Smiling man with glasses, short brown hair, and beard, wearing a checked shirt in front of a gray background—Michael Longan, PhD.

Mike Longan

Professor of Geography

Contact

(219) 464-6874

KCH 201C

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