Geography at Syracuse, 1985SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
The Undergraduate Program • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 3
News from the Department ..... . • • • • • • • • • • 10
Chairman Jens en enters Third Term • • • • • • • • • • 10
New Faculty • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 10
Faculty promotions. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 12
• 15Geography projects.
Retirement of John H. Thompson. 22
Departmental publications 22
Graduate Degrees Granted in Geography. • 37
The Recent Placement Experience of Syracuse Geography Graduates: Some Facts and Figures. • • • • • • 41
Faculty and Staff .. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 43
A Final Note .......... . • • • • • • • • • • • 136
The Geography Department at Syracuse University is located
in H.B. Crouse Hall on the edge of the central campus quad-
rangle. It provides easy access to the University's Bird
Library, the mainframe and micro-computer centers, and other
key university buildings. Within H.B. Crouse the Department
contains offices for faculty and graduate students, the new
Preston E. James Library, classrooms, seminar rooms and space
for terminals that allow direct access to the University's com-
puter system. Since Bird Library has, since 1979, progres-
sively transformed its card index of holdings to a computerized
data base, this means that Geography students can now search
for bibliographic items via the flexible interactive SULIRS
system from departmental terminals.
Recent advances in micro-computing are also affecting the
Department. We are in the process of establishing a small com-
puter graphics laboratory, and have recently purchased our first
IBM/PCXT for use in departmental editorial and office work.
As will be described below, the Department has seen many
significant changes over the last five years. Some research
interests have been strengthened and others enhanced by new
directions stimulated by the changing faculty and students.
These new directions at Syracuse reflect deeper processes
affecting both geography and the social sciences in general.
Typical new foci of concern include environmental/ecological
stability • and degradation; public and private institutional
responses to changing industrial patterns within developed
countries; the changing internal structure of United States
metropolitan areas and the complexities of socio-ethnic cleav-
ages and gentrification; the renewed significance of geopoli-
tics at the international level and political separation within
nation-states; the impact of technological change on the analy-
sis and presentation of spatial data; the potential and prob-
lems associated with international development projects in
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Third World areas--these are iust some of the new concerns that
diversify and enrich contemporary geography at Syracuse.
An increasing concern is also to provide graduates with a
balance of intellectual and professional/vocational skills that
will assist them in finding a place in the increasingly diffi-
cult job-market. The days when a good dissertation ensured
entry into an expanding university workforce are gone; now
more and more graduates must consider other career opportuni-
ties and requirements as they move through the program.
Other important changes in the department have been the
steady increase in the relative proportions of women graduate
students, and students from outside the United States. The
former reflects the belated 'opening' of the discipline during
the last decade, while the latter may be seen as a response to
Syracuse's international interests and reputation. Both
changes are welcomed for they have invigorated our endeavors
and extended our collective horizons.
Syracuse Geography in National ''Top Ten'' The 1982 Report of the Conference Board of Associated
Research Councils, An Assessment of Research Doctorate Pro-
grams in the United States (Washington: The National Research
Council), provides information on a number of reputational and
objective measures of graduate program quality which allows
departments to see themselves as they are seen by others.
Coverage of the report in the New York Times and the Chronicle of Higher Education listed Syracuse as one of the "top ten"
Geography Departments in the United States in terms of two key
measures--Reputation (9tl1) and Publications (8th) . The ful 1
report, however, provides data on 18 measures. We have
analyzed those data and by using a composite measure find that
the department is regarded even more favorably (6th) than
suggested by the two measures reported in the press. The
National Research Council also reports that the overall quality
of the geography program at Syracuse is seen to be improving
in the eyes of peer evaluators. We have, of course, been
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working in that di1:ection, and we hope that this issue of
Geography at Syracuse provides evidence of a continuing tradi.-
tion of excellence expected by our graduate alumni.
The Undergraduate Program Since our last report to the alumni, undergradua·te enroll-
ment in GeograpJ1y has increased by about one-third. The
department has taken a number of steps to insure that this
positive trend will continue in the years ahead. In response
to strong interest among Freshmen and Sophomores in depart-
mental offerings featured in the Liberal Arts Core (The Stan-
dard Plan), we have decided to offer several of these "gateway"
courses twice each year in order to reduce scheduling problems
for students. Because exposure to the discipline has created
demand for more advanced work, the department now provides a
minor option which allows Juniors and Seniors in other depart-
ments to focus their geographic study within one of four
tracks: Core Concepts, Environmental, Locational and Regional
Analysis, and Population. These minor options also represent
possible areas of specialization for geography majors. In
addition the department undertook an "outreach" effort which
has resulted in several geography courses being highly recom-
mended by the School of Management, the College of Environmen-
tal Sciences and Forestry, as well as by other Maxwell Programs
including International Relations, and Policy Studies.
An important departmental objective for the next five
years is to sharply increase the number of undergraduate
majors. We will of course report the results of that effort in
the next issue of Geography at Syracuse.
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The Department suffered a terrible loss with the death of
David Sopher on March 8, 1984. He had been under treatment
for cancer for three years but with characteristic quiet dig-
nity and courage had simply carried on his work and told none
of his colleagues about it until well after it had become
apparent that he was seriously ill. Once his condition became
known there was a wonderful spontaneous response from his for-
mer students and friends. Many came to see him, others tele-
phoned, letters and cards came pouring in providing vivid
testimony of how much this remarkable man had meant to so many
people around the world.
David Sopher was born in Shanghai in 1923. His parents
were of the Baghdadian Jeivry and he lived in Shanghai until
after World War II when he came to Berkeley and obtained his
university degrees in geography. He taught briefly at the
University of Minnesota, served as Research Associate at the
American Geographical Society, and was teaching at Sacramento
State in 1964 when he accepted the invitation to come to
Syracuse to fill the position left vacant by the death of
George Cressey.
matic study of the incredibly complex human geography of India
and to extend his work broadly in Cultural Geography. His
book Geography of Religions (1967) was the first general work
on the topic in English and will long remain a landmark in a
growing field. He served as map editor and worked closely
with his onetime Syracuse colleague Isma'il Ragi al Faruqi to
create the great reference volume Historical Atlas of the
Religions of the World (1974). The book An Exploration of
India, Geographical Perspectives on Society and Culture (1980)
is a fine exhibit of the close collaboration between David and
his students but it is no more than a hint at the range and
depth of his in1pact. He served as principal advisor on
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Senate No. 584 SY: Sen•tor Auer
COMMEMORATING the de.ath of Or. David E. S09her
WHEREAS, This legi s lative Bod y wH s addened to lea rn of the dHth of Or, David E. Sophe r on Thu rs da y, M.&r-ch eighth, n inetee n hu ndred elg hty•four; a n d
WHEREAS, Da vid Sophe r w.u born and r.1i s In Sha ng hai , Chi na and edu cated at th(!; Univer sit y of Califo r n ia at Ber keley whe re he received his. bache-lor' $ , master's and doctorate deg rees in geography in nl neteeri h1.1ndred forty•eight, nineteen hu ndl'ed fifty 11nd nineteen hundred fifty•four respectively ; and
WHEREAS, Or . Oavid Sopher Ul"Ved u a Research Auoelate with th• Am er iu n Geo g r ap hic.al Soc iety and bu9ht at th e Univ ersity of Minnesota;, Sacrame nto State Co lle9e, and the Un ive rs ity o f Chic.ago pri o r to his arrival at Syr.aeuso Unive rsity In nineteon hundred $ixt y - fo u r; and
WHEREAS. Or, Soph•r devott <t twent y y c.a,rs o f hi s life te,1chin 9 as ,1 Profeu or o i Ge<>9ra phy in the Mtixwe ll School at Syr.ac:use Unive rsity where he achiev<&d internation a l .acc.laim fo r hi$ s cholarly s tu dies o f th e cultures and relig ion&of th e world and n • s pec.i\llis t in Asi.an s tu dies ; and
WHEREAS, Or. David Sophe r 's qu e st tor kno wledge never dimi n ished tind le<I to uten s ivo resHrch in lndi,i, P.akis t.an, 8.tngladesh, Sri L.an ka •nd En9l,1nd whi (.h wn s upportod by th• National Sc ience Fou nd•tlon, the Office o f N.aval Res e .arch, Syrac.u s e Univer s ity , and a Fulbright Fellowshlp; .and
WHEREAS, These fi e ld studies combi n ed with 0,1vid' s thoorotic.al expe rti seand i nnovativ e inteUect produ c ed n umerous profeuio na l artic.lo s , notably "An Exploration of India"" and "The S u Nom.ads: ·, ;)nd hi$. landma rk book 'llto Geo graphy of Religion s ; ,1nd
WHEREAS, Or. D•vld Sopher on«l\lr•g ed tho advanctment o f s ehola rl y s tudies at Syr•cu ui University through his position as editor o f the s,-ueus o Sc bol4r and th• Oep.artment of Ge,ogra phy Di s cus sio n Pap e r Serles ; ind
WHEREAS. In his commitme nt to eonvnunkate th• n1tuf'O of geogr.aphy .i n d itsint e rdis ciplinary att r ibu tes ho s erved u a vi s icin9 Profes so r at the University o f Ca.lifor n ia and the Hebrew Unlverslty of Jor1.1nlcm and H ,11n a ctive member o f th e As s ociatio n for Asian Stu dlt t, the Auoc.i,ti o n o f Amer ic.an Ceographers, the American Geogr,1phi(: a l Societv, a nd the Middl e Eut Dialogue Cro u p; and
WHEREAS. Or. David Soph e,.·s e<frting o f th e cartogr.1phlc pr e:sentations in the Hhtode.1 At.las ot th• Re l i gi0ll $ o ! tM Vorld •nd his co.•ed!tor-ship o f tho for'theomtn9 book Th• City if\ CUltutal Context are two o f m,1ny ex.am.pie s whic:h depic t th e ad·mintion •nd ro s p¢e;t ho engendered amon9 his pur$; and
WHEREAS, Or . Sopher"s c;o.ntrlbu tion in upholdl n 9 and e.nhanc ing the tt'a dition and nati oni l r-en-own of th e Oepartm e nt of Geo g raphy at Sy racu s e Univer s ity was ine.stim.able; and
WHEREAS, Or . David S<>s>he r·s most profou nd infl ue nee in e n lightening and e xp.andi ng th e global s>erspectlves o f his numero u s u ndergradu1te ind gr•du•t• s tu de nts will rev e rberate throu9h fu tur• g•nor.atio n s ; an d
WHEREAS, The aceomplis hmenb o f tho life of David E. SoPher a s • schoJ1r •an d a human i ng will be ine ru e,1bly etched in the memories of his hrnily,f r ie n ds. eoflugues. a:nd stude n ts who h.id the g ood fortune to C<lffle into cont.ict with him; now, th ef'IClfo ro, be it
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RESOLVED, Th a t thi s As s embled Bod y e,cpre,:ss its sine.cre s t co n dolenu s tohi s f.amlly a nd friends.; and b• it further RESOLVED, That copie s of this Resolution , s uitably e n9ros s e d, be
tr.ansmitted to his widow, Tre s s a, and the Depa rtment o f Geography at Sy raeu n Un ive rs ity .
