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CURRICULUM VITAEKENT MATHEWSONWinter 2019 Department of Geography and Anthropology4112 Palm StreetLouisiana State UniversityBaton Rouge, LA 70808Baton Rouge, LA 70803Tel. (504) 343-5600Tel: 504 388-6073; FAX: 504 388-4420E-mail: kentm@lsu.eduEDUCATIONB.A., 1970Antioch College, Yellow Springs, OH (Geography and Environmental Studies)Senior Honors Thesis: "Ecocide: An Economic History of Plant and Animal Extinctions," under W.M. Lotkowski, R.?Bieri.M.S., 1976University of Wisconsin, Madison (Geography)Thesis: "Specialized Horticulture in Highland Guatemala, The Tablón System of Panajachel," under W.M. Denevan (Chair), D.A. Gomez-Iba?ez, and T.R. ValePh.D., 1987University of Wisconsin, Madison (Geography)Dissertation: "Landscape Change and Cultural Persistence in the Guayas Wetlands, Ecuador," under W.M. Denevan (Chair), R.D. Sack, D.E. Thompson, Y.F. Tuan, and T.R. ValeTEACHING EXPERIENCESummer 1972Antioch College, Yellow Springs, OH, Environmental Studies Center: Lecturer (taught "Man's Role in Changing the Earth's Surface").Fall 1973University of Wisconsin, Madison, Extension Division, Department of Geography: Lecture (taught "Elements of Physical Geography").Spring 1974University of Wisconsin, Madison, Department of Geography: Teaching Assistant (for "Environmental Conservation").Spring 1975University of Wisconsin, Rock County Campus, Department of Geography: Lecturer (taught "Cultural Geography").Fall 1976University of Wisconsin, Baraboo County Campus, Department of Geography: Lecturer (taught "Introduction to Physical Geography).Spring 1977Winona State University, Winona, Minnesota, Department of Geography: Instructor (taught "Political Geography," "World Regional Geography," "Geography of South America").Summer 1978Instituto Geográfico Militar, Quito, Ecuador, CEPEIGE: Auxillary Professor of Geography (taught "La Geografía de Producción").Summer 1980Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral (ESPOL), Guayaquil, Ecuador, Escuela de Arqueología: Docent of Geography (taught "La Geografía Física para Arqueólogos").Fall/Winter/Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, Department of History andSpring 1982Geography: Adjunct Professor (taught "Introduction to Physical Geography," "History of Human Settlement Before A.D. 1750," "Cultural Geography").Spring 1984University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, Department of Geography and Urban Studies: & Winter 1985Lecturer (taught "World Regional Geography").Spring 1985University of Wisconsin, Madison, Department of Geography: Lecturer & Spring 1986 (taught "Introduction to Cultural Geography").Fall 1986 -University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Department of Geography: LecturerSpring 1988 (taught "Changing Human Environments," "Geography of Latin America," "Seminar in Regional Geography").Fall 1988-L.S.U.: Assistant Professor (courses & seminars taught):Spring 19951000-level: "Human Geography: Europe/The Americas," "Human Geography: Asia/Africa,"4000-level: "History of Geography," "Geography of Latin America," "1492: Geographical Perspectives (special course featuring 10 visiting lecturers from other universities)7000-level seminars: “Prehistoric Intensive Agriculture," “Berkeley School Geography (co-directed with Philip Wagner)," “Problems in Latin American Geography,” "Geographical Literature: Travellers' Accounts as Geographic Text" Fall 1995 - L.S.U.: Associate Professor & Professor (courses & seminars taught):1000-level: "Human Geography: Europe/The Americas," “Human Geography: Africa/Asia/Australia/Oceania”2000-level: “Human Geography”4000-level: “Geography of Brazil & the Caribbean,” “Geography of South America, “Geography of Latin America,” "History of Geography," “Environment & Development,” “Elements of Cultural Geography” 7000-level courses: "Introduction to Graduate Study," "Research Methods in Geography"7000-level seminars: “Traditional Agriculture in Latin America, “Environmental History in Latin America," “Environmental History and Historical Ecology,” “Ecology & Empire," “Latin American Resources & Development," “Environment and Development in Developing Countries,” “Apocalyptic Geographies,” “Anthropogeography,” “Geography of Food,” “Sugar, Spices, Drugs & Drink,” “Louisiana Landscapes Through Geographic Eyes,” “Landscapes of the Lost Cause,” “Geography of Empire,” “Exotic Species and Other Aliens in the American South,” “Commodity Geographies,” “Interdisciplinary Seminar in Atlantic Studies,” “Food Geographies,” “Intersections of Anthropology and Geography Through Time and Place,” “Geographical and Anthropological Perspectives on the State”OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE, FIELD RESEARCH, AND TRAVEL ABROADWinter 1966National Association for Foreign Student Affairs, New York, NY: Office Clerk.Spring 1967New York Public Library, New York, NY, Schomberg Collection of Black History and Literature: Aid to Curator.Summer 1967National Institute of Public Affairs, Washington, DC: Student Intern.Winter 1968U.S.-Africa Research Group, New York, NY: Journalist/ResearcherSpring 1969National Institute of Public Affairs, Washington, DC: Program Associate.Summer 1969U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Coos Bay, OR: Timber CruiserSummer 1970Fels Laboratories, Yellow Springs, OH: Laboratory Assistant on Physical Anthropology Project. Fall 1970-Antioch College, Yellow Springs, OH, Environmental Studies Center: Coordinator. Spring 1972 (Acting Director, Spring 1971).Summer 1971The Record, Yellow Springs, OH (Antioch College community newspaper): Editor-In-Chief.Fall 1972Study, field work and travel in Mexico, residence in Cuernavaca, Morelos.Fall 1974Field work in Guatemala for Master's Thesis, residence in Panajachel, Sololá, Guatemala.Winter 1979Field work, travel, in Belize, and attendance at International Conference in Tabasco, Mexico.Summer 1979-N.S.F. and Fulbright Fellowship supported doctoral field research in Guayas Fall 1980Basin,Ecuador.W/Spring 1981University of Wisconsin, Madison, Department of Geography, Research Assistant.Summer 1981Travel in Oceania, New Zealand, and attendance at International Conferences in Australia.Fall 1981Research, Alderman Rare Book Collection, University of Virginia, Charlottesville.W/Spring 1982Research, Benson Latin American Collection, University of Texas, Austin.Summer 1983Research, Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, VA.Summer 1985Travel in Colombia and Ecuador; attended 45th International Congress of Americanists, Bogota.Winter 1988Travel in Costa Rica; attended 18th International Meeting of the Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, San Jose, CR, January 10-15.Summer 1988Travel in England and The Netherlands; attended 46th International Congress of Americanists, Amsterdam.Winter 1989 Travel in Costa Rica.Summer 1989Travel in North and Central Mexico.Winter 1992Travel in Yucatán, Honduras, and Costa Rica.Summer 1992Travel, field studies in Fiji.Fall 1992Travel in Dominican Republic; attended 20th International Meeting of the Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, Santo Domingo, DRSummer 1994Travel in Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica.Summer 1995NEH Faculty Seminar Fellow, University of California-Berkeley.Winter 1996 Travel to Honduras; attended 21st International Meeting of the Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.Summer 1997 Travel in Ecuador, Peru; attended 49th International Congress of Americanists (Quito, Ecuador) and 22nd International Meeting of the Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers (Arequipa, Peru)Summer 2001Travel in Netherlands, Spain, France, Switzerland, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Belguim; attended 25th International Meeting of the Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers (Benicasim, Spain)Summer 2003Travel in Canada (Maritimes & Quebec), French language study.Spring 2004Travel, field course participation in Sweden – transect from Stockholm to Malmo (invited lecturer on landscape in NORFA course)Summer 2004Travel in Guatemala, attended 24th International Meeting of the Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, Antigua, Guatemala. Winter 2005Travel in Costa Rica (northwest quadrant of country)Fall 2005Travel in Mexico, attended 25th International Meeting of the Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, Morelos, Michoacan. Summer 2007Travel in Brazil (Salvador, Bahia; S?o Paulo State)Summer 2008Travel in Brazil (Ceará, Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro); field work in Nevis; travel in OaxacaWinter 2009Travel in Costa Rica, Nicaragua, attended 29th International Meeting of the Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers in Granada, Nicaragua. Spring 2010 Travel in Colombia, attended 30th International Meeting of the Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers in Bogota, Colombia.Summer 2010Travel in Mexico, attended UNAM colloquium on Environmental Geography, Morelia, México.Fall 2011Travel in Brazil, attended International colloquium on ?lisée Reclus, S?o Paulo, México. Winter 2012Travel in México, attended 31st International Meeting of the Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers in Mérida, México.Fall 2012Travel in Germany and Czech Republic, attended workshop on “Small Islands & Natural Hazards” at Rachel Carson Center, Ludwig Maximillian University, Munich, Germany.Winter 2014Travel in Panama, attended 32nd International Meeting of the Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers in Panama City, Panama.Summer 2014Travel in Portugal, France, and Italy, attended 2nd World Congress of Environmental History, Guimaraes, Portugal.Summer 2015Travel in Brazil, attended 33nd International Meeting of the Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers in Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil. Winter 2016Travel in Panama (San Blas Islands, Contadora Island, Panama City, El Valle). Spring 2016Travel in Colombia, attended SECOLAS meeting in Cartagena. Travel in Brazil, participated in Franco-Brazilian City and Rivers Symposium, Goiania, Goias, regional towns, and an excursion on the Araguaia River. Summer 2016Travel in Portugal & Spain (Seville, Cádiz, Granada, Córdoba), attended Resistance & Empire conference in Lisbon.Fall 2016Travel in Colombia, participated in History of Latin American Geography symposium in Bogota. Summer 2017Travel in Portugal, Spain, and France, attended Economic Botany Conference in Bragan?a, Portugal. Summer 2018Travel in Costa Rica, Cuba, Canada, attended meetings of: Conference of Latin American Geographers, San José, Costa Rica; Caribbean Studies Association, Havana, Cuba; Canadian Association of Geographers & International Geographical Union, Quebec City, Canada. PUBLICATIONSBOOKS AND EDITED BOOKS (9) 1984Irrigation Horticulture in Highland Guatemala: The Tablón System of Panajachel (Boulder: Westview Press). 180 pp. 1987Prehispanic Agricultural Fields in the Andean Region (KM second co-editor with W.?M. Denevan and G. W. Knapp) (Oxford: British Archaeological Reports, International Series, 359). 503 pp. 1993 Culture, Form, and Place: Essays in Cultural & Historical Geography (ed.) (Baton Rouge: Geoscience Publications), Geoscience and Man, 32. 356 pp. 1994 ReReading Cultural Geography (KM third co-editor with K. Foote, P. Hugill, and J.?Smith) (Austin: University of Texas Press). 494 pp. 1996 Concepts in Human Geography (co-edited with C. Earle and M.S. Kenzer) (Savage, MD: Rowman and Littlefield). 486 pp. 2003 Culture, Land, and Legacy: Perspectives on Carl Sauer and Berkeley School Geography(KM first co-editor with M. Kenzer). (Baton Rouge: Geoscience Publications) Geoscience and Man, 37. 353 pp.2004Dangerous Harvest: Drug Plants and the Transformation of Indigenous Landscapes (KM third co-editor with M. Steinberg and J. Hobbs) (Oxford: Oxford University Press). 325 pp. 2008Ethno- and Historical Geographic Studies in Latin America: Essays in Honor of William V. Davidson (KM second co-editor with CONTACT _Con-3DAAEED2F \c \s \l Peter Herlihy and CONTACT _Con-3DAAEED213 \c \s \l Craig Revels) Baton Rouge: Geoscience Publications) Geoscience and Man, 40. 342 pp.2009Carl Sauer on Culture and Landscape: Readings and Commentaries (co-edited with William M. Denevan) (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press). 458 pp.EDITED JOURNAL VOLUMES (3)2002Cultural Ecology – Special Issue of Journal of Cultural Geography (KM second co-editor with Dale Lightfoot).2005The Geographical and Political Vision of J. M. Blaut – Special Issue of Antipode (KM second co-editor with B. Wisner).2006Humboldt in the Americas – Special Issue of Geographical Review (KM first co-editor with A. Sluyter)CHAPTERS IN BOOKS AND EDITED VOLUMES (34)1983"Preliminary Results of the Samborondón Raised-Field Project, Guayas Basin, Ecuador," with W.M. Denevan, in J. A. Darch (ed.) Drained Field Agriculture, in Central and South America, Proceedings of the 44th International Congress of Americanists (Oxford: British Archaeological Reports) International Series 189, pp. 167-181.1985"Taxonomy of Raised and Drained Fields: A Morphogenetic Approach," in I.?S. Farrington (ed.) Prehistoric Intensive Agriculture in the Tropics. (Oxford: British Archaeological Reports) International Series 232, pp. 835-849.1985"Mounding, Mucking, and Mangling: Recent Research on the Raised Fields in the Guayas Basin, Ecuador," second author with W. M. Denevan and R. G. Whitten, in I.?S. Farrington (ed.) Prehistoric Intensive Agriculture in the Tropics. (Oxford: British Archaeological Reports) International Series 232, pp. 181-184.1987"Sauer South by Southwest: Antimodernism and the Austral Impulse," in M. S. Kenzer (ed.) Carl O. Sauer: A Tribute (Corvallis: Oregon State University Press), pp. 90-111.1987"Estimating Labor Inputs for the Guayas Raised Fields: Initial Considerations," in W. M. Denevan, K. Mathewson and G. W. Knapp (eds.) Prehispanic Agricultural Fields in the Andean Region (Oxford: British Archaeological Reports, International Series, 359) pp. 321-3336.1989"St. Brendan's Mythical Isle and Toponymic Drift: From Iceland to Ecuador," in J. de C. Ireland and D. C. Sheehy (eds.) Atlantic Visions (Dublin: Boole Press) pp. 51-60.1990"Rio Hondo Reflections: Puleston's Place and the Archaeology of Maya Landscapes," in M. D. Pohl (ed.) Ancient Maya Wetland Agriculture on Albion Island, Northern Belize (Boulder: Westview Press), pp. 21-52. 