004) Stakeholder Involvement and Complex Decision Making: A Case Study into the Design and Implementation of a GIS for Supporting Local Water Resource Management. Unpublished Master's thesis. University of Washington, Seattle.
  • Abstract
  • Full text (PDF 2.6 MB)