AOOPTEO IN SENATE ON By order of the Senate,Maf'Ch 2.1, 1984
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seventeen Ph.D. dissertations and twenty M.A. theses and was an ' important committee member on many others.
One of his students who came to see David in the last week
of his life went home and tried to put into words what it meant
to have worked with this man:
The Middle Eastern Jew, the Shanghai expa- triate, the Berkeley intellectual, the student of simple sea nomads in Southeast Asia and of pilgrims in India, David Sopher experienced more cultures and in more parts of the world than most of us can comfortably imagine. With all this as background, David was immensely be- lievable when he invited graduate stu- dents to the serious study of other cul- tures and times. The example he et inspired us to transcend our caste and class--to take delight in the hard work of trying to construct an interior view of peoples not our own.
Habitual patterns of behavior, artifacts, and the look of the landscape were clues to systems of belief and motivation. To him, methodology was fine, but hardly suggestive of the way. By example, and by nudging us now and then, he showed a way and, with Terry, gave us a glimpse of something beautiful--something slightly mysterious, yet rational if we could but discover the right language and link together the clues.
Like dialects, the paths of his students have diverged. But we retain the sense of kinship, the proto-language of cul- tural geography, and the memory of the gentle dignity of this remarkable scho- lar. These are a rich legacy.
They are a rich legacy, indeed. David Sopher was that rare
thing, a true intellectual and, rarer still, he combined that
power of mind, instinct for ideas, and richness of knowledge
with gentleness,·wit, and generosity of spirit. His presence
has been fundamental to the reputation of the Department, for
many people around the world "geography" at Syracuse meant,
foremost of all, David Sopher.
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He c n never be replaced. We can only be grateful to
have had him with us for as long as we did and try to adhere
to the principles of scholarship and teaching which he so
richly represented.
David E. Sopher Memorial Scholarship During the 1984-85 academic year the Department will
establish a permanent endowment to support the annual award of
a David E. Sopher Memorial Scholarship. The purpose of the
scholarship is to provide a lasting tribute to our friend and
colleague and to encourage and support graduate research in
social and cultural geography.
organizations and individuals for contributions wl1ich have
made the permanent endowment possible:
ANACONA, Audrey and Albert
BHATIA, Tej K. ·
BROWN, Lawrence A.
JAMES, Preston E. and Eileen W.
JENSEN, Robert G. and Nansie G.
LEVY, Joyce C.
McMAHON, Susan E.
MIDDLE EAST DIALOGUE GROUP
SMITH, H. Daniel
SOPHER, Philip E. '
STEINBERG, Barry M.
TALARCHEK, Gary M. •
ZUGHAIB, Elia K. and Georgia H.
Our goal is to attain a·$S,OOO base by December 1985 at
which time the endowment will be formally established.
Additional contributions will be most welcome prior to that
date. Please make your check payable to the Department of
Geography (Sopher Scholarship).· The first David E. Sopher
Memorial Scholarship will be awarded during the Spring
semester of 1986.
NEWS FROM THE DEPARTMENT
Chairman Jensen enters Third Term Given all the other changes that the Department has under-
gone, and will undoubtedly undergo in the near future, it is
good to be able to report that Chairman Robert G. Jensen was
persuaded to accept a third term in that position. Rather
like a member of Congress, Bob's extended contact with key
decision-makers within the University community ensures that
we continue to benefit from access to information, opinions
and funds that are vital to the Department's progress. As all
who have experienced administrative responsibility will under-
stand that there are relatively few pleasures and many prob-
lems that go with such positions, especially so in the case of
a Departmental Chairman in a private institution that is
increasingly concerned with academic excellence as well as
cost-efficiency. Nonetheless, he must be pleased with the
great progress made by the Department during the 1980s. We
are fortunate to be able to count on Bob's leadership during
the next few years, which appear to be exciting but difficult
ones for higher education in general.
New Faculty Three new faculty members have joined the Department
since 1980, two of whom began teaching and research in Septem-
ber of 1983 at Syracuse.
John Rees came to Syracuse from the University of Texas
at Dallas, where he held an Associate Professorship in Geog-
raphy and Political Economy. John earned his M.A. at the
University of Cincinnati and his Ph.D. at the London School of
Economics, the latter giving a clue to his academic concerns.
John is an economic geographer with special interests in
regional development and change, industrial location and plan-
ning, and relationships between technology and economic growth.
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journals. He has already established his name as an innova-
tive contributor to the study of the new economic geography of
the U.S. and his move from the Sunbelt back to the Snowbelt
(or Rustbelt?) will benefit not only Geography at Syracuse,
but also other Maxwell and University programs.
Immediately prior to his move to Syracuse, John v,as a
National Research Council Fellow of the National Academy of
Sciences Committee on National Urban Policy in Washington,
reflecting his interest· and involvement in public policy. He
has served as a consultant to the Joint Economic Committee of
the U.S. Congress on problems of government policy and indus-
trial location in the United States; he wrote a background
study for President Carter's National Urban Policy Report; and
he examined the implications of decentralization processes in
the U.S. for the President's Commission on a National Agenda
for the Eighties.
Department from Berkeley, California, but his research inter-
ests, field experience and family background mark him as a
return migrant to New York State. His professional interests
focus on various aspects of environmental management and the
political economy of land use, meaning that Mike fills a most
important niche in the wider University and community concern
with such matters. His dissertation was on the history of
urban planning and regional land-use control in New York
State, but since that work he has completed a manuscript on
Coastal Recreation in CaZifor>nia, and is now engaged in
research on hazard waste management, and "LULUs" (locally
unwanted land uses). His appointment reinforces Syracuse
Geography's emphasis on human-environmental relationships in a
distinctively applied context.
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his experiences in Africa. He first spent two years teaching
for VSO (the British equivalent of the Peace Corps) in rural
Burundi and later returned to Africa, this time South Africa,
to spend two more years at the University of Cape Town. It
was during the latter period that John collected data that was
used first in his dissertation and later in his widely
acclaimed book Outcast Cape Town (University of Minnesota
Press, 1981). What the elegance yet cool anger of this book
demonstrates is the devastating impact of apartheid upon urban
residents.
differentiation in American cities, especially the process of
residential revitalization and social group interaction. He
has lectured at Yale, Princeton, and in the People's Republic
of China, and has also advised U.S. congressional groups on
foreign policy in Southern Africa, especially relevant as this
publication is being prepared with riots and deaths a daily
occl1rrence in that country. John also serves on the editorial
board of the Geographical Review, and his appointment adds a
new-depth and quality to our offerings in cultural and social
geography.
faculty from eleven to twelve full-time positions, thereby
demonstrating strong institutional support for Geography at
Syracuse.
Faculty promotions In 1983 James L. Newman and David J. Robinson were pro-
moted from Associate to full Professors upon the recommenda-
tion of college and university committees, thus obtaining offi-
cial recognition for their services to the department, univer-
sity and profession. Their personal accomplishments, some of
which are noted below, reflect the high standards by which
Syracuse faculty are judged.
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Depax>tmental Secretary Gitta Trippany points to the catalog of data on the Department's new micro-computer, hile Editorial Assistant Pamela Walker types, and Dolores Green, Depart- mental Administrative Assistant, looks on.
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New James Library dedicated Nineteen-eighty-two saw the move of the departmental
Preston E. James Library from its previous cramped quarters to
a more spacious and elegantly furnished room on the third
floor of H.B. Crouse. The James Library provides geography
graduates with an invaluable collection of key journals and
books, the majority of which have come from Jimmy James' per-
sonal collection. Since the new library has a special shelf
for faculty and alumni publications we would welcome contribu-
tions from any or all of our graduates. In this way Syracuse
students would be in contact with a much wider pool of informa-
tion and knowledge as well as getting to know some of the acti-
vities of former graduates.
