Dr. Stanley W. Toops
My teaching interests are world regional geography and socio-cultural geography, with an area expertise on East and Central Asia as well as international studies. My research work is informed by my students' inquiry into global processes. My research interests are in the international aspects of development, culture, ethnicity, and tourism. The study locale for much of my research is China, specifically the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, where I have been conducting research since 1985. I am fluent in Chinese and speak/read Uyghur. My research considers the impact of internationalization upon China and the results of regional implementation of national policies upon the local landscape. I have written about tourism, population, politics, culture and environment in Xinjiang. At the core of my teaching and research interests are the processes of development and ethnicity in the developing world.
Education:
Ph.D., University of Washington, 1990
Teaching Responsibilities
Geography - World Regional Geography - Rise of Industrialism
in East Asia - Geography of East Asia - Geography of the Silk Road
International Studies - Introduction to International Studies - Problems of Non-Western Society - Senior Seminar (International Tourism)
Selected Publications
- International Studies: An Interdisciplinary Approach" by Sheldon Anderson, Jeanne A.K. Hey, Mark Allen Peterson and Stanley W. Toops, Pearson Custom Publishing, 2006.
- "Demographics and Development in Xinjiang after 1949" in East-West Center Washington Working Papers, Washington DC, No. 1, May 2004.
- "The Ecology of Xinjiang: A Focus on Water" and "The Demography of Xinjiang" in Xinjiang: China's Muslim Frontier, F. Starr, ed. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2004.
- "Xinjiang (Eastern Turkistan): Names, Regions, Landscapes, Future(s)." In Changing China Chiao-min Hsieh, (editor). Boulder: Westview Press, 2003, 411-421.
- "The Population Landscape of Xinjiang/East Turkestan" in Inner Asia 2(2) 2000, 155-171.
- "Tourism and Turpan: The Power of Place in Inner Asia/Outer China." Central Asian Survey, 18(3) 1999, 303-318.
- "China: A Geographic Preface." In Understanding
Contemporary China. Robert
E. Gamer (editor). Boulder: Lynne
Rienner Publisher, 1999, 11-27.