GEO 466/566: The Profession of Geography

Student Projects



Below you will find links to the biographical sketches of influential geographers prepared by the students in The Profession of Geography in conjunction with their partners in American Approaches to Geography at the University of Missouri, Columbia.



Arab World: Ibn-Batuta and Muslim Geography, by Andrew Mogensen (VU)

Australia: Thomas Griffith Taylor, by Julie D. Breshears (MU) and Michael Herman (VU)

British Isles: Halford Mackinder, by Eric Borden (VU) and Dorothee Schutz (MU)

Canada: Andrew H. Clark, by Chelsea Morse (VU) and Dave Lashway (MU)

China/Japan: Naomasa Yamasaki, by Brian Welde (MU) and Mark Eiseman (VU)

Germany: Friedrich Ratzel, by Dawn M. Hilderbrand (MU) and Jason Janke (VU)

Greco-Roman World: Aristotle, by K.C. Juergensen (VU) and Sally Coyne (MU)

France: Paul Vidal de la Blache, by Jason Hilkovitch (VU) and Max Fulkerson (MU)

Russia: Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov, by Lucy Caputo (MU) and Rob Bernhard (VU)

Scandinavia: Sten de Geer, by William Klein (VU)

United States: William Morris Davis, by Scott Gunn (MU) and John Pruyn (VU)



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Last revised December 11, 1996, by JTK.