Brett R. Chloupek

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I am a broadly trained cultural geographer specializing in the historical and political geography of Central and Eastern Europe. I was promoted to Professor of Geography in 2025. My research focuses mainly on the areas of toponymics and monument studies, both elements of what is more broadly described as the symbolic landscape. My recent projects have explored the transformations of the symbolic landscape of the post-communist central and eastern Europe. Studies have included place name changes across Slovakia, especially those which erase the memories of the communist era and Soviet domination as the country seeks to ground a modern national identity. I also study important monuments which have become containers of memory for modern Slovak and Hungarian nationalisms, like the Slovak National Uprising Museum complex, or the Monument of National Unity and other Trianon memorials in Hungary.

Experience

  • –present
    Professor of Geography, Northwest Missouri State University
  • 2019–2025
    Associate Professor of Geography, Northwest Missouri State University
  • 2013–2019
    Assistant Professor of Geography, Northwest Missouri State University

Education

  • 2011 
    University of Kansas, Ph.D. Geography
  • 2007 
    Oklahoma State University, M.S. Geography
  • 2005 
    University of Nebraska-Kearney, B.S. Geography; Computer Information Systems

Publications

  • 2025
    Neo-Trianon Memorials as Proxies for the Modern Hungarian Volksgeist. , Historical Geography, Vol. 52
  • 2023
    Commemorative vigilance between totalitarianisms: Slovakia’s 'Victims Warn' sculpture, from counter-monument to anti-monument, Journal of Historical Geography, Vol. 32
  • 2019
    Public memory and political street names in Košice: Slovakia’s multiethnic second city, Journal of Historical Geography
  • 2019
    City text and the leftover landscapes of communism, Miscellanea Geographica Vol. 23

Professional Memberships

  • Fellow - Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (CREES), University of Kansas
  • Associate Fellow - Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska
  • Member - Missouri Board on Geographic Names (MOBGN)

Contact Brett for

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