I am a geography and geographic information systems (GIS) professional with over a decade of combined professional experience in university research and teaching, statistical consulting and data science, and GIS roles.

I currently work as the GIS specialist for the Environmental Litigation Group (ELG) at Baron & Budd, a leading U.S. plaintiff's law firm. I develop, curate, and manage ELG's environmental data infrastructure. I also investigate water pollution and corporate polluters across the U.S.

My publications span politics, social science, and statistics and have appeared in journals of history, geography, statistics, and public health, including Florida Historical Quarterly, Against the Current, Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Spatial Statistics, and Wisconsin Uprising: Labor Fights Back (Monthly Review Press, 2013, Ed. M. Yates). I studied the political economy of inequality, US history, and globalization while obtaining my undergraduate and masters degrees. In 2023 I completed a PhD in Geospatial Information Sciences at UT Dallas with a dissertation on probability theory and social-science methodology (with case studies in spatial statistics and health geography). The dissertation's general contribution to knowledge is an approach to probability theory that is grounded, first of all, in the activity of plausible reasoning - making possible mutually-beneficial exchanges between critical social science, realist philosophies of science, and probablity theory. I've served as a peer reviewer on an ad-hoc/invited basis for a number of journals in statistics and geography (Spatial Statistics, Statistics in Medicine, Nature—Communications Medicine, Transactions in GIS, etc.).

I am a big fan of jazz, the guitar, social democracy, labor unions, reading widely, free/open-source software, and outdoor exercise (mostly running and biking). I live with my wife in Chicago, Illinois.

Contact
connor.donegan@tutamail.com

Education

Postdoctoral Researcher
School of Public Health & Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Spatial statistics, GIS, cancer prevention

Doctor of Philosophy
Geospatial Information Sciences
The University of Texas at Dallas
Spatial statistics, probability theory, health geography

Master of Arts
Human Geography
University of British Columbia
Political economy

Bachelor of Arts
Human Geography
University of Minnesota
political economy, global studies, urban studies