From 1977 to 1982 the department was the "nerve center"
for one of the largest interdisciplinary research projects
ever mounted by the Association of American Geographers.
Directed by Robert Jensen and supported by a large grant
from the National Science Foundation, the project published
32 widely reviewed Discussion Papers and sponsored a major
conference at the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian
Studies in Washington, D.C. The final results of the proj-
ect are reported in Soviet Natural Resources in the World
Economy, a 700-page outsize volume published by the Univer-
sity of Chicago Press in 1983. Based primarily on original
Soviet sources, the 31 chapters of the book are supported by
more than 100 maps produced by the Syracuse Cartographic
Laboratory and by some 250 statistical tables which document
Soviet resource potential and foreign trade from a number of
perspectives. At a time when the benefits and costs of
East-West trade are a matter of heated public debate, this
AAG-sponsored study provides a basic foundation for future
investigations and decision-making relating to Soviet trade
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with the West, trade that essentially involves an exchange of
Soviet raw materials for Western grain, technology and manu-
factured goods. The book has attracted considerable attention
in the international press and continues to be reviewed in a
range of scholarly journals.
The project was fortunate to have the able assistance of
a number of departmental staff and graduate students including
Gary Hausladen, Mike Kirchoff, and Pam Walker.
Applied Geography in Latin America: The Local Revenue
Administration Project in Peru
signed a cooperative agreement with the United States Agency
for International Development (USAID) to provide long-term
assistance to USAID missions requesting assistance in the gen-
eral area of local revenue administration. By the Fall of
that same year a request had been received from USAID Peru who
were anxious to initiate a major $20 m. development project
in the two sierra departments of Junin and Cajamarca. The
focus of the Integrated Regional Development Project (PRODERIN)
was on decentralized regional planning, municipal development,
and project management, and the Geography Department became
involved in this Project when David Robinson was invited to
serve as in-country Director of the technical assistance team
that Syracuse was asked to provide during the three years from
January 1981.
With a budget of some $1.65 million and a team of more
than eight long-term and 25 short-term advisors, the Technical
Assistance group worked closely with over 250 Peruvian tech-
nicians in an attempt to introduce innovative methods in
regional planning (especially at the micro-regional level), to
carry out basic studies of various aspects of municipal devel-
opment, especially financial and functional analyses, to
develop methods of prioritizing investment projects, and
involving local population in the construction and maintenance
of a wide range of urban and rural infrastructural development
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electrification schemes and medical posts.
One of the underlying principles of the Project was the
use of the "key market town" concept--a spatial framework that
focused investment within the hinterland of small towns that
were to act as decentralized centers of service provision for
the surrounding population. The two Departmental Development
Corporations acted as the agents of project administration, a
useful experiment in decentralized administration considering
the fact that as from 1985 Peru should devolve many of its
highly centralized powers to the new regional governments
designated in the New Constitution of 1980.
The Peru Project allowed Robinson, and graduates Robert
Kent and Vicky Muniz, and former graduate Larry Herzog, not 1only to experience the conditions of Peru .s poorest regions,
but also to participate in decision-making in what may be a
unique opportunity for geographers. Some of the work of the
Technical Assistance team is to be found in the 55 Working
Papers edited by Robinson, as well as in his 400-page Final
Report to USAID. The next few years will see not only articles
and books published on various aspects of the Peru Project,
but also a major shift in focus of the Dellplain Program in
Latin American Geography at Syracuse towards geographical
analysis of contemporary problems of Latin America, especially
the Andean area, to extend the historical work already in pro-
gress. It is hoped that the Peru experience will further sti-
mulate links between Geography and other Maxwell departments,
especially Metropolitan Studies, as well as providing students
with hands-on experience in the complexities of international
development, and the possibilities of finding employment within
international and national agencies.
The Shaping of America
certain to have a significant impact on American geography and
historical interpretations of American development, is one at
present underway in Room 340 of H.B. Crouse. This is Donald
Meinig's writing project which involves an analytical descrip-
tion of The Shaping of America, a "fresh interpretation of the
development of America from the first Atlantic outreach of
Europeans to the present day." The project, which involves no
large data bank, nor large budget, but more than thirty years
of reflective scholarship and the seminal ideas outlined in
"The Continuous Shaping of America: A Prospectus for Geogra-
phers and Historians," The American Historical Review, vol. 83,
1978, pp. 1186-1205. Those who know Imperial Texas, The Great
Columbia Plain, and the many other elegant studies of Donald
Meinig, have great expectations for the three volumes
(I, Atlantic America, 1500-1800; II, Continental America,
1800-1915; and III, Global America, 1915-1990) that will be
published by Yale University Press between 1985 and the 1990s.
Related to this major writing project is another activity
with which Donald Meinig is involved. He and alum John B.
Garver (Ph.D., 1981), now Chief Cartographer of the National
Geographic Society, have embarked upon a collaborative five-
year project to draw the attention of the eleven million sub-
scribers of the National Geographic to a series of carto-
graphic summaries of the Making of America. By means of
seventeen map supplements the patterns and processes of the
historical geography of the United States are captured in an
extremely effective combination of scholarly interpretation
and multi-colored cartographic representation. Maps published
to date include: The Southwest, Atlantic Gateways, Deep South,
Hawaii, Alaska, Far West, and Central Rockies.
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New link with London School of Economics In 1984 Dr. F.E. Ian Hamilton of the Geography Department
at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
was awarded ESOOO seed grant from the British Council to
develop joint projects with the Geography Department at
Syracuse as part of a UK/USA Collaborative Link Award. The
initial two-year collaborative project (coordinated by
Dr. John Rees) will comprise three types of activity: joint
research, workshops and faculty exchange. In the future it
is hoped to broaden this out to include student exchange.
Initial collaborative research efforts by the faculty at
LSE (Dr. Hamilton and Prof. Derek Diamond) and Syracuse
(Dr. John Rees and Dr. John Mercer) will focus upon the nature
and causes of industrial change at the city and regional levels
in the UK and USA and on the effects of such changes on labor
markets and households. Currently both countries are exper-
iencing varying degrees of deindustrialization and the project
will identify the potential for restructuring industry and the
eventual "reindustrialization" of various sectors and regions
in each country.
institutions from the collaborative research:
- a much closer understanding of research methods and problems
involved with UK and U.S. data, and the ability to create com-
parable data bases for future joint work;
- greater insights into the real similarities and differences
in the regional economic and social environments of the UK and
USA;
workshops; and
- strengthening of the information base in both institutions
with regard to advice to, or influence on public policy makers
concerned with the urban and regional dimension to economic and
social policy.
The first joint workshop took place at the London ScJ1ool
of Economics in November 1984, and the second is scheduled to
be held at Syracuse in April 1985 with eight LSE faculty par-
ticipating.
Retirement of John H. Thompson In January 1982, after more than 30 years as a member of
the Syracuse faculty, John Thompson retired and was awarded
the distinguished service title Professor Emeritus.
John earned his Ph.D. at the University of Washington in
1949 and joined the Syracuse faculty in that same year as
Assistant Professor of Geography. At Syracuse Professor
Thompson gained a reputation as one of the leading economic
geographers in the United States. His publications included
four books, a dozen monographs, and numerous journal articles.
He directed 14 doctoral dissertations and more than 20 master's
theses. However, he is probably best known for his comprehen-
sive volume, Geography of New York State (Syracuse: Syracuse
University Press, 1966), which is still regarded as the stan-
dard geographic reference work on the state and one of the best
regional geographies of its kind. John and Marge Thompson con-
tinue to live just across the "urban frontier" in Tully, New
York.
David Robinson continues to edit the Dellplain Series, now
published for the Department by Westview Press, Boulder, CO.
Some eighteen volumes have now been published (see b low) and
three more are in an advanced stage of editorial work. All of
the volumes have received critical acclaim from reviewers in
major journals and the Series has done much to identify
Syracuse's Geography Department as a center of national signi-
ficance in the study of Latin America. This is an appropriate
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to the Series as Editorial Assistant and to Mike Kirchoff and
Marcia Harrington of the Cartography Laboratory for their stu-
died persistence in the preparation of the several hundred maps .'