1991"Plantations and Dependencies: Notes on the 'Moral Geography' of Global Stimulant Production," in C. Blatz (ed.) Ethics and Agriculture (Moscow: University of Idaho Press), pp. 559-567.1992"Human Ecology: Old Twists, New Turns" first author with M. Yoder, in G. Elbow (ed.), Future Directions in Latin Americanist Geography: Research Agendas for the Nineties and Beyond (Auburn, AL: CLAG Publications). CLAG Special Publication No. 3, pp. 37-43.1992"Recent Research on Amerind and Peasant Cultures in Yucatán Central America," first author with M.Yoder, in T. Martinson (ed.) Geographic Research on Latin America : Benchmark, 1990 (Auburn, AL: C.L.A.G. Publications). pp. 177-187.1994“How the World Works,” in K. Foote et al (eds) Re-Reading Cultural Geography (Austin: University of Texas Press) pp. 167-172.1996“Back to the Basics: The Virtues of Key Concepts in Human Geography,” second author with C. Earle and M.S. Kenzer in C. Earle et al (eds.) Concepts in Human Geography (Savage, MD: Rowman and Littlefield) pp. 97-125.1996"High/Low, Back/Center: Culture’s Stages in Human Geography," in C. Earle et al (eds.) Concepts in Human Geography (Savage, MD: Rowman and Littlefield) pp. 97-125.2002“Latin Americanist Geography at L.S.U.: The First Fifty Years,” in M. Steinberg and P. Hudson (eds.) Cultural and Physical Expositions: Geographical Studies in the Southern United States and Latin America (Baton Rouge: Geoscience Publications) Geoscience and Man, 36, pp. 15-34.2003“Drug Production, Commerce and Terrorism,” first author with M.K. Steinberg in S. Cutter, D. Richardson, and T. Wilbanks (eds.) The Geographical Dimensions of Terrorism (New York: Routledge) pp. 59-66.2004 “Drugs, Moral Geographies, and Indigenous Peoples: Some Initial Mappings and Central Issues” in Dangerous Harvests: Drug Plants and Indigenous Peoples (co-edited with M. Steinberg and J. Hobbs) (Oxford: Oxford University Press) pp. 11-23.2004 “LSU Geography at 75: ‘Berkeley on the Bayou’ and Beyond” in J. Wheeler and S. Brunn (eds). The Role of the South in the Making of American Geography (Columbia, MD: Bellwether Press))(KM first author with V. Shoemaker), pp. 390-412.2004 “Sauer and the South: A Deferred Agenda,” in J. Wheeler and S. Brunn (eds). The Role of the South in the Making of American Geography (Columbia, MD: Bellwether Press), pp. 353-363. 2005“Landscapes of Drugs and War: Intersections of Political Ecology and Global Conflict,” in C. Flint (ed.). The Geography of War and Peace: From Death Camps to Diplomats (Oxford: Oxford University Press) (KM second author with M. Steinberg) pp. 242-258. 2008“Drug Geographies,” in E.L. Jackiewicz and F.J. Bosco (eds.) Placing Latin America (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield), pp. 137-158.2008 “James Morris Blaut (1927-2000),” in H. Lorimer and C.W.J. Withers (eds.) Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies, 27 (New York: Continuum), pp. 107-130. 2008“Coastal Ecuador’s Montubios in Ethnogeographic and Historical Perspective,” in P.H. Herlihy, K. Mathewson, and C.S. Revels (eds.) Ethno- and Historical Geographic Studies in Latin America: Essays in Honor of William V. Davidson (Baton Rouge: Geoscience Publications) Geoscience and Man, 40, pp. 239-262. 2008“William Van Davidson, Ethno- and Historical Geographer of Central America,” in P.H. Herlihy, K. Mathewson, and C.S. Revels (eds.) Ethno- and Historical Geographic Studies in Latin America: Essays in Honor of William V. Davidson (Baton Rouge: Geoscience Publications) Geoscience and Man, 40, pp. 7-28 (KM second author with P.H. Herlihy and C.S. Revels). 2009“Carl Sauer and His Critics,” in W.M. Denevan and K. Mathewson (eds.) Carl Sauer on Culture and Landscape: Readings and Commentaries (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press), pp. 9-28. 2010 “Greater Louisiana Connections & Conjunctures: Placing New Orleans in an Atlantic World Perspective,” in W. Boelhower (ed.) New Orleans in the Atlantic World (New York: Routledge), pp. 71-84. [reprinted from article in Atlantic Studies]2011“Landscape versus Region: Part II, in J. Agnew and J. Duncan (eds.) Companion to Human Geography (Oxford: Blackwell). pp. 130-145.2011“Sauer’s Berkeley School Legacy: Foundation for an Emergent Environmental Geography?” in G. Bocco, P.S. Urquijo and A. Vieyra (eds.) Geografía y Ambiente en América Latina (Morelia: UNAM/CIGA), pp. 51-82.2012“Drug Geographies: A Cultural Historical Profile.” in E. Jackiewicz and F. Bosco (eds) Placing Latin America: Contemporary Themes in Geography, 2nd edition (Lantham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield), pp. 115-128. [revised [revised verision of chapter in 1nd edition]2014“The Geography of Louisiana,” in W. Parent and R. Orgera (eds) The Louisiana Field Guide: Understanding Life in the Pelican State (Baton Rouge: LSU Press) pp. 11-32. 2016“La contribution singulière de Carl Sauer à l’émergence d’une sensibilité écologique en géographie,” in D. Chartier and E. Rodary (eds.) Géographie, écologie et politique: Manifeste pour une géographie environnementale (Paris, FR: Sciences Po) pp. 201-217. (KM second author with J-M Zaninetti). 2016“Drug Geographies: A Cultural Historical Profile,” in E. Jackiewicz and F. Bosco (eds) Placing Latin America: Contemporary Themes in Geography, 3rd edition (Lantham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield), 133-146. [revised version of chapter in 2nd edition]2016 “Geographic Thought (US),” in B. Warf (ed). Oxford Bibliographies in Geography, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/OBO/9780199874002-0127 (first author with A. Allen). JOURNAL ARTICLES (25)1977"Maya Urban Genesis Reconsidered: Trade and Intensive Agriculture as Primary Factors," Journal of Historical Geography, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 203-215.1986"Alexander von Humboldt and the Origins of Landscape Archaeology," Journal of Geography, Vol. 85, No. 2, pp. 50-56.1992"Tropical Riverine Regions: Locating the `People Without History'," Journal of the Steward Anthropological Society, Vol. 20, Nos. 1 & 2. pp. 177-187.1993"Human Geography of the American Tropics: A Forty Year Review," Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, Vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 123-156.1994"Uncommon groundings: Fred B. Kniffen's Place in Current Cultural Geography," Journal of Cultural Geography , Vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 123-156.1997"Louisiana State University's Department of Geography and Anthropology: A Selective History," Southwestern Geographer, Vol.1, pp. 62-84 [first author with Vincent Shoemaker].1998“Cultural Landscapes and Ecology, 1995-96: Of Oecumenics and Nature(s),” Progress in Human Geography, Vol. 22, no,1, pp. 115-128.1999"Cultural Landscape and Ecology II: Regions, Retrospects, Revivals," Progress in Human Geography, Vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 267-281.1999“Sauer’s Descent? Or, Berkeley Roots Forever?,” Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers, Vol. 61, pp. 137-157. [second author with Scott Brown]2000"Cultural Landscapes and Ecology III: Foraging/Farming, Food, Festivities," Progress in Human Geography, Vol. 24, no.3, pp. 457-474.2001“Between ‘In Camp’ and ‘Out-of-Bounds’: Notes on the History of Fieldwork in American Geography,” Geographical Review, Vol. 91, no. 4, pp. 215-224.2003“James M. Blaut (1927-2000),” Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 93, no. 1, pp. 214-222. (KM first author with David Stea).2005“James M. Blaut: Radical Cultural Geographer,” Antipode, Vol. 37, no. 5, pp. 911-926.2006“A Century and Counting: Geographical Research on Guatemala in Historical Perspective,” Geoforum, Vol. 37, pp. 15-30.2006. “Humboldt Alexander von Humboldt’s Image and Influence in North American Geography, 1804-2004.” Geographical Review, Vo. 96, no. 3, pp. 416-438. 2007. “Intellectual Relations between Historical Geography and Latin Americanist Geography,” Journal of Latin American Geography, Vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 25-41. (KM second author with Andrew Sluyter)2008 “Greater Louisiana Connections & Conjunctures: Placing New Orleans in an Atlantic World Perspective,” Journal of Atlantic Studies, Vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 223-236.2008“A geografia histórico-cultural da Escola de Berkeley – um precursor ao surgimento da História Ambiental,” Varia Historia, Vol. 24, No. 39, 71-85. (KM first author with J?rn Seemann) 2010“Geographers and the Theory and Practice of Return Field Work,” Journal of Cultural Geography, Vol. 27, no. 3, pp. 353-365.2011 “Herr Ratzel Goes to Mexico: Colonialism, Race, and Travel Sketches from 1874-1875,” Southwestern Geographer, Vol 15, pp. 127-142. (KM second author with J?rn Seemann)2012“Latin American Historical Geography: Berkeley School Contributions and Continuities” EspacioTiempo: Revista Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades,5 ( 7): 7-13. 2013“Latin America’s Los Turcos: Geographic Aspects of Levantine and Maghreb Diasporas,” Noesis. Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, Vol. 22, No. 43, Tomo II, Enero-Junio, pp. 290-308. (KM second author with Aaron Moore)2015“Invasive Species as ‘Natural Hazards’ in Small Island Geographical and Historical Contexts,” Global Environment, Vol. 8: 84-108. 2017“Obituary: Karl Wilhelm Butzer, 1934-2016. Journal of Historical Geography, Vol. 55: 93-98.2017“New Orleans and the Mississippi River: A Braudelian Time-Geographic Perspective. Confins – Revue-franco-brésilienne de géographie. No. 31: 114-129. ARTICLES (BULLETINS, NEWSLETTERS, ETC.) (2) 1979"Consumption of the Spectacle: Travel for Luxury, Travel out of Necessity," U.S.G. Newsletter, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 43-49.1982"Bridging the Guayas River Gap: Legend and Landscape Archaeology in Coastal Ecuador," Andean Perspective, Fall, No. 4, pp. 15-20.BOOKS REVIEWED (38)1976The Amazon River, H. O. R. Sternberg, 1975, in Luso-Brazilian Review, Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 265-269.1976Early Hydraulic Civilization in Egypt: A Study in Cultural Ecology, K. W. Butzer, 1976, in Geo Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 285-287.1977Man in the Amazon, C. Wagley (ed.), 1974, in Luso-Brazilian Review, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 275-277.1984Pulltrouser Swamp: Ancient Maya Habitat, Agriculture, and Settlement in Northern Belize, B. L. Turner, II and P. D. Harrison (eds.), 1983, in Journal of Historical Geography, Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 445-446. 1984?lisée Reclus: Historian of Nature, G. S. Dunbar, 1977, in Historical Geography, Vol. 14, No. 1 & 2, pp. 22-25.1986Conquest and Survival in Colonial Guatemala: A Historical Geography of the Cuchumatán Highlands, W. G. Lovell, 1985, in Journal of Historical Geography, Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 336-337.1986Advances in Abandoned Settlement Analysis: Application to Prehistoric Anthrosols in Colombia, South America, R. C. Eidt, 1984, in The Professional Geographer, Vol. 38, No. 4, pp. 437-438.1986Underdeveloping the Amazon: Extraction, Unequal Exchange, and the Failure of the Modern State, S. G. Bunker, 1985, in Economic Geography. Vol. 63, No. 2, pp. 278-280.1987The Peccary: With Observations on the Introduction of Pigs into the New World, R. A. Donkin, 1985, in Progress in Human Geography, Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 301-302.1988The Geophysiology of Amazonia: Vegetation and Climate Interactions, R. E. Dickinson (ed.), 1986, in The Professional Geographer, Vol. 40, No. 3, pp. 353-354.1988Good Farmers: Traditional Agricultural Resource Management in Mexico and Central America, G. C. Wilken, 1987, in Economic Geography, Vol. 64, No. 3, pp. 292-295.1990Canal Irrigation in Prehistoric Mexico: The Sequence of Technological Change, W. E. Doolittle, 1990, in Agricultural History, Vol. 64, No. 4, pp. 1166-117. 1991Migrants in the Mexican North: Mobility, Economics, and Society in a Colonial World, M. M. Swann, 1989, in Journal of Historical Geography, Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 114-115.1991Fate of the Forest: Developers, Destroyers, and Defenders of the Amazon, S. B. Hecht and A. Cockburn, 1989, in Annals, Association of American Geographers, Vol. 81, No. 1, pp. 169-171.1991The Sugar Cane Industry: An Historical Geography from its Origins to 1914, J. H. Galloway, 1989, in The Geographical Review, Vol. 81, No. 2, pp. 238-239.1991Between the Summit and the Sea: Central Veracruz in the Nineteenth Century, A. H. Siemens, 1990, in Cultural Ecology Newsletter, No. 19. p. 61992United States Perception of Latin America, J. V. Fifer, 1990, in The Professional Geographer, Vol. 44, No. 2, pp. 226-227. 1992 The Potatoes of South America: Bolivia, C. Ochoa, 1990, in Latin American Anthropology Review, Vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 41-44. 