Visiting Geographical Scientist Program - Approved Speakers

The following geographers have expressed a willingness to serve as Visiting Geographical Scientists. Speakers have expressed a particular desire to address the topics listed; however, some may be willing to address additional issues. Speakers who are not on the VGSP speaker list are welcome but are subject to GTU/AAG approval. Please forward their vitae to the attention of the VGSP at the Association of American Geographers.

	John S. Adams Dept of Geography, U of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455 voice 612-625-0571 email adams004@maroon.tc.umn.edu Housing and American Cities; Cities of Russia; Winners and Losers in the Suburban Land Development Process; Poverty in American Cities; the Path of Urban Decline
	Charles S. Aiken Dept of Geography, U of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996 voice 423-974-2418 email csaiken@utk.edu Current Research on the Impact of Civil Rights and Voting Rights in the Nonmetropolitan South; Redistribution of the American Black Population; Geography as Revealed in Fictional Literature
	Derek H. Alderman Department of Geography, E. Carolina U, 227-A Brewster, Greenville, NC 27858 voice 252-328-4013 email aldermand@ecu.edu Geographies of Public Memory, Heritage Tourism, and Commemoration; Politics of Culture, Space, and Regional Identity; Power and Politics of Place Naming; Cultural and Historical Geography of the American South; Geographic Images and Representation of Place; Innovations in Geographic Education, Martin Luther King, Jr. Street Naming
	Lawrence A. Brown Dept of Geography, Ohio State U,Columbus OH 43210 voice 614-292-2320 email brown.8@osu.edu Urban Geography; Population Geography; Third WorldDevelopment; US Regional Development; Socio-economicRestructuring; Immigration, Racial/Ethnic Intermixing
	Stanley D. Brunn Dept of Geography, U of Kentucky,Lexington, KY 40506-0027 voice 859-257-6947, fax 859-323-1969 email brunn@uky.edu Writing and Publishing as a Professional Geographer,Central Asian Landscapes, Geographies of Religion,Engineering Earth: the impacts of megaengineering projects,Geographers: The Consummate Professionals
	David R. Butler Department of Geography, Texas StateUniversity – San Marcos, San Marcos, TX 78666-4616 voice 512-245-7977 email db25@txstate.edu Geomorphology and Biogeography in the Rocky Mountains,Impacts of environmental change on physical systems, and in general, Geomorphology or Biogeography or The Rocky Mountains general, Geomorphology or Biogeography or The Rocky Mountains.
	Barbara P. Buttenfield Dept of Geography CB-260,University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0260 voice 303-492-3618 email babs@colorado.edu Visualization and Geographic Modeling; Multi-scaledatabases; Data Generalization; Information Design andRepresentation; Mapping Uncertainty; Internet Data Delivery;Interface Design and Usability Evaluation
	Michael P. Conzen Committee on Geographical Studies, U of Chicago, 5828 South University Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637 voice 312-702-8308 email m-conzen@uchicago.edu The Personality of American Cities; American CulturalLandscapes; U.S. Ethnic Homelands; American PictorialCounty Atlases; German ?Latin? colonies in America; Frontierurban planning in the United States
	Kenneth E. Corey Department of Geography, Michigan StateUniversity, East Lansing, MI 48824-1117 voice 517-432-4750,fax 517-432-1671 email kenneth.corey@ssc.msu.edu Urban and Regional Technology Planning for Local andRegional Intelligent Development; Planning Practice in theGlobal Knowledge Economy; The Singapore Model forInformation and Communications Technology-basedDevelopment; Technology Corridors and Intelligence Corridorsin Asia; and Global Information Society; Digital Development