that the published volumes include:
1979 Social Fabric and Spatial Structure in Colonial Latin America. Ann Arbor [David J. Robinson, ed.]
1979 New Towns for Colonial Brazil: Spatial and Social Planning of the Eighteenth Century. Ann Arbor [R.M. Delson]
1979 Carl Bauer's Field Work in Latin America. Ann Arbor [R.C. West]
1980 Studying Latin America: Essays in Honor of Preston E. James. Ann Arbor [David J. Robinson]
1980 First Among Equals: Great Britain and Venezuela, 1810-1910. Ann Arbor [G.E. Carl]
1980 Amazon Economics: The Simp licity of Shipibo Indian Wealth. Ann Arbor [R.W. Bergman]
1981 The Mining Society of Potosi, 1776-1810. Ann Arbor [R.M. Buechler]
1981 Studies in Latin American Population History. Boulder [David J. Robinson]
1982 The People of the Colca Valley: A Population Study. Boulder (N. David Cook]
1982 Tierra Adentro: Settlement and Society in Colonial Durango. Boulder [Michael M. Swann]
1982 Andean Reflections: Letters from Carl 0. Sauer while on a South American Trip under a Grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, 1942. Boulder [R.C. West]
1983 Credit and Socioeconomic Change in Colonial Mexico: Loans and Mortgages in Guadalajara, 1720-1820. Boulder [Linda L. Greenow]
1983 Once Beneath the Forest: Prehistoric Terracing in the Rio Bee Region of the Maya Lowland. Boulder [B.L. Turner II]
1983 Marriage and Fertility in Chile: Demographic Turning Points in the Petorca Valley, 1840-1976. Boulder [Robert Mccaa]
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1984 The Spatial" Organization of New Land Settlement in Latin America. Boulder [Jacob 0. Ma s]
1984 The Anglo-Argentine Connection 1900-1939. Boulder [Roger Gravil]
In press
Costa Rica: A Geographical Interpretation. Boulder [Carolyn Hall]
Household Economy and Urban Development: Sao Paulo 1?65 to 1836. Boulder [Elizabeth Kuznesof]
Irrigation in the Mexican Bajio during the Colonial Period. Boulder [Michael Murphey]
Discussion Paper Series
Western, the Series continues to flourish. The Discussion
Papers provide an excellent means of permitting graduate stu-
dents an early opportunity of publishing their academic work,
as well as an outlet for some early faculty ideas on topics and
data that might not be appropriate for journal publication. ive
would encourage alumni who have suitable material to submit it
to the Editor of the Series, Jim Newman. Papers published
since the last issue of Geography at Syracuse include:
1930 The Sanctity of Cattle and the Cattle Ecology of India, no. 65 [Robert Carle]
1980 Where the South Ends: A Critique of Regionalizing in Cultural Geography, no. 66 [Craig Colten]
1981 Modern Frontier Expansion in Brazil and Adjacent Amazonian Lands: A Review, no. 6 7 [ Kenneth Lederma11 J
1981 Sita in the City: A Sociogeographical Analysis of Female Employment in Urban India, no. 68 [Saraswati Raju]
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1981 Geographic Considerations in Afro-American Religious History: Past Performance, Present Problems and Future Hopes, no. 69 [Milton C. Sernett]
i981 The Elite, the Automobile, and the Good Roads Move- ment in New York: The Development and Transformation of a Technological Complex, 1904-1913, no. 70 [Peter J. Hugill]
1981 The Employment Elasticity Coefficient as a Measure of Labor Intensity and its Geographic Variation, no. 71 [F. Douglas Muschett]
1981 Property-Tax Exemptions and the Fiscal Crisis of the Central City, no. 72 [Girma Kebbede]
1982 A Place for Everyone: Social Order and Residential Pattern in Urban India, no. 73 [Saraswati Raju]
1982 Industrial Estates and Regional Economic Development: The Malaysian Experience, no. 74 [Seek Choo Chi]
1982 A Geographical Perspective on Urban Enterprise Zones, no. 75 [Gary Talarchek]
1982 Social Theory and the Loglinear Approach: The Ques- tion of Race and Class in Colonial Spanish America, no. 76 [Robert McCaa and Michael Swann]
1982 Land Promoters as Regional Planners: Development Theory on the Western New York Frontier, 1793-1800, no. 77 [William Wyckoff]
1982 The Geography of Scottish Nationalism, no. 78 [John Agnew]
1983 Models of Man in Geography, no. 79 [Paul Claval]
1983 Oil and Regional Sentiment in Southern Sudan, no. 80 [Raphael K. Badal]
1983 Ulster Unionist Hegemony and Regional Industrial Policy in Northern Ireland, 1945-1972, no. 81 [Jim Mac Laughlin]
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1983 Th.eorieso.f Regional Growth and Industrial Location: Their Rqlevanee for High-Technology Industry in the United States, no. 83 (John Rees and Howard Stafford]
1984 Resource Management in the Arid Himalaya: Problems and Prospective Solutions, no. 84 [Alton C. Byers III]
VISITING SPEAKER PROGRAM
One of the major benefits of being associated with the
Geography Department at Syracuse is the Department's ability to
· support a visiting program that attracts many distinguished
scholars here each year. These visitors not only contribute
to ongoing departmental interests, but also provide an oppor-
tunity for graduates and faculty to meet leading scholars from
around the world.
Geography Colloquium The Department's Colloquium still meets regularly on
Friday's in Room 304 of H.B. Crouse under the watchful eyes of
two former Chairmen of the Department, and a new feature which
follows each formal presentation--a social meeting with liquid
and other refreshments--has done much to increase the exchange
of opinions and information. Our attempt at broadening the
exposure of graduates and faculty to a diversity of approaches
is reflected in the variety of Syracuse and non-Syracuse
speakers during the last few years. These include:
Thomas J. Wilbanks (Oak Ridge National Lab) "Geographic Scale and Consensus Building in Energy Policy"
J. Lewis Robinson (University of British Columbia) "The Devel- opment of Geography in Canada"
Glynn Cochrane (Ant.hropology, SU) "The Operation and Manage- ment of Interdisciplinary Research"
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Shin-yi Hsu (SUNY, Binghamton) "China and its Geographic Study in Transition"
James Aiello (Education Coordinator, Burnet Park Zoo, Syracuse) "The American Zoo: Problems and Prospects"
Robert W. Haswell (University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa) "The Making of Historic South ,\frican Townscapes"
Judy M. Olson (Boston University) "Future Research Directions in Cartography"
David Woodward (Dept. of Geography, University of Wisconsin) "Radiography, Digital Image Enhancement, and Six- teenth-Century Italian Cartography: New Ways to Tackle and Old Problem"
Hou Renzhi (Dept. of Geography, Peking University, Beijing, People's Republic of China) "The City Plan of Peking (Beijing) Past and Present"
Ary J. Lamme III (Dept. of Geography, University of Florida, Gainesville) "The North Country Amish"
Rupert B. Southard (Chief, National Mapping Division, U.S. Geological Survey) "The Development of U.S. National Mapping Policy"
Susan Hanson (Clark University) "Whither the Annals--and the Discipline?"
Gordon L. Clark (City and Regional Planning, Harvard Univer-. sity) "Fluctuations and Rigidity in Local Labor Markets of the United States"
Lowell C. Bennion (Humboldt State University) "Prospects for an Atlas of Mormon History"
Emmanuel Carter (Syracuse City Planner) "Thoughts on the Do\vn- town Syracuse Master Plan"
Wilbur Zelinsky (Dept. of Geography, The Pennsylvania State University) "Nationalism in the American Landscape"
Paul Claval (Dept. of Geography, University of Paris, Sorbonne) "Models of Man in Geography"
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Rich Warms (Anth:ropology, SU) "Cultural Perspectives on Devel- opment Work in Upper Volta"
John Nellis (Development Planning, SU) "Decentralization in North Africa: An Interdisciplinary Perspective"
David Sylvan (Political Science, SU) "Central America: Econo- mic Development after the Revolution"
Francois Belisle (Program Officer, International Development Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada) "Development Research and Administration at the IDRC: A Geog- rapher's Perspective"
Colin H. Williams (Dept. of Geology and Sociology, North Staffordshire Polytechnic, Stafford, England) "The Welsh and Other Celts"
Howard Stafford (Dept. of Geography, University of Cincinnati) "The Environment versus Jobs Debate"
John Noble Wilford (Science Correspondent for The New York Times) "Space and Time: New Perceptions of Earth"
Richard McNeil (Dept. of Natural Resources, Cornell University) "Low Technology People and Resource Conservation"
George J. Demko (Dept. of Geography, The Ohio State University) "The National Science Foundation and Research in Geography"
Rowan A. Rowntree (Project Leader) and Ralph A. Sanders (Senior Research Associate) (U.S.D.A. Forest Service, SUNY, College of Environmental Science and Forestry) "Urban Forest: Study in Contradiction?"
Richard Smardon (SUNY, College of Environmental Science and Forestry) "The St. Lawrence Scenic Access Study"
James Palmer (SUNY, College of Environmental Science and For- estry.) "Landscape Perception of the Appalachian Trai 1"
Konstanze Baumer (Dept. of Foreign Languages, SU) "A Dissolve Slide Show on the Cultural Geography of West Berlin"
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Suzanne Mackenzie (Dept. of Geography, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario) "Moving Beyond the Wage-Economy? Gender, Environment, and Recession in Postwar Britain"
F.E. Ian Hamilton (Dept. of Geography, London School of Eco- nomics) "The International Challenges to National Industrial Restructuring"
Keith Thompson (Dept. of Geography, Massey University, Palmerston, Palmerston North, N.Z.)
Neil Smith (Columbia University) "On the Necessity of Uneven Development and the Production of Geographic Scale"
John Paterson (Leicester University, Leicester, England)
Gary Fuller (Dept. of Geography, University of Hawaii) "Popula- tion Pressure in Haiti"
Mohan K. Wali (Director of the Graduate Program in Environ- mental Science, SUNY, College of Environmental Sci- ence and Forestry) "Energy and Land Use"
Henry G. Williams (Commissioner, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation) "Environmental Policy in New York State"
J.W. Harrington (Dept. of Geography, SUNY, Buffalo) "Business Strategy and Locational Change"
Jerome Brezner (SUNY, College of Environmental Science and Forestry) "Pesticides, People, and Policy"
Charles Geisler (Dept. of Rural Sociology_, Cornell) "Inholder Opposition to Land Use Planning: The Adirondack Case"
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Geography Symposia The Department also arranges occasional symposia on topics
of significance to both the Department and the Maxwell School.
