Research Specialties
- Human and historical geography of the Great Plains
- Person-Environment-Behavior Relationships and Environmental Knowing or Perception
- Map communication and design
- Political geography of U.S. elections
- Remote sensing of land and water resources
- Land Use and Land Cover Characterization
- GIS-based Modeling and GeoComputation
Emphasis is on the dispossession of Indigenous peoples and the settlement of the Great Plains.
From: David J. Wishart, (1990) "Compensation for Dispossession: Payments to the Indians for Their Lands on the Central and Northern Great Plains in the 19th Century," National Geographic Research, 6:1: 94-109.




