I will accept no more than 8 major MS/PhD Committee Chairmanships (of which no more than 5 will be PhD advisees) and a grand total of no more than 16 total graduate committee assignments at one time. This is due to the great amount of time required to supervise a PhD or MS advisee, and the fact that I do not feel it is fair to student to attempt to spread my time as an advisor too thin.
As of Monday 10 October 2005, I WILL NOT consider being either the major advisor or a committee member for a student who is not working on a topic in one of the following areas:
Applied Urban Geography
Population/Migration Studies
Sport/Popular Culture Studies
Regional Transportation Studies
- Regional Studies of the US South and/or The Great Plains
I will only work with students on projects with a heavy emphasis on GIS when these applications of GIS are in one of the areas above (NOT as a stand alone study area). The Department of Geography at OSU DOES NOT offer the doctoral degree (PhD) in GIS, and students should not expect to conduct their research on a GIS topic that is not of an applied nature.
Current Graduate Committee Chairmanships: 6 (4 Ph.D.)
Joel Barrow, BS, The University of Oklahoma (MS)
Steven Ericson, MS, Georgia State University (PhD)
William Flynn, MAG, Texas State University (PhD)
Bryan Frenz, BS, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire (MS)
Justin Plymell, MS, Oklahoma State University (PhD)
Christopher Storm, MS, University of Southern Mississippi (PhD)
Current Graduate Committee Memberships: 6
Leonard Bombom, MA, University of Northern Iowa (PhD)
Victoria Lightfoot, MBA, Oklahoma State University (PhD)
Weiping Li-Jan, MS, Oklahoma State University (PhD)
Brandan Lowden, BS, Kansas State University (MS)
William McBreyer, MA, Ohio University (PhD)
Nicholas Rose, BS, Morehead State University (MS)
All students/advisees must provide at least two weeks for review of all items prepared for review. While some items may be returned in a shorter period, this action/schedule will be considered at the discretion of Dr Finchum, and no guarantee is made that a "turnaround" of less than two weeks will be made under most circumstances.