1993 The Keepers of Water and Earth: Mexican Rural Social Organization and Irrigation, K. I. Enge and S. Whiteford, 1990, in Mesoamérica, Vol. 25, pp. 167-169.1994 "Secret Judgments of God" Old World Disease in Colonial Spanish America, N. D. Cook and W. G. Lovell (eds.), 1992, in Journal of Historical Geography , Vol. 83, no. 2, pp.1995Rereading Cultural Anthropology, G. E. Marcus (ed.), 1992, in Ecumene, Vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 221-222.1996The Colonizer's Model of the World: Geographical Diffusionism and Eurocentric History, J. M. Blaut,1993, in Economic Geography , Vol. 72, no. 4, pp. 463-467.1996Sugar Dynasty: M.A. Patout & Sons, Ltd. 1791-1993, M.G. Wade, 1995, in World Sugar History Newsletter, no. 23, pp. 1-2.1997Justice, Nature & the Geography of Difference, D. Harvey, 1996, in Geographical Review, Vol. 87, no. 4, pp. 554-557.1998Historie Naturelle des Indies: The Drake Manuscript in the Pierpont Morgan Library, P. O'Brian, V. Klinkenborg, and R. Kraemer (contribs), 1996, in Historical Geography, no. 26, pp. 253-256.2000The Social Life of Trees: Anthropological Perspectives on Tree Symbolism, L. Rival (ed.), 1998, in Ecumene, Vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 247-248.2000Delta Sugar: Louisiana’s Vanishing Plantation Landscape, J.B. Rehder, 1999, in The Southeastern Geographer, Vol. 40, no. 2, pp. 238-240. 2002How it Came to Be: Carl O. Sauer, Franz Boas, and the Meanings of Anthropogeography, W.W. Speth, 1999, in American Anthropologist, Vol. 104, no. 1, pp. 380.2002Alcohol in Ancient Mexico, H. Bruman, 2000, in Latin American Antiquity, Vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 2003Cultural Encounters with the Environment: Enduring and Evolving Geographical Themes, D. Johnson and A. Murphy (eds.), 2000, in Progress in Human Geography, Vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 245-247.2004Cultivated Landscapes of Middle America on the Eve of Conquest, T.M. Whitmore and B.L. Turner II, 2001, in Geographical Review, Vol. 94, no. 3, pp. 407-409.2006Gardens of New Spain, W.W. Dunmire, 2004. Journal of Historical Geography, Vol. 31, No. 1, pp. 180-182.2007Geography and Revolution, D.N. Livingstone and C.W.J. Withers (eds.), 2005, in Journal of Regional Science, Vol. 47, no. 5, pp. 1009-1012. 2009The Cultural Geography Reader, T.S. Oakes and P.L. Price (eds.), 2008, in Journal of Latin American Geography, Vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 241-242.2011 Civic Discipline: Geography in America 1860-1890, K. Morin, 2011, in Cultural & Social Geographies. Vol 14 (4): 485-487.2015Views of the Cordilleras and Monuments of the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas. A. von Humboldt. 2014. In Journal of Latin American Geography. Vol. 14 (3): 289-291.2016Views of the Cordilleras and Monuments of the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas: A Critical Edition. A. von Humboldt. 2014. In Southeastern Geographer. Vol. 56 (1): 136-138.2016To Pass on a Good Earth: The Life and Work of Carl O. Sauer. Michael Williams (with David Lowenthal and William M. Denevan). Journal of Latin American Geography. Vol. 15 (1): 165-169.2016Conquest and Survival in Colonial Guatemala: A Historical Geography of the Cuchumatán Highlands, 1500-1821. W. George Lovell. Fourth Edition. In Journal of Historical Geography. Vol. 54 (3): 103-131. FILMS REVIEWED (1) 1992"The Chinampas," A. Prutzmann, 1989, in Latin American Anthropology Review, Vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 94.AWARDS & MEMORIALS (4)1999“Karl S. Zimmerer, The 1998 Carl O. Sauer Distinguished Scholarship Award,” Yearbook, Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, Vol. 25, pp. 103-105. 2002“William V. Davidson: Recipient of 2001 Preston E. James Eminent Latin Americanist Career Award,” The Journal of Latin American Geography, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 95-97.2015“Harley Jesse “Jess” Walker, 1921-2015,” AAG Newsletter. June 18, 2015. SHORTER ITEMS (ENCYCLOPEDIAS, HANDBOOKS, FOREWORDS, INTRODUCTIONS, PREFATORY PIECES, NEWSLETTERS, ETC.) (28)1989"An Appreciation," in W. M. Denevan (ed.) Hispanic Lands and Peoples: Selected Writings of James J. Parsons, (Boulder: Westview Press) pp. xxxi-xxxv.1989-Various pieces in Latitudes; Newsletter of the Department of Geography and Anthropology, LSU.1993"Introduction," in K. Mathewson (ed.) Culture, Form, and Place: Essays in Cultural & Historical Geography (Baton Rouge: Geoscience Publications) Geoscience and Man, 32, pp. v-ivx.1989-94 Editor's column in Cultural Ecology Newsletter (Cultural Ecology Specialty Group, A.A.G.)1990-92 Editor's column in Latin American Newsletter (Latin American Specialty Group, A.A.G.)2002“Introduction” in D. Lightfoot and K. Mathewson (guest editors) special issue on cultural ecology, Journal of Cultural Geography, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 1-8. (KM second author with Dale Lightfoot)2003“Introduction” in K. Mathewson and M.S. Kenzer (eds.) Culture, Land, and Legacy: Perspectives on Carl Sauer and Berkeley School Geography (Baton Rouge: Geoscience Publications) Geoscience and Man, 37, pp. 11-14.2005“Foreword” to L.I. Yacher, The Role of Geographer and Natural Scientist Henri Francois Pittier (1857-1950) in the Evolution of Geography as a Science in Costa Rica (Lewiston, NY: Edwin Melton Press), pp. xi-xv.2005“Introduction: The Geographical and Political Vision of J.M. Blaut” in B. Wisner and K. Mathewson (guest editors) special issue “Critical Assessment of James M. Blaut’s Life and Work” Antipode, vol. 37, no. 5, pp. 900-910. (KM first author with Ben Wisner). 2006“Geography: General,” in T. North (ed.) Handbook of Latin American Studies: No. 61, Social Sciences (Austin: University of Texas Press), pp. 235-242.2006“Introduction” (KM first author with A. Sluyter).in K. Mathewson and A. Sluyter (guest eds) Alexandervon Humboldt in the Americas, special issue of the Geographical Review, vol. 96, no. 3 pp. iii-v. 2006“Anthropogeography,” in B. Warf (ed.) Encyclopedia of Human Geography (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage), pp. 10-11.2006“Berkeley School,” in B. Warf (ed.) Encyclopedia of Human Geography (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage), pp. 19-20.2006“Cultural Ecology,” B. Warf (ed.) Encyclopedia of Human Geography (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage), pp. 69-70.2006 “Culture Hearth,” B. Warf (ed.) Encyclopedia of Human Geography (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage), pp. 82-83.2006“Sequent Occupance,” B. Warf (ed.) Encyclopedia of Human Geography (Thousand Oaks CA: Sage), pp. 425-427.2008“Geography: General,” in T. North (ed.) Handbook of Latin American Studies: No. 63, Social Sciences (Austin: University of Texas Press), pp. 245-249.2009“Economy/Economics: Introduction,” in W.M. Denevan and K. Mathewson (eds.) Carl Sauer on Culture and Landscape: Readings and Commentaries (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press), pp. 149-151, 153-158 [subsections “Preface,” “Commercial Geography and Land Use,” “Regional Development,” “Economic Prospects of the Caribbean”]2010“Geography: General,” in T. North (ed.) Handbook of Latin American Studies: No. 65, Social Sciences (Austin: University of Texas Press), pp. 185-192. (KM first author with J?rn Seemann)2010“The 100th Volume,” (with C. Colten, D. DeLyser, and A. Sluyter), Geographical Review, Vol. 100, no. 1, pp. iii-iv. 2012“Miles Edward Richardson,” Anthropology News, Vol. 52, No. 2, pp. 2012“Geography: General,” in T. North (ed.) Handbook of Latin American Studies: No. 67, Social Sciences (Austin: University of Texas Press), pp. 131-141. (KM first author with J?rn Seemann)2014“Geography: General,” in T. North (ed.) Handbook of Latin American Studies: No. 69, Social Sciences (Austin: University of Texas Press), pp. 119-139. (KM first author with J?rn Seemann).2015“In Memoriam – Harley Jesse Walker, 1921-2015,” IAG/AIG Newsletter, No. 31 (3): pp. 2-5. (KM first author with Denys Brunsden)2016“Introduction,” to Book Review Forum on Geoffrey J. Martin’s 2014 American Geography and Geographers: Toward Geographical Science. AAG Review of Books, Vol. 4, No. 1 (January), pp. 1-15. 2016“Geography: General,” in T. North (ed.) Handbook of Latin American Studies: No. 71, Social Sciences (Austin: University of Texas Press), pp. 119-135. (KM first author with J?rn Seemann).2016“Sequent Occupance,” in D. Richardson et al. 2016 Wiley-AAG International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology. New York, NY: John Wiley & Co. pp. 1-4. 2017“Ancient Geography,” in D. Richardson et al. 2016 Wiley-AAG International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology. New York, NY: John Wiley & Co. pp. 1-7. REPORTS & NOTES (2)1984"Ecuador: Samborondon Survey," in "Current Research" T. Lynch (ed.) American Antiquity, Vol. 49, No. 2, pp. 417.2006“Research Notes. Humboldt’s Twenty-First-Century Currency: Recent Upwellings, Commemorations, and Critical Commentaries” in K. Mathewson and A. Sluyter (guest eds) Alexander von Humboldt in the Americas, special issue of the Geographical Review, vol. 96,no. 3, pp 452-455. COMMENTARIES & COMMENTS (5)1987"Humane Ecologist: Carl Sauer as Metaphor?," The Professional Geographer, Vol. 39, No. 4, pp. 412-413 [invited commentary]1988"Response to Kenzer," The Professional Geographer, Vol. 40, No. 3, pp. 336-337.1998“Classics in Human Geography Revisited: J.S. Duncan’s ‘The Superorganic in American Cultural Geography,” Progress in Human Geography, Vol. 22, No. 4, pp. 569-571. [invited commentary]1998"Recollections of Fred B. Kniffen," in H.J. Walker (comp) Fred Bowerman Kniffen and Anthropogeography Remembered, 1998, pp. 30-32. [invited commentary]2003“Globalization: An Invitation to Excavation“ Past Place, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 5-6. [invited commentary] MAPS PUBLISHED (1)1979"Figures 1-5" in R. G. Whitten, "Comments on the Theory of Holocene Refugia in the Culture Theory of Amazonia," American Antiquity, Vol. 44, No. 2, pp. 238-251.PHOTOGRAPHS PUBLISHED (2)1982"Splash Irrigation (using Gourds) of a Garlic Crop on Tablones at Aguacatan in Highland Guatemala, October 1974," in B. L. Turner, II "Book Review: Maya Subsistence," Science Vol. 217, pp. 346.1982"Splash Irrigation in Highland Guatemala," in W. M. Denevan, "Hydraulic Agriculture in American Tropics: Forms, Measures, and Recent Research," in K. V. Flannery (ed.) Maya Subsistence: Studies in Memory of Denis E. Puleston (Academic Press: New York) pp. 184.BOOK COVER ENDORSEMENTS (“BLURBS”) (7)2003Five Billion Years of Global Change: A History of the Land, D. Wood. New York, NY: Guilford Press.2004Anarchy, Geography, Modernity: The Radical Thought of Elisée Reclus, J.P. Clark and C. Martin (eds). Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. 2011Mapping Latin America: A Cartographic Reader, J. Dym and K. Offen (eds). Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.2012 Curiosity, Inquiry, and the Geographical Imagination, D. Gade. New York, NY: Peter Lang.2014 Leadership in American Academic Geography: The Twentieth Century. M. DeVivo, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. 2015 Colonizing Paradise, J. Dillman, Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press. 2017 Island, River, and Field: Landscape Archaeology in the Llanos de Mojos, J.H. Walker, Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press. PUBLICATIONS: IN PREPARATION, SUBMITTED, FORTHCOMING.BOOKS, EDITED BOOKS, AND EDITED VOLUMES (4) ndThe Militarization of Guatemala: A Visual History of Civil Conflict. KM third author with M. Taylor and M. Steinberg (under contract Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press). Ms complete, awaiting first author’s completion of photo captions. ndTravels to the Sierra Santa Marta de Nevada [ms to be submitted to the University of Texas Press] – a translation (KM second co-editor with E. Perramond) from the original French of geographer Elisée Reclus’s 1850 travels in Colombia. Ms complete. Exploring possible publishers. ndWilliam M. Denevan on Cultural and Historical Ecology [working title] (second co-editor with A. Winkler-Prins) a compilation of Denevan’s publications with commentaries by eight geographers and archaeologists. Ms 90% complete (lacking editor’s introductory piece). Exploring possible publishers. nd Humboldt’s South Atlantic World Legacy [working title] (first co-editor with J?rn Seemann) a collection of three essays on Alexander von Humboldt’s South Atlantic World legacy. SpringerBriefs in Latin American Studies. CHAPTERS IN BOOKS AND EDITED VOLUMES (8)2019“Radical Geography in the Midwest,” (co-authored with M. Lauria, B. Higgins, M. Bouman, T. Barnes, and E. Sheppard) in T. Barnes and E. Sheppard, eds. Spatial Histories of Radical Geography: North America and Beyond. pp. 247-271. