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• Co-founder of a private classical education K-12 school
• Co-founder of a youth theater group operating since 2009
• Director of Greek language school, since 2008

An-Min Wu, Ph.D., is a lecturer in the Spatial Sciences Institute at the University of Southern California Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.

Wu teaches spatial databases, spatial data acquisition, spatial analysis and geospatial technology project management in the online Geographic Information Science and Technology (GIST) Graduate programs and principles of spatial data analysis in the interdisciplinary doctoral program in Population, Health and Place. She also serves as thesis advisor to several M.S. students in GIST.

Wu’s research interests are in the integration of environmental sciences and geographic information science. In particular, she is interested in understanding the impacts of human disturbances to critical soil properties in both natural and urban environments, and their feedback to human health in various spatial and temporal scales.

Prior to joining the USC Spatial Sciences Institute, Wu was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Minnesota, where she identified the minimum detectable changes in soil carbon density in U.S. forests and provided spatial and temporal sampling recommendations to the Northern Research Station of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service.

Wu has worked as a GIS analyst, mapping engineer and mapping project manager. She is a certified remote pilot on small Unmanned Aircraft Systems, and is a Professional Soil Scientist In-Training.

Wu is the Vice Chair of the California Geographic Information Association (CGIA) for 2018-2019. She also currently serves as a member of the USC Dornsife College Faculty Council, serving on its Research, Policy, and Documentation Caucus.

• Worked at the U.S. Department of State from 2006 to 2014 as an analyst on human rights, refugee and humanitarian issues
• Worked at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum as a visiting scholar
• Director of the USC Human Security and Geospatial Intelligence Lab

• Lived and studied in Israel, Morocco, and France
• Rome Prize recipient

• Director of Japan studies centers at USC and UC Berkeley
• Soto Zen Buddhist priest

• Author of Arabs and Muslims in the Media: Race and Representation after 9/11 (NYU Press, 2012).
• Guest curator of Arab American National Museums online exhibit: www.arabstereotypes.org
• Served on the Community Advisory Committee for Disney’s Aladdin (2019)