During the last four years two such symposia have been orga-
nized.
The first, held in the Spring semester of 1981, and or-
ganized by John Agnew, John Mercer and David Sopher, focused
attention on "The City in Cultural Context." Eight specialists
from a variety of disciplines and institutions· came to Syracuse
to present invited papers (see list below), and these, together
with other contributions, formed the basis of the volume pub-
lished in 1984 entitled The City in Cultural Context (Allen &
Unwin).
City and Society in China: and Transformation
Tradition
Susan Lewandowski Cultural Transformations in Post- Dept. of History An1herst College
Colonial Urban India
The Soviet City in Cultural Context
Amos Rapoport School of Arch. and
Culture and the Urban Order
Urban Planning Univ. of WI-Milwaukee
Janet Abu-Lughod Dept. of Sociology Northwestern Univ.
Mode of Production and Changing Nature of the City in the Middle East
John ivalton Dept. of Sociology UC-Davis
Culture and Economy in the Shaping of Urban Life: General Issues and Latin American Illustrations
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Participants in and sponsors of the Mazwell 60th Anniversary Syrrposiwn. Left to right: Hon. William J. Donohue Commi$sioner New York State Department of Commerce; Maxwell Dean Guthrie Birkhead; Dr. John Rees.
Technology and
Regional Development
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Peter Hall The Urban· Culture and the Suburban Inst. of Urban and Culture Regional Devel.
UC-Berkeley
John S. Adams The Cultural Geography of the Neigh- Dept. of Geography borhood: The Control of Urban Resi- Univ. of Minnesota dential Space in the United States
The Geography Department celebrated the 60th Anniversary
of the Maxwell School by organizing a two-day symposium on the
policy implications of technology and regional development .
The symposium was also sponsored by the new Center for Advanced
Technology at Syracuse University together with the New York
State Science and Technology Foundation, and the Maxwell
School.
The background to the conference was that, over the last
ten to twenty years, several regions of the United States have
developed strong economies based on fast-growing high-techno-
logy companies. These companies have been involved in the nur-
turing and commercial development of new products, production
processes, and services which form important elements in the
international competitiveness of American industry and in the
job creation process. Many policies of the federal government
are aimed at encouraging the growth of such companies, and more
recently many state and local development programs have been
aimed at attracting or encouraging the formation of high-tech-
nology companies. At the same time, policy makers and scien-
tists alike are concerned about the different social and eco-
nomic impacts that technological change can bring to different
localities.
While these issues are getting increased attention in the
media and senior policy levels, there is much that we do not
know about the development of technology complexes, the spread
of innovations, the impact of technological change on labor
creation and the role of public policy in stimulating innova-
tion and economic growth.
The purpose of this symposium was to increase our under-
standing of the links between technological change, regional
development and public policy by bringing together senior
policy makers in both the public and private sectors with dis-
tinguished scholars who have conducted research related to the
topics of the symposium. Those who presented papers included:
Edward Malecki Univ. of Florida
Research and Development and Regional Development
Ann Markusen UC-Berkeley
Geographical Trends Industries
in High Technology
Robotics, the Labor Force and Regional Development
Patricia Flynn Federal Reserve of Boston and
Bank The Labor Change
Bentley College
Donald Hicks The Diffusion of Industrial Tech- Univ. of Texas at Dallas
nology and its Policy Implications
Roger Vaughan Gallatin Inst. Washington, D.C.
The State and Federal Role in High Technology Development
Panelists and discussants for the symposium included:
Cahterine Armington, Brookings Institution J.D. Eveland, National Science Foundation J.W. Harrington, SUNY Buffalo Bennett Harrison, MIT Graham Jones, New York State Science and Technology Foundation Barry Moriarty, University of North Carolina Robert Premus, Joint Economic Committee of Congress Guy Steed, Science Council of Canada Bernard Weinstein, Gray Institute, Beaumont, Texas
as well as members of the Syracuse University faculty. On
April 3, 1984 a policy forum on "High Technology Development
Potential for New York State" was opened by the Honorable
\\filliam J. Donohue, Commissioner of the New York State
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with other invited papers will be published by Rowman and
Allanheld Publishers in the summer of 1985, provisionally
entitled Technology, Regions and Policy (ed. J. Rees).
CRESSEY-JAMES FUND
Fellowships were established in 1977. The Fellowships, sup-
ported by endowments from Cressey and James and by annual con-
tributions from alumni, are designed to assist outstanding
doctoral candidates in the Department to work full-time on
their dissertations. To date Cressey-James Fellows include:
Michael 0. Roark Oklahoma Territory: Frontier Develop- ment, Migration and Culture Areas
Douglas L. Robertson A Behavioral Portrait of the Mexican Plaza Principal
Gary M. Talarchek A Cybernetic Theory of Residential Decision-Making
Lawrence A. Herzog Government Intervention and the Land Use Decision Process in Expanding Metropolitan Regions: The Case of Otay Mesa Development, San Diego County, California
Girma Kebbede Property Tax Exemptions and the Fiscal Crisis of the Central City: A Case Study of Syracuse, New York
Russell P. Lura The Demographic Transition in Develop- ing Areas: Population Change in Kericho District, Kenya, 1905 to 1969
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James Fund has provided smaller research grants to more than
twenty geography graduate students during the past four years.
The Department wishes to thank the following alumni for their
contributions to the Fellowship Program between October 1980
and October 1984:
BETZ, Gabriel P., Dr.
BHATT, Bharat L., Dr.
BIGELOW, Bruce L., Dr.
GALE, Robert E., Mr.
GARVER, John B., Dr.
GIMIGLIANO, Michael N., Dr.
GORDON, Jeffrey J. Dr.
HUGILL, Peter J., Dr.
HUKE, Robert E., Dr.
HULL, Gordon C., Dr.
JENKS, George F., Dr.
KAMERLING ,' David S., Mr.
LEWIS, Richard T., Dr.
LIBBEE, Michael J., Dr.
LITTLE, Richard S., Dr.
LONG, Robert G., Mr.
LONSDALE, Richard E., Dr.
MESINGER, Jonathan S., Dr.
MILES, Edward J., Dr.
PHIPPEN, George R., Mr.
PLUMMER, Corrine M., Ms.
SCOTT, Richard A., Dr.
TWEEDIE, Stephen W., Dr.
We hope that an increasing number of alumni will support
the Cressey-James Fellowship on an annual basis. Your com-
bined contributions provide critical support to graduate stu-
dents in the final stages of their program.
GRADUATE DEGREES GRANTED IN GEOGRAPHY
Between January 1980 and November 1984 the Department
granted 43 graduate degrees. The degree recipients, with
degree titles and principal advisors are· listed below.