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons. 2019“Transformaciones del paisaje de los humedales alto y bajo: el descubrimiento y la interpretación de complejos de campos elevados antiguos en América, in Pedro Urquijo ed. Huellas en el Paisaje, Geografía, Historia y Ambiente en las Américas. Morelia, Mexico: UNAM Press. nd“Guatemala’s Landscapes of Terror in Historical Perspective,” in M. Taylor, M. Steinberg and K. Mathewson. The Militarization of Guatemala: A Visual History of Civil Conflict. (under contract Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press).nd“Elisée Reclus’ Contributions to Latin Americanist Geography,” in E. Perramond and K. Mathewson (eds) Elisée Reclus’ Travels to the Sierra Santa Marta de Nevada, Colombia [ms to be submitted to the University of Texas Press].nd“William Maxfield Denevan, a biographical sketch,” in A. WinklerPrins and K. Mathewson, eds. William M. Denevan on Cultural and Historical Ecology [working title] [ms to be submitted to Springer Publishers]. nd“Alexander von Humboldt: Accidental Atlanticist,” in Kent Mathewson and J?rn Seemann, eds. Humboldt’s South Atlantic World Legacy [working title] [ms to be submitted to SpringerBriefs in Latin American Studies]. nd“Alexander von Humboldt’s Brazilian Encounters: From Border Proximity to Travel by Proxies,” in Kent Mathewson and J?rn Seemann, eds. Humboldt’s South Atlantic World Legacy [working title] [ms to be submitted to SpringerBriefs in Latin American Studies]. nd“Drug Geographies: Past and Present,” (KM first author with Zoe Pearson) in Edward Jackiewicz and Fernando Bosco, eds. Placing Latin America: Contemporary Themes in Geography, 4th ed. New York: Rowman & Littlefield [invited submission]JOURNAL ARTICLES (1)nd“Humboldt, Empire, and Hermeneutics of Guano,” [to be submitted to Journal of Historical Geography (KM second author with Gregory Cushman). SHORTER ITEMS (FOREWORDS, INTRODUCTIONS, PREFATORY PIECES, NEWSLETTERS, ETC.) (4)2019“Introduction,” in Book Review Forum: Patina: A Profane Archaeology, by Shannon L. Dawdy. AAG Review of Books 2019, Vol. 7, No. 2. nd “Introduction” (KM first author with E. Perramond) in E. Perramond and K. Mathewson (eds) Elisée Reclus’ Travels to the Sierra Santa Marta de Nevada, Colombia [ms to be submitted to the University of Texas Press]. nd“Introduction,” in A. Winkler-Prins and K. Mathewson, eds. William M. Denevan Reader [working title]. (second author with A. Winkler-Prins). nd“Geography: General,” in T. North (ed.) Handbook of Latin American Studies: No. 73, Social Sciences (Austin: University of Texas Press), (KM first author with J?rn Seemann).CONFERENCES AND SYMPOSIA CHAIRED & ORGANIZED (5)1990Organizer, "Culture, Form, and Place," three day national conference celebrating 60 years of cultural and historical geography at LSU with twenty-four invited speakers, Baton Rouge, LA, Feb. 23-25.1991Organizer, "New Directions in Cultural Geography," symposium with four invited visiting speakers, Baton Rouge, LA, March 1.1992Organizer, "1492: Geographical Perspectives," lecture series with seventeen guest speakers, Baton Rouge, LA, September-December 1992.1998Chair & Organizer, "Morphologies & Modernities: Past, Present, and Future," three day regional conference of the Southwest Division of the Association of American Geographers (SWAAG). The meeting was attended by some 250 geographers and featured some 150 paper & poster presentations, a mini-symposium with 20 papers presented by LSU geographers celebrating the department's 70th anniversary, and four field trips.2003Program Chair and Local Arrangements Committee Member, 99th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, New Orleans, LA March 4-8. The meeting was attended by some 4000 geographers and featured over 1000 paper & poster presentations.MEETING SESSIONS ORGANIZED AND/OR CHAIRED (35)1983Chaired Session on "Commodity Frontiers: A Comparative View," 34th Annual Meeting of the West Lakes Division of the A.A.G., Iowa City, IO. November 3-5.1985Chaired Session on "Raised Fields of the Guayas Basin, Ecuador" in Symposium: "The Ecology and Archaeology of Prehispanic Agricultural Field in the Central Andes" at the 45th International Congress of Americanists, Bogota, Colombia, July 1-6.1986Organized Session on "Andean Landscape Ecology and Archaeology," 82nd Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Minneapolis, MN, May 3-7.1991Organized and Chaired Session on "Greater Amazonia: Cultural Pasts, Ecological Futures," 87th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Miami, FL, April 13-17.1991Organized and Chaired Session on "Berkeley School Geography: Origins, Dispersals and Appraisals," Annual Meeting of the Southwest Division of the Association of American Geographers, Nacogdoches, TX, October 17-19.1992Organized and Chaired Session on "Americanist Topics in Cultural Ecology," 88th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Diego, CA, April 19-21.1993Organized and Chaired Session on "Cultural Ecology," Spring Meeting of the Southwest Division of the Association of American Geographers, New Orleans, LA, March 18-20.1993 Chaired Session on "Historical Geography of Latin America," 89th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Atlanta, GA, April 6-10.1994Organized Sessions (2) on "Indigenous Peoples and Landscapes: Papers Honoring William M. Denevan," 90th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, CA, March 29-April 2.1997Organized and Chaired Session on “Was the Northwest Coast Agricultural?: Aboriginal Plant Use Reconsidered,” Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Seattle, WA, February 13-18.1998Organized and Chaired Session on "The Americas Seen Anew: Papers in Honor of James J. Parsons," 94th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Boston, MA, March 25-29.1998Chaired Session on "Indigenous People and Protected Areas: Global Perspectives," 94th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Boston, MA, March 25-29.1998Organized Session on "History of Geography: Departments of the Southwestern Division," 25th Annual Meeting of the Southwest Division of the Association of American Geographers, Baton Rouge, LA, October 29-31.1999 Chaired Session on “Sacred to Profane: Illicit Drugs in Traditional Cultures and Landscapes,” 95th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Honolulu, HI, March 23-27.2000Chaired Session on “Geography and Anthropology III: Crossfertilizations,” 96th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Pittsburgh, PA, February 2001Organized and Chaired Session on “Pre-European Landscapes of the American West: Pristine or Anthropogenic?”, Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, San Francisco, CA, February 18.2003Organized and Chaired Session on “Robert C. West: Reconstruction and Reminiscences“ 27th Annual Meeting, Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, Tucson, AZ, Jan 6-7.2003Organized and Chaired Session on “Author Meets Critics: Ken Olwig’s Landscape, Nature, and the Body Politic,“ 99th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, New Orleans, LA, March 4-8.2004 Organized Session on “Humboldt in the New World I: North America,” 100th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Philadelphia, PA, March 14-19.2004Organized Session on “Humboldt in the New World II: Latin America,” 100th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Philadelphia, PA, March 14-19.2004 Chaired Session on “Human Ecology and Geography,” Annual Meeting of the Southwest Division, Association of American Geographers, Stillwater, OK, October 23-25.2004Chaired Session on “Cultural Geography of the South,“ 58th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Division, Association of American Geographers, Charlotte, NC, November 23-25.2004Chaired Session on “Geographic Studies of the South,” 59th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Division, Association of American Geographers, Biloxi, MS, November 21-23.2005Chaired Session on “Invasive Species and Other Aliens in the American South,” 30th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Environmental History, Baton Rouge, LA, February 28-March 3. 2007Organized and Chaired Panel Session on “Carl Sauer – A Half-Century On,” 103th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, CA, April 17-21.2008Organized and Chaired Session on “Commodity Geographies,” Annual Meeting of the Brazilian Studies Association, New Orleans, LA, March 27-29. 2009Chaired Session on “In John Wesley Powell’s Wake,” 105th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas, NV, March 22-27.2010Organized Session on “Remembering Fred Lukermann,” 106th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Washington, DC April 17-21.2011Chaired Session on “Views from a Bridge: Disciplinary Connections,” 107th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Seattle, WA April 12-16.2012Organized and Chair Session on “Author Meets Critics: Karen Morin, Civic Discipline: Geography in America, 1860-1890,” 108th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, New York, NY February 24-28.2013Organized Session on “Forest, Fallow, Terrace, and Field: Honoring the Contributions of William M. Denevan to the Fields of Cultural and Historical Ecology,” 109th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, CA, April 9-13.2014 Chaired Session on “Cultural Geography of the American South,” 110th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Tampa, FL, April 8-12.2014 Organized and Chaired Sessions (3) on “Unsettling Crosby’s Euro-centered Columbian Exchange: Old World Tropical Actors & Agencies in Remaking the Atlantic World,” World Congress of Environmental History: Environmental History in the Making, Guimar?es, Portugal, July 8-12.2015Chaired Session on “Physical Historical Geographies: Watersheds, Battle Beaches, Noxious Pests.” 111th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago, IL, April 21-25.2015Organized and Chaired Session on “Author Meets Critic: Geoffrey Martin’s American Geography and Geographers,” 111th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago, IL, April 21-25.2015Chaired Session on “Cultural Iconography in Andean Contexts,” Society for Andean and Amazonian Studies, Baton Rouge, LA, September 26-27. 2015.Chaired Session on “Historical Geography,” 61st Annual Meeting of the Southwest Division of the Association of American Geographers, San Antonio, TX, November 4-7. 2016. Organized and Chaired Sessions (3) on “People, Biota and the Environment in Cultural History Honoring Daniel Gade,” 112th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, CA, March 29 – April 2.2017. Organized and Chaired Session on “Karl Butzer – In Memoriam,” 63st Annual Meeting of the Southwest Division of the Association of American Geographers, Huntsville, TX, October 25-28. 2018 Organized and Chaired Session on “Patina: A Profane Archaeology” (author meets critics session) 114th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, New Orleans, LA, April 10-14.INVITED LECTURES OR INVITED CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION (28) 1976"Highland Guatemala: Biophysical Systems and Cultural Realities," Carroll College, Waukesha, WI.1979"La Agricultura Intensiva Precolombina en las Americas," Universidad Católica, Quito, Ecuador.1980"La Agricultura Antigua: Sistemas para El Futuro?" Centro Ecuatoriano-Norteamericano, Guayaquil, Ecuador.1980"La Agro-Arquitectura Antiqua de la Cuenca del Guayas, " Facultades de Agronomía y Arquitectura, Universidad Vicente Rocafuerte-Laica, Guayaquil, Ecuador.1980"La Demografía Histórica de América Latina en Relación a la Agricultura Intensiva," Facultad de Ingeniería Geográfica, Escuela Politecnica del Ejército, Quito, Ecuador.1981"From Swamp Affinity to Phobia: Native American vs. Euro-American Wetland Use and Perception," The Tropical Interest Group, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI.1981"An 'Andean Mode of Production'?: Expoloration of an Idea," Ibero-American Studies Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI.1982"The Origin and Evolution of Intensive Wetland Farming in the New World," Department of Geography, University of Texas, Austin, TX.1984"Alexander von Humboldt's Tropical Travels and Contributions to Cultural Geography," Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, WI.1986"Mounding, Mucking and Mangling: Raised Bed Gardening in Highland Guatemala, Fiji, and Coastal Ecuador," Department of Geography, Miami University, Oxford, OH.1986"Landscape Archaeology and New Trends in Mayanology," The Maya Society of Minneapolis, MN.1986“Alexander von Humboldt’s Geography: Contemporary Applications and Implications,” Department of Geography, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC.1987"The High and the Dry vs the Low and the Wet: Reflections on Field Work in the New World Tropics," Department of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA.1990"Tropical Riverine Regions: Locating 'The People' in 'Places Without History'," Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley, CA.1992"Prehistoric Intensive Agriculture in the New World Tropics," Department of Geography, University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji.1995 "Panajachel Revisited: Reflections on Two Decades of Change," Department of Geography, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL.1997“Temperate Climes, Intemperate Times: Cultivating Crops & Tourism in Highland Guatemala, 1970’s-Present,” Department of Geography, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA2004 “Landscape’s Shifting Theoretical Terrains: Refractions and Reflections on Carl O. Sauer and His Critics,” Department of Geography, University of Stockholm, Sweden, April 22 (in concert with Annual Vega Lecture of the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography and NORFA Post-Graduate Landscape Symposium).2004“Humboldt and the Development of North American Geography,” German Historical Institute, Washington, DC, June 2-4. (in concert with 2007“Humboldt, Guano, and the Origins of U.S. Overseas Expansion,” Max Kade Institute & Department of Environmental Studies, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS., October 19. 2008 “Tradi??o e Inova??o na Metodolgia da Geografia Cultural: Potentialidades de Diálogo EUA-BRASIL,” Departmento de Geografia, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil, May 26.2008“A Geografia Cultural da Escola de Berkeley: Passado e Presente,” Departmento de Geografia, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 2. 2009 “Humboldt, Guano, and Colonialism,” Vanderbilt, University, Nashville, TN, January 15-17. (as part of conference on “Alexander von Humboldt and the Hemisphere”)2010“Sauer’s Berkeley School Legacy: Foundations for an Emergent Environmental Geography?” Centro de Investigaciones en Geografía Ambiental (CIGA), Morelia, Mexico, August 18. (lead presentation for international colloquium “Geografía y Ambiente en América Latina”)2012“?lisée Reclus’ Latin Americanist Geography: Extensive Writings Bookended by Episodic Travels.” International Colloquium on “?lisée Reclus e a Geografia do Novo Mundo,” Universidade de S?o Paulo, S?o Paulo, Brazil, December 6-10. 2016“Encuentros latinoamericanos de geógrafos norteamericanos: Una historia sinóptica” International Symposium on the History of Geography in Latin America, Universidad Antonio Nari?o. Bogota, Colombia, October 25-27. INVITED ENDOWED LECTURESHIPS (2)2005Inaugural Campbell W. Pennington Lecturer. Department of Geography, Texas A&M University, December 2 -4. “Latin American Drug Geographies in Cultural Historical Perspective” (main public lecture). 