ph.d.
University of Colorado at Boulder (2000)
About
Courses Taught
- GEO 101 World Human Geography
- GEO 201 Economic Geography
- GEO 260 Environmental Conservation
- GEO 280 Geography of Cyberspace
- GEO 301 Regional Geographies of the World: China and Japan
- GEO 320 Urban Geography
- GEO 321 Urban and Regional Planning
- GEO 420 Rural Geography
- GEO 475 Culture, Nature, Landscape
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
Contributions
“Playing With Landscape: Social Process and Spatial Form in Video Games,” in Aether, 2008
“Visions of community and mobility: the community networking movement in the USA,” in Social & Cultural Geography, 2005
“Building a Global Sense of Place: The Community Networking Movement in the United States,” in Urban Geography, 2002
“Geography’s Conquest of History in The Diamond Age,” with Tim Oakes, in Lost in Space: Geographies of Science Fiction, eds. Rob Kitchin and James Kneale, 2002
Professional Affiliations
Association of American Geographers