1980
Dorney, Jean E. M.A. "The Effect of Airline Deregulation on Air Service to Syracuse, New York" (Monmonier)
McNerney, Christine M. M.A. "Exploration and Evaluation of Map Use in Environmental Education Facilities" (Monmonier)
Donnell, Robert P. Ph.D. "Fire in the City: Spatial Perspec- tives on Urban Structural Fire Problems: Syracuse, New York" (Thompson)
LoSecco, John F. M.A. Master's Papers. "Maps and the Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation"; "Drumlins, Their Use and Effect on the Development of Syracuse, New York" (Monmonier)
Swann, Michael M. Ph.D. "Population and Settlement in Late-· Colonial Nueva Vizcaya: The Causes, Patterns, and Consequences of Demographic Change in a Frontier Region" (Robinson)
Greenow, Linda L. Ph.D. "Spatial Dimensions of the Credit Market in Nueva Galicia. 1721-1820" (Agnew)
Miller, Mark D.H. M.A. "A Critique of Transaction Flow Analysis" (Robinson)
Rossi, Patricia A. M.A. "Landscape Interpretation of North Salina Street" (Meinig)
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Herzog, Lawrence i\. Ph.D. 11 Govern1nent Intervention and the Land Use Decision Process in Expanding Metropolitan Regions: The Case of Otay Mesa Development, San Diego County, Califor- nia" (Sanders)
Ng, Regina M.A. "Dilemma for the Vietnamese: Flight, Recep- tion, and Resettlement" (Newman)
1981
Aiello, James F. Ph.D. "Dynamics of Imageability of the Built Environment for the Non-Visual Traveler" (Robinson)
Kebbede, Girma Ph.D. "Property Tax Exemptions and the Fiscal Crisis of the Central City: A Case Study of Syracuse, New York" (Agnew)
Garver, John B. Ph.D. "The Role of the United States Army in the Colonization of the Trans-Missouri West: Kansas, 1804- 1861" c einig)
Coffaro, Anthony W. Ph.D. "Building a Theory of Housing Abandonment: A Sociological Approach" (Agnew) (Social Science Program)
Johnso11, Kenneth A. Ph.D. "The Changing Relationships Between Residential Patterns and the Built Environment: A Case Study of tvletropoli tan Syracuse, 1950-1970" (Sanders)
Griffith-Jones, Robin M.A. "Pushing Malnutrition: An Inquiry into the Activities of U.S. Food-Processing Firms in Mexico" (Agnew)
Wilson, Stephen M.A. "Cartographic Generalization of Linear Information in Raster Mode" (Monrnonier)
Baldridge, Kenan S. M.A. "Changing Electoral Behavior in the Town of Rose, New York" (Sanders)
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1982
Scott, Richard A. Ph.D. "Conflict over Proposals to Locate Low- and Moderate-Income Housing in Suburbs: The Lysander and Rand Tract Cases" (Thompson)
Mohammed, Elberier 0. Ph.D. "National Public Policy and Natural Hazards in Developing Countries: Analysis of Absorptive Capacity in Kassala City, Sudan" (de Laubenfels)
Kotch, Joseph A., Jr. M.A. Master's Papers. "The Mahoning Valley Iron and Steel Industry"; "The 1:250,000-scale Map Series of the United States" (Monmonier)
Wyckoff, William K. Ph.D. "Joseph Ellicott and the Western New York Frontier: Environmental Assessments, Geographical Strategies, and Authored Landscapes, 1797-1811" (Meinig)
Kelly, Cathy Ph.D. "Marriage Migration as a Measurement of Interaction in Massachusetts" (Robinson)
Titus, Ann N. M.A. Master's Papers. "The Development of a Quantitative Method for the Geographic Inventory of Urban Forests" (Muschett); "The Utility of the U.S. Geological Sur- vey 1:250,000 Land Use and Land Cover Series for Urb·an Area Land Use M{lps" (Monmonier)
Petersen, Timothy R. M.A. "SYMAP: A Recent Historical Study Illustrating the Role of Institutional Communication in Com- puter-assisted Cartography" (Monmonier)
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1983
Lindstrom, Eric A. M.A. "The Olmsted Legacy of Nineteenth Century City Parks in Buffalo, New York" (Meinig)
Gay, Robert J. M.A. "Patronage and Urban Development: Towards a Political Interpretation of Social Change in Brazil" (Agnew)
Stauffer, Bruce E. M.A. Master's Papers. "The Role of Car- tography in Urban Land Planning: An Historical Case Study" (Monmonier); "The Complimentary State Road Map: A Study of Six State Programs" (Thompson)
Hausladen, Gary J. Ph.D. "Regulating Urban Growth in the USSR: The Role of Satellite Cities in Soviet Urban Development" (Jensen)
Kent, Robert B. II Ph.D. "Beekeeping in Rural Development: The Africanized Honeybee in Peru" (Robinson)
Bickel, Samuel J. M.A. "The Role of Human Labor in Rice Growing West African Peasant Societies" (Newman)
Sheehan, Susan E. (Fisch) M.A. Master's Papers. "Industrial Location in the United States: A Statistical Analysis" (Rees); "The National Climate Program: A Study in Public Sector Coordi- nation and Program Implementation" (Mercer)
1984
Colten, Craig E. Ph.D. "The Steeple in the Grid: Landscape Awareness in Nineteenth C ntury Ohio" (Meinig)
Walker, Pamela M. M.A. "Public Policy, Neighborhood Opposi- tion, and the Geography of Community Residences for the Men- tally Retarded: A Case Study of Onondaga County, New York" (Mercer)
Egemeier, Linda Buatti M.A. "Consistency in Atlas Reviewing: A Content Analysis" (Monmonier)
Mortimer, Allyn M. M.A. "Urban Forest Structure in El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico" (de Laubenfels)
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Ph.D. Graduates
positions in many of America's major universities including
California (Berkeley and UCLA), Columbia, Johns Hopkins, Penn
State, Wisconsin (Madison), Dartmouth, and Carnegie Mellon.
There have been 30 Ph.D. graduates from 1978 to the pre-
sent (twenty-four men and five women). There continue to be
employment opportunities for geographers in higher education,
indicated by the fact that about three-quarters of those with
doctoral degrees are teaching in colleges and universities.
Two are at foreign universities (India, Sudan), the remainder
are employed in the United States. A few have taken on admin-
istrative positions, such as "Dean of International Students,''
"Director of Research," "Director of Social Sciences." Recent
Syracuse Ph.D.s are on the faculty at a range of American uni-
versities and colleges including, for example, Georgia,
Mt. Holyoke, Louisiana State, Texas and the U.S. Military
Academy.
Of the remaining five, one is in the public sector (Dept.
of Transportation, State of New York), two are administrators
in non-profit organizations, and two work in the private sec-
tor. In the latter instance, one is the chief cartographer
with the National Geographic Society, the other is president
of a landscape consulting firm.
This distribution of employment for recent Ph.D.s is
consistent with the pattern for those obtaining degrees prior
to 1978.
M.A. Since 1978, 35 students have received the M.A. degree
(seventeen men and eighteen women). In comparison to those
with Ph.D. degrees there is, perhaps not surprisingly, a
greater diversity of occupations. The larg_es t group, eight in
all, continued with graduate studies; of these, five remained
at Syracuse in the geography Ph.D. program. There are five
people working in the cartographic field--four are employed by
private companies, mostly emphasizing computer applications.
The fifth cartographer is with the National Oceanic Atmospheric
Administration. Two of those with M.A. degrees are in the
public sector in an urban planning capacity. Two are working
in publishing, while one other graduate is an analyst for a
consulting firm which specializes in telecommunications and
regulatory economics. Three graduates hold research ., positions
--at the National Geographic Society, at Syracuse University,
and with a private research corporation. Two graduates are
career officers in the U. s·. Army and both have taught (one
currently) at the U.S. Military Academy.
Other occupations are a technical assistant with a major
resources explorations company, an administrator with a non-
profit social service agency, and a faculty member at a
teacher's college in Sudan.
graduates in rewarding jobs and with the assistance of the
Maxwell School Placement Office we shall continue to aid stu-
dents in identifying job opportunities.
Graduates
Professor, Chair of the Social Science Program; professional
interests: political geography, especially urban conflict and
political regionalism;,social geography; social and geographic thought; political economy of development. Dr. Agnew has
authored the following publications since 1980: Innovation
Research and Public Policy (editor). Syracuse: Syracuse Geo-
graphical Series No. 5, 1980; Order and Skepticism. Washington, D.C.: Associat.ion of American Geographers, 1981 (with
R. Szymanski); The City in Cultural Context (co-editor).
London: George Allen and Unwin, 1984); "The Danger of a Neigh-
borhood Definition of Community," Corronunity Education Journal
7, 3 (1980), pp. 30-31; "Political Regionalism and Scottish
Nationalism in Gaelic Scotland," Canadian Review of Studies in
Nationalism 8, 1 (1981), pp. 42-57; "Language Shift and the
Politics of Language: The Case of the Celtic Languages of the
British Isles," Language Problems and Language Planning 5, 1
(1981), pp. 1-10; "Sociologizing the Geographical Imagination:
Spatial Concepts in the World-System Perspective," Political
Geography Quarterly l, 2 (1982), pp. 133-40; "An Excess of
'National Exceptionalism': Towards a New Political Geography of
American Foreign Policy," Political Geography Quarterly 2, 2
(1983), pp. 151-66; "Relativism, Realism and the Possibility of
Progress in Human Geography," Progress in Human Geography 6, 4
(1982) (with James S. Duncan); ''Technology Transfer and
Theories of Development," Journal of Asian and African Studies
(1983); "Are 'Good' Neighborhoods also 'Good' Communities?"
Urban Resources 1, 3 (1984), pp. 1-3; "Place and Political
Behavior: The Geography of Scottish Nationalism," Political
Geography Quarterly 3, 3 (1984), pp. 151-65; "Devaluing Place:
People Prosperity versus Place Prosperity and Regional Plan-
ning," Society and Space 2 (1984), pp. 29-45; "Homeownership
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Aller1 J. Scott (eds. J, U:rbanizaticn (lnd Urban Planning in Capi-
talist Socier;ies. New York: Methuen, 1981, pp. 457-80; "Home-
ownership and Identity in Capitalist Societies," in James S.
Duncan (ed.), Housing and Identity. London: Croom-Helm, 1981,
pp. 60-97; and "Structural and Dialectical Theories of Poli-
tical Regionalism," in A. Burnett and P.J. Taylor (eds.),
Political Studies from Spatial Perspectives: Anglo-American
Eisays on Political Geography. Chichester and New York: John
Wiley and Sons, 1981, pp. 275-89.
Dr. Agnew is Book Review Editor, Annals, Association of -
American Geographers. He is also on the Editorial Boards of
The Syracuse Scholar and the Geography of the World Economy (Cambridge University Press).
DE LAUBENFELS, DAVID J. (Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1953),
Professor; professional iRterests: vegetation geography, tro-
pical conifers, and human ecology. His work on tropical coni-
fers continues with a research trip this last summer to New
Guinea and the Solomons. Publications on this topic include:
"The Species of Agathis (Araucariaceae) of Borneo," Blumea
25 (1979), pp. 531-42; "The Endemic Species of Podocarpus in
New Guinea," Blumea 26 (1980), pp. 139-43; "Podocarpaceae,"
Flora de Venezuela 11, pt. 2 (1982); "Coniferae (and Taxa-
ceae)," Identification Lists of Malesian Specimens 61 (1982),
pp. 1133-60; "Studies in th-e Anatomy of Parasitaxus ustus and
its root connections," Phytomorphology 31 ("1981"; issued in
1983), pp. 85-92 (with Evelyn Kopke and Lytton J. Musselman);
"Numbers 287-295 (Podocarpaceae]," Pacific Plant Areas 4
(1984), pp. 204-17; "Proposal to Reject Pinus dammara
(Araucariaceae)," Taxon 33 (1984), pp. 337-47 (with J.F.
