I am a geography and geographic information systems (GIS) specialist with over a decade of combined professional experience in university research and teaching, statistical consulting, 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 and investigate water pollution and corporate polluters across the U.S.

My research publications span the social sciences, statistics, and computing and appear in journals of history, geography, statistics, and public health including Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Spatial Statistics, Florida Historical Quarterly, and a chapter in Wisconsin Uprising: Labor Fights Back published by Monthly Review Press. I completed a PhD in Geospatial Information Sciences at UT Dallas with a dissertation on probability theory and social science research methodology. During my undergraduate and masters degrees in human geography I was focused on political economy, globalization, inequality, and urban studies. I've also 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 and labor unions, reading widely, free/open-source software, and outdoor exercise (mostly running and biking). I live in Chicago, Illinois.

Contact
connor.donegan[at]tutamail[dot]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