James Pick Ph.D.

• Ph.D., University of California, Irvine
• M.S. Ed., Northern Illinois University
• B.A., Northwestern University

Professor James B. Pick works in research and teaching in management information systems, urban studies and population, geographic information systems, and renewable energy.  He is past chair of Department of Management and Business, past assembly chair of School of Business, and founding director of Center for Business GIS and Spatial Analysis. He is the author of twelve books and 150 peer-reviewed scientific papers and book chapters.  His most recent books are The Global Digital Divides: Explaining Change, co-authored with Avijit Sarkar (Springer, 2015), Exploring the Urban Community: A GIS Approach, co-authored with Richard Greene (Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2012), and Geo-Business: GIS in the Digital Organization (John Wiley and Sons, 2008).  Dr. Pick has been principal investigator or co-p.i on grants from the Ford Foundation, U.S. Small Business Administration, and University of California. His awards include seven for faculty distinguished research and teaching from the University of Redlands, Senior Fulbright scholar award for Mexico, and outstanding alumnus award from Northern Illinois University.  He was visiting researcher at UC Irvine four times, as well as visiting scholar at City University of Hong Kong and Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2012, visiting scholar at Lingnan University, Hong Kong in 2009, and at Universidad Iberoamerica, Mexico City in1997 and 2001. He is currently doing research projects on the United States digital divide and on socio-economic and spatial aspects of renewable energy development in California. He has been on the organizing committees for international conferences in information systems and was recognized by Association for Information Systems for his leadership in fostering the GIS field for 4 years and for leadership for a decade in fostering information systems study of Latin America. He is senior editor of European Journal of Information Systems, associate editor of Information Systems for Development and serves on three other journal editorial boards. Throughout his career, he has served on 19 doctoral committees.  He holds a B.A. from Northwestern University, M.S. from Northern Illinois University, and Ph.D. from University of California, Irvine.

Previous Teaching Experience

• Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California Riverside

• Thunderbird Award for Outstanding Research Paper, Business Assoc. of Latin American Studies, 1993
• Student Recognition Award for Teaching of Graduate Seminar, Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, Mexico, 1997
• Fulbright Senior Lecturer/Research Award in Mexico, Summer/Fall 2001
• Outstanding Alumni Award, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Northern Illinois University, 2004
• Volunteer Spotlight Recognition, Association for Information Systems, 2010. For a decade of contributions to the field of Information Systems in Latin America
• University Faculty Honors Award for Outstanding Research, University of Redlands, 1993, 2000, 2008, 2015
• University Faculty Honors Award for Outstanding Teaching, University of Redlands, 1996
• School of Business Honors Award from Excellence in Research, University of Redlands, 2011 and 2014.
• Recognition Award, for leadership of the Special Interest Group in Geographic Information Systems, Association for Information Systems, 2016.

• Management information systems
• Human population and urban studies
• Geographic information systems (GIS)
• Renewable energy