Veldkamp); and "Un nuevo podocarpus (podocarpaceae) de la
Espanola," Moscosoa 3 (1984), pp. 149-50. Also this year the
species Podocarpus laubenfelsii of Borneo entered the official
botanical literature (see photo).
developed. A paper was given recently on the Middle Paleo-
lithic. Recent publications in this area are: "Ethnic Geog-
raphy of the Neolithic," Mankind Quarterly 22 (1981), pp. 119-
43; and "The Upper Paleolithic Revolution," !..JankindQuarterly
23 (1983), pp. 329-56. ·
Berkeley, 1983), Assistant Professor; professional interests:
environmental policy, urban planning, and the political economy
of land use with a regional focus on events in New York State
and California. An article, "Quiet Revolution for Whom?"
(with Richard A. Walker) appeared in the Annals of the Assoeia-
tion of American Geographers in March of 1981. Since then, in
addition to completing a dissertation on the history of urban
planning and regional land-use control in New York State,
Michael has prepared a large monograph entitled Coastal
Recreation in California: Issues in Public Management, to be published in 1985 by the Institute of Governmental Studies,
U.C. Berkeley. The latter project was supported through a
Sea Grant fellowship. Recent papers include "New York State's
Hudson River Valley Commission: Public Planning for Private
Profit?" presented at the 1983 annual meeting of the AAG,
Denver; and a series of papers examining private-sector influ-
ence over regional planning and urban policy in the New York
metropolitan area through use of public authorities (an
invited lecture at Cornell University in 1983) and via non-
profit civic organizations (at the 1984 AAG annual meeting in
Washington, D.C., and the 1984 annual meeting of the Associa-
tion of Collegiate Schools of Planning held in New York City).
Since arriving in Syracuse, the geographic center of his
earlier dissertation focus, Michael has managed to maintain his
transcontinental commute through a S.U. Senate Research Grant
for the study of environmental policy and land-use regulation
in California. Work in progress includes a comparative study
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on the politi s of siting power plants, hazardous waste manage-
ment facilities, and o her locally unwanted land uses (or
"LULUS") in California and New York. Courses on environmental
regulation, perception, and land-use policy, as well as an
advanced seminar on epistemology and ideology as applied to
conceptions of human-environmental relations, have been added
by Michael to the Department's schedule.
JENSEN, ROBERT G. (Ph.D., University of Washington, 1964),
Professor and Chairman; professional interests: regional
development and urban policy in the USSR; Soviet resource
development and East-West trade; Soviet Union. Dr. Jensen last
visited the USSR in 1980, and has recently published the
following: Proceedings of the Conference on Soviet Natural
Resources in the World Economy, Discussion Paper No. 24 of the
AAG Soviet Project, October 1980, 196 pp.; "Implications of
Soviet Natural Resources for the World Economy," invited
faculty essay in Maxwell News and Notes, Fall 1980, pp. 2-3;
Soviet Natural Resources in the World Economy (co-editor with
Theodore Shabad and Arthur Wright). Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1983, 700 pp., and author of three chapters
therein: "Soviet Natural Resources in a Global Context,"
pp. 1-8; "The Regional Perspective on Soviet Resource Develop-
ment," pp. 9-14; and "The Implications of Soviet Raw Materials
for the orld Economy," pp. 679-86. Another publication is:
"The Anti-Metropolitan Syndrome in Soviet Urban Policy,"
chapter 5 in Geographical Studies on the Soviet Union: Essays
in Honor of r:hauncy D. Harris (eds. George J. Demko and Roland
J. Fuchs). Chicago: Department of Geography Research Series,
no. 211, 1984, pp. 71-92.
During the 1983-84 academic year Professor Jensen gave
invited public lectures at the University of Maryland, the
University of Nebraska, Oregon State University, and the Uni-
versity of Washington. At the 1984 meetings of the AAG he
organized a special session and also gave a paper on Soviet
Urban .Policy.
nomic Committee on Soviet Studies of the American Council of
Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council. He
·has continued to serve as a Member of the Advisory Conunittee
for Soviet Geography: Review and Translation and in January
1984 was appointed as Associate Editor. In addition to service
as Director of the AAG-NSF Project on Soviet Natural Resources
in the World Economy (1979-81), he was twice elected Chairman
of the AAG's Soviet and East European Specialty Group (1980 and
1983).
In May of 1984 the Geographic Society of Chicago presented
Professor Jensen with its Award for Outstanding Scholarly Pub-
lication in Geography in 1983 for the book Soviet Natural
Resources in the World Economy.
KIRCHOFF, D. MICHAEL (M.A., University of Wyoming, 1972),
Staff Cartographer; professional interests: cartography and
mapping, map production, and map design. As head of the Carto-
graphic Laboratory, Mike supervises all of the map production
for the Department, as well as coordinating the work completed
for many outside agencies who use the services of the Labora-
tory. One has only to examine any of the maps and graphics in
faculty and student publications to see Mike's positive impact
on the Department. Under his direction the Laboratory has
achieved an excellent reputation both on and beyond the SU
campus.
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sor; professional interests: historical geography; cultural
and social geography, especially of North America; landscape
interpretation. Recent publications include: "Geographical
Analysis of Imperial Expansion," in Period and Place., Research
Methods in Historical Geography (eds. Alan R.H. Baker and Mark
Billinge). Cambridge University Press, 1982; and "New York and
its Neighbors: Some Problems of Regional Interpretation," in
New Opportunities in a New Nation (eds. Manfred Jonas and
Robert V. Wells). Union College Press, 1982. In 1980 he
received a Faculty Enrichment Award from the Canadian Embassy
for a month of field reconnaissance in Atlantic Canada. In ..
November 1981 he was Pettyjohn Distinguished Lecturer at
Washington State University, giving public lectures in Pullman,
Wal la Wal la, and Spokane. 111 January 1983, at the invitation
of Professor Wreford Watson, he gave a President's Guest Lec-
ture at the annual meeting of the Institute of British Geog-
raphers in Edinburgh, "Geography as an Art," later published
in Transactions, Institute of British Geographers, 8 (1983).
In May 1983 he gave the Carl 0. Sauer Memorial Lecture at
Berkeley, "An Atlantic World, Perspectives on the Making of
Colonial America." In April and May 1984, at the invitation of
Professor William Smyth (Visiting Lecturer, Syracuse, 1969),
Professor Meinig gave a series of eight lectures on the his-
torical geography of North America at University College, Cork.
Professor Meinig is nearing completion of Volume I,
Atlantia America, in his projected three-volume study of his-
torical geography, to be published by Yale University Press.
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Professor; professional interests: comparative analysis of
urbanization and urban development; social geography of non-
white immigrants in cities; local government, housing and urban
development policies. He has recently published: "The Fiscal
Condition of American and Canadian Cities," Urban Studies 21
(1984), pp. 233-43 (with M.A. Goldberg); Cities of the United States and Canada: A Student Manual for Geography 363. Depart-·
ment of Geography and Center for Instructional Development,
Syracuse University, 1984; The City in Cultural Context
(co-editor). London: George Allen and Unwin, 1984; "Introduc-
tion," (with J. Agnew and D. ·,Sopher) in J. Agnew, J. Mercer
and D. Sopher (eds.), The City in Cultural Context. London:
George Allen and Unwin, 1984, pp. 1-29; "Commentary" (with
J. Agnew and D. Sopher) in J. Agnew, J. Mercer and D. Sopher
(eds.), fhe City in Cultural Context. London: George Allen
and Unwin, 1984, pp. 277-88; The Fiscal Health of Canadian and
American Cities (with M.A. Goldberg), Occasional Paper No. 77, Metropolitan Studies Program, Maxwell School of Citizenship
and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, 1984;
"Diversity as Strength?" Political Geography Quarterly 2
(1983), pp. 81-87; Comparing the Reform of Metropolitan Frag-
mentation, Fiscal Dependency and Political Culture in Canada
and the United States, Occasional Paper No. 61, Metropolitan
Studies Program, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public
Affairs, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, 1982; and "Atti-
tudes of Homeowners and the Decision to Rehabilitation Proper-
ty," (with D. Phillips) Urban Geography (1981), pp. 216-36.
Two other articles that have been accepted for publication
are: "Value Differences and Their Meaning for Urban Develop-
ment in Canada and the United States," (with M.A. Goldberg)
in G.A. Stelter and A.F.J. Artibise (eds.), Power and Place:
Canadian Urban Development in the North American Context
(forthcoming, 1985, University of British Columbia. Press);
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so of Urbar1 Density Gr&dients," (with M.A. Goldberg and
B. Edmonston) Urban Studies (forthcoming, 1985). Also to be
published in 1985.is a book manuscript, Continentalism Chal-
lenged: Cities in Canada and the United States (with M.A.
Goldberg) (University of British Columbia Press).
Dr. Mercer serves on a number of university committees,
including: the Arts and Science Tenure Committee (of which
he is currently Chairman), the Board of Graduate Studies, and
the departmental Admissions and Awards Committee.
In 1983-84 he was awarded a Senior Fellowship in Canadian
Studies from the United States' Canadian Embassy and a Lilly
Foundation Post-doctoral Teaching Fellowship.
He will use a research leave in 1985-86 (applied for) as
the first year of a three nation comparative study of the resi-
dential geography of non-white immigrants in cities. The proj-
ect will deal with the U.S., Britain,.and Canada, and focus on
six cities in pa·rticular (New York, San Francisco, Toronto,
Vancouver, Glasgow and London).
