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 200 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
David Prytherch, assistant professor of geography, was named Miami University's Outstanding Professor for 2009. Prytherch was among 32 faculty nominated by graduating seniors for the award, presented by Associated Student Government (ASG). He was recognized at the Senior Last Lecture held May 1.
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 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.
- David Prytherch, "Elegy to an iconographic place: reconstructing the regionalism/landscape dialectic in L'horta de Valencia" in Cultural Geographies 2009 16:55-85.
- David Prytherch, "The Cultural Economy of Euroregionalism: Rearticulating Catalanism in the Arc Mediterrani1" in Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, Vol. 9, No. 3, November 2008, pp. 301-320.
- David Prytherch, "Reconstruir el paisatge per a reconstruir el Regionalisme? L’Horta, la Ciutat de les Ciències, I la política ideological de la modernitat valenciana*" in Treballs De La Societat Catalana De Geografia, 61-62, 2006, p. 189-213.
- Ian Yeboah, "Ethnic Emancipation and Urban Land Claims: Disnefranchisement of the Ga of Accra, Ghana" in Geographical Research, December 2008, 46(4):435-445.
- Jamie Gillen, "Disruptions of a Dialectic and a Stereotypical Response: The Case of the Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Tourism Industry" in Asia on Tour: Exploring the Rise of Asian Tourism.
- Marcia England "When 'Good Neighbors' Go Bad: Territorial Geographies of Neighborhood Associations" in Environment and Planning A 2008, volume 40, pages 2879-2894.
- Jerry E. Green, David Burns, and Toby Green, "The Enigmatic Enrollment Trend in US Map Interpretation Courses" in cartographica (volume 43, issue 3), pp. 221-226.
- William Renwick, Michael Vanni, Qianyi Zhang, Jon Patton, "Water Quality Trends and Changing Agricultural Practices in a Midwest U.S. Watershed, 1994-2006" in Journal of Environmental Quality 37:1862-1874 (2008).
- James Rubenstein and Thomas Klier, "Who Really Made Your Car? Restructuring and Geographic Change in the Auto Industry"
- Marcia England, "Stay Out of Drug Areas: Drugs, Othering and Regulation of Public Space in Seattle, Washington" in Space and Polity Vol. 12, No. 2, 197-213, August 2008.
- Thomas Klak, "World-systems theory: Cores, Peripheries and Semi-Peripheries" in The Companion to Development Studies 2nd edition.
- Mary Henry, "Comparison of Single-and Multi-date Landsat Data for Mapping Wildfire Scars in Ocala National Forest, Florida" in Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, July 2008.
- Ian Yeboah, Black African Neo-Diaspora: Ghanaian Immigrant Experiences in the Greater Cincinnati, Ohio, Area.
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