Michael Longan, Dr.

Associate Professor

201C
219-464-6874
mlongan@valpo.edu

Website

http://faculty.valpo.edu/mlongan/

Education

Ph.D - University of Colorado at Boulder 2000

Courses Taught

Research Interests

Cultural Geography

Urban Geography and Planning

Communication Geography

Rural Geography

Landscape

Neighborhood and community activism

Cyberspace

East Asia.

Current Research

Geographies of Rural Identity in Country Music

Publications

• Aether
  - Playing With Landscape: Social Process and Spatial Form in Video Games 2008
• Social & Cultural Geography
  - Visions of community and mobility: the community networking movement in the USA. 2005
• Urban Geography
  - Building a Global Sense of Place: The Community Networking Movement in the United States. 2002
• Lost in Space: Geographies of Science Fiction eds. Rob Kitchin and James Kneale
  - Geography's Conquest of History in The Diamond Age" (with Tim Oakes) 2002

Professional Affiliations

• Association of American Geographers