 Robert
Ostergren
Professor of Geography
 Education
PhD, University of Minnesota,
1976
Research
Interests
Cultural and historical geography of Europe and North America
Nineteenth century European trans-Atlantic migration and settlement in North
America
Place, architecture and ideology in Germany during the National Socialist Era
Current
Research
Book projects:
Building Nazi Germany: Place, Space Architecture
and Ideology
The Europeans: A Geography of People, Culture and Environment
(2nd ed)
Professional Activities
Advisory Board, Geografiska Annaler, Series B, Human Geography.
Awards and Honors
Chancellor's Award for Distinguished Teaching, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
1998
Outstanding Achievement Award of the American Congress on Surveying and Mapping
(ASCM) for The Cultural Map of Wisconsin, 1996
 Recent
Publications
Wisconsin German Land and Life (2006). Edited by Heike Bungert,
Cora Lee Kluge and Robert C. Ostergren. Madison: Max Kade Institute,
University of Wisconsin.
"Spectacle, architecture
and place at the Nuremberg Party Rallies: Projecting a Nazi vision of past,
present and future."Cultural Geographies 13 (2006): 157-181.
The
Europeans: A Geography of People, Culture, and Environment. (2004)
With John G. Rice. Guilford
Publications.
"Cross-Border Regionalism
at the 'Macro' Scale: The Baltic Sea Region," in Lothar Hönnighausen,
Anke Ortlepp, James Peacock & Niklaus Steiner (eds.), Regionalism
in the Age of Globalism: Volume 2. Forms of Regionalism. Madison:
Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures, University of Wisconsin,
pp. 49-75. (2005)
"Concepts of Region
and Regionalism: A Geographic Perspective," in Lothar Hönnighausen,
Marc Frey, James Peacock & Niklaus Steiner (eds.), Regionalism in
the Age of Globalism: Volume 1. Concepts of Regionalism. Madison: Center
for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures, University of Wisconsin, pp.
1-14. (2005)
 "Norden:
A Thematic and Historical Geography", Nordic Council: Nordic Cultural Curriculum
Project (NCCP), No. 3. (2002)
Wisconsin
Land and Life. UW
Press (1997) Edited with Thomas Vale. A series of original essays by
Wisconsin geographers that offers an introduction to the state's natural
environment, the historical processes of its human habitation, and the
ways that nature and people interact to create distinct regional landscapes.
The
Cultural Map of Wisconsin: A Cartographic Portrait of the State. UW
Press (1996) The first of its kind created for any state with 1500
points of interest on how local cultures are inextricably linked to regional
landscapes.
Courses
Taught
Geog
349 Geography of Europe
 Geog
506 Historical Geography of European Urbanization
Geog 508 Landscape and
Settlement in the North American Past
Geog 901 Seminar in Cultural
Geography
Geog 903 Seminar in Historical
Geography
Geog 940 Regional Geography
View all geography syllabi
Graduate Students
Nick Bauch -
Food and Place: Consuming Parma, Italy (MS)
Jon Bushman-
Creating a Place of National Memory: The National World War II Memorial on
the Mall in Washington D.C. (MS)
Todd Courtenay -
Nationalizing Landscapes and Tourist Spaces: Geographies of Heritage in Nineteenth-Century
Rome (PhD)
Kara Dempsey -
Constructing contemporary European regional identities: Spanish Galicia's "Cidade
da Cultura" (MS)
Matthew Liesch-
Early Days on the Gogebic Iron Range: Reputation,
Riches, and Rowdiness, 1884-1890 (MS)
Amanda Peterson -
Norske I Kaskeland: The Norwegians in Koshkonong. An exploratory study of bounded
spaces in a rural ethnic settlement (MS)
Chad Rathman -
Site of Heritage-Site of Consumption: "Up North" in Brainerd, Minnesota
(MS)
Lisa Theo -
Upscale Upnorth: The Gilding of Wisconsin's Northwoods (PhD)
David Waskowski -
From Soviet Union to European Union: A Study of Urban Change, Regional Integration,
and Cultural Identity in Riga, Latvia (MS)
 Contact Information
Robert Ostergren
University of Wisconsin
Department of Geography
550 North Park Street
343 Science Hall
Madison, WI 53706-1404
Phone (608) 262-6302
Fax (608) 265-3991
rcosterg@wisc.edu
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