Dr. Brett R. Chloupek

Associate Professor of Geography

Geotechnical Services Director

Education

• Ph.D. Geography; University of Kansas
• M.S. Geography, Certificate in GIS; Oklahoma State University
• B.S. Geography, Computer Information Systems; University of Nebraska-Kearney

Courses Taught

• Peoples and Cultures of the World
• Geopolitics
• The Geography of Europe
• Maps and Spatial Reasoning
• Geography of Religions and Belief Systems

Academic Interests

• Cultural, Political, Historical Geography
• Toponymics and Monument Studies
• The Visegrád Four (Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland, and Hungary)

Scholarly Activity

Publications:

• Chloupek Brett R. 2023. Commemorative vigilance between totalitarianisms: Slovakia’s 'Victims Warn' sculpture, from counter-monument to anti-monument.  Journal of Historical Geography (Special Issue: Contested Monuments) 81 (3).
• Chloupek, Brett R. 2022. The Bohemian Alps as a substantive landscape.  Great Plains Research 32(2), 135-145.
• Chloupek, Brett R. 2019.  Book Review:  “Empire and Belonging in the Eurasian Borderlands” Goff and Siegelbaum (eds.), Historical Geography, vol. 47.
• Chloupek, Brett R. 2019. Public memory and political street names in Kosice, Slovakia’s multi-ethnic second city. The Journal of Historical Geography, 35 (2).
• Chloupek, Brett. R. 2019. Post-communist city text in Košice, Slovakia as a liminal landscape.  Miscellanea Geographica: History and space: challenges, methods, applications, 23 (2).  Special thematic issue celebrating 100th anniversary of Geography at the University of Warsaw, Poland.
• Chloupek, Brett R. 2019. Chapter: Refugees.  In: D. Jerome ed. Examining war and conflict around the world.  Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO.
• Chloupek, Brett R.  2018.  A GIS approach to cultural and historical toponymic research in Nebraska.  Journal of Cultural Geography, 35 (2).

Selected Conference Presentations:

• Chloupek, Brett R.  2021.  Strategies for the symbolic integration of the Slovak Romanies. Reimagining the Heart of Europe: Inaugural Conference of the Czechoslovak Studies Group, Oxford University, UK.  September 17, 2021.
• Chloupek, Brett R.  2018.  Historical and spatial patterns in Eastern European street names.  17th International Conference of Historical Geographers, Warsaw, Poland.  July 16. (Invited session:  Old and historical maps as a tool: challenges for mind, development of form.)
• Chloupek, Brett R.  2018.  Chernobyl as a prototype for geopolitical ecotourism.  Plains Safaris: A conference on tourism and conservation in the Great Plains.  University of Nebraska Center for Great Plains Studies, April 19, 2018.
• Chloupek, Brett R. 2017.  Bohemians into Czechs:  Mapping Nebraska’s Bohemian Alps using Historical GIS.  2017 Great Plains Symposium: “Flat Places, Deep Identities: Mapping Nebraska and the Great Plains.”  Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.  March 31, 2017.

Student Group Advisement

• Nepalese Student Association, Faculty Advisor

Other Professional Experiences

• Member, Missouri Board on Geographic Names (MOBGN)

Selected Fellowships and Honors

• 2021 Excellence in Teaching Award – Northwest Missouri State University College of Arts & Sciences
• Great Plains Fellow, Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (CREES) – University of Kansas (current)
• Associate Fellow, Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (current)
• Boren Fellowship, Dissertation Research Abroad in Slovakia, 2009-2010
• 2004-2005 University of Nebraska Student Regent and Student Body President