2009Marisco Visiting Scholar. Department of Geography, University of Denver, May 25-28. “Alexander von Humboldt, Empire, and the Hermeneutics of Guano” (main public lecture). INVITED DISCUSSANT (5) 1991"The Re-Emergence of the Landscape Approach in Archaeology," a Session at the Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans, April 25-28.2002“Spotlight on Recent Research in Historical Geography: Judith Carney’s Black Rice and Matthew Hannah’s Governmentality and the Mastery of Territory in 19th Century America,” a Session at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, CA, March 19-23.2003“New Destinations for Hispanic Migrants: An Analysis of Rural Kentucky,” a Session at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Southeast Division, Biloxi, MS, November 21-23.2005“Historical Environmental Change in Latin America,” a Session at the 101st Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Denver, CO, April 5-9. 2006“H. Jesse Walker and Coastal Geography,” a Session at the 112th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, CA, March 29-April 2. INVITED WORKSHOP PARTICIPANT (3) 2002“The Geographical Dimensions of Terrorism: A Research Agenda for the Discipline,” January 24-26, Washington, D.C. Sponsored by the A.A.G. and N.F.S.2003“Teaching Latin America in the 21st Century, “ December 6, 2003, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA. Sponsored by the Stone Center for Latin American Studies.2013“Small Islands and Natural Hazards,” November 21-23, Rachel Carson Center, Munich, Germany.PAPERS PRESENTED (70) 1977"Maya Conceptions of Sacred Place and Space," a paper read at the 28th Annual Meeting of the West Lakes Division of the Association of American Geographers, Valparaiso, IN, October 4, 5.1978"Ethnoarchaeological Perspectives on Intensive Highland Maya Agriculture," a paper read at the 1st Annual Meeting of the Midwest Mesoamerican Archaeologists, Urbana, IL, April 8, 9.1978"Tablón Culture: The Question of Origins," a paper read at the 68th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, New Orleans, LA, April 9-12.1978"Maya Civilization and the Uniqueness Question: From Idiography to Evolutionary Approaches," paper presented at the 7th Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations, Milwaukee, WI, April 13-16.1978"The Tablón System: Specialized Horticulture in Highland Guatemala," a paper read at the 29th Annual Meeting of the West Lakes Division of the Association of American Geographers, Mankato, MN, November 3-4.1979"Consumption of the Spectacle: Tourism and Labor Mobilization in Highland Guatemala," a paper read at the 2nd Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Regional Meeting of the U.S.G., Madison, WI, April 13-15.1979"Agricultural Intensity Measurement: The Case of Crop Terracing in Highland Guatemala," a paper read at the 75th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Philadelphia, PA, April 22-25.1981"Ancient Agriculture in the Guayas Basin, Ecuador," a paper read at the 9th Annual Midwest Conference on Andean and Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory, Columbia, MO, February 28-March 1.1981"The Taxonomy of New World Raised Fields: Toward a Morphogenetic Model," a paper read at the Conference on Prehistoric Intensive Agriculture in the Tropics, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, August 16-20.1981"Mounding, Mucking, and Mangling: Recent Research on the Raised Fields in the Guayas Basin, Ecuador," a paper read with W.M. Denevan, and R.G. Whitten at the Conference on Prehistoric Intensive Agriculture in the Tropics, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, August 16-20.1982"Cultural Precocity and Hydraulic Agriculture in Ancient Coastal Ecuador," a paper read at the 78th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Antonio, TX, April 25-28.1984"Alexander von Humboldt and the Origins of Andean Landscape Archaeology," a paper read at the XII Annual Midwest Conference on Andean and Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory, Urbana, IL, February 24-25.1984"Legend and Landscape Archaeology in Coastal Ecuador," a paper read at the 80th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Washington, DC, April 22-25.1985"Von Humboldt's Observations on Landscape Archaeological Features in Central Mexico," a paper read at the 8th Annual Meeting of the Midwest Mesoamerican Archaeologists, Madison, WI, March 23-24.1985"Sauer South by Southwest: An Antimodernist Apotheosis," a paper read at the 81st Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Detroit, MI, April 21-24.1985"Estimating Labor Invested in Ancient Raised-Field Complexes, Guayas Basin, Ecuador: Towards A 'Quantitative' Landscape Archaeology," a paper read at the 45th International Congress of Americanists Meeting, Bogota, Colombia, July 1-6.1985"St. Brendan's Isle and Toponymic Drift: From Iceland to Ecuador," a paper read at the 1st International Brendan Conference, Dublin, Ireland, September 8-14.1986"Humboldt and Andean Landscape Ecology and Archaeology," a paper read at 82nd Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Minneapolis, MN, May 3-7.1986"Sauer and the South: A Deferred Agenda," a paper read at the 6th International Conference of Historical Geographers, Baton Rouge and New Orleans, Louisiana, July 19-26.1987"Garden Spot to Hell Hole: Images of Coastal Ecuador, 1500-1900," a paper read at the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Portland, OR, April 21-26.1987"Raised Field Agriculture in South America," a paper read at the UNESCO Man in the Biosphere Conference on Traditional Wet Field Agriculture in the American and Asian Tropics, University of California-Riverside, October 22-23.1988"Neotropical Riverine Wetlands: Regions of Cultural Precocity and Socio-political Stagnation?" a paper read at the 18th Annual Meeting of the Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, San Jose, Costa Rica, January 10-15.1988"Prehispanic Tropical Wetlands: Regions of Cultural Stasis or Agro-Ecological Stability?" a paper read at the First International Congress of the Geography of The Americas, Lima, Peru, February 22-27.1989"Plantations and Stimulants: `Moral Geographies' and Global Production," a paper read at the 85th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Baltimore, Maryland, March 19-22.1989"Latin Americanist Field Geography at LSU: A Forty Year Review," a paper read at the 19th Annual Meeting of the Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, Queretaro, Mexico, May 22-27.1990"Tropical Riverine Peoples: Mapping the `People Without History'," a paper read at Conference on The Cultural Mapping of Hispanic America, Austin, TX, March 15-17.1990"John M. Treacy, 1948-1989 - A Tribute," and "Human Ecology: New Approaches in Latin Americanist Geography," papers read at the 86th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Toronto, ON, April 19-22.1990"Aboriginal and Peasant Cultures: Central America and Yucatán," a paper read at the 20th Meeting of the Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, Auburn, AL, Oct. 24-27.1991"Donald W. Lathrap, 1927-1990 - An Appreciation," a paper read at the 87th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Miami, FL, April 13-17.1991"Exiles of the Lost Cause: Confederate Colonists in Latin America," a paper read at the 46th International Congress of Americanists, New Orleans, LA, July 7-11.1992"Confederate Colonies in Latin America, A Comparative Survey," a paper read at the 21st Meeting of the Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, Santo Domingo, D.R., September 23-26.1993"Equinoctial Images: Traveller's Accounts of Coastal Ecuador, 1750-Present," a paper read at the 89th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Atlanta, GA, April 6-10.1994"Uncommon Groundings: Fred B. Kniffen's Place in Current Cultural Geography, " a paper read at the 90th Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, CA, March 29-April 2.1994 "Latin Americanist Geography: A Forty Year Review," a paper read at the 22rd Meeting of the Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, Cuidad Juarez, Mexico, September 26-October 1.1994"Panajachel Revisited: Agricultural Shifts; Tourist Involutions," a paper read at the Annual Meeting of the Southwest Division of the Association of American Geographers, Hot Springs, AK, October 20-23.1997"Equinoctial Images: From Enlightenment to Modern Views of Ecuador's La Costa through Traveler's Eyes," a paper read at the 49th International Congress of Americanists, Quito, Ecuador, July 5-11.1997"The Contribution of James J. Parsons to Andean Geography," a paper read at the 23th Meeting of the Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, Arequipa, Peru, July 20-23.1999 "Double Agents: Illicit Drugs, Cultural Identities, Indigenous Moral Geographies," a paper read at the 95th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Honolulu, HI, March 23-27.2000 “Extended Descent: Updating the Sauer-Berkeley Latin Americanist Family Tree,” a paper read at the 24th Meeting, Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, Austin, TX, Jan. 6-7.2000 “From ‘In Camp’ to ‘Out-of-Bounds: Towards a History of Field Work in American Geography,” a paper read at the Annual Meeting of the Southwest Division of the Association of American Geographers, College Station, TX, Nov. 2-5.2002“Geographic Dimensions of Drugs and Terrorism: Contexts, Cases, Connections,” a paper read at the AAG/NFS “Workshop on the Geographic Dimensions of Terrorism,” Washington, D.C., January 11-12.2003“West by Southwest, West, South, and Latin America,” a paper read at the 26th Meeting, Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, Tucson, AZ, Jan 6-7.2003“Perspectives on Circum-Caribbean Gulf-Connections:A Laboratory for the (Re)Formation of Anthropogeography,” a paper read at the Annual Meeting, Southern Anthropological Society, Baton Rouge, Feb. 27-28.2003“Anthropogeography, Concept and Practice: Ready for Rehabilitation?” a paper read at the 59th Annual Meeting of the Southwest Division, Association of American Geographers, Stillwater, OK, October 23-25.2003“New Orleans: Mediator to America’s Mediterranean and the Mississippi Heartland,” an invited paper read at symposium, “The Louisiana Purchase: Faces and Cultures of Yesterday and Today,” Baton Rouge, LA, November 5-9.2003“More than Honorable Mention: Carl Sauer and the American South,” an invited paper read at the 58th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Division, Association of American Geographers, Charlotte, NC, November, Nov. 23- 25.2004“Toward a History and Geography of Geographic Work on Guatemala,” a paper read at the 27th Meeting, Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, Antigua, Guatemala, May 19-22.2004“Alexander von Humboldt’s Image and Influence in North American Geography 1804-2004,” a paper read at the Alexander von Humboldt conference, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY, October 14-16.2004“Greater Louisiana Connections & Conjunctures: Placing New Orleans in Time-Geographic Perspective,” a paper read at the 59th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Division, Association of American Geographers, Biloxi, MS, November, Nov. 21-23.2005“Mythical Isles and Insular Myths: Stepping Stones to Geographical Modernity,” a paper read at the 101st Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Denver, CO, April 5-9. 2005“Elisée Reclus’ Contributions to Latin Americanist Geography,” a paper read at the 28th Meeting, Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, Morelia, Mexico, October 25-28.2006 “Invasive Species and Other Aliens in the American South,” a paper read at the 102st Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago, IL, March 7-11. 2006“Elisée Reclus: Latin Americanist Geographer & Anarchist,” a paper read at the Elisée Reclus Conference, Loyola University, New Orleans, LA, October 27-29. 2007“Incidents Abroad: Notes on the AGS's 150 Year Record of Latin Americanist Sponsored Research and Publication,” a paper read at the 103rd Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, CA, April 17-21. 2007[with J?rn Seemann] “Ratzel in Mexico: Colonialism, Race, and Travel Sketches from 1874-1875,” a paper read at the 29th Meeting of Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, Colorado Springs, CO, May 31-June 3. 2008“Historical Antecedents of the Bowman Antilles Expedition,” a paper read at the 104rd Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Boston, MA, April 15-19.20082008“Alexander von Humboldt’s Place in the Hispanic Atlantic World,” a paper read at the Symposium on Re-defining Transatlantic Hispanic Studies, Baton Rouge, LA, April 21-22. 2008[with J?rn Seeman] “A Geografia histórico-cultural da Escola Berkeley: um precursor ao surgimento da História ambiental,” a paper read at the 4th International Conference of the Sociedad Latinoamericana y Caribe?a de Historia Ambiental (SOLCHA), Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil, May 28-31. 2009“Humboldt’s Great Guano Gift: Reflections on Latin American Commodity Histories and Geographies,” a paper read at the 30th Meeting of Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, Granada, Nicaragua, January 7-9. 2009 “Hispanic Atlantic Globalization: Alexander von Humboldt’s Texts and Contexts,” a paper read at the 6th Annual Conference of Louisiana and Caribbean Studies, Baton Rouge, LA, March 5-6.2009“Small-Scale Societies and Food Security Issues: The Caribbean Case of St. Kitts and Nevis, a paper read at the 105rd Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas, NV, March 22-27.2009“Alexander von Humboldt: Atlanticist Above All,” a paper read at the Special Conference of Louisiana and Caribbean Studies on Alexander von Humboldt, Baton Rouge, LA, May 5-6.2009“Alexander von Humboldt: Precursor Atlanticist “ a paper read at the 65th Annual Meeting of the Southwest Division, Association of American Geographers, Little Rock, AR, October 29-30.2010“Geographers and the Theory and Practice of Return Fieldwork,” a paper read at the 106rd Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Washington, DC, March 22-27.2010“Elisée Reclus’ Colombian Travels: Prelude to a Life Devoted to Geography and Radical Politics,” a paper read at the 31st Meeting of Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, Bogotá, Colombia, May 26-29. 