CSDE Affiliate and Assistant Professor of Geography Bo Zhao has a forthcoming publication in the Annals of the American Association of Geographers now available in pre-print. Rooted in humanistic geography, the paper proposes humanistic GIS as a coherent and systematic framework that integrates existing, humanism-related GIS studies (e.g., human dynamics, people-based GIS, place-based GIScience, etc.) and reorients the epistemological foundation by situating GIS in its mediation of human experience. Humanistic GIS represents a shift towards connecting GIS and human experience, rather than treating GIS solely as a research technology.