Fahui Wang

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Fred B. Kniffen Professor
Director of Chinese Culture and Commerce Program
Department of Geography and Anthropology
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Phone: 225-578-6629 ~ Fax: 225-578-4420
E-mail: fwang@lsu.edu

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

Ph.D., City & Regional Planning, Ohio State University, 1995

INTERESTS

Applications of GIS and Spatial Analysis in Public Policy (Crime, Health, Urban Poverty)
Urban, Economic, Transportation and Human Geography
China

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

McLafferty, S. and F. Wang. 2009. Rural reversal? Risk of late-stage cancer across the rural-urban continuum in Illinois. Cancer 115: 2755-2764.

Wang, F. and M. Arnold. 2008. Relative deprivation, concentrated disadvantage and homicide. Applied Geography 28: 259-270.

Wang, F., S. McLafferty, V. Escamilla and L. Luo. 2008. Late-stage breast cancer diagnosis and healthcare access in Illinois. Professional Geographer 60: 54-69.

Mu, L. and F. Wang. 2008. A scale-space clustering method: mitigating the effect of scale in the analysis of zone-based data. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 98: 85-101.

Wang, F. 2006. Quantitative Methods and Applications in GIS. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press [also in Chinese, trans. S. Jiang and J. Teng, Beijing: Commercial Press, 2009]

RESEARCH

8/1/2009-7/31/2010: Fahui Wang, Vivien Chen and Xiaocheng Wu, “Constructing Geographic Areas in GIS for Cancer Data Analysis,” SEER-RRSS program, National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institutes of Health (NIH).

9/15/2006-2/28/2009: John Hartmann, Fahui Wang and Wei Luo, “A Regional Approach to Spatial Analysis of Tai Toponyms in Southern China and Southeast Asia Using GIS,” funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF)

4/1/2005-3/31/2007: Fahui Wang and Sara McLafferty, “Late-Stage Cancer Clusters and Healthcare Access,” funded by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institutes of Health (NIH)

4/1/2004-9/30/2005: Fahui Wang, “Job Access in Disadvantaged Neighborhoods in Cleveland, 1980-2000: Implications for Spatial Mismatch and Association with Crime Patterns,” funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)

HONORS AND ACTIVITIES

Associate Editor, Annals of GIS (Taylor & Francis), International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research (IGI Global)

2007 - , Scientific Review Panels on Health Services Organization and Delivery (HSOD) and Health of the Population SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research), National Institutes of Health (NIH)

2004-2007, Vice-Chair, Spatial Analysis and Modeling (SAM) Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers (AAG)

2006, Best Service Award, International Association of Chinese Professionals in Geographic Information Science (CPGIS)

2001-2002, President, International Association of Chinese Professionals in Geographic Information Science (CPGIS)

COURSES TAUGHT

Geography of China

Geographic Information Systems

Urban Geography

Economic Geography

Advanced Quantitative Methods