2011“Atlantic Studies: Geography’s & Geographers’ Past and Present Contributions,” a paper read at the 107rd Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Seattle, WA, April 12-16.2011“2011 “Reviving Cultures of Subsistence: The Caribbean Case & Context of Nevis,” a paper read at the World Human Geography Conference, Lawrence, KS, September 15-17.2012“Export Commodity Cropping and Food Security Issues in the Lesser Antilles,” a paper read at the 32st meeting of Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, Mérida, Mexico, January 11-13.2012 “Migration and Mobility in Latin American Writings of Elisée Reclus and Friedrich Ratzel,” a paper read at 108th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, New York, NY, February 24-28.2012“Latin America’s Los Turcos: Geographic Aspects of Maghreb and Levantine Diasporas,” a paper read with Aaron Moore at the meeting of Southwest Council of Latin American Studies, Miami, FL, March 8-102012“La contribution singulière de Carl Sauer a l’emergence d’une sensibilité ecologique en geographie,” a paper read with Jean-Marc Zaninetti at the International Colloquium on Géographie, ?cologie, Politique: un Cimat de Changement, Orléan, France, September 6-8.2012““Invasive Species as ‘Natural Hazards’ in Small Island Geographical and Historical Contexts,” a paper read at the “Small Islands and Natural Hazards” Workshop, Rachel Carson Center, Munich, Germany, November 21-23.2013“Unsettling Crosby’s Columbian Exchange: Invasive Species and Tropical Resistances to Euro-Colonialism” a paper read at the 109th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, CA, February 24-28.2014 “Elisée Reclus’ Latin American Mapping: Forerunner of Today’s Critical Cartography,” a paper read at the 33rd meeting of the Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, Panama City, Panama, January 6-8.2014 “’South of the South’, New Orleans’ Place in the Southern Geographical Imaginary,” a paper read at the 110rd Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Tampa, FL, April 8-12.2014 “From Afro-Diasporic Invasive Weed to Weapon of Mass Destruction: The Curious Environmental History of the Castor Bean Plant,” a paper read at the Second World Congress of Environmental History: Environmental History in the Making, Guimar?es, Portugal, July 8-12.2015“Invasive Weed to WMD: Episodes in the Evasive/Invasive History of the Castor Bean,” a paper read at the 111rd Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago, IL, April 21-25.2015“Brazil: North American Geographers’ ‘Other’ Latin America,” a paper read at the 34rd meeting of the Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, Fortaleza, Brazil, May 26-30.2015“Prehistories of the Anthropocene: Islands and Biotic Invasives in Global Contexts,” a paper presented at the “Crisis and Sustainability in the Capitalocene and Beyond” conference, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY, July 10-11.2015“The Curious Geography of the Castor Bean Plant: Weed to WMD.” a paper read at the 34rd meeting of the Southwest Division of the Association of American Geographers, San Antonio, TX, November 5-7.2016“Levantine Diasporas/Latin American Destinations: A Neglected Geography,” a paper read at the 34rd meeting of the Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, New Orleans, LA, January 4-6.2016“Elisée Reclus’ Colombian Adventure: Prelude to a Life of Political Engagement and Scholarly Production,” a paper read at the meeting of the Southeastern Conference of the Latin American Studies Association, Cartagena, Colombia, March 10-12. 2016“Four Continents, Five Decades: Dan Gade, Master Cultural Geographer,” a paper read at the 112th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, CA, March 28 – April 2. 2016“Agent of Resistance, Oil of Oppression: The Castor Bean in Historical and Geographical Colonial Contexts,” a paper read at the “Resistance and Empire: New Approaches and Comparisons” International Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, June 26-29. 2017 “Ethnicity, Race, and Environment in the Writings of Elisée Reclus,” a paper read at the 112th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Boston, MA, April 5-9. 2017“Invasive Weed to WMD: Episodes in the Remarkable Culture History of the Castor Bean,” a paper read at the 58th Annual Meeting of the Society for Economic Botany, Bragan?a, Portugal, June 4-9. 2017“Karl W. Butzer (1934-2016): In Memoriam,” a paper read at the 36rd meeting of the Southwest Division of the Association of American Geographers, Huntsville, TX October 25-28.2018“How an Anarchist Discovered the New World: Elisée Reclus’ Voyages to Louisiana and Colombia,” a paper read at the 113th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, New Orleans, LA, April 9-14. 2018“Infra-South Soundings: Geographers’ Encounters with New Orleans and Louisiana,” a paper read at the 113th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, New Orleans, LA, April 9-14. 2018 “Extended Descent 2.0: Updating the Sauer-Berkeley Latin Americanist Family Tree,” a paper read at the 35rd meeting of the Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, San José, Costa Rica, May 20-22.2018 “Afro-Caribbean Cultural Contexts of the Castor Plant,” a paper read at the Caribbean Studies Association meeting, Havana, Cuba, June 4-8.2018“Carl O. Sauer’s Greater Academic Genealogical Tree: Branching Out Beyond Latin America,” a paper read at the Canadian Association of Geographers & the International Geographical Union meeting, Quebec City, Canada, August 6-10.2018“Transformaciones del paisaje de los humedales alto y bajo: el descubrimiento y la interpretación de complejos de campos elevados antiguos en América,” a paper read at the VII Coloquio International del CIGA, Huellas en el Paisaje, Geografía, Historia y Ambiente, Morelia, Michoacán, México, September 21-22. 2018“Carl Sauer and Berkeley School Geography in the Brazilian Perspective,” a paper read at the IXth Espa?o e Cultura Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November 21-23.PANELIST (7)2001“Jim Blaut’s Contributions to Cultural Geography and Latin Americanist Research” Memorial Session for James M. Blaut. 97th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, New York, NY, February 27-March 3.2004“Cultural and Political Ecology at the AAG Century Mark I: Retrospect and Roots,” 100th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Philadelphia, PA, March 14-19.2004 “Anarchism and Geography: Past Issues and Current Opportunities,” 100th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Philadelphia, PA, March 14-19.2007 “The Return of the Repressed in Geography, Environmental Determinism, Malthusianism, and Eurocentrism in Diamond’s Redux,” 30th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Environmental History, Baton Rouge, LA, February 28-March 3. 2012“The New AAG Review of Books: An Editor & Audience Forum.” 108th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, CA, April 9-13.2013“Beyond the Columbian Exchange: Panel Discussion on the Environmental Histories of the Paleo- and Neotropics,” 108th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, CA, April 9-13.2014“Publishing for Non-Native Speakers of English II,” 109th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Tampa, FL, April 8-12.2018“ MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS (9)American Association for the Advancement of Science (1996-)American Association of University Professors (1997-)American Geographical Society and Fellow of the A.G.S. (1975-)American Society for Environmental History (1995-2000)Association of American Geographers (1972- )Brazilian Studies Association (2008-2009)Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers (1972- )Latin American Studies Association (1989-1995)Southwest Division of the Association of American Geographers (1988-)ELECTED OFFICES & APPOINTED POSITIONS HELD (15) 1984-86Director, Cultural Ecology Specialty Group (AAG). 1987-93 Honors Committee, Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers1988-92 Secretary-Treasurer, Newsletter Editor, Cultural Ecology Specialty Group (AAG).1988-90 Director, Latin American Specialty Group (AAG)1990-92 Chair, Latin American Specialty Group (AAG)1990-92 Board of Directors, Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers (CLAG)1994-96 Chair, Cultural Ecology Specialty Group (AAG)1997- AAG Representative to AAAS Section H (Anthropology) Director, History of Geography Specialty Group (AAG)1999-03 Member, History and Archives Committee (AAG)2000-02 Member, Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Committee (AAG)2001-04 National Councilor, Association of American Geographers (AAG)2002-05 Member, Membership Committee (AAG)2004-07 Member, Publications Committee (AAG)2006-12 Chair, History of Geography Specialty Group (AAG)2010-13 Board of Directors, Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers (CLAG)2010-13 Chair, Honors Committee (CLAG)2010-13 Member, History and Archives Committee (AAG)AWARDS & HONORS2003 Elected Fellow, AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science)2017 Ron Abler Service Award (Association of American Geographers)ADVISEE AWARDS & HONORS1995AAG Warren Nystrom Award (Best Dissertation in Geography) Robert Kuhlken (finalist)2001AAG Warren Nystrom Award (Best Dissertation in Geography) Douglas Deur (winner)LISTINGS IN BIOGRAPHICAL AND CITATIONS IN BIBLIOGRAPHICAL WORKS (7) 1984Marquis Who's Who in the Midwest.1985A Geographical Bibliography for American Libraries. C. D. Harris (ed.).1989 Geography in America. G.L. Gaile & C.J. Willmott (eds.)1991Modern Geography: An Encyclopedic Survey. G.S. Dunbar (ed.)1996Marquis Who’s Who in the South and Southwest2004Geography in America at the Dawn of the 21st Century. G.L. Gaile & C.J. Willmott (eds.)2005All Possible Worlds: A History of Geographical Ideas. G.J. Martin [biographical index]EDITORSHIPS & BOARDS (17) 1990-1994Editor, Cultural Ecology Newsletter [AAG]1900-1992Editor, Latin American Specialty Group Newsletter [AAG]1993-1996Co-Editor, Geoscience and Man [monograph series]1994-1996Book Review Editor, Annals of the Association of American Geographers1994-1999International Advisory Board, Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography1996-Board, Journal of Cultural Geography1997-Board, The Southwestern Geographer1997-2005 Book Review Editor, Historical Geography2000Co-Editor, Special Cultural Ecology number of Journal of Cultural Geography 2001-Consulting Editor, General Geography Section, Handbook of Latin American Studies2005Co-Editor, Special James Blaut number of Antipode2006Co-Editor, Special Alexander von Humboldt number of Geographical Review2007-2012Book Review Editor, Geographical Review2011-Board, The Southeastern Geographer2012-Editor-in-Chief, AAG Review of Books2013-Board, Geographical Review2014-Board, Boletin de la Sociedad Geografica de ColombiaREFEREE SERVICES Journals: (16)Annals of the AAG; CLAG Yearbook; Current Anthropology; Economic Geography; Geographical Review, Human Ecology, Human Organization; Journal of Cultural Geography; The Professional Geographer; Progress in Human Geography; Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography; Southeastern Geographer; Southwestern Geographer; Journal of Latin American Geography; Geographical Analysis; Journal of Historical Geography; Publishers: (16)[scholarly book manuscripts] Aegis Publications; Arnold; University of Chicago Press; Guilford Press; John Wiley & Sons; Louisiana State University Press; University of Minnesota Press; Oxford University Press; Peter Lang; Prentice-Hall; Rowman & Littlefield; Scholarly Resources Press; Smithsonian Institution Press; Westview Press; University of Alabama Press; Duke University Press (4) [textbooks] Freeman; John Wiley & Sons; Oxford University Press; Prentice-HallEncyclopaedia Britannica (Advisor on Revisions and Commissions) History of Geography Funding Agencies: (7) Man and the Biosphere Program; National Geographic Society; National Science Foundation (Programs in: Archaeology; Cultural Anthropology; Geography); Wenner-Gren Foundation; American Council of Learned Societies; National Endowment for the HumanitiesTenure & Promotions: (25)Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, 1998 [Associate Prof]Department of Geography, Oklahoma State University, 1998 [Associate Professor]Department of Geography, New Mexico State University, 1998 [Associate Professor]Department of Geography, Portland State University, 1999 [Associate Professor]Department of Geography, Central Washington Univ., 1999 [Assoc. Professor] Department of Geography, Pennsylvania State University, 2000 [Associate Prof]Department of Geography, University of Colorado, 2001 [Associate Professor]Department of Geography, University of Minnesota, 2002 [Associate Professor]Department of Geography, Auburn University, 2002 [Associate Professor]Department of Geography, Texas A&M University 2002 [Full Professor]Department of Geography, University of Minnesota-Duluth, 2002 [Associate Prof]Department of Geography, University of Delaware, 2003 [Full Professor]Department of Geography, Auburn University, 2004 [Associate Professor]Department of Geography, University of Oklahoma 2005 [Associate Professor]Department of History, Texas Christian University 2005 [Associate Professor]Department of Geography, Texas A&M University 2005 [Associate Professor]Department of Social Sciences, University of Texas-Tyler 2006 [Full Professor]Department of Geography, University of Kansas 2006 [Associate Professor]Wilder School of Gov. & Pub. Affairs, Virginia Com. Univ. 2006 [Associate Prof] Department of Geography, University of Alabama 2007 [Associate Professor]Department of Geography, University of Denver 2008 [Associate Professor]Department of Geography, University of New Mexico 2012 [Associate Professor]Department of Pol. Sci. & Geography, Frances Marion Univ. 2012 [Full Prof.]Department of Geography, Ohio State University 2015 [Associate Professor]Department of Geography, University of North Carolina-CH 2015 [Full Professor]Department of Geosciences, Texas Tech University 2018 [Full Professor]Departments: (1) Member of Three-Person Review Team for Department of Anthropology & Geography, University of Nebraska [March 2004]Awards: (3)AAG Honors Committee, James M. Blaut (Distinguished Scholarship) 1997 [letter]AAG Honors Committee, Philip W. Porter (Lifetime Achievement) 2004 [letter]AAG Honors Committee, H. Jesse Walker (Lifetime Achievement) 2006 [nominator]AWARD PRESENTATIONS (6) Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers' "Carl O. Sauer Scholarship Award." Presented to Dr. Karl S. Zimmerer, CLAG International Meeting, Oct. 2, 1998, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers’ “Preston E. James Eminent Career Award.” Presented to Dr. William V. Davidson, CLAG International Meeting, June 14, 2001, Benicasim, Spain.Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers’ “Inlaces Award.” Presented to Dr. Patricia Solis, CLAG International Meeting, June 2, 2007, Colorado Springs, Colorado.Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers’ “Carl O. Sauer Scholarship Award.” Presented to Dr. Judith Carney, CLAG International Meeting, Jan. 2012, Merida, Mexico.Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers’ “Preston E. James Eminent Career Award.” Presented to Dr. Hilgard O’R. Sternberg, CLAG International Meeting, Jan. 2012, Merida, Mexico. Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers’ “Carl O. Sauer Scholarship Award.” Presented to Dr. Susanna Hecht, CLAG International Meeting, Jan. 2014, Panama City, Panama.Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers’ “Carl O. Sauer Scholarship Award.” Presented to Dr. Andrew Sluyter, CLAG International Meeting, Jan. 2017, New Orleans.FELLOWSHIPS, RESEARCH, TRAVEL, AND INSTRUCTIONAL GRANTS AWARDED (32) 1977-78 Title IV U.S., N.D.E.A. Language Training Fellowship in Brazilian Portuguese Study, U.W.-Madison.1978-79 Department of Geography Whitbeck Fellowship.1979N.S.F. Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant (for ten months in Ecuador)1979-80 Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Program (for ten months in Ecuador)1980Grant for Research and Travel to Attend Professional Meetings (Ecuador-U.S.-Ecuador) O.A.S - Programa de Antropologia Para El Ecuador. 1981Research Assistantship, Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin, Madison 1981Travel Grant for Research and to Attend Professional Meetings (U.S. - Oceania - Australia - New Zealand - U.S.), Wenner - Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research.1990Support Funds for Visiting Speakers [six] for “Culture, Form, and Place” Symposium, College of Arts & Sciences, LSU. [$3,000]1990Travel Grant to Attend Professional Meeting (Canada), College of Arts & Sciences, LSU. [$500]1992 Support Funds for Visiting Speakers [five] for “1492: Geographic Perspectives” lecture series, College of Arts & Sciences, LSU. [$1,500]1992Travel Grant to Attend Professional Meeting (Dominican Republic), College of Arts & Sciences, LSU [$500]1994Grant to Write Funding Proposal, Center for French & Francophone Studies, LSU [$500]1994Manship Award for Summer Research in Guatemala, College of Arts & Sciences, LSU [$5,000] 1995National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Program (U.C.-Berkeley) [$3,800]1996N.S.F. Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant [P.I. for Steven Rainey - Guatemala] [$9,879]1997Travel Grant to Attend Professional Meetings (Ecuador, Peru), College of Arts & Sciences, LSU [$500]1997Travel Grant to Attend AAAS Meeting (Seattle), Office of Research/College of Arts & Sciences [$700]1999 Support for Visiting Speaker – Chancellor’s Distinguished Lecture Series, Office of Research, LSU [$3000] Hosted William Cronon.2000 Travel Grant to Attend AAAS Meeting (Wash. D.C.] Office of Research/College of Arts& Sciences [$700]2001 Travel Grant to Attend AAAS Meeting (San Francisco) Office of Research/College of A&S [$700]2001Support for Visiting Speaker – Chancellor’s Distinguished Lecture Series, Office of Research, LSU [$4000] Hosted B.L. Turner II2001Support to Attend Geography and Terrorism conference [Washington, DC] AAG [$700]2004Travel Grant to Attend Professional Meeting [Philadelphia], Office of Research, LSU [$750]2004Travel Grant to Attend Professional Meeting [Guatemala], College of Arts & Sciences, LSU[$500]2004Travel Award & Honorarium to present NORFA lecture [Stockholm, Sweden] NORFA [$1500]2004Travel Award to Attend Humboldt Conference [Washington, DC] German Historical Institution [$690]2005Travel Grant to Attend Professional Meeting [Denver], Office of Research, LSU [$750]2005Travel Grant to Attend Professional Meeting [Morelia, Mexico], College of A&S, LSU [$500]2006Travel Grant to Attend Professional Meeting [Chicago], Office of Research, LSU [$750]2007 Travel Grant to Attend Professional Meeting [San Francisco], Office of Research, LSU [$750]2007American Geographical Society Bowman Expedition (to Leeward Islands, Caribbean) [Co-P.I. with Andrew Sluyter] [$50,000]2007 Atlantic Studies Cluster Hire 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Review of Books, AAG [10,000]2017 Travel Grant to Attend International Conference [Bragan?a, Portugal] Office of Research, LSU [$1000]2017Travel Grant to Attend Professional Meeting [Boston, MA] College of H&SS [$800]2018Support for graduate student assistant for AAG Review of Books, AAG [$12,000]2018Support for book review editorship for the AAG Review of Books, AAG [10,000]2018Travel Grant to Attend Professional Meeting [New Orleans, LA] Office of Research, LSU [$700]2018 Travel Grant to Attend International Conference [San José, Costa Rica] College of H&SS [$800]2018Travel Grant to Attend International Geographical Union Conference [Quebec City, Canada]American Association of Geographers [$1500]2018 Travel Grant to Attend International Conference “Space and Culture” [Rio de Janeiro, Brazil]State University of Rio de Janeiro [$1500]UNIVERSITY SERVICEGraduate Fellowship Selection Committee, 1996Chair, Graduate School, Grade Appeal Hearing, 1997.Faculty Senate, 1998-2000University Fellowship Selection Committee, 1998Steering Committee, Inter-College Environmental Cooperative, 1999-2003Selection Committee, Chancellor’s Distinguished Lecture Series, 1999Faculty Senate Committee, International Education, 2003-Faculty Senate Committee, Libraries, 2003-2005Faculty Senate Committee, LSU Press, 2004-2007Member, International Studies Faculty, 2000-Member, Social Science Research Council, 1999-2002Fulbright Fellowship Selection Committee (various times since 1989)Council on Research Summer Stipends Selection Committee, 2000Co-PI (with two others) – Atlantic Studies Multidisciplinary Hiring Initiative, 2007-2010Chair, Atlantic Studies MHI Search Committee, 2007-2010Lead Proposer & Host, Chancellors’ Distinguished Lecture Program (William Cronon, B.L. Turner, II)Co-Proposer, Chancellors’ Distinguished Lecture Program (John Shelton Reed, Iliana Rodriguez, Rebecca Scott)Graduate Dean’s Representative on Ph.D. Committees [English (3), Forestry (2), Geology (1), History (3), Political Science (2), Linguistics (1), Human Ecology (1), Biological Sciences (1), Civil & Environmental Engineering (1)] COLLEGE SERVICEMember, Grade Appeal Hearing, 1989Manship Fellowship Selection Committee, 1995Distinguished Speakers Committee, 1998-2000Arts & Science Faculty Senator 2001-2005A & S Senate Faculty Welfare & Scholarship Committee, 2001-2002; 2003-A & S Senate Curriculum Committee, 2002-2003A & S Senate 2013-presentA & S Senate, Second Vice President 2014-presentDEPARTMENTAL SERVICEMap Library Committee, 1988-1992Research and Scholarship Committee, 1988-1992, 1996-1998, 2001-2003Chair, Faculty Search Committees, 1990, 1992, 1995, 1999, 2005Graduate Committee, 1990-1993, 1995-2000Faculty Advisor, Geography & Anthropology Society 1992-1993Publications Committee, 1993-1996Graduate Director, 1996-1998Co-Chair, Curriculum Committee, 2000-2002Alumni Relations Committee, 2004-2007Faculty Evaluation Committee, 2008-2010Undergraduate Education Committee (Chair), 2009-2010Chair, Alumni Relations Committee, 2010-2011Alumni Advisory Committee & Alumni Relations & Development 2011-Chair, Speakers Committee 2012-2014Graduate Director 2014-GRADUATE STUDENT COMMITTEESPh.D. Dissertation Advisor (28, 18 completed) Title or TopicRobert Kuhlken (1994) Agricultural terracing in Fiji [Prof. & Chair of Geog. & Land Planning, Central Washington University]Michael Yoder (1994) Critical Chorology and Peasant Production: Small Farm Forestry in Hojancha, Guanacaste, Costa Rica [Assoc. Prof. University of Central Arkansas]Christopher Coggins (1998) [first co-chair]The Tiger and the Pangolin: Cultural Ecology, Landscape Ecology, and Nature Conservation in China’s Southeast Uplands [Assoc. Prof. Simon's Rock College]Michael Steinberg (1999)Biological Diversity and Cultural Survival: Mopan Maya Traditional Culture and Environmental Change in Southern Belize [Assoc. Prof. University of Alabama]Scott Brown (1999) [first co-chair]Folk housing in Northeastern Mexico: A Key to Culturogeographic Regionalization [Assoc. Prof. Francis Marion University]Douglas Deur (2000) A Domesticated Landscape: Indigenous Plant Cultivation on the Northwest Coast of North America [Assist.Prof., University of Washington]Frederick Sunderman (2001)Historical Environmental Geography of the Upper Pearl River Valley, Mississippi [Assoc. Prof. Saginaw Valley State University]Steven Rainey (2001)Soil Management in Two Highland Guatemalan Municipios: Local Perspectives on the Management and Degradation of Soil Resources[Assoc. Prof. McNeese State University]Igor Ignatov (2001)Natural History and Phytogeography of the Loess Hills, Lower Mississippi Embayment [Visiting Assist. Prof. Texas A&M Univ.]Woldetense Kahsaye (2002) Cultural ecology of pastoralism in Eritrea: A Geographical Inquiry [Assoc. Prof. Univ. of Asmara, Eritrea]Charles Flanagan (2005)Mapping the Other Truth in the Shintec Case: Emancipatory Mapping for Environmental Justice in South Louisiana [GIS technician]Robert Dunn (2007)Fever, Firepower, and Flood: The Transformation of the Missouri River Bottomlands in the Dakotas, 1804-2005 [Archaeologist - Army Corps of Engineers]Charles Wade (2009)Why the Old Traditions Will Not Fail: Landscape, Legends, and the Construction of Place at Dartmouth College [Instructor Northern Kentucky University]Russell Fielding (2010)Artisanal Whaling in the Atlantic: A Comparative Study of Culture, Conflict, and Conservation in St. Vincent and the Faroe Islands [Assistant Professor University of the South]J?rn Seemann (2010) [first co-chair]Regional Narratives, Hidden Maps, and Storied Places: Cultural Cartographies of the Cariri Region, Northeast Brazil [Assist. Prof. Ball State University]John McEwen (2014)Sense of Place, Place Attachment, and Rootedness in Four West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana Bars [GIS Technician]Corey Hotard (2015) Just Throw it in the Pot! The Cultural Geography of Hidden Landscapes and Masked Performances inSouth Louisiana Gumbo Cooking [GIS Technician]Joseph Powell (2015)The Edible Landscape: Science, Farming, and Sustainability in Northwest Portugal [Director, University Press of the West Indies]Annemarie Galeucia (2017)Mobile Homes: Class, Space and Race in Idealized Landscapes of Home [Coordinator, Communication Across the Curriculum Program, LSU]Ashley Allen (2019?) [second co-chair]History of Tornado Response in OklahomaDusty Waltner (2019?)Blind tourismChristopher McCurley (2019?)Bicycle Planning in Baton RougeJuana Iba?ez (2019?) [first co-chair]Prehistoric Amerind Sites, Coastal LouisianaJoe Tuomey (non-completion)Cultural ecology of intensive gardening in GuatemalaRush Cheshire (non-completion)18th century French philosophes in geographic history Barbara McDonald non-completion)History of LSU geography department Diane Powell (non-completion)Portugal’s landscapes of wineChristopher Thompson (non-completion) Tourism in Dominica, West IndiesM.A. Thesis & MNS Advisor (17, 13 completed) Title or TopicLincoln DeBunce (1991); [Ph.D. U. Oregon] Place, Landscape, and Sakau in Pohnei: The Geography of a Plant and People in a Micronesian Community [Instructor, Blue Mountain Community College]Eric Perramond (1994); [Ph.D. U. Texas] An Historical Geography of Zuni Agriculture [Assoc. Prof. Colorado College]Patrick Anderson (1998)The Geography of the Military in Honduras [NGO specialist Honduras]Douglas Deur (1998) [Anthropology]Indigenous Wetland Cultivation on the Northwest Coast of North America [Research Prof. University of Washington]Vincent Shoemaker (2001)Cuidad Amazonica: Place and Culture in Iquitos, Peru August Rowland (2002)Domestic Tradition, International Treasure: A Geography of the Honduran Cigar and Tobacco Industry [GIS technician, LA DEQ]Joseph Macaluso (2002)MNS (Masters of Natural Science] non-thesis degree [GIS tech]Daniel Culli (2004)“Never Could Read No Road Map”: Geographic Perspectives on the Grateful Dead [USDA]Christopher Hurst (2005)Sinker Cypress: Treasures of a Lost Landscape [GIS tech US FEMA]David Hayes (2006) Master’s of Liberal Arts [non-thesis] [staff psychologist LSU]Katie Berchak (2007)M.A. Hispanic Studies Hispanics in New Orleans [LSU Geography PhD program]Lauren Hull (2017) Decompos(t)ing the Garden: Hybrid Geographies of Baton Rouge Urban GardensRobert Perham (2018)Understanding “Southern” Identities and Confederate Iconography: Internal Orientalism, (Mis)Representation, and Social Media Robert Thomson (non-comp/withdrawn)Urban morphogenesis and marginal housing in Bahia, BrazilKeenan Robert (changed topic/advisor)Linguistic geography of Southern Caucasus regionMargaret Cloos(changed advisor)New Orleans food marketingNicole Coursey (changed advisor) Louisiana disaster memorials B.A. Honors Advisor (2)Davis Courtney (2009)On