Ronald A. Janke

Retired Professor of Geography

ronald.janke@valpo.edu

Education

Ph.D. – University of Minnesota (1976)

Interests

Geomorphology, American Indians, North America

Courses Taught

• GEO 104 Introduction to Geomorphology
• GEO 204 National Parks
• GEO 274 North American Indian on Film
• GEO 301 Regional Geographies of the World: United States
• GEO 385 Field Study (Alaska Glaciers, Hawaii Volcanoes, Biogeography of the Sonoran Desert, Plains Indians)
• GEO 404 Advanced Geomorphology

Contributions

“The Loss of Indian Lands in Wisconsin, Montana, and Arizona,” in American Indians: Cultural Geography, 1995
“Population, Reservations, and Federal Indian Policy,” in Dictionary of Native American Literature, 1994
“Indian Land-Tenure Problems in the United States,” in Themes in Rural History of the Western World, 1993