	Donald R. Deskins, Jr. Dept of Sociology, U of Michigan, AnnArbor, MI 48109 voice 313-764-0340 email ddeskins@umich.edu Process of World Urbanization; Impact of New Job Sites in BlackEmployment; Minority Participation in the Academic Marketplace; Sports and Society
	William E. Doolittle Dept of Geography and the Environment, U of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 7812-1098 voice 512-4232-1581 email dolitl@mail.utexas.edu Discoveries and epiphanies during fieldwork; the Spanish-Caribbean-Mexican origins of the North American cattle ranching system; American agriculture before 1492; ancient and traditional water control systems in the American southwest and northern Mexico
	Roger M. Downs Department of Geography, 312B Walker,The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802 voice 814-865-1915, fax 814-863-7943 email rd7@psu.edu Spatial Thinking in Geography, Geography Education,Popularization in Geography, Cognitive Mapping, Hendrik vanLoon: A Geographic Popularizer, Richard Edes Harrison:Cartographer Extraordinaire
	Doug Gamble UNC Wilmington, voice 910-962-3778 email gambled@uncw.edu Applied climatology, coastal and island environments,Caribbean and southeastern United States, climate change
	Arthur Getis Dept of Geography, San Diego State University,San Diego, CA 92182 voice 619-594-6639, fax 619-594-4938 email arthur.getis@sdsu.edu Local Statistics and the Identification of Disease Clusters; ThePattern of Dengue Fever Cases in Iquitos, Peru; GIS andSpatial Analysis; Local Spatial Statistics: The Case of DengueFever
	Philip Gersmehl New York Center for Geographic Learning,1006N Hunter College, 695 Park Avenue, New York NY10065 voice 651-398-7372 email pgersmehl@gmail.com Geographic Education; Spatial Cognition
	Michael R Greenberg Dept of Urban Studies and Community Health,Civic Square, 33 Livingstone Avenue, Suite 100, Rutgers U, NewBrunswick, NJ 08901-1958 voice 201-932-0387 email mrg@rci.rutgers.edu Geography of Cancer; Public Health;Environmental Hazards; Risk Communications
	John Fraser Hart Dept of Geography, U of Minnesota,Minneapolis, MN 55455 voice 612-625-6080, fax 612-624-1044 email frase002@umn.edu The American Landscape; Redundant and RecycledFarmsteads; Population Change in the Upper Lake States; TheModernization of American Agriculture; North AmericanCultural Landscapes
	Robert L. Janiskee Dept of Geography, U of South Carolina,Columbia, SC 29208 voice 803-777-6739, fax 803-777-4972 email janiskee@sc.edu Community Festivals as Cultural Expression;History-Themed Tourism and Travel; Event Tourism; Ecotourism;America?s National Parks
	Harley E. Johansen Dept of Geography, U of Idaho,Moscow, ID 83843 voice 208-885-2855, fax 208-885-2855 email johansen@uidaho.edu Rural development strategies and examples of success fromU.S. and Finland, Baltic region post-Soviet transitions, Ethnic integration in Macedonia's emerging market economy
	Peirce F. Lewis Dept of Geography, 307 Walker Building,Pennsylvania State U, University Park, PA 16802 voice 814-865-3433 email lewis@ems.psu.edu The New American City: Recent Changes inAmerican Settlement Forms; American Landscape Tastes; The Makingof Vernacular Landscape Tastes: the case of SUNSET and SOUTHERN LIVING; The Midwest: America?s Home-made Utopia; Images of American Landscapes; The American Character Reflected inArt and Advertising
	Robert B. McMaster Dept of Geography, U of Minnesota, 414 Social Sciences Building, 267 ? 19th Ave South, Minneapolis, MN 55455 voice 612-625-6080 email mcmaster@umn.edu Cartographic generalization, risk assessment and GIS, GIS and society
	Don Mitchell Dept of Geography, Syracuse U, 144 EggersHall, Syracuse, NY 13244-1020 voice 315-443-2605 email dmmitc01@maxwell.syr.edu Cultural geography, historical geography, labor, social theory,Marxist approaches to geography, public space
	Ines M. Miyares Dept of Geography, Hunter College, 695 Park Ave. New York, NY, 10065 voice 212-772-5443 email imiyares@hunter.cuny.edu