Shaky Ground: The Political Impact of Natural Disasters in Central AmericaJames Stowe (2011)I Will Return As Millions: Bolivia’s Experiment with Neoliberalism and Decentralization Ph.D. Committee Member on Completed or Active Dissertations (53)Title or TopicElaine Yodis (1990)Historic Changes in Channel Morphology of Mississippi River Tributaries: Southwestern MississippiPeter Galvin (1992)The Pirate’s Wake: A Geography of Piracy and Pirates as Geographers in Colonial Spanish America, 1536-1718Edward Britton (1993)Peasant Subsistence in Northwestern Haiti: Geography, Cultural Ecology, and Rural DevelopmentGregory Labyak (1994)Geographical Factors Influencing the Rise and Growth of Cotton Texile Manufactoring in the South Carolina Piedmont, 1880-1940David Mazel (1996) [English]American Literary Environmentalism, 1637-1872.Scott Brady (1996) The Honduras Trans-Ismthian Corridor: An Historical Geography of Road Building in Colonial Central AmericaKatherine Anderson (1997)Nature, Culture, and Big Old Trees: Human Relationships with Ceiba (Ceiba pentandra) and Live Oaks (Quercus virginiana) in the Landscapes of Guatemala and Louisiana Taylor Mack (1997)Ephemeral Hinterlands and Historical Geography of Trujillo, Honduras, 1525-1950James Samson (1997)Indigenous Lands in a Developing Region: A Historical Ethnogeography of the Pech Indians of Eastern Honduras, with Emphasis on Recent Settlement and Land Use ChangeTerri Shawn Mitchell (1997)Moved by the Spirit: Protestant Diffusion and Church Location in Central America, with a Case Study from Southwestern HondurasYoungmin Lee (1997)Ethnicity Toward Multiculturalism: Socio-Spatial Relations of the Korean Community in Honolulu, 1903-1940. Katie Algeo (1998)Tobacco Farming in the Age of the Surgeon General’s Warning: The Cultural Ecology and Structuration of Burley Tobacco Production in Madison County, North CarolinaYi-Fong Chen (1998)Indigenous Rights Movements, Land Conflicts, and Cultural Politics in Taiwan – A Case Study of Li-shanRobert Aguirre (1999) Americans and Panamanians: The Conflict in Geographical PerspectiveMichael Hawkins (1999)Tourism and Place in Treasure Beach, Jamaica: Imagining Paradise and the AlternativeAndrew Maxwell (1999)Holocene Environmental Change in Mainland Southeast Asia: Pollen and Charcoal Records from CambodiaCindi Nance (1999)Out of Sight, Out of Mind: A GIS Study of Change in Cemetery Locations in SE Louisiana from an Archaeological and Geographical Perspective, 1930-1997Lisa Adam (2000)Terrebonne Farms, Louisiana: an Anthropogeographic Study of a New Deal ResettlementGregory Hospodor (2000) [History]Honor Bound: Southern Honor and the Mexican WarErik Prout (2001)Cultural Preservation in the Romansch Landscape: A Geography of the Swiss-Romansh MovementGeorge Alpin (2001)A New Testament Geography: Description, Perspectives, and Implications for the Field of GeographyMark Bonta (2001)Mapping the Enredo: A Regional Geography of Complex Spaces in Olancho, HondurasDean Sinclair (2002)“A New Town Will Appear on Charleston’s Neck”: North Charleston and the Creation of the New South Garden City Craig Revels (2002)Timber, Trade, and Transformation: A Historical Geography of Mahogany in HondurasDaniel Weir (2002)No Place to Die: The Poetics of Roadside Sacred Places in MexicoPatricia Campion (2002) [Sociology] Space and Organizations: The Ecology of Rural NGO’s in San Luis Potosí, MexicoElizabeth Vaughan (2003)Louisiana Sugar: A Geohistorical PerspectiveElizabeth Fraser (2003)Conservation vs Survival: A Cultural Ecological Study of Changing Settlement Patterns, Cultures, and Land Use in the Rio Platano Biosphere Reserve of Northeast HondurasJackie Mills (2005)Wealth and Deprivation in the Delta: A Landscape of Subsidization Meg Strieff (2005)Boston’s Settlement Housing: Social Reform in an Industrial CityScott Hemmerling (2007)Environmental Justice and the Historical Geography of Technological Hazards Associated with the Oil Industry in Southeast LouisianaHarry Wilson (2007)The Urban Development of Spanish Colonial Pensacola, 1781-1821Amy Sumpter (2008)Environment, Labor, and Race: An Historical Geography of St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, 1878-1956Richard Hunter (2009)People, Sheep, and Landscape Change in Colonial Mexico: The Sixteenth-Century Transformation of the Valle del MezquitalMeredith Feike (2010)Revitalizing the Suburban Dream: Disaster, Displacement and Resilience in Eastern Orleans ParishSylvia Mince (2010)The Power Struggle Between Americans and Creoles in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century and Its Influence on the Architecture of New OrleansPaul Watts (2011)Landscape, Mobilities, and Performance: An Autoethnographic and Visual Engagement with Public Protests in Washington, DCAmy Potter (2011) Transnational Spaces and Communal Land Tenure in a Caribbean Place: "Barbuda is for Barbudans"Ryan Orgera (2012)Constructing Wilderness: the Nexus of Preservation and Ocean-Space in the United States Cory Sills (2013)Ancient Maya Salt Production at Early and Late Classic Salt Works, Paynes Creek National Park, BelizeYi Chia Chen (2013)Shifting Place Identities in a Post-Conflict Society: Irony and Multiculturality in Quemoy, TaiwanMark Robinson (2013)Ancient Maya wood selection and forest exploitation: a view from the Paynes Creek salt works, BelizeRachel Watson (2015)Excavations and Interpretation of Two Ancient Maya Salt-Work Mounds, Paynes Creek National Park, Toledo District, BelizeCase Watkins (2015)An Afro-Brazilian Landscape: African Oil Palms and Socioecological Change in Bahia, BrazilLouise Cheetham (2015)Curated Landscapes: The Evolution of the Postcard ShotPeter Kamau (2017)Elephants, Local Livelihoods, and Landscape Change in Tsavo, KenyaLauren Land (2017)Ports Resilience Index: Participatory Methods to Assess ResilienceValerie Feathers (2017)Human-Environment Interactions: Sea-Level Rise and Marine Resource Use at Eleanor Betty, an Underwater Maya Salt Work, BelizeAudrey Grismore (2018)Natural Resources-Based Conflicts in Coastal Louisiana: A Multi-faceted Social and Ecological SettingGínes Sanchéz (2018)Linguistic Political Ecology with the Ng?be Indigenous People of PanamaKimberly Munro (2018)Landscapes of Persistence and Ritual Architecture at the Cosma Complex Upper Nepe?a Valley, PeruAubrey Kyle (2019?)Disaster Resilience in New Orleans Kevin Durban (2019?)GISElizabeth CruzadoArchaeology of PeruM.A. Committee Member on Completed or Active Theses (26) Title or TopicSheila McGlynn (1989)Geography of Spina Bifida in IrelandMichael Cornebise (1990)Geographical Aspects of Social and Economic Changes Among the Belizean Mennonites: Twenty Years after SwatskyTony McLaughlin (1992)Geographical Techniques to Monitor Changes in the Coastal Landscape at Chones, Puntarenas Province, Costa RicaRuth Stone (1993)Rusticators, Robber Barons and the Middle Class: The Geography of Social and Landscape Change on the Eastern Side of Mount Desert Island, Maine 1870-1920Bryan Anderson (1997) [Anthropology]Ka’O’ob: The Metates of Chichen Itza Within the Context of the Greater Maya RealmArmindo Manhica (1997)Mozambique Rainfall VariabilityAdam Savran (1998)Tropical Zion: Historical Geography of Jewish Settlement SurinamYvette Merton (2001) [Forestry]The Effects of Phosphorous Treatment on the Flower Production of Tecoma stansSatomi Fukutomi (2001) [Anthropology]Pot-Au-Feu Japan: Foods and WeddingsTrushna Parekh (2002) [Anthropology]Picnicking at the Galleria: Destablizing Private/Public Boundaries at Houston’s WaterfallFrancis Currin (2002)Transformation of Paradise: Geographical Perspectives on Tourism Development on a Small Caribbean Island (Utila, Honduras)Dominica Ramirez (2003) [Anthropology]Travels in Louisiana: Journeys in Ethnicity and Heritage Among Two GroupsBretton Somers (2004)Hidden Landscapes of the Ancient Maya: Transect Excavations at Arvin’s Landing Southern Belize. Kevin Pemberton (2005)Models for Ancient Maya Coastal Site Development and Economy: Examination of Pork and Doughboy Point, Port Honduras, Belize. William Arden (2005)Urban Yellow Fever Diffusing Patterns and the Role of Micro-Environmental Factors in Disease Dissemination: A Temporal-Spatial Analysis of the Memphis Epidemic of 1878.Elizabeth Matassa (2006)Whaddya Want? It’s Cony Island! Tourism, Play and Memory in the Illegible City. Ramin Zamanian (2006)A Material/conceptual Analysis of the Virgin of Guadalupe Pilgrimage Site in Mexico City, Mexico. Christopher Dalbom (2006)Underground in the Confederate Capital: Punk Subculture in Richmond, Virginia. DeLaune, Jonathan Z. (2007)Unwelcome Neighbors? Industrial Growth and Water Pollution in Lake Charles, Louisiana, 1940-1960.Sandor Gulyas (2008)Creating a Blues Playground: A Comparison of Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee and Farish Street in Jackson, Mississippi.Alexandra Giancarlo (2011)The Lower Ninth Ward: Resistance, Recovery, and RenewalCaitlyn McNabb (2012)Ancients Settlement Patterns and Irrigation Systems in Coastal Peru Audrey Maas (2014)Adapting Resilience to a New Hazard: Oil and Oysters in Coastal LouisianaJames Treloar(2014)Early Horizon Defensive Structures and the Role of Warfare in the Lower Nepe?a Valley, Peru.Jana Brady (2017)Reading Between the Vines: Analyzing Climate Change Adaptive Capacity in the Tulbagh Valley Wine Industry, South AfricaKenneth Sutherland (2017)Pots, Pans, and Politics: Feasting in Early Horizon Nepe?a, Peru Committee Member for Non-completed Degrees, Inactive Candidacies, or Partial Term of Service (19)Darrell Kruger (1994) Ph.DColonial Natal 1838 to 1880: The Making of a South African Settlement SystemRhonda Roosa, M.A. (1996)Social-Spatial Structures of Multinational Corporate Development: Banana Worker Settlements in Costa Rica, 1899-1993Roger Hamilton, Ph.D. (1998)Human Dimensions of Water Resources Policy: the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Role in Natural Resource and Recreational ManagementBonnie Henderson, Ph.D. (1998)Access to Child Care in North Carolina: the Interaction of Gender Relations, Class, and Governmental PolicyShelby Duncan, M.A. (1998) [Anthro.]Everyday Isn’t Sunday: the Houma of Southeastern Louisiana Linda Thorstad, Ph.D. (1999)The History and Cultural Geography of the Grange Movement in Minnesota and Louisiana, 1870-1880Bretton Somers (2004), M.A. [Anthro]Hidden landscapes of the ancient Maya: transect excavations at Arvin's Landing southern Belize Ian Denham, M.A. (2008)A Sense of Community and Community Change: An Ethnographic Study of A Contemporary Louisiana Juke Joint as it Compares to Historical Literature on the SubjectGentry Hanks, M.A. (2011)"We Live in a Used World:" Cultural Geographies of American Garage SalesCaitlyn McNabb (2013)Emergent Irrigation Agriculture and Settlement Patterns in the Lower Nepe?a Valley, North-Central Coast of PeruPaul Karolczyk, Ph.D. (2014) Subjugated Territory: The New Afrikan IndependenceMovement and the Space of Black Power Doris Garcia Ph.D (2014)Place, Race, and the Politics of Identity in the Geography of Garinagu Baündada Katie Berchak, Ph.D. (in progress)Cultural geography of Hispanic New OrleansDoug Damon, M.A. (non-completed)Cultural ecology of slope cultivation in Indonesia's Outer IslandsRobert Beachboard, M.A. (non-completed) Geopolitics of European ExpansionGary Cummisk Ph.D. (non-completed)Poetics of Northwest RegionalismJerry Canerday, Ph.D. (non-completed)Cultural geography of protestant Christians in BelizeGuy Cox, Ph.D. (non-completed)[Zoology] Neotropical ornithologyJake Besterman Ph.D.(non-completed)Diffusion of the Accordion in the AmericasAndre Tabanez Ph.D (non-completed)Biogeography of the South Atlantic Forest, BrazilMikeal Blackford (non-completed)Agricultural innovations in the Corn BeltDean of Graduate School’s Representative on Ph.D. Committees (11)Timothy Ross (1994) [Geology]Neogene extension and regional rotation of the Central Mojave desert, CaliforniaRobert Outland (1999) [History]Another New South: patterns of continuity in the southern naval stores industryComfort Pratt-Panford (2000) [Spanish] El espa?ol del Río Sabinas: pervivencia de un dialecto amenazado. Jeffrey Herndon (2002) [Political Science] Voegelin's history of political ideas and the problem of Christian order: a critical appraisalIndah Kusuma (2005) [Forestry]Economic valuation of natural resource management: a case study of the Benuaq Dayak tribe in Kalimantan, Indonesia Small-scale forestry in Kalimantan, Indonesia.Scott Whidden [English]Ethnographic study of writers at Angola State PenitentiaryMorgan Knull [Political Science]Benjamin Disraeli’s mythopoetical political thoughtNan Jiang (2008) [Human Ecology]Fabrication and Evaluation of Specialty Nonwoven MaterialLuciano Nicolas Naka [Biological Science] Avian Diversification Processes Inferred From Contact Zones in an Interfluvium in Northwestern Amazonia Charles M. Frye III [English]Country of Illusion: Imagined Geographies and Transnational Connections in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s AmericaEhsan Beigi (2015) [Civil and Environmental Engineering]Uncertainty Analysese of Climate Change Impact on Hydrologic Projections AREAS OF CONCENTRATION AND SPECIALIZATION:Geography:Cultural Geography (Cultural Ecology; Traditional Agriculture; Landscape EvolutionRegional Geography (Latin America; American South; Atlantic World; Oceania)History of Geography (Sociology of Geographic Knowledge; Biography)Historical Geography (Historical Urbanization; Tropical Travel and Exploration)Physical Geography (Biogeography)Anthropology: Cultural Ecology; Archaeology (Landscape Archaeology)Botany:Plant Geography; Agrostology; Human Evolution and Plant DomesticationsHistory: Political Economy and the Age of European Expansion; Environmental HistoryRegionalism, Sectionalism, and Localism within Latin American Nation StatesLANGUAGES:Spanish - Read and speak wellFrench - Some reading knowledgePortuguese - Read well, speak someGerman - Some reading knowledge ................
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