Chris Lukinbeal is the founding Director of Geographic Information Systems Technology Programs at the University of Arizona, USA, and Professor of the School of Geography Development and Environment. He earned his PhD in Geography from San Diego State University and University of California, Santa Barbara. Chris is a cultural geography and cartographer with research interests in representation, visualization, media, and cinema.
Stan D. Brunn labels himself as a cosmopolitan Middle Westerner who has graduate degrees from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and Ohio State University. He has traveled in more than 110 countries and taught at universities in the U.S., Caribbean, China, South Africa and Europe (>15). His research interests are broad including political, social, economic, communications and has written/edited books on social and political geography, time/space, urban, COVID, mapping, religion, language, stamps and nationalism, and ad hoc geographies.