	John M. Morgan III Center for Geographic Information Science,Towson U, 8000 New York Rd, Towson, MD 21252 voice 410-704-2964 email jmorgan@towson.edu GIS Education; GeographicInformation Systems
	Darrell Napton Dept of Geography, South Dakota State U,Brookings, SD 57007-0648 voice 605-688-4511 email Darrell_Napton@sdstate.edu U.S. Land Use Dynamics; RecentChanges in United States Land Use and Land Cover; Driving Forcesof U.S. Land Use Change
	M. Duane Nellis Office of the Dean, Eberly College of Arts &Sciences, West Virginia U, Woodburn Hall 201, Morgantown, WV 26506 voice 304-293-4611, fax 304-293-6858 email nellis@as.wvu.edu Environmental Constraints Information TechnologyApplications in Botswana
	Judy Olson Prof. Emerita, Dept of Geography, Michigan StateU, East Lansing, MI 48824-1117 voice 517-353-8757, fax 517-432-1671 e-mail olsonj@msu.edu Designing Maps for People with Color Vision Impairments; Critiquing Maps to become better Mapmakers and Map Users;Map Projections for Mere Mortals; The Changing Nature ofHuman Subjects Studies in Cartography; Cartograms as a Method of Representation
	Philip R. Pryde Dept of Geography, San Diego State U, San Diego,CA 92182 voice 619-594-5525 email ppryde@mail.sdsu.edu Biodiversity Protection in the Post-Soviet Russian Federation;California's Salton Sea: Migratory Lifeline or America's Dead Sea

	Anthony R. Orme Dept of Geography, U of California, Los Angeles,CA 90095-1524 voice 310-825-1071 email orme@geog.ucla.edu Quaternary Environments (Climate Change, including Ocean andLake Changes); Coastal Environments (Barrier-Lagoon systems,Dunes and Wetlands); Watershed Geomorphology and Management;The Physical Geography of Africa
	David J. Rutherford Department of Public PolicyLeadership, University of Mississippi, 38677 voice 662-915-1337 email druther@olemiss.edu Geography of religions and belief systems, geography education, global environmental issues, geography of the Colorado Plateau
	Rickie Sanders Department of Geography and Urban Studies, Temple University, 309 Gladfelter Hall, Philadelphia, PA 19122 voice 215-204-5650 e-mail rsanders@temple.edu Critical geography education (learner centered education, engaging students in geography classrooms, critical inquiry around geograhical issues), urban geography (public space, visualizing the urban environment, framing globalization), her recent work which seeks to use photography and visual analysis as a means of understanding the urban landscape (landscapes of violence and tragedy, reflections and juxtapositions, dialogues, gender).
	Gary W. Shannon Dept of Geography, University of Kentucky,Lexington, KY 40605-0027 voice 606-257-2931, email gwshan00@pop.uky.edu The Medical Geography of Plagues: Fromthe Black Death to AIDS; Restructuring the Medical Care Landscape:Telemedicine and the National Information Highway; The MedicalGeography of Mental Health and Care: From the Street to the Asylumand to the Street Once More
	Waldo R. Tobler Dept of Geography, U of California, Santa Barbara,CA 93106 voice 805-893-3663 email tobler@geog.ucsb.edu GlobalDemography; Map Projections; Migration Studies; AnalyticalCartography; Computational Geography
	Rebecca Torres Department of Geography and the Environment, University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station C1200, Austin, TX 78712 voice 512-232-1580 e-mail rebecca.torres@austin.utexas.edu
	Antoinette M.G.A. WinklerPrins Dept. of Geography, MichiganState U, East Lansing, MI 48824 voice 517-432-7163 email antoinet@msu.edu Political Ecology as a Framework forDevelopment, From Channels to Gardens: AnthropogenicLandscapes of Amazonia, Historical Geography of Jute Cultivationin the Amazon, Homegarden, Social Networks and Agrodiversity,Local Soil Knowledge, Urban Agriculture.
	Leon Yacher Department of Geography, Southern Connecticut State University, 501 Crescent Street, New Haven, CT, 06515-1355 voice 203-392-5825 e-mail yacher@southernct.edu Central Asia, history of geography in Latin America, Latin America, Connecticut geography