Geography at Miami University
The geography program was established in 1906, and is the second oldest in the state. Our graduates, as well as Miami students, benefit immensely from our geography program as evidenced by their subsequent success in business, government, and the academic community. The Department of Geography has awarded more than 250 master's degrees.
Miami's geography program includes faculty and courses covering a wide range of geographic inquiry. The department has excellent facilities and equipment to assist in the learning process. Please feel free to browse our site to find out more about our program, faculty and facilities.
Geography Department faculty are committed to educating their undergraduate and Master's Degree students. In recent years, the number of Geography majors has increased to well over 100, while the Master's Degree program now has 16 students with full Graduate Assistantships, a new record. At the same time, Geography faculty are leading scholars with national and international reputations.
news
Robbyn Abbitt, GIS Coordinator, and Jennifer Prather, MA student received 2nd place in the Analytical category and the People's Choice Award at the Ohio GIS conference for their poster "After Dark at Miami University".
recent grants
- Terry McCollum, Chris Myers and Hays Cummins, 2008-2009. I-Discovery, Ohio Board of Regents, Improving Teacher Quality Professional Development Program. Sustaining Professional Development through Web-Based Learning Communities, $298,066.
- Myers, C. Director, Hays Cummins, Co-Director. 2007-2008, The Cincinnati Zoo. Earth Expeditions: A Global Conservation Program $227,000
- Ian Yeboah, with Francis Dodoo have received approval on their project "Development on the Move: Measuring and Optimizing Migration's Development Impacts" for $88,528 funded by the Global Development Network.
- William Renwick, with Michael Vanni and Maria Gonzalez have received approval on their project "LTREB: Response of a Reservoir Ecosystem to Variable Subsidies of Nutrients and Detritus" for $300,000 funded by National Science Foundation.
- Thomas Klak has received approval on his project "The Impact of Free Trade and Neoliburial Economic Policies in the Windward Lesser Antilles" for $26,000 funded by the US Army.
- Mary Henry, with David Gorchov and Oscar Rocha have received approval on their project "Effect of landscape structure on invasion dynamics of the invasive shrub Lonicera maackii" for $376,940 (2007-2010) funded by USDA National Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program, Biology of Weedy and Invasive Species in Agroecosystems.
recent publications by Geography department faculty
- Carl Dahlman, "After Nietzsche's Beyond" in ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies 2010, 9 (1), 66-71.
- Bryan Wilfong, David Gorchov, and Mary Henry, “Detecting an Invasive Shrub in Deciduous Forest Understories Using Remote Sensing” in Weed Science 2009, 57:512-520.
- Jamie Gillen, "The co-production of narrative in an entrepreneurial city: an analysis of Cincinnati, Ohio, in turmoil" in Geografiska Annaler Series B: Human Geography, 2009 (91:2), pp. 107-122.
- Neil Winn, MA, 2008, "Modeling dissolved organic carbon in subalpine and alpine lakes with GIS and remote sensing" in Landscape Ecol (2009) 24:807-816, with Craig E. Williamson, Robbyn Abbitt, Kevin Rose, William Renwick, Mary Henry, and Jasmine Saros.
- Emma Mullaney, MA 2009, "Carib Territory: Indigenous Access to Land in the Commonwealth of Dominica" in Journal of Latin American Geography, 8 (2), 2009.
- Carl Dahlman with Luiza Bialasiewicz, Gian Matteo Apuzzo, Felix Ciauta, Alun Jones, Chris Rumford, Ruth Wodak, James Anderson, and Alan Ingram “Interventions in the new political geographies of the European ‘neighborhood’ in Political Geography 28 (2009) 79-89.
- Carl Dahlman with Carolyn Gallaher, Mary Gilmartin, Alison Mountz and Peter Shirlow Key Concepts in Political Geography by Sage Publications.
- Thomas Klak, "Development Policy Drift in Central America and the Caribbean" in Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 2009, Vol. 30, pp 12-17
- David Prytherch “New Euroregional Territories, Old Catalanist Dreams? Articulating Culture, Economy and Territory in the Mediterranean Arc” in European Urban and Regional Studies, Vol. 16, Number 2, pg 131-145
- William Renwick “Lakes and Reservoirs of North America” in Encyclopedia of Inland Waters (2009), vol. 2, pp. 524-532.
- David Prytherch and and Josep Vicent Boira Maiques “City Profile: Valencia” in Cities 26 (2009) 103-115.
departmental seminar series
September 11, 2009 - Dr. Ian Yeboah, "Development on the Move: Measuring and Assessing the Social and Economic Impacts of Migration on Ghana"
September 25, 2009 - Dr. Jerry Green, "Maps in Undergraduate Education, Role of Textbooks and Syllabus"
October 9, 2009 - Dr. David Prytherch, " 'Vertebrating' Regions as Networked Spaces of Flows: Learning from Catalanist Territoriality"
October 30, 2009 - Dr. John Maingi, "Remote Sensing
November 20, 2009 - Dr. Carl Dahlman, "Ethnic Enclaves and State Formation in Kosovo"
December 4, 2009 - Dr. Jacqueline Housel, " Micro-geographies of Mobility: policing race, maneuvering place in Buffalo, NY"