Frankie Logan, Geography PhD student

Welcome to my personal website! My name is Frankie and I am a third-year PhD student in Geography at the University of Nevada, Reno. Feel free to read about my research interests below and check out the sidebar for some of my different web applications and my field recordings, which I make in my free time. I can always be reached at frankielogan@unr.edu. Thanks for dropping by!

My background

Ph.D. in Geography (University of Nevada, Reno)
M.S. in Sport Administration (University of Northern Colorado)
B.S. in Geography (University of New Mexico)

Biography

I'm originally from southern Arizona. My first introduction to geography was while taking a 100-level geography course at a community college to get my science credit out of the way. Six (plus!) years later and I'm pursuing a Ph.D in it. At the end of my undergraduate studies, during my Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship work, I learned about the field of sports studies. I went to get my master's degree in Sport Administration and used GIS as a primary method in my master's thesis, which examined patterns in economic and demographic neighborhood characteristics in areas that professional sports teams relocate to and from. My doctoral research combines these elements of stadiums, geography, and neighborhood life. My dissertation uses mixed-methods to understand how accessibility changes for Glendale, Arizona residents living around the Westgate Entertainment District and State Farm Stadium depending on the events that take place there.

I aspire to eventually continue this research as a professor and to pass on all of my positive experiences in education and a love of learning to the students I encounter. I also hope to implement my research findings, whether they be from my own projects or collaborations with current and future colleagues, to bettering our community at every scale.

Research interests

sports stadium and mega-event urban developments
urban transportation accessibility
GIS and network analysis