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Yelizaveta Skryzhevska
Professor, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
College of Liberal Arts and Applied Science (CLAAS) Leadership, Geography, Social and Behavioral Sciences

Yelizaveta Skryzhevska

Contact Info

(513) 785-3290

Dr. Liza Skyryzhevska is the Associate Dean of Miami Regionals. She was born in Odessa, Ukraine, a city on the Black Sea. Dr. Skyryzhevska earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in geography from Odessa National University in Ukraine and her Ph.D. in geography from the University of Idaho. 

In 2007, Dr. Skyryzhevska started her career at Miami Regionals as an Assistant Professor of Geography, and in 2017, she was appointed Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the College of Liberal Arts and Applied Science. This past academic year, she coordinated the restructuring of the Divisional Advisory Council and launched College Access, a new partnership initiative collaborating with local high schools and career centers in order to improve college-going rates and college awareness in high school graduates. 

Dr. Skyryzhevska was awarded the Miami University Hamilton Excellence in Teaching Award in 2014, an award that she truly values. 

Outside of Miami Regionals, she completed the CLIMB Leadership program offered through the Middletown, Trenton and Monroe Chamber of Commerce and participated in the Leadership 21 Program offered through the West Chester Chamber of Commerce. 

Dr. Skyryzhevska has a daughter, Kateryna, who is a Miami University alumna and now works at the International Monetary Fund in Washington, DC. 

Dr. Skyryzhevska really values that the Regionals has become a unique academic division within Miami University. According to her, Miami Regionals “provides excellent and affordable education to diverse populations. This is a great mission and what I value the most.”

Teaching Introduction

I am a human geographer with expertise in regional development, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and geography education with professional responsibilities at Miami Regionals. My teaching program incorporates a broad range of courses in human geography and GIS at the undergraduate and graduate levels. I study various aspects of spatial phenomena with the emphases on spatial inequalities in regional development, climate change adaptation, and pedagogical aspects of teaching geography and GIS.

Research Interests

  • Human geography
  • Regional development in Ukraine and Russia
  • Pedagogy of teaching geograhy
  • GIS

Courses Taught

  • GEO 101 – Global Forces, Local Diversity
  • GEO 101 L – Global Forces, Local Diversity (European Context)
  • GEO 241 – Map Interpretation
  • GEO 242 – Mapping a Changing World
  • GEO 311 L – Geography of Europe
  • GEO 441/541 – Introduction to Geographic Information Systems
  • CJS/GEO 445/545 – GIS for Criminal Justice

Education

  • Ph.D., Geography, University of Idaho (2007)
  • M.S., Geography, Odessa National University, Ukraine (1989)
  • B.S., Geography, Odessa National University, Ukraine (1989)

Publications

Karácsonyi, D., Hanaoka, K., & Skryzhevska, Y. (2021). Long-Term Mass Displacements—The Main Demographic Consequence of Nuclear Disasters? The Demography of Disasters, 15–48. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49920-4_2 

Antipova, A., Skryzhevska, L., & Kung, H. (2017). The Impact of Geography and Labor upon the Size of Job Agglomerations in Memphis, Tennessee. Data-Enabled Discovery and Applications, 1(1), 7–17. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41688-017-0009-7 

Green, J., Skryzhevska, Y., & Toops, S. (2017). Atlas Use in Teaching Geography in Higher Education in the USA and Canada. Часопис Економічної Географії (Ukrainian Journal of Human Geography)., 22(1), 62–68. http://hgj.univer.kharkov.ua/index.php/en/archive/22-1-2017 

Skryzhevska, Y., Tynkkynen, V. P., & Leppänen, S. (2015). Russia’s climate policies and local reality. Polar Geography, 38(2), 146–170. https://doi.org/10.1080/1088937x.2015.1052031 

Skryzhevska, Y., Karacsonyi, D., & Botsu, K. (2014). Separatism in Donbas in the Context of Ukraine’s Regional Diversity. Perspectives on Europe. Council for European Studies. Columbia University, 44(2), 50–62.

Skryzhevska, L., Green, J., & Abbitt, R. (2013). GIS Textbook Content as a Basis for Skill Development in Map Interpretation. Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization, 48(1), 38–46. https://doi.org/10.3138/carto.48.1.1262 

Green, J., Henry, M., Skryzhevska, L., & Toops, S. (2013). The Course Syllabus as a Guide to Map Interpretation Instruction. Research in Geographic Education, 14, 38–46. https://rge.grosvenor.txstate.edu/Issues/Volume-14.html 

Johansen, H., & Skryzhevska, Y. (2013). Adaptation priorities on Russia’s Kola Peninsula: climate change vs. post-Soviet transition. Polar Geography, 36(4), 271–290. https://doi.org/10.1080/1088937x.2013.788577 

Skryzhevska, Y., & Karacsonyi, D. (2012). Rural Population in Ukraine: Assessing Reality, Looking for Revitalization. Hungarian Geographical Bulletin, 61(1), 49–78. https://ojs.mtak.hu/index.php/hungeobull/article/view/2991/2255 

Gillen, J., Skryzhevska, L., Henry, M. C., & Green, J. (2010). Map Interpretation Instruction in Introductory Textbooks: A Preliminary Investigation. Journal of Geography, 109(5), 181–189. https://doi.org/10.1080/00221341.2010.501381 

Skryzhevska, Y. (2009). Convergence and Regional Development in Ukraine. Geography, Economics. Ecology, Tourism: Regional Studies, Nizhin State Hohol University, 117–142.

Skryzhevska, Y. (2008). Inequalities of Regional Development in Ukraine: Causes, Consequences, Policy Implications. DMV Verlag. 

Work in Progress

Y. Skryzhevska, Language as an Element of Ukraine’s Regional Dichotomy. In progress. A large-scale project that explores relationships between uneven socio-economic development and language dichotomy in Ukraine.