1969), Professor; professional interests: geographic informa-
tion (technology and public policy); communications; history of
cartography; North America. Included among his recent publica-
tions are the following: The Study of Population: Elements,
Patterns, and Processes (with G.A. Schnell). Columbus, Ohio:
Merrill, 1983; Computer-Assisted Cartography: Principles and
Prospects. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1982.
Dr. Monmonier served as Editor of The American Cartographer,
1982-84 and as President of the American Cartographic Associa-
tion, 1983-84. He is currently the holder of a Guggenheim
Fellowship and is researching the relationship between elec-
tronic publishing and cartography. His new book on Technologi-
cal Transition in Cartography will be published by the Univer-
sity of Wisconsin Press in early 1985.
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Professor; professional interests: Tropical Africa, popula-
tion change, diet and nutrition. Publications since 1980
include: "Dietary Behavior and Protein-Energy Malnutrition in
Africa South of the Sahara: Some Themes for Medical Geography,"
in Conceptual and Methodological Issues in Medical Geography
(ed. Melinda Meade). University of North· Carolina, 1980;
"Natural Resources and Decentralization: The Use of Forests and
Woodlands in Development," The Environmental Professional 4
(1982); "Fertility Control in Africa," (with Ru.ssel1 Lura)
Geographical Review 73 (1983); "Early.African Hominids: Peda-
gogic Patterns," Journal of Geography 83 (1984); and Population
Patterns, Dyn()Jnicsand Prospects (with.Gordon Matzke).
Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1984.
Professor Newman has presented papers and chaired sessions
at annual meetings of the Association of American Geographers,
African Studies Association, and National Council for Geo.-.
graphic Education. For tw0 years he chaired the Africa Spe-
cialty Group of the AAG.
Currently he is working on vineyard developments in the
Finger Lakes region of New York, and hopes to get a project
funded on fertility change among pastoralists in Africa.
REES, JOHN (Ph.D., London School of Economics, 1977), Asso-
ciate Professor; professional interests: industrial change and
regional development; the impact of technological change and
government policy on regional change. Recent publications
include the following articles and book chapters: "Defense
Spending and Regional Industrial Change," Texas Business
Review, January 1982, pp. 40-44; "Reaganomics, Reindustriali-
zation and Regionalism," (with B. Weinstein) Society, July
1982, pp. 33-38; "Control Factors in the Economic Development
of Nonmetropolitan America," (with R. Briggs) Environment and
Planning A 14 (1982), pp. 1645-66; "The E-Z Route and Urban
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New Techno] ogy in the Arr.ericanMacrtinery Industry," (with
R. Briggs and R. Oakey) Regional Studies, December 1984, 20 pp.; "Technological Change: A Research Agenda," (with
E. Malecki) in B. Robson and J. Rees (eds.), Geographical Agenda for a Changing World. London: Social Science Research
Council, 1982, pp. 27-45; "Government Policy and Industrial
Location," in J. louse (ed.), United States Public Policy,
Oxford University Press, 1983, pp. 213-62; "Regional Economic
Decentralization Processes in the United States and Their
Policy Implications," in D. Hicks and N. Glickman (eds.),
Transition to the 21st Century: Prospects and Policies for
Economic and Urban Regional Transformation, J.A.I. Press, 1983;
New Technology in the American Machinery Industry: Trends and
Implications, published by the Joint Economic Committee, U.S.
Congress, March 1984; "High Technology Location and Regional
Development: the Theoretical Base," in Office of Technology
Assessment, Technology, Innovation and Regional Economic Devel-
opment, U.S. Congress, Washington, D.C., July 1984; Industrial Location and Regional Systems (co.;.;.editor \vith :G. Hewings and
H. Stafford). New York and London: Bergin-Croom-Helm Pub-
lishers; Geographical Agenda for a Changing World (co-editor
with B.T. Robson). London: Social Science Research Council,
1982.
mission on Industrial Systems meetings, International Geo-
graphical Union, Montpelier, France (August 1984); the Annual
Convention of the American Chamber of Commerce Research Asso-
ciation, Syracuse (June 1984); and a University of North Caro-
lina conference on "Industrial Policy, the State and Local
Issues" (May 1984).
John has also received a number of research grants from
the National Science Foundation, and held a National Research
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Council Fellowship (1983-84) to work with the Conunittee on
National Urban Policy. He has also been active in the public
policy arena, preparing background studies for President
Carter's National Urban Policy Report (1980), the Joint Econo-
mic Conunittee of Congress (1980, 1983), the General Accounting
Office (1980), and the Congressional Office of Technology
Assessment (1984). From 1982 to 1984 he was Chairman of the
AAG Specialty Group on Industrial Geography.
Prior to his arrival in Syracuse, John was Associate
Professor of Geography and Political Economy and Associate
Director, Center for Policy Studies at the University of Texas
at Dallas. His current research interests include assessing
the potential for 'reindustrialization' in the Northeastern and
Midwestern states.
Dellplain Professor of Latin American Geography; professional
interests: Latin American development; colonial populations,
municipal finances and decentralized development institutions.
Recent publications include: Terms of Referenae for the Analy-
sis of Corrununity Interest Public Works, USAID/Syracuse Uniyer-
sity, Discussion Paper No. 2, Lima., 1981; Poverty and Inequa-
lity in the Districts of Cajamarca, ibid, No. 39, 1983 (with
Alvaro Ortiz); Poverty in Junin: A District Level Analysis,
ibid, No. 42 (with Alvaro Ortiz); Hierarchical Analysis and
Eaonomic Regionalization of Tumbes Department: An Appliaation of Ultrametrias, ibid, No. 49 (with Alvaro Ortiz); A Metho-
dology for the Prioritization of Public Investment Projects,
ibid, No. 54 (with Rosa M. Benavides); Final Report of Syracuse
University Technical Assistance to the Integrated Regional
Development Project (Peru), Metropolitan Studies, Maxwell
School, 1984, 392 pp.; Research Inventory of the Mexican Col-
lection of Colonial Parish Registers, Salt Lake City, Univer-
sity of Utah Press, 1980; "Latin American Family Life During
the Nineteenth Century," World Conference on Reaords, Vol. 9,
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1980, pp. l-32; "The relation beti-.reen structure and process in
historical demographic analysis," in A.R.H. Baker and M.
Billinge (eds.), Period and Place, Cambridge, 1982, pp. 87-98;
"La migraci6n regional yucateca en la epoca colonial: el caso
de San Francisco de Uman," Historia Mexicana, Vol. 30, 1980,
pp. 99-125 (with Carolyn McGovern); "Migracion entre pueblos
indigenas en el ·Yucatan colonial," Revis ta de la Universidad de
Yucatan, Vol. XXl, pp. 12-31.
He also gave some dozen or more presentations in Peru
during the period 1981-84.
Since his work with USAID in Peru, David has become
involved in two projects for which he is presently seeking
funding. The first entails an analysis of the changing pat-
terns of poverty in Peru between 1940 and 1985 (with Dr. Alvaro
Ortiz of the Economics Department of the Agrarian University
of Lima); the second is an exploratory study of Peruvian local
government activity and its relation to national development.
He served as the Chairman of the 1984 Prize Committee of
the Conference of Latin American Historians (American Histori-
cal Association), has been elected to the Executive Committee
of the New York State Latinamerican Association, and continues
as a member of the Demographic History Committee of the Ameri-
can Historical Association (CLAH). He also is editor of the
Dellplain Latin American Series which will see its twentieth
volume published in early 1985.
WESTERN, JOHN (Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles,
1978), Associate Professor; professional interests: compara-
tive urbanism; social geography, especially ethnic and racial
cleavages in Third World and North American cities; cultural
geography. In addition to the widely hailed Outcast Cape To'l;)yt
and a number of book reviews, recent publications l1ave
included a chapter on South Africa contributed to each of the
following collections of essays: Hwnanistic Geography, eds.
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;,... Syracuse faculty. Seated left to right: Michael Heiman; -John ercer; David Robinson; John Wester]1. Standing : l.Jark l.Jonmonier; John Agnew; David deLaubenfels; James Newman; John Rees; Donald Meinig (J1
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Some of the resident graduates. Seated, left to right: Liz Young; Michael Hopps; Jay Lee; Sandra Neff; Kevin Atwater; Jonathan Smith. Standing, left to right: Maureen Hays; Peter Girard; Dan Lee; Soo-Seong Lee; Deborah Hart; Gerard Toal; Deborah Callender; Graham Mellors; Ken Wong; Helen Stirling; Dympna McLaughlin; Ezzedine Moudoud.
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D.M. Smith, 1982; The City in Cultural Context, eds. J. Agnew,
J. Mercer, and D. Sopher, 1984; and Geography and Ethnic Plu-
ralism, eds. C. Clarke, D.F. Ley, and C. Peach, 1984. He also
co-authored with Roman Cybriwsky the. chapter ''Revitalizing
Downtowns: By Whom and For Whom?" in Geography and the Urban
Environment, Volume 5, eds. D. Herbert and R.J. Johnston,
1982. A threefold collaboration with Cybriwsky and with David
Ley has resulted in "The Political Construction of Revitalized
Neighborhoods: Society Hill, Philadelphia, and False Creek,
Vancouver," •
in Gentrification, Housi