Elisabeth Sedano
Profile
Elisabeth Sedano, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor (Teaching) at the Spatial Sciences Institute of the University of Southern California Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
Dr. Sedano’s research interests include outdoor advertising, crowdsourced mapping and geographic information science (GIS). Her analytical product is situated in the literatures of urban geography, public space and volunteered geographic information (VGI). Her current work engages community members using mobile applications in a counter-mapping project of outdoor advertising and street art in Los Angeles.
She teaches students of all levels in the Spatial...
Education
Ph.D., Geography, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
J.D., University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law, Berkeley, California
A.B., Social Anthropology, Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Selected works and presentations
Fleming, S.D., Sedano, E., Carlin, M., Tracy, R.W. & Walker, J., The Ethics of Volunteered Geographic Information for GEOINT Use. In 2018 State and Future of GEOINT Report (pp. 27-30). Reston, VA: United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation, 2018.
Sedano, E., Teaching Critical Physical Geography in a General Education Setting: The Case of the Water Planet. Paper presented at the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers Annual Meeting, Chico, CA, 2017.
Sedano, E., Public, Political, and Ephemeral: The Possibility of Changing the Urban Landscape By Engaging Urbanites With Mobile...